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  7. Posted · Edited by GaryH917

    Albeit belatedly, wanted to share my Mommy's Day present if you can bear with the cell phone photo? ;)

    So, I think the list for first 10 carts also includes:

     

    1. Darthkur

    2. Mayhem

    3. TrekHD

    4. Trebor

    5. gambler172

    6. akator

    7. HFK

    8. Ax

    9. FireTiger

    10. FeistyGirl

     

    ... if I am correct? :ponder:

     

     

     

     

    Excellent!

  14. Posted

    Hey Luc, just received Pacman Collection and Space Invaders today in the mail. Actually, the package was here yesterday but I didn't make it to the Post Office before they closed! Anyhow, everything looks great! The yellow Pacman Cart with box looks better than anything Coleco ever released for this system... It is a beautiful sight to see... The manual for both games are very well made. Easy to read and nice, thick pages. I'm not sure what the PIN code is for that came in the Pacman manual, will read it later. I will play both games later and let u know how the gameplay is... I can only imagine how good this is gonna be... Added bonus, I also received my brand new Atari Flashback 2 in the mail today also! It's a good day in The 'Burgh!

    Well worth the wait and I can only imagine what you 2 guys have planned in the future,

    Gary

  18. Posted

    So it isn't likely we know what the 7800 could have really done. Vigo, you kept describing the different way a 7800 puts images on the screen as opposed to the NES, but all that meant was that the 7800 had a different way of doing it.

     

    Look, what are you trying to do here by warming up the same tiresome discussions over and over again? Your relativism doesn't make it any better. Obviously you somehow have gotten by now that the 7800 and the NES use VERY different methods of handling graphics. But that fact alone is no single way of comparing both machines. Nor indicating they achieve the same results with different methods. They are very different, and have advantages and disadvantages in almost the opposite kind of fields.

     

    That's why, again, it is more than stupid to keep this discussion alive if the 7800 could have done NES games equally well. No, it can't. It can do other types of games better, where lots of objects are moving in front of a simple background.

     

    What if a 7800 has such an ability to put and change objects on screen that it could handle scrolling backgrounds to match an NES?

     

    "What if" discussions are pretty much irrelevant if they describe non-existing hardware. If you want the 7800 concept of displaying graphics pushed to the extreme, refer to the Atari Jaguar. Unlike the 7800, the Jaguar has enough horsepower to handle this kind of flexible grqaphics architecture efficiently.

     

    The key question is this: what limitations- including a similar "flicker" method- does the 7800 have?

     

    And obviously, you still haven't gotten the fact that displaying many (and huge) objects is NOT a weakness of the 7800. No amount of flicker will overcome the fact that the 7800 isn't able to display a fully tile based scrolling background with individual color attributes for each block. Yeah, of course let's make the whole screen flicker and enjoy seizures. :lol:

     

    I am repeating myself endless of times, and yet, I still have the feeling I could very well be talking to the kitchen oven with the same results...

     

    If it can move fast enough, then maybe it could overcome the limitations you pointed out with Sirius. What can a 7800 do if ALL of its abilities are brought into play, used in a manner not normally considered, as Opcode did?

     

    You make again and again and again the mistake of dreaming a dream where the 7800 is a NES. No, it is not.

     

    The NES had the overwhelming advantage of a top-notch team of developers who never stopped pushing the limits of the NES. As did the 2600. But if the NES was backed by a group of 800-pound gorillas, the 7800 seemed to have been stuck with a few lazy monkeys. Until a 7800 Opcode appears, we may never really know.

     

    Want a banana?

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