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Hand made custom Atari 2600 Cartridge Case / Cartridge Holder. I built this by hand in the 90's, was pretty labor intensive and holds together well. This holds 150 standard 2600 carts. Measures 30.75" x 18" x 3.25" There is some glue/adhesive on the sides, could certainly be cleaned up or sanded and painted to look nicer if you wanted to. Can hang on a wall or lay on its back / use freestanding. https://www.ebay.com/itm/194801152296

I was at a warehouse party in Chicago 10+ years ago where there were dozens of slightly damaged copies of this record in a crate, someone knew one of the guys behind it and gave me a copy https://www.discogs.com/8-Bit-Construction-Set-The-8-Bit-Construction-Set/release/7941 From this site: http://www.beigerecords.com/artists/8bitcs.html "the record: currently receiving play from an impressive array of tastemakers including matthew herbert, mixmaster mike, bodenstandig 2000, dj godfather, and luke vibert, The 8-Bit Construction Set seems poised to redefine the very limits of what one can put on a slab of wax. half dj battle record/half concept album, The 8-Bit Construction Set record is also the first ever use of the vinyl recording medium for software distribution - the inside tracks are audio data which can be dubbed to cassette tape and booted in your respective atari or commodore 8-bit computers (guinness world record for first-ever vinyl-to-software programming is currently pending). and, as if you still had doubts about these artists' chops, you should know that this record was entirely programmed in 6502 assembly language. beat that. " Looks like it's for Atari 800 though and not 2600 - though apparently you can play it in / load on an Atari 800xl. I never did try to load the C64 side into my actual 64 though I have the means. I never had a 800XL. Just thought it was somewhat relevant to share!

That's pretty cool looking. Initial web searches are not pulling up anything. Does it work with a 2600? Can you walk around in Tunnel Runner with it?

Is this the link to those? http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/CX40%20Suiper%20Handle%2027.htm Sometimes the site is kind of hard to figure out

Lol, I wondered about that. Does a ROM of that exist anywhere? Just curious if we need to be on the lookout for anyone reporting having found a copy of it soon or something.

That Birthday Mania (shell only) on eBay sold for nearly $350 a few days ago - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-2600-Birthday-mania-Machine-shell-/113205296743?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l44720

It looks like the outer boxes for these reconditioned ones are manufactured with the 'Factory Reconditioned" built in to the printing, is this correct? At first glance I kind of assumed they had some really large hand stamp that said FACTORY RECONDITIONED in that military font that they pressed on the original boxes or something, or some sort of screen printing or stencil. I've never come across one of these in person and kind of wondered about the printing of those letters on the box.

There's currently a Birthday Mania cart (shell only) on ebay right now, not sure if it's the real deal or if it even counts if there isn't anything inside? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-2600-Birthday-mania-Machine-shell/113205296743?hash=item1a5b8fbe67:g:esAAAOSw2sZbUI2V

It seems like the QA on the Joust carts were not great, or somehow I just ended up getting every Joust cart with this issue. I own I think 12 copies of the cart from getting collections of carts at thrift stores and such over the years, and I noticed that almost every Joust cart was missing the end label. I had one last cart that was hanging on even though it looked bad, and it just fell off the other day. I mean yeah it happens to carts, but I've never had a cart with the end label being as fall-offy as Joust so consistently. Anyone else or am I just the lucky one? Also on topic, any other carts you've run into that seem to always have a bad label issue? The other one for me seems to be Popeye, well maybe just Parker Brothers labels in general.

Nice - I started a forum thread over there asking for more support for 2600 games a few months ago, I didn't see any progress on anything as it looks like Chopper Command is the only new game added since last. Hopefully some more can be added there, it's fun to play and track achievements through RA.

I could not get H.E.R.O. or Montezuma's Revenge to work on my RetroN 77, sadly those are two of my all time personal favs. Anyone else able to test those by chance, or were able to get them to work? They do work in my 2600 without issues. Also could not get Riddle of the Sphinx, Beamrider, Espial, Kaboom to work. I'm seeing some of those are showing PASS on the compatibility sheet though, I'll give mine another clean and test some more.

This is cool, and thanks! Just to note, Excel Online does not allow checkboxes unfortunately it strips them out. For those of you on the go looking to update on your mobile device expecting the checkboxes to work. Also if you import this into Google Sheets online, it strips the checkboxes out. However, Google Sheets does allow you to select a region and insert checkboxes thankfully. I had to edit the formula for the 'Games owned' from =COUNTIF(L5:L21,TRUE) to =COUNTIF(B5:B21,TRUE) Just had to edit it to reflect column B rather than L. The whole sheet could be adjusted for Google Sheets online and shared too, maybe. Unless someone already has a solution for this and I'm missing it.

Thanks! Yeah the dust part kind of sucks, I do have covers for the 64 and Amiga computers themselves (but never put them on?), and my loose floppies are in a case. I should put something over my 2600, I've seen some people made custom covers for the 2600 that I'd love to get I usually only dust when I have friends over and notice it's reeeeaaly dusty

LOL, I kind of expected that.

I second this approach. I do think this forum could use a bit less vitriol in its responses that come up from time to time... Despite all the shortcomings of the new VCS, I personally can't see any good reason for some to get this worked up about it. Maybe I'm in the minority on this, who knows.

My current game room, C64 and Amiga 500 on the desk there, 2600 on the right wall, NES / N64 with Everdrive / Modded PS3 / Emulation PC on the left my the flat screen. I still love playing my 64 and Amiga games on the real machines (which is why I added this to the thread about de-fuzzing, I truly enjoy the original experience still). I do have JiffyDos on my 64 and drive to help with loading, and the HC508 expansion on the A500.

I have been loving playing 2600 games on an old Sony Trinitron lately. I'm hugely into emulation too, I've spent countless months setting up and configuring dozens of systems for my BigBox setup and love it. But for 2600 games, at least lately, I'm all about playing a real system on an old TV. I don't have a remote for my TV and have been too lazy to program it in a universal remote to mess with contrast or colors etc. Just love the color bleed and fuzzed edges. Maze games have this cool shadow effect too. Yeah also going to a local barcade that has original Asteroids and a few other 70's vector games, that screen effect and feeling when playing is hard to compare to the emulated version. That whole real glowy thing. Can't beat that IMO. But again, I'm huge on emulation and can't possibly own originals of all this stuff in my lifetime ever, and still enjoy playing emulated games. But I can at least enjoy the 2600 like it felt when I was a kid since I have the stuff, and still feels pretty good.

Thanks! I think this took a weekend to do, the first part was measuring out the width of the carts to determine the slot width with a little wiggle room so it wasn't too tight, then the height of the cart slot, and how much depth I wanted from the front to the closed back. I left some room so it would be easy to grab the cart. From there I just worked out the math on how wide to make the shelves, and how tall, and then used a ruler to measure out where I would make my cuts in the board. I believe I used a hand held radial saw where the blade was the same thickness as the board, and made cuts halfway into the board where I made the marks. I'm pretty sure I used a few pieces to test it all out first for how well they fit together, and that the depth of the cuts were correct and so on. Then it was just a matter of cutting the vertical pieces, horizontal pieces, and making the marks, then cutting at each mark on the horizontal /vertical pieces and pressing them together piece by piece. Afterwards I made a frame out of some cheap wood and nailed in a thin closed back board, then pressed the whole frame inside. I think I put some wood glue or something similar on the frame parts before pressing it in.

This kinda reminds me of an Indiegogo project I backed years ago - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/brand-new-colored-keycaps-for-your-commodore-c64--2#/comments- this was for some custom produced color keycaps for the C64. I backed it over three years ago and there is still not a finished product. Creator is posting updates about it once in a while still, and has apparently sunk a ton of money into it past what was funded. But still no product.

Do you think they (AtariVcsBox creators / whoever on their side) watch this thread? I haven't sifted through all 300+ pages here to see if they've ever chimed in here. Just out of morbid curiosity.

Thanks iesposta, I was not aware. The link above doesn't seem to work however.

Yeah I might just build another internal frame out of some utility board. Here's a pic of one I built back in the late 90's. The internal part was just some cheap pressboard or something from the hardware store, I cut slots at specific lenghts at the same width of the boards, and then pressed them together to make the frame. This one held 150 carts, but I outgrew it and didn't feel like going through making one again I had much more time and energy in my mid to late 20's.

I didn't have to use the wall anchor on this one, the design naturally allows it to lean backwards to the wall. But it does include the hardware to mount it to the wall if you need to.

@bellview17 thanks! I added a side view picture, I guess the one thing I liked about it is that it doesn't protrude all that far from the wall. The carts actually extend out from the edges on their own since the edge walls only come out 3". Most shelves are much deeper. I'd like to build my own cart case eventually to spec, but not quite there yet with my collection anyways. Someday..

Just picked one up today, SN 84013F