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  1. Posted · Edited by Mikebloke

    On 10/30/2020 at 6:25 PM, Mikebloke said:

    2 weeks to get into US. 

    Assuming no customs issues several days to a week to get to their warehouse. 

    A day minimum for product testing / confirmation. 

    Rest of the week to package orders to ship out. 

    Week to arrive if it wasn't covid Christmas, so perhaps two. 

     

    2nd or 3rd week of December for first units in backers hands. If I wasn't a religious denomination that completely rejects gambling I would bet all my savings (in atari coin) on that being the earliest date anyone gets one. So you might get it for Christmas but it's still a bit of a stretch.

    Progress!!!!111oneoneonewonwonwunwun

     

    Its taken 4 weeks 1 day (29th of October was announcement) to get stateside (via airmail) and through customs. It still has to be picked up by courier from customs though.

     

    Eagerly awaiting the news in December when it reaches their warehouse and they start fulfilling orders and confirming my timeframe.

     

    Edit: Ok, Atari did say this before as part of their announcement on the 29th of October:

     

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    • After being delayed due to a late-arriving part, all Classic Joysticks for backers are now scheduled to start departing the factory on 11/5/2020.
    • To mitigate this additional delay, Atari has now arranged to import the joysticks from China via air freight, rather than by traditional trans-ocean shipping. This will significantly reduce the travel time from the typical 6+ weeks, down to 10-14 days.

    So they have technically kept relatively close to this timescale.

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  5. Posted

    3 hours ago, slydc said:

     

    Hi Mikebloke! What's new with you since the Odyssey Multicarts ? :)

     

    I agree with what you wrote but also, Russia made their own "copy" of the AY-3-8500-1 (the К145ИК17)

     

    Snipped for space

    Wow! Lots of interesting information there thanks for sharing. 

     

    I'm mostly working and playing games rather than making them at the moment, but always have time for pong XD

  9. Posted

    I think DKC1 was a standout title for the Snes, looking back at some of the advertisement it was obviously used to fight back against ps1 and saturn and the other competitors without people buying a new machine. I think DKC2 had some of the same magic, and is an enjoyable game in its own right. 

     

    3 though, I've tried to play a few times and I just can't get into it. 

  10. Posted

    15 minutes ago, atari2600land said:

    Checkers, #19, is the rarest Channel F title sans the democarts. But still even this price is too much.

    I offered $200, which was a good price when prices was sensible for a loose copy, but it was instantly rejected. Maybe we are now seeing the end of silly fairchild prices. 

  11. Posted

    4 hours ago, Yosikuma said:

    It looks intact; I just took a quick peek inside.  Instead, it seems the system is not "tuned" correctly.  I have it on channel 4 now and it is scrambled but you can tell it's trying to display something  Is there a "tuner" somewhere on this??

     

    (And yes, I have played with the channel selector. It's almost like it's trying to broadcast between both channels.)

    Is it coming up in colour or just black and white/grey? Also have you tried something like a VCR and tried to tune it through that instead? 

     

    My other guess is it might be using a different encoding signal to your TV. My TV can take SECAM for example but my VCR which in the past I used for recording didn't, and just "jumped" over on the scanning like you described. If you have a USB TV tuner around you could give that a go too and see if it locks onto a signal, they scan the entire range rather than cherrypicking like tvs do. 

     

    If that doesn't work, looks like you are going inside the box, good luck! 

  13. Posted

    On 10/30/2020 at 6:25 PM, Mikebloke said:

    2 weeks to get into US. 

    Assuming no customs issues several days to a week to get to their warehouse. 

    A day minimum for product testing / confirmation. 

    Rest of the week to package orders to ship out. 

    Week to arrive if it wasn't covid Christmas, so perhaps two. 

     

    2nd or 3rd week of December for first units in backers hands. If I wasn't a religious denomination that completely rejects gambling I would bet all my savings (in atari coin) on that being the earliest date anyone gets one. So you might get it for Christmas but it's still a bit of a stretch.

    3 weeks since I did this post. This is how far we've got through my predictions. 

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  14. Posted

    Yes authentication bodies for video games is frustrating.wata are known for falsification of quality as well. You don't see any antiques being sold at auction being incased in plastic shells, so why should we do it for video games. Yes, a lot of this stuff will deteriorate eventually, but encasing it means you have to break it open to get a second opinion. No other valuing service runs on the idea of preventing a second valuing service from doing their job. Whole thing is a con. 

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  17. Posted

    Also no company ever has purposely withheld production or stock in stores in the hopes that they'll sell more later. 

     

    There has been early releases of consoles that caused supply and demand issues such as sega with the Saturn release in the US, but that is a different kind of mistake. 

     

    I haven't been looking for new consoles tbh, but I'll probably still go for a ps4 or xbox one first. 

  18. Posted

    In terms of Russian models being in 92/93, it's quite possible as we would have had fall of the soviet Union. One of the biggest elements of that in relation to video games was that of copyright and licencing, which in itself led to companies selling products competitively for profit, its not unbelievable that old tech would have been picked up to make a quick profit for something people may not have seen yet in their neck of the woods. 

  19. Posted

    I did buy the multicart from Packrat which is very good but not an sd card one, I might ask about that one as well. 

     

    To answer the original question, generally the later the number the better the game from the European numbering system. There is only really 3 games that doesn't run on a g7000/odyssey2, and they are super expensive anyway. 

     

    If you do get hold of a multicart or sd device, try air battle (not to be confused with the combat clone air-sea battle), turtles, neutron star and looney balloon which might have all been European exclusives. 

     

    A lot of the earlier games is Multiplayer so just be mindful of that if you generally play alone. A number of games however can be played single player.

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  20. Posted

    14 hours ago, x=usr(1536) said:

     

    What's really telling is that €30K is chump change for developing a game.  If Atari really had the hots for this, they'd contract the developers to make the game for them, giving them milestones, deliverables, and deadlines to work with.  The problem is that this iteration of Atari doesn't consider €30K to be chump change like the rest of the video game industry does because they have no money, and so can't afford to just bring them on board to write an exclusive.  But they can sure let people think they've got something special lined up!

    I think this is the thing. You can encourage software developers on the cheap, but you still need to support them. If they had a development package, regular contact and a real storefront to show off on their devices to download from, then there'll be plenty of bedroom developers building the next big indie title for it, and they'd have the opportunity to show it off. 

     

    We currently know of two games, Jani's that you can buy on other devices right now, and the SNK legal rip name game that seems nearly finished anyway but is also going to release on steam. The nearest competing company doing very similar things already have a raft of games on show... 

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  23. Posted

    48 minutes ago, OldSchoolRetroGamer said:

    Ugh, that video thumbnail is discouraging me from watching......................betting this will be the face of any backer that actually receives this garbage 🙄

    Haha, its not as bad as that image makes out. Jani is possibly the most reasonable person talking about the device. While I still doubt the use and point of the Ataribox, I can see Jani has enthusiasm for developing the device. His video also shows the classic controller and it does light up directionally, so they did keep that feature. I asked about the configuration of the lights and Jani replied in comments there does seem to be some documentation. I know some people mock the use of a lit up controller but as someone who has a customised keyboard for games I do find it useful and I am able to look at input devices while playing a game. If Terraria can have a dynamic keyboard lighting setup then surely the classic controller can have a use if it is configurable. 

     

    Jani is possibly on the fan boy side for the vcs, but given possibly seems to be the most high profile developer for it so far (and it isn't the only device the games is developed for - so eggs aren't all in one basket) it's provided more insight than anyone else has into the system. Jani shows the system working, and the two controllers in the two videos so it's something we've never really got before. 

     

    The device works, if nothing else. 

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  24. Posted

    On 11/15/2020 at 9:44 PM, Graeme McCall said:

    Hi there,

     

    Keen to know if there will be another batch of these coming up for sale anytime soon?

     

    All the best,

    Graeme.

    Hi Graeme, 

     

    I have 15 available, ready and waiting to send out. If you are just after the one, follow the instructions in the first page regarding payment based on location. If you would like more than one, give me a pm with your country of residence and I'll quote you a price (it's usually more effected by value and having that covered by royal mail than the weight!). 

     

    I usually ship within 48 hours and if its going outside the UK its usually arrived at customs on my side within a day. 

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  25. Posted

    I bought one of these recently, actually my first device from retro HQ, I know it's the only SNK device James does, but I will be snapping up the others in time! 

     

    The pocket has an awesome library, like a nicer gbc. Most of the games did get released here in Europe but some can be a bit pricey especially with the European boxing. This helps alleviate that price+rarity issue. If you don't have a pocket yet, try it out. They even have the clicky controls! 

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