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  2. Posted

    1 hour ago, Atari_Bill said:

    Finally landed the Shooting Gallery for my original Odyssey. Been trying to get it for years but the Big Odyssey buyer out there constantly ran prices up.  Got a nice complete copy for a good price. Looks hardly used. 

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    I don't know how true this is but I heard that the Global Shipping Program has been taking hold of any of these intended for Europe and reselling them, has anyone had any experience importing this from the US to the UK? Any UK owners wanting to sell, let me know too!

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  3. Posted

    22 hours ago, Flojomojo said:

    And for me right now, vegan tacos with jackfruit "pork."

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    Actually had something similar recently to this in the UK. People might laugh for it being vegan, but its not like I'll ever be eating pork again. Jackfruit is fine with the right additions.

     

    I can't think of anything Atari (TM) related at the moment because there is no news.

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  4. Posted

    It's a nice box, if I lived in the states I'd probably be interested. Yes for collectors boxes are great. There is one type that doesn't use their collection and yes love everything sealed, and there is collectors that use them, and it's less of an issue. 

     

    I'm a gamer / collector, and like many people in my situation I have a house too small to store my own trinkets. Boxes are incredibly useful as both storage as you can tetris them into nooks and crannies  AND it looks better than having them loose or in a generic plastic or cardboard box. 

     

    For young uns, it might not be as important as once it's out the box it's gone but for the rest of us it's helpful. Yes it ups the price normally. 

  5. Posted

    Panzer Dragoon Saga had it been moved to the Dreamcast instead of staying on the Saturn. It was never going to happen, they allowed Shenmue to move over but PDS was already at the tail end of its development cycle and Sega wanted something to look like competition for FF7 on the playstation. That and the amount of money already pumped into it.

     

    There is a lot of things that it could have benefited from by doing this:

     

    480p

    Probably would have got a "remaster" by now

    Would have been even better looking than it did

    Transparencies!?!?!?!?!

    Bigger market. Ok, the truth is that dreamcast was a commercial mess, and the saturn while behind at least made a fair profit. But it might have been a further nail in cementing some success for the dreamcast, rather than pleasing us saturn owners at the time with a beautiful game like a loyalty scheme, where few people were ever going to cash in.

     

    Its too late now though, even if code hadn't been lost for any kind of remaster, a from the ground up remake would have to be expected. I would love to be on a team that remade PDS for any console, probably the switch would have been the only choice (see PD1 and 2 remakes being made) but it deserves to be fleshed out, triple the content and be a full blown console experience. Will never happen though.

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  7. Posted

    11 minutes ago, EdgeOfPortal said:

    Oh, I wasn't saying it was retro, I was just saying its likely the last system to be 90% protected from the digital age (games are on a supposedly long lasting form of media, most games are playable without patches/updates, and in a lot of cases are the full game on the disc.)

    No worries, I didn't actually think you were, sorry if it came out in my reply that I thought you did, I merely got caught on my own tangent then tried to bring it back :P Having said that, I find it fascinating as the PS3 is still technically my "main console" even though I have a Wii U.

  8. Posted

    On 12/30/2019 at 11:33 PM, jaybird3rd said:

    Those who currently have the most mainstream influence on the perception of video game history, and thus on the priorities of video game collectors, tend to be younger people who came in during or after the NES.  This is a pet peeve of mine that I've complained about before, but their perspective is highly Nintendo-centric: to them, the NES is the be-all and end-all of classic video gaming, the first console that really "got it right."  With the exception of a few significant arcade games, everything before the NES is seen as a mere litany of early failed experiments and evolutionary dead-ends, only worth revisiting today for the purpose of considering the necessary historical mistakes which made the NES possible.

    The issue is the under 20's also buy into the NEStalgia, I'm fully aware that in the states, any major review of gaming skirts across the early days till the NES comes out, Sega barely gets a mention (and usually its pre-NES stuff too) and then its Nintendo-Nintendo-Nintendo. In the UK, you tended to get documentaries on long lost Amiga names of "back in the day" developing or composing, which is embodiment of how video games and also just working with computers was perceived on this side of the pond. Despite the pride and history of the likes of spectrum, amstrad(!) and amiga, and the upstart/bedroom developer culture, you are more likely to hear about the NES in teens.

    14 hours ago, Random Terrain said:

    I think I've said this before. The Atari 2600 and other consoles will be recreated down to the last atom in a highly realistic holographic-style virtual world. No emulation will be required because these consoles will be exact copies of the real thing. They will look, sound, smell, and act as expected without lag or other problems. You'll also be able to "print" them physically if you want to deal with finding space for them. Most people will choose the virtual option.

    You joke, but I think many of us will be itching for a TV printer old spec enough to play this hardware that will still work in 50 years time without the use of various adaptors!

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  9. Posted

    I'd be surprised if someone said PS2 wasn't retro at this stage. I think there was definitely a stage where I considered it not retro when others did (for example, when I bought a sealed copy of a late era PS2 RPG for £5.99 at a supermarket many years afterwards).

     

    I wouldn't regard PS3 retro just yet for the following reasons:

     

    1. It uses a medium that is still emerging as the main (Blu Ray, DVD is only really just starting to be taken over in terms of shelf space)
    2. Its streaming services is only just starting to officially turn off (TV channels generally is starting to discontinue, but twitch just about works and Netflix/amazon still work fine).
    3. It wasn't that long ago that it had a commercially licensed game released.
    4. PSN still technically works on it, but features get periodically dropped, I can still download my purchased games! I just can't buy more (at least, in a user friendly way).

    As the 360 isn't blu ray, and most streaming stuff is starting to just break or not be updated, it is probably closer to being retro. However, I think there is still reasonable support in the way of free games via the subscription service, though this is slowing down I think. It technically had a game more recently than PS3, and both have good aftermarket second hand sales in high street resellers still, while PS2 (actually still quite strong in the UK in terms of retro) is a novelty and not generally a console people have around (most PS3's cant run it either). Wii is retro at this point, and while Wii U is definitely dead, I just don't know if its retro.

     

    There probably will never be a universal definition of what becomes retro, but I think most people eventually reach a similar conclusion whatever logic they use to get there.

  10. Posted

    I always try to eye up cables like these because I know that even my 1080 flatscreen with a scart port will one day go bust and I will be left with having to convert my signal through the cheap converters, which right now is working for me... but I prefer to have as little cables and power supplies between my console and tv as I can. Would be helpful if someone here buys it, especially if they are traditionally an RGB person. I'm happy enough with the Scart to HDMI converter when I'm streaming... but not when I'm playing offline, I like my pixels.

     

    I'm pretty trusting of retroRGB and he's pretty negative on the hyperkin front, which I'm so glad I double checked on because I was probably 5 minutes away from buying the whole set of cables at one point when it looked like my TV was going to die. I have dozens of products that use scart cables even if its just composite 😧

  11. Posted

    Well its the first... and no files as of yet. There is a number of reasons:

     

    1st: I took up a udemy course on 6502 assembly, my logic is it can help me to skip batari BASIC and start making 2600 games in assembly, and eventually root down to doing better at my Fairchild Channel F stuff.

    2nd: I work school terms, which by logic means virtually every time I have a week or two off I will be ill and impacting on my projects, I'm getting better now I'm due back in on monday...

    3rd: I've been running dummy trials of my game and I'm finding something particularly consistent: I'm struggling to get enough Umpth from the use of the Odyssey.

     

    I put this down to a few things:

     

    1st: I only have the base cards that come with the console (1-6) to test these on, all the really fun ones appear to be the extra ones that has a bit more versatility and stronger single player potential. Ideas I did have was to use Shooting Gallery as a minigame, and Handball cart as a boss combat level.

    2nd: When I am using the cards 1-6 for gameplay, it feels most of the time that it could just be using a gameboard than anything on a screen (ie, its no more interactive)

    3rd: When I'm trying to take advantage of more than one card, its switching is too frequent, that outside of digital control (such as what I do, using OBS normally used for streaming to quickly replace overlays, or using OdySim to quickly load up new cards with an overlay on top) it is probably too cumbersome for enjoyable play

    4th: Anything outside of movement on a map (which I think is fine for the dungeon areas) is reliant on a second player to act as an adversary, which is also potentially fine, but I kind of hoped to make it single player.

     

    I could release what I have so far, but I think I'm going to give it a few more weeks of ironing out some ideas before uploading. I think ultimately I will have to branch into 1 of 3 ideas if not a combination:

     

    Go ahead and include extra card requirements I don't own that I can test to make more versatile gameplay involving the odyssey

    Limit Odyssey use to positions on a map (card 2) and another card for "boss" combat (regular combat was already intended to be dice or other physical base)

    Make it reliant on 2 players, where one is hero and the other is adversary (ok, I'm not terribly bothered by this idea! perhaps I can make single player the "alternative rules" as an extra).

  12. Posted

    I said 8 to 16 bit for myself. Part of that is my age, and as a programmer my perception of change in that field. I see 8 bit and see its limitations. I see 16 bit and think of it as perfection of the 2D scene. I know the jump to 3D was extreme, but actually the early 3D stuff till ps1 and saturn was rubbish. Probably too subjective, but to some degree I do also accept 16 to 32 as being innovative. 

     

    For least change, I wasn't sure what to put between the last two options, I don't have a latest gen console for example, as my laptop has (up until I just tried to play origins on it this steam sale) been perfectly fine for my gaming needs for the new games I wanted. Origins not working has been a wake up call, as my laptop is now a good 5-6 years old and might convince me to consider buying a ps4 or xbox one before the next gen comes out. I don't personally see a great deal of difference, and while it sucks I might not be able to play certain games out now, the advancement of twitch means I can generally get the feel of it without actually playing it. (Death Stranding, looking at you). 

  13. Posted

    I'm aiming to get a ps4. I would also say I'd get an xbox one but the chances are I'd buy all the disk exclusives (think it's about 6) and only have them as a laugh. 

     

    Proper retro wise, I would probably like to collect remaining pal carts for 2nd gen. This includes backgammon for the 1292, morse if I can get it for videopac (have a repro so I'm not desperate to pay an extra £100 for it). And start to tidy up my intellivision collection by getting any remaining cheaper games. Colecovision will take a bit longer but it'll be nice to have another half dozen games by 2021.

     

    Atari 2600 I'm still trying to work out a full UK release list, but I know I don't have much left. Fairchild.. 3 more, but I doubt checkers will be one I get next year. 

  14. Posted

    I would argue that cheap carts is still fairly cheap, I find the only real way of buying them online is to bulk buy, save on postage. 

     

    However, I think generally we are starting to see a bit of "wait how much do you want for something I paid 50p for???" but its on select titles. 

     

    Scavenging carts for multicarts, romcarts is great and all, but eventually we will run out! 

     

    There is some casual youth interest in older consoles, but you do find it stops (predictably) at the NES. I've been in contact with a number of 1292 collectors recently, but I think that is more rarity, demand is low but so is supply. Having most of the commons for 2600 now, I don't hunt for new ones often. I've slowed down for the time being, and a Retron 77 and unocart does the rest. 

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  17. Posted

    Sigh. It's bad enough xbox one is now xbox original because xbox 3 (not as in xbox 360 which is the 2nd one) is called xbox one and now series x which is not xbox one x because that is the 3rd or 4th or 10th model of the third x box. 

     

    Will probably fit in one of my cubes though, so at least that's something. Going to suck for you poor gits with flat dvd player space useless slots though. Maybe they'll start making TV units for actual consoles. 

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  20. Posted

    15 hours ago, e5frog said:

    Nice to see the progress!

     

    EDIT: 
    There seems to be some odd things happening with controls, need to kind of "double click" to start from start screen. 

     

    EDIT2:
    Timer gets messed up on the first jump at the end, you might be adding score in the timer area. 
    ... or perhaps the timer is supposed to be reset but graphics is "out of bounds", haven't checked the code but decimal adjusted or not? 

     

    EDIT3:
    Yup, debugger shows timer in 'O'76 (register 62) resets to $FF instead of $99 where it originally starts. 

     

    EDIT4:
    Summing of scores is made hexadecimal at the moment:
    88 + 98 = 120

    instead of

    88 + 98 = 186

    Note I've tested in your latest build 10a, I'm using mess64 (0210b):

     

    1: one press for start screen gets me to gameplay

    2+4: Score is increasing by remaining time, then time resetting to 99 as intended (I believe), I tested a few things like waiting for timer to nearly count down, but in mess it was working correctly. All scores appeared to be counting correctly in base 10.

     

    Hope that helps.

     

    I'm rubbish at these games due to impatience, so it took me awhile to clear a screen! But it appears to work as intended and resets ok.

  22. Posted

    59 minutes ago, Ashevent said:

     

    *Edit, O.K. I feel dumb, just realized it's Efrog selling it..lol. Hey buddy, can you school me on these? 

     

    XD yeah I saw it the other day as well. Its a difficult one, if you offer it on bids it would probably never get to its true value, and you open it up to upsellers. I'm fascinated by these things but ultimately I'm a gamer first collector second. 

  23. Posted

    28 minutes ago, e5frog said:

      

    readController:
	; see one of the hand controllers is moved, keep data in A
	clr
	outs	0
	outs	1
	ins	1
	pop


     

    I shouldn't butt in too much, have other programming to finish up. ;-)

    Any code is greatly appreciated by those of us struggling, it's always very helpful! 

  25. Posted

    5 hours ago, Osgeld said:

    back in the late 90's / early 2000's I used to buy cannon printers as brown box refurb units

     

    People would buy them, use up all the ink, send them back, get cleaned and sell them refurbed for 25$ with new ink, I would buy them, use up the ink, scrap them for parts and toss the rest and get another. This went on for about 6 printers.

    The printer economy is certainly a strange one. We recently bought a new HP printer/scanner for the grand total of £18.99, and then they offered us cover for £12.99 a year, its literally cheaper to buy a new one, which will be an upgraded model.

     

    Every time I see the Amico in this thread the more I want one.

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