Mikebloke

Off the top of my head: 1 Heavy Sixer 2 2600 Jr's 1 7800 1 Colecovision with expansion module might be a 6th one in the form of a broken 2600 but can't remember if I bothered keeping it.

That's actually a more sensible first step than I had in my head, I was originally looking at something like "Adventure" but given I can't get a blank screen to load up correctly without help, Turtles might be more doable!

I don't know if I'm lucky but my no-longer-impressive LCD TV with 3D capabilities still runs straight out the RF signal pretty good, yes its probably modifying it to the extent it isn't a "true signal" but even ballooned to a 1080 resolution TV at 54" its playable, sharp, lagless; its nice not having to use anything else when I want to play just the console and the TV like it should be. When I bought my house, a CRT tv was left, one that was small enough that it won't take up much space. I'm keeping it for light gun games but the likely hood is I won't use it for day to day gaming, would I even want to? I don't think so. When I get the need for a Galaxian fix my modern TV does the job well. Thinking back, I didn't think "oh this looks bad on a CRT TV", I went from 2600 to Sega Saturn on a goldfish bowl 15" TV before I even had a flat screen CRT, the resolution of the games fitted the TV sizes of the time. Now they look pixel'y yes on what we use as our "living room TV" but there's a charm to that too.

I don't mind, its actually been helpful. Its bank holiday weekend in the UK so I'm hoping to take advantage and show off what I've managed to modify out of the Pac Man example at least, if nothing else!

Hi Ethaniel, I just recently got a second copy of this game, I originally bought a boxed copy in german which I'm keeping for myself but while hunting for a compatible 'console' to play it on I managed to grab an extra, german language labelled copy of Tank Battle unboxed. The issue is that it doesn't fit in the same machines as the one you have labelled, you will need one of the 'Palladium' styled machines, I'll see if I can attach an image of what the cartridges look like... here we go (this is just from the net, I can get an actual photo of mine if you are interested)

Of the games I own on the actual system: Miracle Warriors The Ninja Rampart I would put Phantasy Star, but I only have it on GBA and PS3.

I think the Nuon falls victim to quite a bit of eBay fakery. I've been looking for a "UK" version of the Nuon for awhile. About a year ago I noticed one but didn't have the cash so I didn't even think about it, then a few months ago I swore I saw the exact same images (given that it is the only one that popped up actually in the UK whenever I've looked for it) with a buy it now price of about £300 (with one or two games). Well, I think bidding got to about £20-30 and long before it ended it just disappeared, taken off, not bought. I messaged the seller asking why it'd been taken off, got no response; and I've presumed its a fake attempt at getting a guide price. Had a nosey, theres this one going for £100 right now: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ultra-Rare-Samsung-n501-Enhanced-DVD-Player-with-Sealed-Games-and-Accessories/183187781604?hash=item2aa6d7b7e4:g:79EAAOSw4P1auipo Is that a silly price?

Even this is helpful! Thanks. Every little bit helps. Oh I will, and I will show it off once I don't feel embarrassed by it XD

Yeah, I think there is a more up to date version of dasm around too, not sure if that effects anything. I've started playing around with code in examples like the Scrolling Mountains and the early version of Pac Man without the Ghosts to get the feel of it, actually coding from scratch still makes my head hurt though as I don't know exactly what is needed as a minimum. Everything I've tried so far just boots the system games. I think the other issue was that some things like the disassembled code for the carts released on the system might have a different syntax, so it doesn't easily just load from f8tool disassembly to dasm assembly. Its probably my ad hoc way of learning a new language too its probably not particularly useful in something like assembly to break working code to learn what works.

Yes I did, although I get the feeling some of the example code on the VES wiki isn't all designed to jump into dasm, its probably me just being stupid and not realising there is two different assemblers being used for the code available. Thank you! This actually has helped, a little. I've now managed to get the Scrolling Mountains example to assemble in dasm and load correctly into MESS. Now to try changing things!

Hi everyone, bit of a heavy first post I guess. I'm not the smartest tool in the box, and although I've done my fair share of programming, I'm only really just dipping my toe into Assembly for console homebrew. Because I like nothing to be easy, I wanted to start with the Channel F, which I have on hardware in the form of a Grandstand (as I'm British) with about half the original library boxed. I've delved into the VES wiki, got the MESS program working, taken a good look at some example code on the wiki of which I understand some of it, but when I try to assemble through dasm any of this code it brings up a string of errors in the form of "Unknown Mnemonic" starting with the "org" instruction every time. In fact, I've only got one of them to assemble and run in MESS at all, and that is F8 of Nations by nycurt! Am I doing something really stupid that I can't even assemble code provided by the wiki in the program that the wiki provides? I'm following the same instructions that is provided in the documentation for dasm going through command prompt, and ensuring the files start with the F8 label. I did manage to get the Lights Out by Sean Riddle to assemble and boot up in MESS, but it can't get past creating the grid, whereas the .bin file provided on the wiki works fine. Any help with this I would be really grateful, and I'll provide anything anyone needs to know from my end about what I'm doing, just would really like to take a shot at this but feel I'm falling at the first hurdle!