Bill Brasky

I had been using Auction Submit 3.0 and it worked well until the past year and a half or so. Now it doesn't update itself correctly, it locks up, gets runtime errors and shuts down. There is no tech support to speak of, just a FAQ page. Does anyone know of some other program like this that's free and works? I tried Mister Lister long time ago and didn't like it.

I bought something from them and it got here fine.

I have Freefall but have never even opened it.

Anyone looking for the Major Magic's version of the Pizza Time Players animatronic robots.? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...7516887143&rd=1 Complete, working setup including sound, lighting, computers, and air equipment. Only $25k.

Hell yeah! For $20 why not. Besides PAL 2600 games there's other cool consoles and computers that are PAL only and were never released in North America.

It won't make me feel better or worse, or anything I was referring to things like eprom emulators and other methods people have been using to homebrew. That's what John Donzilla used to create his games. It looks like a ribbon cable from his PC to a CV cart. It sends the program data from the pc straight into the CV console memory to test. No need to burn eproms every time.

He does? I was there less than 2 years ago and I don't remember seeing them. 859196[/snapback] The last time I looked, they were in the area with all the kiddie rides. You won't see them unless you're looking up near the ceiling. They're above all the coin-ops and photo booth machines.

I don't think they're that rare. Maybe you never saw them because they're most often used in bars/hotels. I don't get people spending hundreds more for a particular game since they're all so generic. No cool front or sideart, no light-up marquees, no bezel. Just a different PCB and instruction sheet under the glass.

www.marvin3m.com in Farmington Hills, MI has a set of those CECPTT Pizza Time Players animatronic robots.

I've thought about making a portable CV before but how would you accomodate the buttons (4 for SA controllers) plus the keypad.

Who burns custom Eproms every time they want to test a change? People haven't needed to do that for years. I think most people write their games using emulators anyway.

probably Gorf or Gorgar pinball.

One thing is for sure about all these systems. None of the future cool special edition versions will be released here. JPN only , so solly.

There was also the backlit gameboy indiglo(?) that was sold in Japan.

Maybe I don't want to see opcode lose his shirt financially on this venture. Just like when pre-order lists are made for much less expensive game carts, half the people who say they want it won't come up with the money when it's time to buy. They'll come up with excuses why they can't afford it this month/year. It'll be interesting to see how many people will actually buy it. As I stated, I already knew that opcode was going ahead with it no matter what I or others said.

Geez, getting a little full of yourself are you? I and others were modding CV's years and decades before you started your first. Quit talking like you invented it or have a patent on the process.

I suspect that some of the features will be quietly removed and specs will be downgraded before launch. I sceptical after Sony's pre-release claims about the PS2 to discourage anyone from buying a DC.

Isn't Bump 'n' Jump for Intellivision one of the first homebrews? I read it was made by two brothers who used their INTV Gameline modem to link up a PC to INTV and then later on sold the finished game to Mattell, but it started as a homebrew project.

Various places say Space Fortress was before Space Invasion. Certainly it wasn't pre 1997 as again, various places say 1997 was the first year for Coleco homebrews. Yes I realise the Astrocade had "homebrew" games in the mid 80s, but I was more thinking when things took off in the mid 90s and homebrewing became a regular occurance (though needless to say I will mention the machine). Either way, John D's first homebrew was on the Vectrex and it was Vextrex Vaders (dated March 96). 855698[/snapback] Is Astrocade considered a home computer or a console? I thought computer since that's the way it was marketed and has a built-in keypad for programmability and shipped with BASIC, IIRC.

What year was John Donzilla's first CV game, Space Invasion? Space Fortress is dated 1997 and I think it was before that.

I used to play Slither a bit more than Centipede because Centipede was so hard on CV. It starts off much harder than the arcade. There are no true difficulty settings. The difference between the different levels is just the number of lives. It's just as fast and hard on all settings. I think it's an excellent looking and sounding conversion but I wish they had kept the same aspect ratio as the arcade ala CV Mr. Do's Castle.

I don't think Yie Ar for CV has even been released yet.

No. There are no component video signals present in the 'Cube to tap for RCA jacks. 854881[/snapback] So are you saying the component video signal is generated within circuitry in the cable itself?

Isn't there a way to open it up and solder standard RCA jacks to the proper connections, eliminating the need for Nintendo's proprietary cable?