Dillweed
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Nice stuff!
I have the same Magnavox Boombox, but the cassette seems to need some love. Was yours working when you got it? What was your repair work?
Thanks, I got it for ten bucks at a garage sale. The guy said the cassette deck wasn't working, much like yours. My D8443, and many others have this issue where a certain gear wears out and crumbles away. I bought a replacement gear, and the appropriate belt, and placed everything accordingly. Everything works now. This may be the problem with yours, but that's what I needed to fix mine.
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And so begins my quest to get every Super Cassette Vision game.
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is that a real bearded dragon?
Yep, sure is. He's pretty quirky.
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Note: Second to last picture has an Atari game called The Alien Frenzy. This is nothing odd, but rather my first step into video game programming. It's a game (a hack rather) done back in 2012.
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Over the years, and years, I accumulate more and more games. I dedicated a whole room to the collection I have amassed. So, here's what I have going on.
*Warning: Long, long post.*
This is where most of my consoles are set up. Others can be seen on the far right side, as they are extra consoles that I haven't gotten around to, yet. You'll also notice I graduated this year.
You can see that my Japanese consoles currently reside here, as I have yet to set up a station where these can be played, as well. They won't play on the current set because of the Channel 95/96 situation. Other consoles such as the Odyssey2/Atari2600/Intellivision (not pictured)/Colecovision also appear here, because these consoles are strictly RF machines, while this isn't the reason they sit here, the main reason is because of the need to interact either with the console itself, or the ridiculously short controllers on the consoles. I still need to figure out a situation for those. My spare machines also are placed here.
Now to move on to the other, more interesting stuff.
You'll find upon the top shelf, an Odyssey 2 in it's box (I have two) as this was the one I've had for a long time. Behind and rather hidden, is an Odyssey 2000, which I found at a flea market for ten dollars. An Advance SP in the box, a nice $2.50 garage sale find, can be shown in the foreground. And of course, my Cassette Vision box stuff.
This is the main shelf that contains most of my consoles. Each one is hooked up though composite switchers, which are daisy chained together, for an endless supply of switches. The nice thing about these switchers is that they do not lose video quality, even when hooking several up to each other. You'll see my original NES from when I was a kid here, the one with the Berzerk-like robots. Just wanted to point that out, if you were wondering what that nonsense was. I also own a Vectrex, because it's the Vectrex. Below that, a footlocker I call "The Vault of Sins." This is where games that don't deserve a place on my shelf go. Games such as Custer's Revenge or The Guy Game rot here, no I don't own those, but they're good examples. This little discrepancy I thought was a good candidate;
God, this thing is so weird, I kinda hate looking at it.
For the first shelf of games, I have at the top, most of my Sega stuff. My Sega Master System cases are placed there, as well as a Mark III box. A couple obscured Saturn games as well.
This is the reason I built this shelf. Specifically for Nintendo cartridge games. Each shelf can hold 69/70 NES games.
Located below my NES games is the rest of my Sega stuff, a few FDS games, a floppy disc (which will elaborate on,) my SNES games, N64 games with pretty weird end labels, my Gameboy games, Odyssey 2 games, NES game boxes, and a few manuals thrown about.
Now for this floppy disk. My woodshop instructor for my senior class gave me this, as it was an educational game he used to teach his classes about simple machines and such. He also had The Oregon Trail, which no longer worked, and even an NES with Lolo to teach kids about puzzle solving. I actually helped him repair the NES, as it wasn't working after some time. I decided to look up this disk and surprisingly enough, we have another rare item. The game, Miner's Cave, only has the Apple II version available. This is the DOS version.
Behind me, are a couple more shelves, which contain more odds and ends. A Power Pad in the box, and couple "Brick Games" which are cheap Chinese handheld games that play Tetris, most noticeably, and a few other games. It's just some more garage sale stuff. The same goes for the Mattel football game and those organizer boxes. In front of the 360 box is my prototype F-1 Race and Cassette Vision Galaxian test cart, which I've talked upon. These two aren't garage sale finds, but I think that might be obvious.
Down a level are my Cassette Vision collection, a couple PAL Atari 2600 games in the background, my Famicom games, as well as where I store my Master System/Genesis games. There's a Cassette Recorder (CCR-81) for Tandy machines in there, too.
Here I have some boxed games, and a Clock Tower box, which I regret buying. I also have my Colecovision games, my M-Network, and Imagic 2600 games. You can also see my Coleco Alien Attack game, and the Cassette Vision gun.
It took me this long to get to the bulk of my Atari 2600 collection. This isn't all of it, but it's definitely most.
This is the last shelf, and the only particle board shelf I own. As much as I despise particle board, this shelf is actually very decent. Here is the last of my Atari collection, my other more modern games, and some extra CV games that I don't need. (Yes, I have two Monster Blocks, want one?) Behind that are Gameboy consoles that are spares.
The last thing I own is some stereo equipment, it's pretty good. I just brought it in, and still need to set it up to those speakers that are also being used by the television.
So, what do you think?
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I want that Flag Capture.
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Hey, that's pretty cool.
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A friend who lives about 40 miles away stated he found a 3DO in his local Goodwill, but for a price of 125 dollars. I decided to go there, on "Half-off Day," and try to get it, then. As I arrive at 9AM, I see it's not there. This disappoints me, as I continue to diddle around to the electronics area, which is what I usually do. As I am looking, I see a Sega CD logo amongst the other garbage. As I have a double-take, I udder an audible "WHAT?" and grab the item. It was a Model 2 Sega CD unit with a Genesis attached, and for only nine dollars, five since it's "Half-Off Day" This perplexes me, because someone who worked here had clearly known what a 3DO was, to price it so accordingly, while I was practically stealing a Sega CD with a Genesis attached. That day was a good day.
And, yes. It works.
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Welp, there it is. It's Panic.
What a thought it would be to get Grand Champion, too.
If I somehow did, I would dump the ROM, so that more copies could essentially be created... There is someone out there, somewhere with one known copy, yet the ROM is still undumped. (Horie may own a second.)
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Love the what if #10 you created. That missing number always has bugged me!
Interesting on the alt galaxian
So your saying it has a socketed Rom while all the other games roms are soldered in?
Yes, that's correct, all other ROMs are soldered in, this one is an exception.
Do you have an extra one of the light guns you might wanna sell me? They look pretty sweet. I want one cause it looks like Han's blaster.
Ha, unfortunately not.
They're that not hard to find, however. I've had more trouble looking for New Baseball. I found mine for about 25 bucks. Just gotta do some digging outside the normal auction sites. -
As far as weird stuff goes, I don't have a whole lot of stuff out of the ordinary. Most of the stuff that I consider "cherished" isn't something very obscure, like my Vectrex or my copy of The Krion Conquest I got for a dollar a garage sale. I've already made a Cassettevision thread, which IS obscure, but by no means a "holy grail." Yet, I do have a few things to show you guys.
First and foremost is a SEGA Space Attack arcade cabinet from '79. It has a slight sound issue I can't work out, but then again- it's probably the caps. The caps inside are still factory.
The only other two oddball objects in my game collection are:
A bizarre copy of Rush N' Attack for the NES, made by Dismac. Dismac is a Brazilian bootlegger company. I picked it up for cheap off Ebay, because I thought it was neat.
By far, the strangest piece on my collection is what you will find next to the Dismac cartridge. A prototype F-1 Race cart, or what appears to be. The story is even more intriguing upon how I got it. A while back, there existed a Mom and Pop game store in our shabby little town. It was a decent store for the time being, it's closed down by now, unfortunately. I went inside to see what inventory they had, and in the cramped supply of NES titles, I found this. It was only eight dollars, too. I'll never know what went inside the store owner's head as he priced this. Maybe he looked up Famicom prices? I really wish I knew. Later, I opened up the cart, despite my better judgement, and found a Famicom/NES converter inside. I have a Hogan's Alley cart with one of these.
There is something else I have that I find quite interesting, not a holy grail or anything, but definitely odd. It's a copy of Thunderball! for the Magnavox Odyssey 2. What's so weird about it is there is a label on the back stating it's not to be sold, but to photographed for a Century House catalog. I don't even remember how it wound up in my hands. I can't get a picture of it right now, as my Odyssey 2 games are stored away. I am remodeling my game room, at this time.
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I usually diddle around on Pricecharting.
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A Technics Quartz Direct Drive Turntable, Mad Planets cab, and a Vectrex? Mediocre? Don't say such harsh things about a collection as nice as yours!
It's pretty good.
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I found the Epoch Cassette Vision on a whim while browsing some odd Japanese website, I immediately took interest, as I have a soft spot for second generation videogame consoles. Much like stupus' thread, this is just more Cassette Vision stuff. There are some neat things that stand out, however. You may find this very interesting.
For those who don't know, the Cassette Vision, developed by Epoch, was the first exclusive Japanese video game console released in Japan. The console debuted in 1981 and ended in 1984. In that time, only eleven games were fully released to the public. There was no third-party support, and Epoch only had one NEC TK-80 computer to design their games. Two known others hadn't seen release.
Of the eleven released games, I own ten. Much like stupus said, Elevator Panic is a very difficult game to find, and yet when I find it, someone usually pays an exorbitant price for it.
If you know about the Cassette Vision's more famous unreleased title, Grand Champion, you may immediately point that out, however I'll explain:
Grand Champion is a racing game which much more resembles that of Monaco GP, despite using the Taito trademark. The reason for it's demise was because of a fatal bug upon crossing the finish line. From what I have heard, the game wouldn't advance past that, and would get stuck. I believe they actually fixed this, but by the time they did, the Cassette Vision was at it's end, as the Super Cassette Vision was already released. I've heard rumors stating Masayuki Horie, a developer at Epoch during this time, had destroyed all copies of this game. Yet, I believe this to be false. I've seen multiple instances where Epoch's stock was recycled for other games, PCBs in particular. Yet, I am not sure what exactly happened. Who knows? Someone should do some snooping around Epoch Headquarters, if you ask me.
This copy of Grand Champion is a fabrication I have created. It's not real. I designed the insert for it based on what was shown in the magazines and flyers. I'll share what I have done of it with you.
The reason I designed this was because I thought it would be a neat little project, and that I would like to think I could have a complete collection. A gap between "9" and "11" would annoy me, so to speak.
I would like to add that you can see a very small amount of Grand Champion's main screenshot on the Cassette Vision Jr.'s box, if you search for it.
Moreover, this other unreleased game I previously mentioned is more unheard of, and I would like brief over it. It was a breakout clone that was only conceived of. This was around the original Cassette Vision's launch in 1981. If you notice the "AUX." button on the console, this unnamed breakout clone was supposed to utilize that button. (People also state it's use is for the CV light gun, but I've never noticed anything.) Gameplay of this game, in my opinion, would look very similar to that of Breakaway on the Soundicvision/Hanimex HMG-7900.
The Epoch Cassette Vision also utilized a light gun, specifically, a light gun modeled after a C96 Mauser. This light gun was only used for the fourth game, Big Sports 12. The CV Jr. doesn't even support the gun or the knobs necessary to play. (Note: This also renders both Baseball games only partially playable.)
Another thing I found while searching these games out was a "test board" of sorts. I have been able to find absolutely no info on this what so ever. It's a standard CV Galaxian PCB, but rather than have the chip soldered in, it's resting inside a slot to place and test the chip. (I find it hard to find the correct terminology at times..)
If you have any information on that please let me know.
That's about all I have to show you, for now.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
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Thanks, man! This will help with the project I am doing.
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Alright, who's the one that bid $165 dollars on the Elevator Panic I was looking at? I know I had to be one of you guys.
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You're right, but I would also get an error on the screen if so, correct?
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Did both. Cleaned head, replaced belt.
Edit: I do not think the disks are bad. They were practically new old stock when I got them. Some still sealed with the Disk-kun mascot sticker intact.
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Hi, although this is my first post, I am definitely not new here. I've poked around this site for years, now. With that said, I recently picked up a Famicom w/ Disk System for 40 dollars, sold as untested. While the Famicom, itself, does work, The Disk System is as I expected. The belt was destroyed. I cleaned that up and replaced it with a new belt. Now it works, but a new problem appears.
This video explains the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfCVyB2c378
If you have any ideas, please let me know, that would be nice. Thanks.
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stupus' Epoch Cassette Vision & Super Cassette Vision collection
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It could be due to sunlight, I've come across oddities like that too.