Idea for homebrew title that 7800-homebrew dev. may consider to produce: Pac Land 1984

[Idea for homebrew title that 7800-homebrew dev. may consider to produce: Pac Land 1984]

As different background-tile-sets as possible for each different World would be nice.

 

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One Boss (the Armoured thingy) should be kept for the final

battle, applying the sub-boss (the super-spook) as end-of-World bosses until last World...

 

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Fair ‘noug; my opinion...

[Idea for homebrew title that 7800-homebrew dev. may consider to produce: Pac Land 1984]

It would be cool to have ‘worlds’

with categorically different appearances; different tile-sets for every World, even using some enemies solely on a single World until the last one...

[What are your top Atari 5200 to get hold of but haven’t yet?]

20 minutes ago, 0078265317 said:

No reproductions.  But only 17 missing so not bad. Bounty bob is super rare.  And meteorites.  And few others.  So I will never have all of them.  And as far as ebay is concerned it does not even matter.  There was a guy selling the complete set few months back.  But he was asking too much.  Noboby bidded or bought,  They are all loose except I got a box with pitfall 1.  So  52 out of 69 is not bad just to play with or collect or test controllers.  Repos not worth it because its too much and wont re ebay for even half when I am done with it?

Fair ‘nough & no sweat...

 

Just asking what you’re after...

 

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For my own part it’s the actual gaming-experience that matters...

[What are your top Atari 5200 to get hold of but haven’t yet?]

On 6/29/2020 at 3:53 AM, 0078265317 said:

I will worry about home brews later.  But for now the original 69 is good enough.  I

cant find my pitfall 2 cart.  But if I do then last 2 pics in this link.  I am missing 16 of the original 69.  All the hard to get ones.  On ebay there are a few.  But in the 50 ish range.  Too much for now.  Maybe after covid is over prices will go down.

 

http://mvvg.blogspot.com/2020/03/myv5200-games-collection.html?m=1

Is original ‘print’ of importance to you?

 

Perhaps, a reproduction-cart here at AtariAge would do it...?

[What are your top Atari 5200 to get hold of but haven’t yet?]

@0078265317

How many titles have you gotten now?

 

[Idea for homebrew title that 7800-homebrew dev. may consider to produce: Pac Land 1984]

If anyone here are into doing a Pac-World game-design, - using the parameters given in Bentley Bear - but with novelty; please do post your input of graphic, sound, level-layout, background-design, playability-ideas here... 

 

Even using the Bentley Bear-Engine, - novel designs may work wonders ...

[Video Game Critic reviews Rikki & Vikki]

I really do not agree with every

review Video Game Critic do for the 7800... it’s like sometimes ‘yes, yes’, other times ‘what the heck were you thinking’...?

 

Rikki & Vikki is definitly a top game.

 

A minus, puts it among the top games, so I’ve no problems with that.

 

Should it be A minus, A, or A plus...?

 

That is the question.

 

I haven’t gotten around to play it thoroughly enough ... yet... (as I’ve tons of retro-game-titles to go through, either on original platforms or mini-and-emulated versions).

 

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Actually if you have a 7800, just get it, and share your opinion here.

[Evercade?!]

1 hour ago, TrekMD said:

I'm really enjoying it.  It's cool to be able to use a cart, select the games and play.  The controller has worked well for all the games I've tried so far.  Looking forward to more collections. 

Sounds promising!

 

I look forward to getting mine in the mailbox/at postoffice!

[Why are third party carts so difficult?]

40 minutes ago, 0078265317 said:

This is mine.

 

http://mvvg.blogspot.com/2020/06/frogger-2-threedeep-5200.html?m=1

Looks precisely the same.

 

Clean the contacts, let it run for a few hours and do the gentle insert-remove for 2-5 mins , and see if it improves.

 

I’ve gotten lots of old (mostly used 7800 carts up and working this way, but also NES and Sega Master).

 

I have actually been pretty lucky with my 5200 carts...

 

 

[Why are third party carts so difficult?]

These contacts are what needs cleaning:

 

If your cart is like mine, you don’t need to open anything.

[Why are third party carts so difficult?]

Just now, 0078265317 said:

It started working now.  But sporadically.

Try the a),b)c) mentioned above when you have time.

 

[Why are third party carts so difficult?]

This is how the underside of my Frogger 2 looks like; the metal-things can here be easily cleaned by using a folded stiff common paper with isopropanol.

[Why are third party carts so difficult?]

3 minutes ago, 0078265317 said:

But PB carts are glued shut are they not?

Good point.

 

You may try to ask around all these ol’ timers with tons of experience...

 

Anyway... if you get it to run; let the console and game be on for several hours; it’ll restore connectivity to some extent.

 

You may also try to insert/remove the cart gently for 2-5 minutes.

[Evercade?!]

3 hours ago, 8th lutz said:

The entire Lynx Library is not going to happen.

... no, but perhaps we’ll at least see a decent run of everything not bound to film-licenses: warbirds, stun runner, etc, etc, ie Lynx collections 3-6 (at least)...?

 

Could be sorta cool...

[Evercade?!]

On 6/22/2020 at 12:02 AM, TrekMD said:

Mine has arrived!

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, what do you think so far?

 

[Why are third party carts so difficult?]

Many old carts, unused for perhaps decades, may need to be

a) inserted, pulled out gently for 2-5 minutes (20-50 times),

b) have the circuits cleansed with isopropanol

c) when working, have console and cart on for several hours so electricity and/or connectivity will be restored.

 

All these metals accumulate thin layers of oxidations/rust, which often must be cleansed away or ‘burned away’ (having the console + cart on for several hours).

 

However, you may have been unlucky and gotten carts that’re damaged on the inside...

 

... then its unfortunately not that much to do about it ...

[Besides Yars' Revenge, what other 2600 games do YOU want to see 5200 versions of???]

Well, I don’t own many 2600 games.

(I plan to get River Raid 2 and Empire Strikes Back some day, and would like to see 5200 versions of these).

 

But a 5200 version (perhaps with a few additions to gameplay), for 

 

‘Tunnel Tunner’ 

 

would be cool (if done well, of course).

 

I think BattleZone 2600 looks and feels better than the somewhat slow 5200 vector-version.

(I’ve heard there’s an optional BattleZone-version for the 5200, but haven’t seen gameplay of it).

 

I also got ‘Solaris’, but haven’t gotten around to play it much.

 

Since the 5200 has many top-space shooters (I include here the super-cool ‘Robotron’-space-shooter ‘Blaster’ here, I’m not sure I really miss ‘Solaris’.

 

So 

Tunnel Runner

River Raid 2

Empire Strikes Back

[What are your top Atari 5200 to get hold of but haven’t yet?]

21 hours ago, 0078265317 said:

Is that a good price or too much.

I think this is a realistic price for an old game in ‘very good’ shape, including package, overlays etc.

 

I guess you easily could get it cheaper, but not in that fine condition.

 

[Evercade?!]

I’ve ordered my Evercade with 10

game-carts.

 

It’s scheduled for arrival in my mailbox 7th of July.

 

It’ll be interesting to see if it holds up...

 

 

[ATARI CROSSING :) JUST A SPRITE ARTIST WITH TOO MUCH TIME.]

@gorfcadet

Anyway, cool that you’re into oldschool sprites!

 

Good luck with your projects!

 

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Have a look around at the threads here; there are other people either doing or learning to do 7800 programming, music, demos etc.

 

All good,

Giles

[ATARI CROSSING :) JUST A SPRITE ARTIST WITH TOO MUCH TIME.]

16 minutes ago, gorfcadet said:

So my family has clocked in waaaay too many hours on Animal Crossing and I was thinking there really isn't a reason this couldn't have worked back in the day and then I thought what would it look like on my beloved 7800.  So some quick mocks using 7800 palette colors and some fatmode stretch later and here is some basic Atari Crossing layout mocks.  Granted no battery backup back in the day would have sucked, but there were battery backup games on other systems and the 7800 was slated to have had add ons, so ya know... Of course I might replace Tom Nook with ET or something... damn trash panda.

 

7800 fat pixels of course...

 

If I get bored I may add to my tile sets just for fun.

Anyone else play Animal Crossing want to add to the 8bit cast?  My daughters won't forgive me if I don't add Peanut.

 

Just call it ‘Animal Crossie’... and all  will be well...

 

😉😄

[Scrapyard Dog (Graphics Hack)]

2 hours ago, KevinMos3 said:

I don't know what Scraps-v.1.1 is.

If you're ordering a custom cart from the AtariAge store, just make sure Al has the latest one here.  If you prefer the alternate hair from the picture above, I'll have to upload or send it.

Ok, thanks for info.

 

Scraps-v1.1.: sorry just my own way of saying the first version of Scrapyard Dog ‘starring Scraps’, uploaded here, before any further alterations.

 

I was a bit vague there.

 

If the hair is only on the title-screen and no further alterations were done, I’ll do with the version given here already.

 

 

[Scrapyard Dog (Graphics Hack)]

8 hours ago, KevinMos3 said:

You haven't downloaded/played the current version of the hack you requested?

I need to get a better emulator downloaded; but the laptop stationed at my place is my brothers’, so I’ll need to get him here.

 

Anyway, I want to have these things produced on actually 7800-hardware carts, but have run out of people who are available (energy and expertise) for doing such things.

 

When I get my bro to download, bupsystem, I’ll download these versions...

 

(But I have the Scraps-v.1.1 coming as cart)

[What are your top Atari 5200 to get hold of but haven’t yet?]

7 minutes ago, 0078265317 said:

few weeks back on ebay it was 15 dollars.  should of snagged it.

Perhaps it was a reproduction-cart.

 

So, it would depend on whether you’re the more interested in collecting original carts from

the era the system was in the shelves, or whether you’re primarily looking for a fully working cartridge to play on original hardware.

 

Anyway, prices differ quite a lot with condition and whether or not it still has packaging.

 

If you don’t care how it looks (or ahem

smells) outward as long as it boots and runs well, you can probably get it a lot cheaper.

[What are your top Atari 5200 to get hold of but haven’t yet?]

1 hour ago, 0078265317 said:

Also why does fractalus always go for so much.  Is it a rare title.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184333525932

 

I think the stuff about Resque on Fractalus is that it’s a technical

top-title; it’s really, really impressive for such an early system - with 3D polygon (not vector) landscape to fly through in all 360 degrees, with landings onto surface to pick up stranded pilots, and return to mother-ship in space.