krisjohn

If you can find an old library card catalogue drawer set you should find that Atari carts fit perfectly in it. I've got a copy of 7x7 drawer cabinets at home. Great for cables and controllers too. (And videos and CDs...). I got them directly from a local uni library, but you might have luck at any furniture salvage place.

I scored assorted stuff: 4 Sega Saturn mags, including the last one printed + 2 Atari ST User mags + a Konix Navigator joystick + 5 C64 tapes including Impossible Mission A$5 A Sega Mega Drive with a dozen boxed games (only owned 2 already, only 3 were sports titles) and BOTH a Game Genie and Action Replay, complete with code books. A$40 (A$2 = US$1, roughly.) No 2600 stuff though...

Got out the CC and CCU, found my keypad and hooked everything back up (not as much work as that sounds) last night to play Holey Moley. Oh yeah, I guess. Gameplay is as you would expect. Don't know that I'd specifically do a commercial release of it, but then I bought the two Mega CD games from GoodDealGames so who am I to talk?

I never really "got" Mario, but I'm not a huge fan of most platform games. The only thing with Mario in that I've really enjoyed is Super Smash Brothers. I've written rants about 2D v's 3D before, so I won't repeat that here. I don't what the concepts and base gameplay of Atari age games really offer modern gaming technology. I'm playing through ICO at the moment, and really it just wouldn't work on older hardware. Being delicate and beautiful is kind of part of the whole thing. I guess it could have been done in 2D, but from what I read the AI for Yorta simply requires too much processing power for her to have been anything but annoying on an older console. Most old video games that were based on old real-world games continue to be updated for modern consoles with little or no controversy. More stylised games, even if it's just a slight stylisation like Spy Hunter, tend to have a specific feel tied heavily into the original platform and do not translate well into the current games environment -- due most likely to clueless company executives rather than programmers. Personally, I grew up on Sierra adventures, Accolade "simulations" and arcade shoot-em-up conversions. Of the latter, Panza Dragoon and Rez probably give the best modern 3D version of 2D reflexes and mindless destruction. Gauntlet Legends rocks too. Simulations have evolved particularly gracefully, since they were always originally trying to be as much like a real life experience as possible. Adventure games split into RPGs and 3D platformers. FFX or Tomb Raider. ICO is the first modern puzzler/adventure/platform-esq things that I've enjoyed in a long, long time. Non-shooter arcade favs of mine include Bubble Booble and Double Dragon. A 3D re-make of either, so long as it has the same fixed camera angle would probably look pretty nice. Whether anyone would buy it is a different question. Wow, that was a long post.

CONGRATULATIONS And a happy 4th of July to those that celebrate it...

For all I know this gets posted every so often, but I just found out that ErrorWear are selling a T-Shirt with the Pacman level 256 fault printed on it. http://www.errorwear.com/shirts-all.html http://www.errorwear.com/huge-pacman.html

I know, but you've got me started. I'll probably hook up everything this evening and give it a bit of a go. I paid too much for my USB video capture device and I don't use it nearly enough. If only there was a stand-alone video frame grabber that saved to a flash card or something. With an IR remote. Then I could just hook it up to the monitor out of my TV and grab all sorts of interesting stuff.

Cynical exercises in name recognition. Asteroids for the Gameboy Colour (or "color" ) was an okay remake. You can unlock a classic-looking version in there too. I prefer things like the Namco Museum, Sonic Jam or Game and Watch Gallery. Must include decent historical info though. Even more modern sequels are suffering. Metroid as a FPS - ick. It's tempting to get a Gameboy Advance and modify it for TV out just to play modern 2D stuff on a big screen.

If I'd done it the hard way it also would have been a couple of days before you saw any fireworks, and it more or less would have lost the point (what, with the 4th being over and all). I might still grab some frames on the weekend. I'm fairly sure I know where all the cables, adapters and devices I need are.

Do they have a copy of your work? Otherwise, if someone else produces something with "Futurama" and "2600" in the title you're kinda screwed. Alternatively, you could release it anonymously and claim it isn't your hack.

I'll take a photo of my TV playing Fantavision for you on the weekend. Or maybe I'll actually move my PC and PS2 together and do a framegrab. Nah, the quality of both of those options sucks, I'll just do a google image search... Congratulations

I think I worked out that I've got just under 50 Atari 2600 carts, but I collect so many other systems as well that I can't really tell if I haven't picked up something for one particular platform in a while. I must have well over 400 games by now. A few months back I did also start collecting "interactive fiction" (or gamebooks) like the Choose Your Own Adventure series because I was having a hard time picking up any new old games. Then a local chain started liquidating DC titles, then I picked up a PS2... I still keep the book list with me, but it's getting hard to find any sort of interesting anything. I've just started hitting the "Good Sammy" and similar charity/thrift/Op shops. There's some seriously old stuff in some of those. This is after pretty much draining all the pawnbrokers and weekend swap-meets for about 100km in any direction.

There's your problem. I picked up Cuttle Cart Underground a while back, so whenever I want to play a classic game (or any ROM that's been public for more than a year or so) I can do it on a real 2600. More modern ROMs I convert to MP3s and load on a spare MP3 player I've got. (Once I remember to download them at home.)

I think I rolled the Nintendo Game and Watch version of Donkey Kong Jnr when I was a kid, but that's probably it. These days most games let you score over a billion without rolling. Some of my pinball scores have been obscene.

I KNEW I should have bought two... (That $100 would even pay for a voltage convertor)

I just tried to vote for Morrigan and it turns out one of the staff or students behind our proxy is also a GameFAQs fan (and has already voted). Cool.

Congrats

Atari 2600 Doom Deathmatch using the second joystick port for networking...

Speaking of PAL, I have about 10MB of scans of PAL (mostly HES) stuff, including slicks, manuals, carts and a catalogue. Is there an AA email address or FTP site that can cope with that much stuff at once?

Are the organisers reading this forum? I'd like to be able to submit using VHSC (compact VHS). The tapes are much smaller and there are adapters that let you play them in a normal VCR. Posting a VHSC from Australia v's a VHS will probably save me $5. Or how about digitised video? Can I record to tape then record the video to my PC using a video capture device? Does it matter if it's in black and white? If I load an NTSC ROM onto my Cuttle Cart I will probably only be able to record a black and white NTSC signal onto tape. (I only have about 7 of the titles as a real cart ) (oh, and BTW, I don't think PAL has an EP. In PAL mode my VCR only has SP and LP (2-hour and 4-hour). Only NTSC tapes go up to EP.)

I just got back from a bit of shopping where I found what appears to be a PAL bootleg of "Earth Dies Screaming". Here's the front label. Anyone know what pirate group it's from? (Or any other interesting info about it.)

I bought RE:CV a while ago, but since it doesn't support VGA I haven't had a chance to play it yet.

Sorry guys, had to vote for the 32X. I'm just twisted that way. It's actually a very nice peice of hardware, it just never got much of a chance.

How about the sound in Party Mix for the Supercharger when your vehicle touches something?

The old DOS EGA (or whatever) Spiderman game certainly had the same falling and saving feel to it. Additionally there was a bug or cheat that I vaguely remember. From the first screen, go up. I think you come across a helicopter. Then somehow you need to fall down the very edge of the screen (can't remember which side, but I think the left). You fall through the building then you fall through the bottom of a screen and arrive at the last level. Something on the floor is not healty, so you knock a bit of floor out from under the bad guy, he walks back and forth across the floor and quickly dies. Congrats, you've finished the game. Don't know where you'd find a copy these days though. If anyone can point me to a copy I'll write a better description of the cheat. You know you've got the right version when your health is represented by a pic of spidey that turns into a skeleton.