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  1. Well, I received the item. It looks like it might be opened before and I haven't tested it yet but it even has the batteries.Seems legit.
  2. Will do. You are right though, they are a new seller with no feedback. I know some auction houses sell these units in bulk so I thought the seller was one of those who got them cheap. It is possible I will receive some crap instead of the actual thing.
  3. All this support for this hardware, plus the prices going lower and lower was very tempting. I just ordered one for $25 (one ebay seller has them for $23.95 + tax &Free Shipping).
  4. They know what they have, and the don't want to take any chances 😁
  5. I just ordered one from eBay. No box or manuals. Is there a digital copy of the SystemA TV Boy II manual somewhere, scanned by a good Samaritan perhaps 😁
  6. Hi @skintigh I ended up selling my collection due to housing situation couple years back. However, it was listed on the unicorn JR list (not sure if it was yours or another one) as it was picked up from an ebay listing.
  7. Turns out this "news" site is full of AI generated content. I had to zoom in a bit to get my excitement under control. This franken-NES-Atari looks kind of cool though.
  8. Actually there might be a reason why these were unshielded. As soon as I bring my DIY shield near the modulator it loses the signal completely as if the modulator sends the video via air. This was unexpected. PXL_20231210_003445566.mp4
  9. Thank you. I found a video where a shield was created with a cookie tin. I will try that.
  10. I figured how the first 32 games arranged. Take this 32-in-1list, remove UFO (so it starts with Fun with numbers). Replace Freeway Rabbit with hacked Basketball, Bowling with Canyon Bomber, Fishing Derby with hacked Tennis (women players) then add Mysterious Thief to the end (game #32)
  11. Mercado Libre can have some old collectible Atari stuff but if you are not living in Latin America you cannot shop there. Until I found out about Latinafy. I am not affiliated with them, I just wanted to try out if it's a real deal and if so wanted to share this information with others. I think it only works for Argentina and Uruguay sites of ML. You provide Latinafy with the product link, they generate a special link where you can buy it with the added $9.99 S&H fee for US (Europe has different rates). I just did that, and well, I got the stuff via Fedex. To be clear, many stuff listed there are not very cheap, but since it is not eBay there are items at reasonable prices lingering for a longer time with minimal Western buyer access. As for the machine, it is one of those with the musical menu. At 160 it wraps around and goes back to game #32. I don't have a game list, but the games 32-159 seem to follow the 192-in-1 listed at Atari Mania here. The first 32 is slightly different than the existing 32-in-1s I have seen (#10 is Combat, there are 2 basketballs and 2 Tennis games with changed sprites etc). Oddly the label was glued in reverse, and I have seen another one in Mercado Libre like this. Possibly a defective batch they didn't bother to fix. Board has KW 26002 printed on it (King-Wei/Kingway of Taiwan?).
  12. I have a cheap clone made by a company that did not bother to add any shielding to RF. While I am troubleshooting my Clean Comp A/V mod, I will still keep my RF output. When the machine was open I realized holding it in certain positions get rid of RF interference. Does anyone know what's an effective (and hopefully cheap) way to add some sort of shield to reduce this interference? Web sites I checked sell metal shields in bulk (the size is about 1.25"x1.75" with the height being around 0.6"). I also saw tapes and fabrics for sale but I am afraid of putting flexible conductive stuff in there causing accidental shorts. Thanks in advance.
  13. I checked the pins they seem to be making contact with the solder. Color adjustment pot was turned all the way to the clock wise, I turned to CCW a bit. While.this got rid of some noise the picture and the colors look very dark. See direct captures below. First one was captured from an external RF-Composite converter. Second one with the very dark red spaceship was captured from the Clean Comp's A/V output.
  14. I received the board today (white version). It has been a while since I did soldering so it is highly possible I did a terrible job. I am getting some video with some sort of noise. This is on a 6526P1 TIA chip in a PAL clone console. 5V measures fine, what else can I test with a multimeter? I feel like the chip legs weren't long enough.
  15. How many games are on that thing? Is it a PAL machine?
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