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Had a great time at the Midwest Gaming Classic and I hopefully I will be there next year.

I am not Vinnie, but it is speculation right now. He found this information on Lance Blog. Lance of Video 61 has been cleaning out his warehouse has discovered that he has Atari 7800 EMPROMS that he didn't know that he had according to his blog. One of EPROMS has a handwritten label that looks to say “Riot”. This is an EPROM and not a RIOT chip for the Atari 2600 according Lance. That EMPROM label has a date of 7-20-93 and has the number 2 circled like in the game needs 2 chips in order to test the game. https://forums.atari.io/blogs/entry/536-i-may-have-found-road-riot-4wd-for-atari-7800-along-with-more-interesting-atari-7800-eproms/ I do know there is supposed a update 7800 EMPROM findings tomorrow from Lance.

Nope. My younger brother is one of the people that pre-orders the cart adaptors for the pocket and he still didn't get his cart adaptor yet.

I can tell you that the percentage is likely higher for not active on the forum. My younger brother buys games from the Atariage store, but never signed up to be a member of the forums to my knowledge.

I'm guessing Bubble Bobble is the game.

The Atari 7800 not having a port of Rainbow Islands makes perfect sense. The timing wasn't there for the 7800 getting Rainbow Islands during its commercial life considering Taito was publishing games for NES, Pc Engine, Sega Genesis and I believe SMS at the time. As far as Rainbow Islands not having a homebrew port, there is a lot of explanations of why not. Atari 7800 homebrew cartridges from the Atariage Store couldn't go higher than 48k for many years before there was a board that is able to do 128k,144k and 256k Atari 7800 cartridge sized homebrew games. I think it was around 2014 to 2017 time frame when Atariage store first was able to sell Atari 7800 homebrew games that were 128k or higher in cartridge size. This is a key fact because I feel Rainbow Islands is one of those games needs to be a cartridge higher than a 48k cartridge size to do the game justice. The Atariage store for many years had issues getting Pokey sound chips for 7800 games. The 3rd thing with the 7800 homebrew scene is the scene does not have a lot of homebrew authors that do arcade ports compare to the amount of Arcade games that do not a have a port of the 7800. You might as well attempt a 7800 homebrew port as a result. The 4th thing with the homebrew scene is homebrew authors usually don't take requests for homebrew arcade ports. The 5th thing is Arkanoid and Tetris are the only 2 arcade game homebrew authors to my knowledge that have been attempted that came out in the arcade after 1984. The final thing is I know based on posts on this forum that there are people want Bubble Bobble on the 7800 and that likely means Rainbow Island is not high on priority considering Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands are part of the same series.

Analogue Duo is something I consider. I am a Tg-16 owner with an adapter to play to play Pc engine cards. I became a Tg-16 owner around 2005 or 2006. I stayed from the CD side of the system for a reason. I read Turbo duo has a history of durability issues. I read in the past the pc engine Duo R systems are the best in durability, but the demand has affected the price.

Dates for next years Midwest Gaming Classic got announced. It is April 5th through April 7th. https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/attend/

I am not surprised with the 2 Collections being announced. I remembered Blazing mentioned a 2nd C64 collection last year and I recalled the same with Toaplan collection 2. Going into this year, C64 collection 2, Toaplan Collection 2, and Amiga Collection 1 were basically automatics for this year for Evercade collections with the only question was when in 2023. I mentioned Amiga because in October of last year, Blaze announced a partnership with Amiga.

I doubt Atariage would do a custom cartridge. What happened is the homebrew author only wants it as a rom only release and did not ask for Capcom's permission. The 2nd thing is the game uses a YM2151 sound chip for music. Game sound for the game is TIA. The only way by cartridge is Flash Cartridge, but not all can do the game due to the YM2151 sound chip. I know Dragonfly Flash cart is able to. I know Retro HQ's 7800 GD Cartridge will be able to handle the game when the 7800 GD comes out.

I would expect a TG-16/Pc Engine cartridge to be much different than the games on the TG-16 Mini. I think Blaze getting an agreement with Konami is not going to be easy without certain stuff in an agreement like what happened with Namco and Capcom. Konami owns Hudson Soft. A Tg-16/Pc Engine game cartridge would have games from Telenet, Data East, and Irem. I mentioned Telenet because the company that has rights to Renovation IP games also has rights games that Telenet published in Japan.

I know Perry was working with Curt when he died. I know Tep had problems with Mark also with the 7800 XM also. I do have proof of Curt claiming Mark was working on the 7800 XM in 2020 although that is odd. Curt Mentioned Mark aka Groovybee working on the User end bios on March 11, 2020 post: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/300377-xm-has-shipped/?do=findComment&comment=4479375 If Mark aka Groovybee wasn't working on the user end bios according March 11th, 2020, why would Curt claimed Mark was working on it? Also this is a link that showed Curt mentioned he emailed Mark about the bios on July 18th, 2020 post: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/300377-xm-has-shipped/?do=findComment&comment=4588420

Mark was involved with Atariage members past July of 2018. He was still was one of the Volunteers of the Atari 7800 XM past July of 2018. Curt Vendel mentioned his involvement as late as July of 2020. I was under the impression Mark was still involved with the project based what Curt mentioned at the time with him used terms like email. A month after Curt sent an Email to Mark, Curt past away. I don't know if anyone for the 7800 XM team contacted Mark after Curt's death. I know the project was on hold due to Curt's death and is assumed canceled. I am sure the need to contact Mark for the 7800 XM is not there since the project almost vaporware. I know a small amount of people got the 7800 XM that worked on the project including Mark himself I believe. The other thing is he's not a well liked person due to his past actions and him not being contacted does make sense. As far as the Intellivision scene goes with him, he was not completely honest with those people. The fact is Mark was working on the 7800 XM at times despite taking money for the 2 Intellivision games. Mark also was doing other Intellivision projects after accepting money for the 2 pre-order games.

Evercade EXP release date is delayed till December 15th.

Dragon Spirit: The New Legend is a good shooter. It is one the first NES games that I owned. I know there differences from the Arcade version of Dragon Spirit, but it does not change the fact Dragon Spirt: The New Legend is good, fun game.

Sega is not like Nintendo with IPS. Sonic is not a problem to my knowledge. Atariage Store does have Sega IP games and Albert never received a C & D from Sega unlike Nintendo.

I read Evercade EXP pre-orders start on September 6th. Blaze will have a special announcement on September 2nd for Everade EXP release date, time of the pre-orders, and the bonus content included for the Evercade EXP.

Demon Attack is no go to my understanding. Blaze explained on a podcast that they were very close to a contract with Activision. They were 90 percent done with a contract with Activision when something happened. That contract for doing Imagic games for Intellivision and Activision games for the 2600. Blaze also tried with EA, but Ea wasn't interested.

I found out something earlier today on a Evercast on Youtube. It was confirmed by a Blaze Employee on that podcast that 2 C64 collections are going to be on Evercade. It is not known what the games are going to be. The games will be announced, but also there is supposed to be an announcement next week that is not C64 related. What I know is Blaze has a business relationship with the company responsible for C64 mini and the A 500 mini.

My younger brother had no problems with for the Mega SG, the Super Nt, and the Mega SG adaptors. My younger brother got the Mega SG adaptors in 2020. The adaptors in question are the Sg-1000/mark III adaptor, Game Gear Adaptor, and the mycard adaptor. He got the Mega Sg and the Super NT in 2019 or 2018 with no problem.

Irem Arcade 1 and Toaplan arcade 1 & 2 are great additions to Evercade. I recalled last years mentioning Irem and Toaplan being arcade cart possibilities. Those collections help out people that are fans of shoot'em ups like myself. Snow Bros. is one of my all time favorite games. The handheld announcement caught me off guard. I am not pleased with the handling of the original Evercade. While the original can play upcoming games, not able to update it if the upcoming games have glitches is a big grip. I know the final update is coming up later this year, but this concern is with future collections. The Evercade EXP is a nice upgrade in terms of what is known about it before September. I like the wifi feature for able to upgrade firmware with it because it beats the original Evercade handheld for that. The resolution change and the amount of buttons is not a shock considering the Evercade Vs. has. That being said, having a vertical mode on the Evercade EXP is a great future considering the nature of some games. I am likely to get the Evercade EXP due to the final firmware update coming later this year for the original handheld.

There is going to be some answers on May 31st. Blaze is having their Evercade 2nd anniversary show on May 31st at 17:00 bst/18:00 cet/12:00 est/9:00 Pst. All those times are in different time zones. Blaze mentioned the Evercade 2nd anniversary show is going to have next cartridges, some of their biggest hits, and some very big news.

When I was at the Midwest Gaming Classic last year, I don't see a lot hanging around the WATA booth either and I did see the same thing as you did this year. I hope not all of people hanging around the Wata booth happens at other shows Wata Games is a vendor at. What I know is one of the vendors did have a problem this year. I am referring to the vendor that sold Intellivision games. Of the sellers at that stand had a sheet of prices missing after a transaction happened with some customers before my younger and I either made it to the stand or start looking. My younger brother and I heard this on Saturday morning or early Saturday afternoon.

I know he's busy before you mentioned it. I'm looking forward to look at what he has at his booth tomorrow at the Midwest Gaming Classic since I'm a Lynx owner.

My younger brother ordered from Songbird for Gremlin and Renovation, but didn't get them yet.