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  2. Posted · Edited by rheffera

    Definetly a repro, but i honestly believe the seller is just plain stupid, he really thinks it was made in 1983. He don't seem to understand that cartridges can be opened and electronics / labels replaced, hence he believes its an actual 1983 release. And by the grammar of his replies id say he is a foreigner, perhaps Chinese or mexican

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    IIRC the PAL version of Cosmic Creeps is fairly rare whereas the NTSC version is uncommon at best.

    Tempest

     

    Really? I Picked up a complete PAL cosmic creeps and didn't think it was rare...then again i havent seen many other pal cosmic creeps. Hmmm..

  7. Posted

    I am the proud owner of a 2600; I bought it about 8 years ago for $5 along with about 9 games from a kid I was teaching guitar lessons too. In my more generous and carefree days, I lent the Atari to friends who damaged it significantly; breaking off swithces and ripping hte rubber covers off joysticks. ALthough my console and games are still in tact, I have lost my AC adaptor moving around. I was wondering if anyone knew of any compatible AC adaptors with the ATari 2600?

     

    Yes, i bought one from ebay and it works fine.

  10. Posted · Edited by rheffera

    Emulation all the way babycakes! Emulation will be here long long way way past when the last 2600 dies..

     

    Illogical Statement. As long as there are fanatics to fix 2600's the 2600 will live on

    (we are resourceful scavengers, arnt we :D). It will die when all us fans are quite literally dead and buried (60+ Years). After that happens there wont be anyone left in the year 2067+ that cares about the 2600, so 2600 emulation will fade into nothingness as well :D. Hence, 2600 Emulation wont outlive the physical 2600

  11. Posted · Edited by rheffera

    That's a hell of a lot of work Rom. Hats off to your tireless dedication in documenting the vast library of our favorite system!

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    You Said it Brother!

     

    Rom, go buy yourself a case of <insert favorite liquor> To celebrate! I know i will :D

    Is there a booze / booze brand called Stella? i might have to find out!

  13. Posted · Edited by rheffera

    Dude, what's your problem? All you seem to do is bitch and moan lately. What did I do to become your target? If you're still pissed off about Bowling, then you really need to get over it and move on with your life. We all listened to your bellyaching all last week. Now, we're gonna have to do it all over again?

    I have No idea what's up with Godzilla nor do i care to speculate.

    Regardless of Motivations and whether or not it was just humor to start off with this SHIT is escalating into Flaming, which has NO PLACE IN THE HSC .

    I understand your offended deteacher but little barbs like this:

    BTW, great score, Toymailman! Watch out, though. You've probably just taken the bullseye off my back and placed it on your own. Godzilla has a new target, now.

    Don't Help.

    Hmmmm

    Deteacher is an anagram for De Cheater

    I'm having that supposed photo sent to a lab for forensic analysis!

    And godzilla man, you gotta realize not everyone has the same sense of humor as you

  15. Posted · Edited by rheffera

    I'd have to say that Rob pretty much nailed it.

     

    Agreed. A Bad Game is a Bad game regardless of hardware.

    I think alot of bad games could have been far better, but they were simply bad because the development was rushed, or the developer didn't particularly care about quality.

    For Example. E.T. Love it or Hate it. Playable but could have been better if atari had given HSW more time.

     

    I think most Homebrews are great games simply because homebrewers like SpiceWare can take all the time they want in development and not release the final game until he is satisfied with it.(And as far as i know not having strict time constraints or having marketing execs beating on the door every 5 mins asking if the game is done :P) Which mean there is a much larger proportion of good homebrews to bad ones( Are there any bad ones at all?)

  16. Posted

    I'd be crazy to fork that kind of $$ for Caverns of Mars!!! Conquest was originally supposed to be on the FB2, wasn't it? Instead we got the former in all of it's messy glory.

     

    Thats Marketing People for you!

    You wont be disappointed by CoM :D

  18. Posted · Edited by rheffera

    I think Channel 2 and 3 is a selector on your 2600 console that changes the frequency of the RF signal. In America channel 2 and 3 are disused channels/frequencys that are programmed into the tv that correspond to this selector on the atari 2600. Here in australia / new zealand i dont think our tv's have those frequencys programmed at those channels and if we do we usually reprogram channel 2 to the ABC TV station.

     

    EDIT: Just tested a tv with factory settings and on channel 2 an australian tv has a slightly distorted tv station.

     

    Anyway,

    just change the channel selector on your atari and retune the tv in again and see if you have colour.

  20. Posted · Edited by rheffera

    Indeed they are both good, but id say pick CoM as your first one because its not as repetitive & its more colourful, and the genre hasnt really been done before on the 2600. both are good titles though.

  21. Posted · Edited by rheffera

    I think this is the problem. People just don't know about the alternative controller options available for emulation.

     

    Not True. I am aware, i Just still believe emulation is inferior to real hardware..it dosn't feel right to me, with the exception of mame. IMO Why bother with emulation when hardware for the consoles can be had cheaply & you wont have to butcher console controllers to make it work with the PC.

     

    In all honesty, I have a $200 X-Arcade... and MAME with a Stelladaptor and a CX46 style stick is good enough for the VAST majority of games out there.

     

    With MAME I can definetly understand. Not everyone can afford to have 10,000+ arcade machines in their homes... it makes sense to Emulate with MAME.

     

    I just feel PC Emulation is a perversion of nature a little bit. Emulation is a great testing tool, and i think its great we can hook up things with stelladaptor , but thats not the way it was in 1977. If people could have emulated the 2600 in 1977 im very sure the atari 2600 woudnt have made it to the 90's. but it brings up the point:"Why bother collecting when you can just Emulate?" To me Emulation takes away the consoles Cultural Value and Significance, particularly if the hardware is cheap and readily avaliable.

     

    For example. If i had only been exposed to 2600 emulation as a boy instead of actual console, instead of having fond memories of my little Jr. i would only have memories along the lines of "Oh 2600? those were really old games i played on my PC". It may make me want to play them again someday, but i would porbably only have sought out the emulator again, not the hardware. By collecting hardware instead of emulating your keeping the console's scene alive and less of the hardware out of the landfill.

     

    For emulating rare games / lost games and testing out protos i think emulation is great..but i dont even need to do that anymore now that im getting a krok cart.. So really i have no use for stella.

     

    MAME is an exception in my rulebooks

     

    Thats just my opinion..maybe im a little too protective of my 2600.

  23. Posted · Edited by rheffera

    I have NEVER emulated the 2600 on the PC,or any emulators for that matter( i prefer actual hardware thank you).. except for the odd homebrew and proto. I wont even have to do that anymore now that im getting a krokodile cart. :D. I find the keyboard controls too cumbersome, this goes for all emulators for PC IMO, except mame. I However, i DO EMULATE on CONSOLES, as the controls are much better without having to hook up a controller to the console, as it already has a controller, being a console. :P

     

     

    As for 2600 RF Interference. its not a big issue for me. I dont get much of it with my Junior and Samsung TV. Nice clear picture every time i play. It depends on many things. The Quality & Condition of the RF lead (i use a commodore 64 one, it has a longer metal tip on the male end than normal rf leads), if you have switch boxes attached(i got lots of interference when i used one) How well the solder joints are in your tv's Ariel socket.. Grounding... The RF socket in your 2600 But none of this is a problem for me. yes i do get the occasional interference from things such as my DVD player, but thats why i have it off when i play 2600 :P

  25. Posted

    Maybe Albert could publicly post the waiting list?

    I'd prefer not to post the list publicly.

     

    ..Al

     

    Quite Understandable. The Krokodile Cart is like a rockstar and us buyers are the groupies waiting to pounce on the rockstar. :D

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