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Hi - For you budding label variant collectors. I am selling the more rare label variant that is singular “STAR RAIDER” (on the right) rather than the more common plural “STAR RAIDERS” (on the left). I have two of these more rare label variants to sell. Please PM me if interested. Asking $19 plus shipping for one. I have many other cartridges for sale too. Buy in bulk to save on shipping 😁
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I've been curious about what hardware is actually inside these new carts and been searching for information about them. What I found out from the Official PCB renders posted by @alex_79 and the official blog post is that the Limited Editon carts with LED marquee have a T-shapped PCB and other carts have a normal sized PCB. From the production picture @Mockduck posted, the carts contains: 128K flash chip (SST39SF010A) room for a RAM chip (probably 8K SRAM) Xilinx CPLD (probably XC9536XL) voltage regulator (probably AMS1117 3.3V) Oscilator (probably 50MHz active Oscilator) On the back of the PCB are some configuration jumpers. one to enable or disable the RAM and two more to configure the banswitch mode (probably 4K/8K/16K/32K). The official documentation says "The multi-mapper replaces five variations of three existing mappers" these variations are most likely: 4K ROM 8K ROM 16K ROM 16K ROM with RAM 32K ROM with RAM Since the RAM jumper is not grouped with the bankswitch jumpers, it wouldn't surprise me if RAM could also be enabled with 4K and 8K ROMs. Other interesing things of the PCB is that there is a JTAG header for programming the CPLD. Pin 12 of the cart, which is normally connected to GND has a special function. It is not connected to GND but connected to R1 and then (most likely) to the CPLD. A reason to do something like this is if the cart is programmed through the cart slot. The resistor R1 is a so called pull down resistor as it is connected to GND. They've probably done this for systems that use this pin as a way to detect a cart. Oops! Did they make a mistake? While looking at photos and frames of @swlovinist youtube video to see if I could identify the CPLD partnumber I noticed something odd about resistor R1. The text on the SMD resistor reads 104 meaning it is a 100K resistor. This is a very high value for a pull down resistor. Systems using pin 12 as cart detect will have a pull up resistor connected to this pin so a 'low' pin of the cart can be properly detected. The value of that pull up resistor will usually be from somewhere around 10K (external resistor) to 50K (internal pull up of micro controllor pin). So the 100K resistor on the cart is not able to pull the pin low enough to be detected. I think someone accidently made a mistake with the BOM (Bill Of Materials) list and entered 104 for the resistor instead of 102 (for a 1K resistor) as 104 is a common value used for decoupling capacitors (also on the PCB) ) I think when resistor R1 is replaced with a 1K resistor (102 text on 805 SMD resistor) the cart will be properly detected on troublesome systems. That's all I found out sofar. If anyone has more info or better pictures. PLease post them here! I'm looking forward to get some of the new carts and have a look under the hood myself
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Hello there 99ers! I thought I should start a new thread about this: Roadrunner had posted an issue with this cart using Classic99, however, trying Robotron on MESS, I found that loading the cart completely crashes the entire host system (a nasty lock-up - I can't even go to a virtual console to kill the MESS process). Roadrunner reports it working for a time in Classic99 before it crashes (I presume crashing Classic99). Regardless, it appears something isn't right with the .bin file.
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Brand New GCE Vectrex TEST CART Rev.4 Scopetrex GOLD (FREE SHIPPING) $18.00 [USD] Seller: ductape https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-GCE-Vectrex-TEST-CART-Rev.4-Scopetrex-GOLD-(FREE-SHIPPING)-/285144925206 or https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=ductape&_nkw=%22vectrex%22%20%22test%22%20%22cart%22 Brand New GCE Vectrex TEST CART Rev.4 Cartridge built by Brett Walach of PlayVectrex.com PCB is GOLD plated (ENIG) and has 45° chamfered edges to be kind to your Vectrex, and last a long long time. I've also done cycle insertion testing of these carts and after 1000 cycles they were still very nice! Search Youtube for "VEXTREME PCB Test" to see my video. Every Test Cart Rev.4 will be tested in my personal Vectrex I've had since Christmas morning 1982! To use this Test Cart effectively, please search for the "Vectrex Troubleshooting Guide" and also the "Vectrex Service Manual" online. I'll be making this Test Cart available for the Vectrex community for as long as I can. My commitment to you: I will make this diagnostic tool very affordable so that anyone may attempt to repair a faulty or out-of-calibration Vectrex. Save your money for new homebrew games! Please be safe when working on your Vectrex, and only open it if you know how to work with high voltage properly. Free Shipping, Shipping within USA only. PlayVectrex "Design. Build. Play!" https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-GCE-Vectrex-TEST-CART-Rev.4-Scopetrex-GOLD-(FREE-SHIPPING)-/285144925206 or https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=ductape&_nkw=%22vectrex%22%20%22test%22%20%22cart%22
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Only $10.00 ! Vectrex Test Cart Cartridge Overlay for General Consumer Electronics (GCE), Milton Bradley (MB), & Bandai バンダイ Vectrex / 光速船 / Kousokusen http://vectrexmulti.com/order2.html!/Vectrex-Overlay-Test-Cart/p/164417258/category=42142833 Lots of other great brand new Vectrex overlays are also available on that site. http://vectrexmulti.com/order2.html#!/Vectrex-Overlays/c/42142833
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not mine. Vectrex cartridge: Scramble in black aluminium shell by Tony Lindberg (@fruktodlarens) of Meek Wizard Machining. ghostpilot-tony https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vectrex-cartridge-Scramble-in-black-aluminium-shell/155522245587
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I know next to nothing about Intellivision so don't laugh if its obvious but why does my copy of triple action say "© Mattel Inc. 1979 USA" when Triple action was released in 1981? The board inside says 1980. Is this a case of an old cartridge shell/Board being used or something weirder?
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Vectrex game Armor Attack - Aluminium & brass shell in Ukrainian colours Armor Attack in custom aluminium and brass shell in Ukrainian colours - Sold for charity This auction is for charity. All money I get from this auction will be donated to Swedish Red Cross. Ebay does not support Swedish charities, so I will handle the donation manually myself. The winner will get a printed certificate of donation. Hearing news about the horrors of war when Russia wages war against Ukraine makes one feel powerless to do anything about it. So I decided to act and do SOMETHING, anything to support Ukraine in this crisis. This auction was the best idea I could come up with. It is just the original game Armor Attack (by GCE 1982) that I have housed in a custom machined metal shell that I have made myself. The top half of the shell is made from solid aluminium that has been surface treated blue by a method called anodizing. The logo of the game has then been engraved into the shell through the coloured blue oxide layer so the engraving stands out in shiny aluminium "silver" against the otherwise blue surface. The bottom shell was made from solid brass. Blue aluminium top and yellow brass bottom shell makes the colours of the flag of Ukraine. This shell is HEAVY. More than three times as heavy as a plastic shell. The brass bottom shell has been hollowed out even more than usual to make it lighter so it won't put unnecessary strain on the cartridge port in the vectrex. https://www.rodakorset.se/ https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vectrex-game-Armor-Attack---Aluminium-&-brass-shell-in-Ukrainian-colours-/154904394347 #Charity #Auction #Svenska #Röda #Korset #Swedish #Red #Cross #Ukrainian #Colours #Vectrex #game #cartridge #cart #shell #Blue #aluminium #Yellow #brass #Armor #Attack
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I received a bunch of games today and this one cart struck me as odd. Its a late intv style white label Hockey cart in box, no NHL logo. I have seen many white label carts, but this is the first time i noticed the "1979" in lower right corner. Is this normal? (Im directing this at Cmart...lol) I dont collect the white label carts so im unsure.
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Here is Car Wars with graphics modified. Look out for futuristic hover cars ! Edit. Upload was not available for whatever reason. carwarsg.modg.bin
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Hello Sadly I noticed that the Magnavox Odyssey games have risen in price. Personally I want to preserve light gun gaming as much as possible. Therefore I started to do a multi card which can be used as cards 9 & 10. Then I realized that this was a waste of silicon an time and that I should better make a 12 in 1 mutli card. Myself I just own 3, 9 & 10 so I was very into the idea once I had it. Here is a picture of the final card: I put all the PCB files onto my website, so everybody can print one for personal usage. I uploaded the files as GERBER and as .brd files (I prefer the latter...). I wish you all happy gaming! Here is a short video of proof, which shows that the little thing actually works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFJGMqS9hTI&t=4m27s
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There have been so many solid homebrews released for the Lynx in the last 5-10 years, but only a tiny fraction of them actually made it to cart. What are your top picks that really justify the time and energy for a cart/box/manual full realease. For me its: -Mortal Kombat (When finished) -Assembloids -On Duty (great run and gunner) And i'm sure many other i can't think of right now. What am i missing, and what do YOU think should make it to Cart?
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Hi All, This thread is intended for people that want to ask questions about the Ultimate Cart. Due to the good efforts of Santosp, there's a lot of new users that have just got this cartridge - and there are bound to be questions. So this thread is the place to do it. Before posting, it might be worth checking if the answer is in the documentation I've written for the cartridge. A copy of this should be sent out with every cartridge. If you didn't get it, you can download it from: https://github.com/robinhedwards/UltimateCart This covers (briefly) how to use the cartridge, how to update the firmware and how to modify a cartridge case to fit. There is also a technical thread here - intended for people that want to develop for the cartridge, or discuss the technical aspects of it: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241888-ultimate-cart-sd-multicart-technical-thread/ The technical thread also has some photos of the internals of modified cartridge shell, so might be of interest. There is also a thread where some compilations have been posted: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/242957-ultimate-cart-sd-multicart-info-bits/ Finally, regarding the firmware. There is no need to update it, unless you want to add the new XEX loader functionality. The process is a bit technical, and probably not for everybody. I'm willing to update the firmware for anybody in the UK if they PM me. Perhaps somebody can make the same offer for those in the US? Robin
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This is a super nice condition Atari 8bit cartridge holder book thingy. I've seen a few of these but this one is in the best condition I've ever seen with no cracks and no major dimples in the plastic. It has room for your 6 most prized Atari 8bit cartridges along with a slot to hold the half-page sized instructions/manuals for the carts. I inserted a BASIC cart in one of the 6 cart slots just to show the size of the slots (BASIC cart is not included). Please see the pictures for condition. Please PM me with offers. I have a price in mind. If I don't get any offers in a week or so I will update this with a price. Thanks for looking!!! Cartridge not included.
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It seems like kind of a dumb question, but I'm looking for a good way to store and display my atari games. I'd probably play them more if I didn't have to dig through boxes to find them. Plus my kids are starting to play atari with me, which is great, and I think they'd be more apt to putting stuff away and taking care of the games better if I weren't just throwing them in a box. I'd love something older, like a case for atari games or something but everything I've seen only holds around ten. Do you guys have any good suggestions? Thanks!
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I got a 2600 recently, and I was considering buying game lots from ebay and other such stores. I have a few VStocks near me, which is where I got the system and a half-bucket of games already from. Do they offer decent prices for selling games to them? Even if its just in-store credit thats fine. If not, where would you recommend I sell my duplicates? I'm looking for getting at least 75% of the resale value. do you think thats obtainable at brick & mortar stores?
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Just starting a new VEXTREME specific topic to separate out the what is now a chatty topic away from other cool Vectrex project threads.
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I have several XE carts (the light grey ones) that have something rattling around inside when you shake them. Sounds like little bits of plastic. Is there a safe way to open these carts without damaging them so I can remove the noisy bits? Extra points for a how to video. Thanks!
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Here I show you the pre-release version of the new upcoming Mateos Rewritable Multigame Cartridge for the Atari 7800 gaming console:
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Thanks to the efforts of foft (Mark Watson) and his Atari FPGA project, there is an open source FPGA pokey implementation available. As a little Easter bank holiday project, I thought I'd have a go at using it to make a dual pokey cartridge using a prototype of the Ultimate Cart as the starting point... Two of the fpga pins act as audio left and right, and I've hooked them up to a low pass filter on some perfboard, along with a 3.5mm stereo jack (which leads to my TV's audio input). It was pretty easy to make a firmware for the Ultimate Cart that included two of foft's pokeys, his DAC and a bit of VHDL to hook them up to the cartridge port. Then I modified TMC and RMTPlayer (with a hex editor) to output to the two pokeys at $D50x and $D58x. I guess technically this atari has 3 pokeys now (one inside, and two on the cartridge). The two pokeys use about 10% of the Ultimate Cart's FPGA, so there is plenty room for more. This was just for fun, and perhaps to show a little of what is possible with a FPGA hooked up to the cart port. To make a proper external dual pokey, we'd probably want to use ECI+Cart port, so the pokeys could appear in the correct places in the memory map. MP3 of TMC playing via the dual pokeys attached. SynthyGambol_vhdl_pokey.mp3
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As my first 2600 game is entering the testing phase, I'm hoping to have a number of cartridges made. I know that there's the option to have a custom cartridge made just like that and, while very tempting, I would like a number of cartridges made and it is sadly outside of my price range. So I was hoping to do so myself, as much as possible. Is there any explanation of what all is involved? From what I have heard, one would want plenty of existing games with little value which can be stripped down so their cartridges and boards may be used. It's all about needing a new EPROM, which are cheap to buy but must be burned with a pricey EPROM burner. So, my questions: 1. Is there any resource to explain how to make a custom cartridge oneself? If so, where? 2. How much can be salvaged from existing games? 3. What kind of EPROMs are required and where can they be purchased? 4. Is there anyone who already has an EPROM burner who would be willing to burn EPROMs for me on a pay-per-EPROM basis (with me paying for the EPROM, any shipping, as well as for the good individual's trouble)? Bulk orders in mind, here. 5. Is there anything else I should know about all this so I don't waste a lot of time and money on a wild goose chase? I'd very much appreciate any information folks can offer. Thanks!
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Swung by Best Buy yesterday to grab Windjammers on cart. It's awesome! I'd buy every Neo Geo game individually on cart if they released them....just saying. The only thing i can't figure out yet is the curve shot; i try to loupe the joystick but it still just throws straight for whatever reason. This game reminds me of California Games for the Lynx (could have been an event) and is just pure arcade fun in the sun. Anyone else snag this yet, digital or physical? I like how there is the option to pick the Neo Geo or Neo Geo CD music...
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Open source 3d printed shell for Ultimate Cart
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Hi all, The original shell for my Ultimate Cart was a hacked Atari grey cart shell, which I spray painted blue. Unfortunately the paint has rubbed off a bit, and its now looking rather tatty. So, now that I've got a 3d printer of my very own, I decided to design a shell for the Ultimate Cart. Like the rest of the project, this shell is open-source. I've uploaded both the STL files and the design files (OpenSCAD) to the github site: https://github.com/robinhedwards/UltimateCart/ The shell should fit any PCBs produced using the board files on github. This should be most of the boards out there, with the exception of the redesign by Panos that he used for his later runs (but I think these came with nice shells anyway). If you're not sure, compare your board to the pictures on github - if the connectors and screw holes are in the same places, it should fit. The cart has been tested for fit in my 65XE, and 800XL. Flashjazzcat has been kind enough to test it for me in a XEGS, 800 and 1200XL, and reports it fits well. If you don't have access to a 3d printer, I'm happy to make a few of these for others. This would be using the same printer and filament colours (bronze & red) as the pictures above. The price would be £22 + P&P (£1 to UK, £3 elsewhere). Send me a PM if interested. Robin- 30 replies
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Hi All, One thing I really wanted to add to the Ultimate Cart was an easy way to use XEX files on the cartridge. Thanks mainly to flashjazzcat, we've now added this as a feature to the firmware. XEX files present on the SD card can now be browsed and launched just like cartridge/ROM files. Loading is practically instantaneous. You can program the attached new firmware to your Ultimate Cart using the (free download) Quartus 15.1 programmer. You will also need a USB Blaster (<$10 on ebay). Consider it a beta - there may be the odd bug. This firmware also replaces my original menu with the improved version by flashjazzcat. Since this is now part of the firmware, you should remove any older version of it from the SD cart (i.e. remove _BOOT.ROM if you have it). This will become the current firmware, and I'll upload the source files to github once this has had a bit of a wider test. I'm sure this will be a very welcome addition to the cartridge firmware, and praise and thanks should be directed to flashjazzcat who wrote the XEX loader and the improved menu - tasks both way beyond my 6502 skills! Robin 10M08SAE144C8G.zip
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Found in cart slot of a old 800 I picked up on eBay, Help identifying would be appreciated. Thanks!