CV Super Cobra Not Compatible with Super Action Controllers?

[ColecoFan1981]

http://my.stratos.net/~hewston95/RTM29/RTM29.html

 

I was reading this link about the various home ports of the 1981 Konami arcade game, Super Cobra, and one of the problems with the ColecoVision port is that it does not support the Super Action Controllers. I'm wondering if you folks here think differently than the reviewers in the above link?

 

What could we do as ColecoVision fanatics to make Super Cobra compatible with the Super Action Controller?

 

Thank you,

 

 

 

Ben

[NIAD]

It doesn't make sense that it wouldn't work with the Super Action Controllers, but then again, anything is possible. Do you have the Super Cobra game and at least one working Super Action Controller to test and verify that the article writer is indeed correct in his statements.

[NIAD]

OK, it was bugging me so I decided to test Super Cobra out using the Super Action Controllers and the article writer was correct... the firebuttons to shot the gun and drop bombs does not work. This holds true when playing on a CV or an ADAM Computer, but the funny thing is that after all 5 copters are lost, the game asks the user to press a button to continue the current game and pressing the Yellow (top most) firebutton on the SAC does work.

 

After this, I decided to test all the other Parker Brothers games with the Super Action Controller and found that Montezuma's Revenge is NOT compatible with the SAC as well. The game displays a skill level select screen, asks the user to input 1, 2 or 3 depending on what skill level they wish to start on and it will not accept any input choice from the SAC.

 

Sounds like a newly pinned thread could be in order to deal with incompatibilities and other bugs that are found... I'd even volunteer to maintain all the information in an editable Post #1. While the ColecoVision FAQ is a good reference, none of the following issues are included that I have found:

 

Q*bert's Qubes © 1984 Parker Brothers - Intermittent game lock-ups that happen for no apparent reason.

Montezuma's Revenge © 1984 Parker Brothers - Not compatible with the Super Action Controllers on a CV or ADAM.

Super Cobra © 1983 Parker Brothers - Not compatible with the Super Action Controllers on a CV or ADAM. Also, not compatible with the ADAM Computer, but a patch was developed in 2013 by Nanochess which corrects this issue.

Defender © 1983 AtariSoft - Not compatible with the ADAM Computer, but two patches have been developed (in the mid-80's by unknown and in 2013 by Nanochess) which corrects this issue.

 

From this short list, it is very apparant that Parker Brothers has issues with quality control, but I forgive them seeing as they released some outstanding games for the ColecoVision.

 

 

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Edited March 3, 2013 by NIAD