RetroN 77

[+GoldLeader]

OK So can someone make me a DO NOT FORCE IT Label? It should be printed upside down too

[+Nathan Strum]

OK So can someone make me a DO NOT FORCE IT Label? It should be printed upside down too

 

This should cover it.

 

[toiletunes]

Not for ceitdo

[Flojomojo]

 

[moycon]

My design solved the label issue, and in fact improved on the original design I think.

You can clearly see the carts artwork now. It's a no-brainer.

[Atariboy]

It's in backwards though. For Atari 2600 regulars, it's not going to feel right and mistakes are going to happen when one tries to insert a cartridge in the conventional manner.

 

Hopefully Hyperkin sticks with how it has always been handled, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel by reversing it.

[+GoldLeader]

I guess I'll just buy a RetroN 77 AND a duplicate of every cart I want to play on it. Boxed copies should suffice...Then a Label/sticker making apparatus...Oh and a new bucket from Menard's, Then I will soak each cart to get the original label off, after removing the PCB of course,...After opening each one I mean,...then I will find the files online and print duplicate labels for each game...Then I will label them the way God intended except only after I've 3D printed the cases to be made this new Reverse way and, secretly of course Only I will know which shelf in my Atari room has the New RetroN Games and which ones are the old timers...EASY!

 

PROBLEM SOLVED!

[cybercylon]

 

It will teach them "alternative facts." For example, there was a brief period of time when my child thought that Super Mario World was a ripoff of Lep's World. I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN THAT WORLD

 

 

Well maybe Leps's World came first in a parallel universe, or Dr. They has collectively erased all of our minds and we only think Super Mario is original.

[Flojomojo]

Hm. Clearly you've been visiting the mirror universe. These are Terran Empire ideas. Careful, someone might stab you in the back ...then we will all move up a step in rank.

[CPUWIZ]

My design solved the label issue, and in fact improved on the original design I think.

You can clearly see the carts artwork now. It's a no-brainer.

 

Does anyone know what the photoshopped buttons are on the original and Flashback controller?

 

Has anyone mentioned anywhere if the box is user upgrade friendly? E.G. New bankswitching addition for instance.

[+Nathan Strum]

Does anyone know what the photoshopped buttons are on the original and Flashback controller?

 

Skittlepox.

[moycon]

 

Does anyone know what the photoshopped buttons are on the original and Flashback controller?

 

They are the color/b&w and game select buttons missing from the console (the original design anyways)

My design can be upgraded easily but is already compatible with all Atari homebrews, and every console made before and including the Xbox 360.

Plus you can clearly see the label art-work right-side-up!! I'm telling you this is the design we all want!!

[godslabrat]

It's in backwards though. For Atari 2600 regulars, it's not going to feel right and mistakes are going to happen when one tries to insert a cartridge in the conventional manner.

 

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You're right. Atari fans are too stupid to put a cart in correctly.

[Atariboy]

You're right. Atari fans are too stupid to put a cart in correctly.

 

No, but when you've been inserting a 2600 cartridge in one manner for decades, your mind is trained to do it that way. So why not stick with that, especially if something could break if you absent mindedly attempt to put one in backwards one day?

Edited January 26, 2018 by Atariboy

[godslabrat]

 

No, but when you've been inserting a 2600 cartridge in one manner for decades, your mind is trained to do it that way. So why not stick with that, especially if something could break if you absent mindedly attempt to put one in backwards one day?

Chicks dig it.

[+GoldLeader]

 

No, but when you've been inserting a 2600 cartridge in one manner for decades, your mind is trained to do it that way.

 

So why not stick with that? If one wants to admire the label art, can't they do that while holding the cartridge in their hands?

 

Exactly! It's course of habit. We've been conditioned to do it this way for a long time now..Putting the cart slot into the correct orientation shouldn't be too hard...

 

It's like when a company makes a clone console,...Sure they could change which one is the A Button and which is the B Button,..But why would you?

 

If they're trying to bring to mind the good memories of the old Ataris...I don't see why they'd do it this way. And yes I am placing more importance on this than perhaps I should, but hopefully in a comically exaggerated way, to prove a point (and make it stick

[Keatah]

I think it's for mis-guided aesthetics. Better to look at an upside-down label rather than no label at all. Some shitfaced shmuck from marketing probably got a $5000 bonus for stating that line of reasoning.

[Andromeda Stardust]

The Nintendos and Segas all had front facing carts, well except the toaster models. So Hyperkin rightfully assumes that someone buying this product who has never played Atari will first attempt to place the cartridge label facing them.

[Keatah]

But seasoned VCS gamers will try and place it like in the real VCS - label facing away.

[Atariboy]

But seasoned VCS gamers will try and place it like in the real VCS - label facing away.

 

And with the end label not upside down...

Edited January 26, 2018 by Atariboy

[Keatah]

What a clusterfuck this label conundrum..

[Schizophretard]

Maybe we are looking at it backwards? The labels, woodgrain, and controller ports are all opposite of the VCS.

[MrBeefy]

You're right. Atari fans are too stupid to put a cart in correctly.

Was there a system that put them in differently before Atari 2600? That means the other systems messed up.

[NE146]

How bout you guys label THIS!

[+GoldLeader]

Maybe we are looking at it backwards? The labels, woodgrain, and controller ports are all opposite of the VCS.

 

Sonofabitch might be right! I mean Joysticks Do go in the back of a VCS....hmmmmm...