Mehridian Sanders Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 This lil shop round the corner has buckets of Atari Carts he has no time to test... I jumped on that like a bum on a ham sandwich. Here's the first batch for testing. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehridian Sanders Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 ..thinking of that... are there carts that dont have dumps? I can keep an eye peeled. Lemme know I will make a spreadsheet of what I get. Also, since I don't know, and it's 5 AM, what's the preferred method for gathering dumps? I simply don't have web scouring time at the moment.Thank you in advance.Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 There is a rumor of an undumped Burgertime with improved collision detection, in the regular game sprites can sometimes kill you from certain lower platforms because they're too tall. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Chasing down rumors can become quite time consuming, but heck, can't hurt to try to remember one more datum on existing bugs. I didn't read every single title you have, but it's doubtful you'll find anything that isn't dumped yet. Maybe more likely if you can find uncommon variations on the cart and/or packaging. There are people who collect prototypes and rom versions, too. On the other hand, lot's of fun sitting on that table of yours there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastignac Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 19 hours ago, toiletunes said: There is a rumor of an undumped Burgertime with improved collision detection, in the regular game sprites can sometimes kill you from certain lower platforms because they're too tall. I read that also in an interview with the main programmer (so the source is quite good) a few years ago. The new cartridge has an "easy/hard" switch. (ie: hard is like the old version, easy is the fixed game). They sold the new cartridge as an "enhanced" one, not as a "fixed" one, because they feared of a costly legal recall of all the old ones. By not saying "fixed", they don't recognize that the old one was buggy. (That's what I can remember of the interview). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastignac Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 12 hours ago, fiddlepaddle said: I didn't read every single title you have, but it's doubtful you'll find anything that isn't dumped yet. I can remember something about Activision's Bridge: the first batch of cartridges has a crashing bug, but only the new cartridge has been dumped. (The old one is very very rare and impossible to guess from the new one). (I'll check this rumor again; I'm sure I've read it in a programmer's interview). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 On 2/12/2020 at 2:07 PM, Mehridian Sanders said: ... are there carts that dont have dumps? I can keep an eye peeled. Lemme know I will make a spreadsheet of what I get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 On 2/13/2020 at 12:46 PM, Rastignac said: I can remember something about Activision's Bridge: the first batch of cartridges has a crashing bug, but only the new cartridge has been dumped. (The old one is very very rare and impossible to guess from the new one). (I'll check this rumor again; I'm sure I've read it in a programmer's interview). The old one was dumped AFAIK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 2 hours ago, Rom Hunter said: The old one was dumped AFAIK. There was a bugged version that was dumped. However, I could not make it bid 8 spades. So if there is a version that does, than it has not yet been dumped. The Burgertime information is interesting. I'm not sure if I knew this before and just forgot. In any case anyone have a link to the interview? Also this could be on a lot of Burgertime carts, but might have a better chance if it is a white label Burgertime cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastignac Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 12 hours ago, Omegamatrix said: The Burgertime information is interesting. I'm not sure if I knew this before and just forgot. In any case anyone have a link to the interview? Also this could be on a lot of Burgertime carts, but might have a better chance if it is a white label Burgertime cart. The information is written here too: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-burgertime_7241.html << Two different versions of this game exist. Later production runs added a choice of difficulty levels using the TV Type switch and fixed a bug that was in the first version. >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehridian Sanders Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 Well AIO controller is coming along...Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehridian Sanders Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 Thank you all for the input .. I completed my testing 85% of the carts were good. The rest were hammered or fungal.Unfortunately, no new cart roms. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 Albert might be able to recycle the dead cart shells 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 I know it's hard to test out 2600 carts & systems since there's no A/V cables or power lights, that's why one used game store owner told me that's why they won't sell or buy them (they're out of business of course...). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehridian Sanders Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 I must admit I did it for store credit. I even helped him out today, replacing a Gameboy Advance SP screen. He handed me a GBA SP Radica 3 port cart dock thing ... for my own GBA SP. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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