Happy Happy Joy Joy

[Goochman]

Though not a 5200 fan I had an interesting story with mine - about 3 months ago I got my Koffi cart and brought the 5200 out of retirement only to have the new stick not work 100% Fire buttons and Start button were flaky - I have a Wico stick so I was able to play Koffi a bit.

 

Right after that I put Astrochase in and when the 5200 fired up the screen was garbage - sound was coming out but something was obviously wrong - Every cart had an issue - Now I really hated the 5200!!!

 

A few weeks back I started being a beta tester for the Cuttle Cart II - This needs a Pokey chip inorder to play sound in some 7800 games - I thought what a great way to butcher my 5200 and get something out of it.

 

After cracking it open fighting with the 'metal tabs' - and then not finding a chip labeled 'POKEY' - I finally found the chip socketed , pried it out and put it in my Cuttle Cart 2 - Didnt work - garbage sounds came out

 

So

I ordered a Pokey chi pfrom Best for $5 - since they were so cheap I ordered 3 for the heck of it. Got them today and plugged one into my 5200 thats been sitting on the operating table - Wala - its ALIVE

 

Of course the joysticks dont work

[jsoper]

Good job. I've had a couple bad Pokeys myself over the years, even one I bought from Best was dead on arrival.

You can desolder one from a 7800 cart that uses them like Ballblazer, but I'd

rather just go through Best, not worth the time.

[Rob Mitchell]

Found another 800XL .. so I pulled the pokey out of it for the CC2. Maybe I'll order a couple of Pokeys too!

 

You gotta build a Masterplay interface.

 

BTW: Anyone have an extra 5200 Star Raiders with overlay they can throw my way? I wanna play SR with analog flight controller.

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA