Stone Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 Anyone interested, mail me...I might be able to do a small production run if enough are interested. Price...well, dunno. Probably around $60-70 each...not cheap, but hey, there's enough fanatics out there to cover my costs - aren't there? BTW, that would be making me about $5 on each one. Not exactly worthwhile, but then I'm a helpful, community-minded sorta guy C'mon, prove me right Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 Well, I'm certainly pleased to see someone else out there is discovering how cheap and easy it is to produce cartridges for the Atari Jaguar!!!! I assume this is without a printed box, manual, label, and the rest of the usual packaging, correct? Keep this in mind he next time you think that new Jag games are very expensive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted February 9, 2002 Author Share Posted February 9, 2002 I never said they were expensive for what they were, just too expensive for me Everything's cheaper if you buy in bulk (ok, almost everything) and buying 3 of something (number of interested parties so far) is obviously going to be way more expensive per unit than buying a couple hundred of them. (How many carts were in that display with the Jaguar you did anyway?) Still working on getting my EPROM burner, among other assorted helpful schemes (exporting Lynxes, SCART cables etc) so this won't be happening for a little bit anyway. As for your first comment, it's definitely easy but I never said it was cheap Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 Price breaks don't come unless you're buying in bulk. Bulk isn't considered to be "a couple hundred" in this market. You're lucky because you're not "infamous" like we are and the only sources for things like plastic shells and box inserts suddenly think they can charge 10x their value to you. LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted February 10, 2002 Author Share Posted February 10, 2002 Well, you can call me lucky then. It's not exactly the same releasing a full-blown game (with which you obviously care about providing what I'd see as relative luxuries - box, manual etc) given that proto carts are just that; carts. I could mock up a box image and get a couple printed through friends of mine, but obviously there's little point if there's only going to be 4 or so people interested. As for plastic, well, if I can fit a cart in a shell with the PROMs attached I can always rip up some Cybermorphs. Otherwise, who's bothered? Personally I think it's noble of you to even attempt to supply the associated gubbins that came with the original games, but I'm not planning on wasting my time with it in these quantities. As for 'bulk', well, my chip sources give standard electronics discounts - 1+ = $x, 5+ = $(x-y), 10+ = $(x-(2y)) etc etc. Obviously 27C160s aren't the most common of chips (you'd be damn lucky to get deals like that) but I'm not tied to a particular chip type (pretty much just size) so I have some flexibility. Using PROMs helps too; I wondered whether there was a 27C160 equivalent that was OTP but it's probably even more costly, knowing your luck. Well, have fun with the suppliers anyway, give them a good slapping from me if you get the chance Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_J-64 Posted February 10, 2002 Share Posted February 10, 2002 well I like to get A Phase Zeto Cart are you saying that if get the cart all I get is just a board with EPROM? Ive got some old cart shells thats not a problem! I think its good that he is doing this! [ 02-10-2002: Message edited by: walter_J64 ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 If your talking about a complete cartridge game then you can put me down as a person who would buy a copy from you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrizzLee Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 I'd buy one. If you get a sign up list started let us know. Good luck!! -Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 As Stone says in his first post, you should email him to let him know if you are interested.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted February 11, 2002 Author Share Posted February 11, 2002 Cheers for that sg Well, looks like a few people are interested; I'll see what I can do. There'll be a small delay while I get my shiznit wired (new MP3 player took a fair bit of the $$$) then I'll see what i can do. As for shells, I don't know if the carts will fit into a standard cart case, since I'll almost certainly be putting sockets on them (to prevent me frying the chips as I solder them in). Look on the bright side; you can't erase the chips with static and you'll be able to buy chipsets of other unreleased stuff (assuming they're ever released, lol). There's not much point in me putting a case on them if I'm going to have to cut most of the front of it off anyway. Walter: yes, it'd be a cart PCB with 4 chips on it. No case planned, no label either (unless you want me to hand-write PZ on it ) Actually, if I use my own design of cart it has a big fuji silkscreened on it, so it'd look cool enough anyway. Watch this space. Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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