fmctm1sw Posted December 14, 2001 Share Posted December 14, 2001 excellent resource. Every day I look through the posts and get little pieces of great info. The latest "revelation" I had: Atari 7800 carts are more square on the bottom than many of my 2600 carts. This makes some games (Spider Fighter in my case) very difficult to jam into my 7800. Who'd have thought it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnyy Posted December 14, 2001 Share Posted December 14, 2001 TRUE- THERE'S NO PROBLEM GETTING AN ATARI (2600 OR 7800) GAME INTO THE 7800 SYSTEM. BUT MOST OTHER GAMES- ACTIVISION, IMAGIC, PARKER BROS. DON'T FIT SNUGGLY IN AND SOMETIMES CAN'T BE PLAYED. NO PROBLEM ON THE 2600 SYSTEM THOUGH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fretwobbler Posted December 14, 2001 Share Posted December 14, 2001 Regarding the shape of carts at the bottom ive noticed that when plugging 2600 carts into my 7800 the later releases like Secret Quest and Ikari Warriors are a lot tighter than Combat and pacman. But thats more probably due to usage than the cart being .01mm wider at the bottom Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted December 14, 2001 Share Posted December 14, 2001 I have a similar problem with one of my "other" company cartridges where it does not fit into my 7800. I don't remember which game it was but I thought there was something wrong because it would not fit in. Now I know that I have to worry about other game company cartridges (and I was concentrating on getting all Imagic games first). Thanks for the info about the difficult to fit cartridges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted December 15, 2001 Share Posted December 15, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Fretwobbler: But thats more probably due to usage than the cart being .01mm wider at the bottom I have this same problem with my Heavy Sixer... it's mostly the red label Atari games that I have trouble with, although there are a handfull of silver label games that cause me trouble. Pole Position is especially bad for this... once it's it, it's like pulling a sword out of a stone or something. It's only Atari's games that seem to do this though. I don't think it has anything to do with age of the cartridges though. When I got my shipment from O'Shea's, some cartridges fit well, others didn't. I'd guess Atari just made a different mold for the cases, and it wasn't exactly the same size. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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