Supercharger and ipod?

[Retro Rogue]

Anyone tried this combo yet? Was given an iPod shuffle, and was going to load some of the game audio's up on that. Had already done it with a CD player, figured this should work just as well.

[hookem]

Anyone tried this combo yet?  Was given an iPod shuffle, and was going to load some of the game audio's up on that.  Had already done it with a CD player, figured this should work just as well.

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Should work fine. In fact, with MP3 players so cheap... someone could just load up an inexpensive, small, low-mem MP3 player with the Supercharger CD and make a permanent "all games" supercharger.

 

It would almost be like being able to hook up a cheap USB flash drive to a cuttle cart for a 2600 multi-cart...

[+SpiceWare]

Works great. I used to use it all the time for 2K, 4K and SuperCharger games. I only use it now for the Supercharger games as I got a Krok Cart.

 

I've got notes somewhere on what settings to use. I'll add another reply when I find them.

[Lord Helmet]

Do they need to be in .wav format, or can you use mp3, aac, or wma?

[+SpiceWare]

Do they need to be in .wav format, or can you use mp3, aac, or wma?

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You can use any of them, though if you go too low in quality the Supercharge won't load the games. I'll lookup my notes tonight when I get home.

[+kisrael]

It works well, I was using an old RIO or something.

 

One thing is, the supercharger audioplug is a little fatter than a type 16th incher...there's a risk of loosening the socket there.

[+SpiceWare]

I had 3 Superchargers and only 1 of them had the fatter plug. I swapped the plug out with a replacement from rat shack.

[SteveW]

I've had Supercharger games on my iPod for a couple years now. It works perfectly fine. In fact, when I went to Oklahoma Game Expo in 2004, I was checking out Atari Troll's table, and he had just bought a Supercharger, but he didn't have a tape player on him to try out Phaser Patrol. So I whipped out my iPod, hooked it up to his Supercharger, and we played all the games. It's pretty handy to have all the games ready to go with the push of a button.

[shadow460]

Wouldn't recommend using an ipod without a stereo to mono adapter.

 

I'd hate to load tunes back onto the ipod just to find the right channel is gone.

 

With the adapter, the ipod would be great.

[mos6507]

Wouldn't recommend using an ipod without a stereo to mono adapter.

 

I'd hate to load tunes back onto the ipod just to find the right channel is gone.

 

With the adapter, the ipod would be great.

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the iPod supports a lossless version of AAC files. That would be the format to use. I know it can work, but I wouldn't trust MP3 because it's a lossy format.

 

If you got the Supercharger CD you could rip it directly to lossless AAC and then move the files over to the iPod.

[SteveW]

I didn't use uncompressed AAC when I imported sound files from my Stella Gets A New Brain CD. Mainly because it wasn't available at the time. I used the highest quality encoding, and it worked great. I've never had any problems loading game files before. And I've used a stereo-to-mono adapter before, but I don't always use it. Mainly because I tend to misplace the stupid little things.

[+SpiceWare]

I'm using 128bit AACs without any problem.

 

I initially made CDs using CD burner software under OS/2. The software required the WAVs to already be in the CD(16bit stereo 44khz) format so I used

 

makewav -k2 -ts game.bin

 

the -k2 makes a 44khz stereo file

the -ts makes the file for the supercharger (default makes it for the cuttle cart)

[keilbaca]

It works well, I was using an old RIO or something.

 

One thing is, the supercharger audioplug is a little fatter than a type 16th incher...there's a risk of loosening the socket there.

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Yeah, I plugged it in my cd player, unplugged it, no rubber thingie. So, it brokededed. So, I just cut the cable, found an old set of headphones with a super long cord, and rewired the thing.