Justin

Exactly! 😄 I hope more products can do this, to at least giving us the option.

I agree, there is much better feeling when dealing with the physical media, but the most of people don't care they just want to play.
A shame the creator and community do not want to keep it both ways.

I completely agree with this.  If it's just ROMs, why not just do emulation on a PC? 

The Atari 2600+ is a perfect example.  It is so compelling because it uses real cartridges.  Other new products like the Commander X16 have cart ports. 

In truth I got grumpy since the community (and creator) seem to be leaning towards ROMs instead of supporting the cart slot for Aq+ games.  For the average Joe ROMs make more sense.  As a retro game developer and publisher I'm enamored with carts.  🙂

Very cool machine, I did not ever hear of this before.
I hope it finds the good home. 💖

Selling the spiritual successor to Aquarius by Mattel.  Not using it enough with all my other projects going.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1716171301/aquarius-signature-edition-with
 

Blaze just announced (via email) that the Tomb Raider Collection is the pack-in for the new R series hardware. Sweet! I was planning to buy the cartridge separately, but now that it's a pack-in, this saves me some money. I am definitely going to pre-order the VS-R.
 

Let me know what we can do to be helpful 💥

Does anyone else hear "Yoomp! There it is!" in the style of "Whoomp..." when playing this? Or is that a me thing?!
 

4527. A slight improvement. I am still hung up on Level 7.
I find the graphics to be a bit less garish with the background off and the CRT filters on.

Also, ICYMI, the Series V Giveaway announcement posted earlier today. Since this is a 12 month challenge, I wanted to do something special.
 

One of the things I appreciate about the game is that you can access up to your last unlocked level to figure out problem points before making your next high score run. Level 5 was really giving me a hard time at first. Now it's Level 7.

4,042 on the 400 MINI with a CXSTICK.

Cool.  I like that it loads like a SuperCharger game!

PongMusicdemo.bin
This demo plays Arkanoid creating a new soundtrack every level.
There are some Island sounds that are very relaxing and other interesting musical pieces created, listen to it for a while and see what you think!
You can play any time pushing up and return to demo mode by pushing down, the BW switch changes the musical tempo and increases the speed.
 This Atari demo also runs in the Commodore 64 embedded emulator, the SID sounds are very relaxing too but the songs sound completely different when the TIA chiptunes are played through the SID.
I couldn't upload the prg file for the C64 but will share it if support for .prg files are added 🙂

Thanks! It uses the SuperChargers native ability to rewrite the program code to change the soundtrack.  

Welcome to the official topic for
Evercade VS System Discussion
 

What's the reason for naming this "The 400" as opposed to "Atari 400" or "Atari 400 Mini"?

You could make that case for the 2600 as well. We're in a different age now and a different market. The 2600+ and this new 400 mini are not competing as industry leaders the way PS5, Xbox and Switch are today.
That's also why I thought it would be far more economical for Atari to roll their modern support for the 5200 format into a new A8+ product.

I was wondering that too. Maybe they're saving it for later. Maybe they believe the 400 has the most recognition, similar to the 2600. Maybe they think people identify Atari most with the late 1970s and are branding things along those lines. I wonder if they will overlook the 5200 entirely.

I would like to see a cartridge port for both A8 and 5200 so that everyone feels covered. There's going to be someone out there like you, with very fond memories of the 5200 - except they never got into the A8, etc. It would be nice for them to be able to play their cartridges and homebrew releases on a new system with HD output.
I feel like if Atari is going to do this the right way - the way they did the 2060+, that's what they would need to do.
I also hope one day we will see an FPGA-Based 2600+ in a 7800 shell. They could call it the Atari 2600 Pro.

I'm a little underwhelmed that this doesn't have a cartridge port the way the 2600+ does. I've been hoping to see Atari develop an "Atari XE+" with a 4/5 or 3/5 scale Atari XE that incorporates two cartridge ports into the top of the machine - one for Atari 8-Bit Computer cartridges, and the other for Atari 5200 cartridges. I would love that.
Otherwise this looks like a nice product and I hope Atari does well with it.

Enjoyed Dakoda's Sports Bar & Grill, great pub food with large portions and value pricing. Friendly staff, good service, all more a rarity these days but was very satisfied.

Thankfully, they both are!