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So what you're saying is, I need a document from mario64remix even though he agreed that I can use his uncopyrighted music?

Last year, I made the difficult decision, Sega Master System or Dreamcast. As you probably already know, I went with the Dreamcast, and I love it. This year, I'd love to get a Sega console that I don't have. I decided to skip the Saturn and SG-1000 to buy a Master System. Before I do that, I need a new Game Gear and I could really use a Model 1 Genesis (I have a retro bit system for Genesis games). So I'm wondering, should I get a real SMS for authenticity and card games, a Master Gear for portability, or the Power Base Converter (I believe that's what it's called) to play SMS on Genesis?

I use music from mario64remix in some of my videos. I should probably see if he could make a MIDI remix of Open Your Heart as well as some other songs that I'll need for an upcoming project.

I'd love to get one sometime. I almost bought an original Macintosh once.

Welcome to Atari.io!

I've just reviewed Atari.io!

Question is, how do the bigger channels get away with this? Don't most companies know about them using their music? Why don't they do anything?

Most people on YouTube use 8 bit and 16 bit music in their videos. I'm guessing this is legal since even big channels like Pat The NES Punk and Cinemassacre do this. What I'm wondering is, is it legal to use a song like Open Your Heart from Sonic Adventure? As you probably already know, I use 45 seconds of Open Your Heart for the intro of my Dreamcast Gamer series on YouTube (although it's not just Dreamcast videos for the series). Does anyone know if this is legal or if someone might make a copyright claim if they hear it in my video? I'm not monetizing my videos in case that helps.

So what you're saying is you guys don't experience this problem once you clean the contacts?

I've seen this with the 3 M Network games I own (Astroblast, Lock n' Chase, and Super Challenge Football). When I push the reset switch, I get these weird red lines scrolling down the left side of the screen and I hear a faint buzzing sound. I know that different games do different things while you're holding down the reset switch, but is this at all dangerous to my 2600? I know that Ghost Town from Xonox has one corner of the screen that looks deformed when you hold reset. Are these problems at all dangerous to my Atari, of am I safe to play these games?

Blasting space rocks! Today, Isaac from Trainboy Productions and the Gemini Gamer are reviewing the 2600 port of Asteroids.

Awesome!

They look familiar. Who are they?

I remember when the Christian music store in Winnipeg closed. It closed mainly due to bad parking, but the building was amazing. I got a lot of great music from there. They closed back in 2014, but reopened in a dfferent location a year later. Although I'm glad they're back, it just isn't the same. It's always sad when a store from your childhood closes.

Keith Courage was a decent game, but it doesn't sell the TG-16 like Mario and Sonic did for their systems.

Yeah, the scrolling isn't very smooth.

For me, I'd rather play a game like Golden Axe, but Altered Beast is great to just pick up and play since it's pretty short. It's a shame that it gets such a bad reputation these days.

While it's certainly not the best beat em' up game on the Genesis, I feel it deserves more credit. Mega ranked it as the worst Mega Drive game! I'm guessing they hadn't seen Action 52 on Genesis or Shaq Fu. I played Altered Beast for the first time yesterday, and thought it was pretty cool. It wasn't perfect, and I especially hate how the drums get cut off for several seconds after punching an enemy (meaning you rarely hear the drums), but the game was solid and a good port of the arcade original. What are your thoughts on Altered Beast?

When I was 10, I was a Mario fanboy I almost bought Simon's Quest on Saturday. I'll play it soon.

Some bloopers from my Garfield Gets Real And Combat videos