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On 11/22/2018 at 12:10 PM, TrekMD said:
Oh yes and the original Pro Controllers are quite difficult to find. If you manage to find one you'll have to pay over $100 for one.
TrekMD original Pro controllers are going for way more than $100...I know you said over $100 but in reality it is more like close to $250 for an original jag pro controller. I've used mine a bit since I first posted about it. Others have reported the number pad buttons also getting caught up a bit when pressed down too hard. But they weren't giving me much grief when I was playing several hours of Wolf3D this past weekend with mine. I do have one issue with the d-pad but it didn't happen that often. Basically in Wolf3D something when just wanting to turn right, it would register as if I'd pressed diagonally to the upper right making BJ actually walk and turn instead of just turning as I wanted.
I really need to test these with Battlemorph as that is another of my favorite Jag games. I would say tempest or Rebooteroids but I've got a pretty sweet rotary controller for those two games and you really can't go back to a d-pad once you've play T2K with a rotary.
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On 9/29/2018 at 9:09 PM, Scott Stilphen said:
Both NOS shrinkwrapped. $75 each shipped. PM me if interested, thanks.
Scott do you still have these and especially Beatem & Eatem? Would be interested to take it off your hands if you do? Custer's would be nice as well, but I already have a CIB for that one so I'd rather yours be available for another collector.
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* Forgot I had this posted here, but I recently sold this to a midi musician and wanted to update this listing to reflect that. *
I also have this posted at AtariAge but didn't see the harm in offering this here as well...
Available for sale is a MT-200 Sound Module, Sequencer, and Midi Jukebox that also happens to be great for use with old DOS games or for Midi listening in general. The MT-200 is a Sound Canvas and General Midi capable module and sequencer that contains the same sound samples as the SC-55 and includes all of the normal drum samples including those for the CM-32 module. This MT-200 is actually a spare as I use another one of these in my primary modern gaming PC and had been meaning to find this one a new home for some time now. Everything is working 100% on this module and it has had the following minor upgrades made to it:
- Orignal 3.5" floppy drive has been replaced with a GoTek floppy emulator. This allows the use of a USB flash drive up to 32gb to be used (Although 4gb is all that you would ever actually use). The GoTek emulates an old floppy drive by using software to format the USB flash drive into 100 separate partitions of 1.44MB each. The GoTek has buttons on it to swap between the floppy partitions. Essentially a single 4gb or larger flash drive would likely contain all the storage a person would ever need for listening to their Midi file library or saving songs they compose using the MT-200 as a sequencer. The original floppy drive works and I will include it as well if the new owner should wish to take it back to stock.
- Original battery has been removed and replaced with a battery holder and new battery to make battery replacement easier in the future.
- Firmware has been updated to the latest known revision. I had the chips made up for me so I could put one into this one and have another on hand as a spare for my primary module. This updated firmware only works with 2MB fully populated MT-200s (This one is fully populated), and corrects several issues mainly dealing with hanging notes and speed anomalies on Midi input. It is great for use with old DOS games as a result.
This MT-200 will come with a brand new PSB-120 genuine Roland switching power supply compatible with the MT-200 and many other sound modules devices.
Also included is a 16gb USB flash drive that has been formatted for all 100 partitions to be ready to use. The first 4 partitions contain midi music already as examples and for listening to the abilities of what the module is able to really do, especially in GS mode.
I will also include a DVD that contains the following within it:
- MT-200 Video tutorials on the basic operation and diagnostics I made earlier this year. Pretty much all you would need to know to use it is in these videos
- Additional Midi files for listening, editing, or whatever you wish.
- Midiplay v5 both the 32 and 64bit versions for windows OSes.
- Two different types of Floppy emulator software for use with the GoTek floppy emulator. The software contains the formatters and partition browsers to view and copy files to the multiple floppy partitions on the USB flash drive. Also included is a blank 1.44mb disk image file to quickly setup blank partitions
- PDFs of the original two part owners manual.
- Copy of the 2.01 firmware file in case a new rom should ever need be made.
- Midi utilities of various things a person might want or need. Such as MT32 patch emulation, Midi type 1 to 0 and back converter, and even the RSC to MID converter. The MT-200 saves songs in RSC/RSD format so this last tool is a must for converting them into an easier to use format.
I've attached quite a few pictures in this post showing the MT-200 from all angles as well as the interior shot of the battery holder and updated firmware chip installed. Physically the unit is in good shape with minor scuffs and scratches considering its likely had a long life. There is a section on the LCD bezel that looks to have lifted along the top, but aside from cosmetic it isn't an issue at all and was this way when I received it.
To get an idea on what this module sounds like, I've made a 5min or so video demonstrating some snippets from a few songs. The last 4 songs were recorded by the module and saved to the USB flash drive in RSC format so you can hear exactly how DOS games like Doom and other General Midi and Sound Canvas games sound. The Monkey Island theme was played from the actual game with the MT-200 loaded up with the MT32 instrument patch I included in the Midi Utils. Not all MT-32 games will sound as good as this but most of them still sound better than Adlib/Soundblaster modes do.
**NOTE that this does not include any midi or audio cables nor a Midi interface to connect it to your computer. I personally recommend the Roland UM oneMK 2 USB-Midi adapter but there are other options. Again, I'm happy to help with additional information should you need assistance.
Feel free to hit me up with PMs on any questions you have. The price might seem a bit high, but the MT-200 is a very well featured device from the early 90s plus I've put a lot of time into this module and the package I've put together. So the first $150 gets it shipped to the lower 48 states. Elsewhere will require additional for shipping.
Thank you for taking the time to read and look at this post.
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Well, this new forum software is going to take some getting use to!
I received my controllers earlier this week so the shipping on them was very quick! Now, I've don't own, much less ever held a pro controller for the Jaguar before so I don't know exactly how to compare. But at least for me, these new controllers are not as thick as original jag controllers so they are more comfortable overall to hold. The shoulder buttons are very tactile and clicky so I'm very okay with that. Overall the action buttons feel nice and the d-pad does as well, but I've not actually played any games with them yet.
But the numerbad buttons are sticky in that they have a tendency to not pop right back up when you let go of them. I even had a few on initial press sorta stay stuck down. I found this to be due to the fact they can be pushed in at a slight angle and cause them to hang on the plastic coming back up. Others have reported similar so it isn't just me.
Another issue reported by at least 2 other AtariAge members with these controllers, was they had a difficult time plugging them in as if the pins on the conroller weren't quite lined up correctly. I will have to check this as well but honestly I've always though the original controllers were a little too loosey goosey for me anyway, so if these hold on better, I would prefer that.
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Yeah...sadly the event isn't near me either. TX is the only state close and I wouldn't consider a nearly 10 hour drive to Houston from where I'm at to be worth it for a chance to play a few games coming out for a system I don't currently own. LOL
But my oldest would have loved this since he is a huge Smash Bros fan and really likes his switch. The youngest prefers the XB1X...I prefer the PS4 Pro and my Genesis...so go figure...
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I can remember 2600 games at least being sold in many places in the early 80s. I can remember getting a few games from TG&Y, OTASCO and I think even some drugstores had them from time to time. I do know that a May's drug store in the mid 80s suddenly had NOS 2600 games (Some I'd never heard of) for sale for only like $5 each. I know that is where I picked up SQ:Fireworld and Starmaster as an example.
In the late 80s during the revival of the 2600 and the 7800 was in full swing, most of the games I got then came from TRU and Service Merchandise. Both used a similar system of having you grab a tag from the shelf and taking it to the cashier. Then after paying, you would wait at a service counter for them to bring the game to you.
I know many others mention seeing Atari games at places like Kay Bee but I honestly don't recall much Atari being sold at my area stores. Although I do remember seeing a NIB Jaguar for sale in the mid 90s once and I remember it was pretty expensive. I also remember when I first saw the Jag. It was at a Sears that had a display setup around Christmas one year, and all I can remember was that they had the JagCD VLM running on a TV but I was never able to figure out what produced it at the time. I also remember Saturn and Genesis commercials, but don't recall any Atari Jaguar commercials.
Then again, during the time the Jag was new, I was fully vested into PC Gaming only and rarely paid any attention to any of the consoles much less their commercials.
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I also saw this at PRGE, but they weren't demoing it properly. The one being used at PRGE was stretched and didn't look very clear at all. I'm convinced they had it connected via composite to the HDTV on display as that is the only reason it could look fuzzy. Also the audio I could have sworn was in mono due to the ring pickup sound not swapping channels at the show. But in the above video review it is clearly in stereo and sounds pretty decent. So maybe the one at PRGE was an older pre-production unit or something?
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My wife and I got in yesterday about 2pm. But as we had been up non-stop since 3am to make the flights we were a bit wore out to be honest. We did meet some folks over at Red Robin briefly but otherwise we crashed out pretty early last night. I'm just now waking up as it is and should be there most of the day today. But most of the new releases aren't available until Saturday morning so... ugh with only like 50 copies of the various releases available I'm not sure I will be able to get all I had been looking for. Just have to see and most importantly, have a ton of fun regardless!
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Interestingly, I don't recall ever buying any games from Sears bitd. I bought most of my Atari games from Service Merchandise and Toys R Us. Although I do remember buying Ms. Pac-man, Sneak N Peak, Space Jockey, and maybe one other game back in like '83/'84 from the TG&Y that we had near us back then.
Otherwise most of my games were purchased from Service Merchandise and TRU as I said before. Or...pawn shops as I found a pawn shop only about a mile from my house I could get to easily in the mid to late 80s that had tons of 2600 games for a $1 each back then. That was how the bulk of my collection came about on the 2600 side to be honest.
But what I do remember about Sears, is that I bought my first Laserdisc player from them and Laserdiscs in '93. The last major purchase I made at a Sears was back in like 2010 when I bought my sons each a small Toshiba flatpanel TV to use in their rooms at their Mom's for their game consoles they had back then. (Wii and Xbox 360 I believe).
The last remaining Sears here in Fantasia is on that list of closings. So it looks just like Radio Shack, there will no longer be any Sears presence in Oklahoma.
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I got my Lynx II given to me for free in the early 2000s by a friend that just didn't want it anymore! It is the one that I installed the McWill LCD mod into. I have another Lynx II that sits on display in one of my glass cases in my game room. I can't remember where I got that second one, but I know it was cheap when I found it. That one works also since I recapped it about two years ago.
I have quite a few games, but NSG has a few I don't have yet. I got most of my games finding them loose in retro game stores over the past 15 years. However, I did buy most of the boxed games around 2003 - 2005 when they were cheaper and more plentiful. I remember buying about a half dozen CIB NOS games from the first CGE I attended in 2002 in Vegas.
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I noticed the same thing while looking for Model 1 power adapters recently. 350ma! No way!
I found a 9V 1.2A brick at Goodwill for $2, but the polarity is wrong. Easy enough to cut and reverse the connector, and that will be a future project for me.
What upsets me way more is that the local retro game stores around here used to have plenty of Genny model 1 adapters for sale for like $3 - $5 each. Then the retrobit replacements come along and they have suddenly been impossible to find?
I asked one of the store employees about it and they told me they cut the cords and toss the original adapters when they get them with the systems because they are old and feel that providing new replacements is better for their 30 day warranty policy they provide?! I was not happy to learn this as the model 1 genny supply can be used with so many other consoles!!!
We all know that the original adapters are going to live on for far longer than these cheap crappy ones they sell now.
Sorry...It kills me a little inside everytime I think about it.
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Yeah...I don't trust any wall warts that are less than 1amp for the Genesis. I'm still not sure how on earth those Retrobit adapters sell?! They are only 350ma?! that is .35amps.. Those adapters should be screaming in pain when the Genesis is rocking on a game with that full blast processing kicking in...
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If you were ever curious to see the process a modder goes through to install the McWill LCD upgrade into an Atari Lynx II or perhaps curious to try it your self, here is ITC#52 to help guide your the process. While it does look quite easy to do this mod in this video, it actually can be a challenge to remove all the components needed unless you have the right tools. But if one takes their time and is careful, the results are amazing! After this video, I will be focusing on some gaming stuff again to keep the variety there.
Enjoy!
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No idea what year they were from but long ago when I was about 10 or 11 we lived in my grandmothers house. She had another house she had built and lived in and so we lived in this old house of hers. Anyway, my stepdad and his brothers rooms were still left largely as they were when they were boys. I found in my stepdads old stuff an original pet rock and quite a few old viewmaster reels along with an older viewmaster.
The one thing I remember about this was that the pictures were way more vivid than any I had seen before and as a kid I had certainly seen viewmaster before. But these older ones had much bolder color and the 3D effect seemed to pop more. I also remember the reels were metal and not paper/plastic. Some of them has suffered a bit due to age because some of the slides were starting to fall out of them if I wasn't careful.
But yeah, that was the one and only time I had seen metal view master discs. And they were things like ship wecks of the ocean..there was one of the Great Barrier reef that was amazing to look through. Lots of reels on airplanes as my stepdad was and still is a huge plane buff and flies planes whenever he can. Wonder what happened to those old viewmaster reels when we finally moved out of there? I know that several years after my mom and my stepdad divorced that the house was sold but no idea what happened to the stuff that was in it.
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I had the day off yesterday so i went to 5 diffent goodwills ...
5 Goodwills?!
There are only like 3 near me. The others are in neighboring towns and would be 30min drives separately to visit. Even then, they haven't had anything good in several years as they were instructed some time ago to send most of the video game stuff to corp to be placed on the auction site.
In fact I would say that at least half of the thrift stores we used to have are now closed up and those buildings are different businesses completely in the past 3 or 4 years now.
We have a decent flea market each weekend, but those vendors look up the value of the stuff and still think they can get ebay pricing for it. Sad thing is that some people must be buying the items or else they wouldn't continue to keep them priced that way.
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Maybe open in smaller and fewer locations?
I could see that in places that maybe they wouldn't face competition from? And that is the puzzling part of it. Aside from Wal-Mart and Target, there aren't any other toy chains in Oklahoma that Toys R Us had to worry about. They were the ONLY real toy stores we had and they up and closed practically overnight with their store fixtures etc... even being sold out to the highest bidders. I know because a lot of the OKLA area retro gamers were posting their brag photos of the signage and cabinets they were able to score from the store liquidations here.
And most of the buildings have been bought by other companies and turned into something else already. So yeah..for TRU to come back in Oklahoma would mean they would have to spend some serious capital to build or buy buildings back and then have to stock them and hire employees..etc. Again it would cost them quite a lot to start over in my neck of the world.
I think they should go with an online presence to compete again Amazon starting off. Way less overhead to deal with in that case but they would need a solid infrastructure in place for online sales and ordering.
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A bunch of recent finds from a variety of sources.
- Coleco Pac Man came from a toy show (see my post in the "Tabletops" forum if you can help with replacing those missing stickers).
- The Atari carts came via a trade with nosweargamer
- American Chopper 2 came from goodwill (I know...it's probably terrible...but I like yelling. My money says this game has a lot of yelling)
- Boxed Blue Max came from a facebook purchase. One of my favorite games of all-time. Getting a complete copy is very exciting for me.
Solid games to get on the 2600 at least in their value that is. I still need a Room of Doom as the only commavid game I have is cosmic Swarm and that is the most common one to get.
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My guess is that they will open and adopt an online only store option similar to what Circuit City and Radio Shack do now. All the stores here in Oklahoma closed as well so it wouldn't make sense to have closed them all out and liquidated them to only have to reopen and restock etc. That would be a huge waste of money and that is part of the problem to begin with isn't it?
So yeah, it if they do come back, I'm sure it will be in online only form.
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Dangit! I just bought Beat-em and Eat-em with everything minus the box for $45 locally about a week ago. Had I know this was coming up... sigh.. part of me thinks I should jump on it and and figure out a way to offer my other one for trade etc..
Scott Stilphen
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Received my NIB and protected game from Scott in the mail yesterday! Excellent communication, quick to ship..seems like a stellar guy and I hope to do more business with Scott in the future!
Thanks!!