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DegasElite

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  1. This is all good advice. One thing to add: People who want to use batteries might want to take the batteries out of their Lynxes and Battery Packs. This is so that people can prevent energy from sapping out of the batteries. I don't know if this applies to NiMH or other rechargeable batteries, but it applies to alkaline batteries. At least, that's my experience. It also prevents battery leakage. I just thought I would add that in there. Thanks.

  2. On 9/26/2021 at 10:06 AM, RickR said:

    I've also been playing Super Metroid off and on for a while, but haven't made it too far.  Does the game have save points?  If it does, mine doesn't work right.  

     

    There are Save Stations where you can save the game and replenish your energy at. I can't remember where they are because I haven't played in a while. They look like booths and are in special rooms on the map. Your ship in Crateria is also a save point. Going there also replenishes energy and weapons.

  3. The A2600 was a definite deviation from the norm in the way we looked at television. It was like you had each game as like an interactive TV channel. Channel Three came alive, with graphics and gaming! Of course, the Fairchild Channel F was the first system to offer interchangeable game cartridges (I believe that was the first), but the A2600 was the system that caused the idea to take off. It was to be reckoned with, for sure, and put Atari in the true mainstream. Definitely a fun system to this very day, 43 years later. I was almost two years old when it came out. My family got their first Atari system in 1982. We spent hours playing Frogger, Outlaw, Night Driver, et cetera! It never stopped. It was and is fun at its finest.

  4. Emulation is easier, but it needs to advance. It is slower than actual hardware, but can still be convenient especially if you cannot afford the original hardware. Even of it is too hard to find anymore. I still believe in real hardware, but what can anyone do? I think that, to preserve the old stuff, emulation is cool. But, we should get resources together to reverse-engineer the old stuff and try to reproduce it as close as possible without emulation. Then, we can really advance in technology in the long run, and possibly be able to repair the older stuff much more easily. It can even help with backwards-compatibility on newer systems if the older stuff is applied the best way. Emulation works, but real hardware can as well. So, try to have a bit of both. Please everybody and be the best of both worlds. That might work for now.

    Like I said, I love MAME, MESS, and OpenEMU, but the real stuff does run better. Not an argument, really, but a compromise. Thanks. :)

  5. When I saw WMCJ on a YouTube video for the first time, I was not so impressed. That was until I bought it. Sure, your players get knocked down so easily all of the time, and that bores me,  it does seem at times very intuitive to play to a certain degree. That is, at least if you select an easier difficulty level. I agree that it is so bad it is good. At least, it isn't horrible. But, it could be better. I do enjoy the Team Tap, though. That thing is mint. I wish I could get another one for potential eight-player gameplay, but I do not think that there is a Jaguar game that is eight-player. However, I can't remember if there was anyway. Whatever, that's irrelevant. I have NBA Jam: TE also, but never played it at this writing yet. However, I do plan to. I can share my feelings on that later.

     

    Thanks.

  6. Yes. I have heard of Carl Forhan and Songbird Productions. He is based in Rochester, Minnesota, approximately 100 miles from where I live. He has done impressive work, especially with "Robinson's Requiem." I really wish, but no one would know where to begin on it, someone could complete "Black ICE/White Noise." Unfortunately, no one knows really where the original source code or master video sources in standard definition are. For all we know, they could have been lost forever. Some mook from Atari could have carelessly thrown them away! Anyway, one can dream. I am glad that we have what we have acquired so far for the Atari Jaguar, CDs and cartridges alike. I think that the Jaguar was underrated and, of course, under-marketed. Ah, what could have been…

     

    Thanks for letting me share.

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