RickR

pizza pie for lunch today? 🤔

😮 it is Burgess Meredith. I thought he looked very familiar. Yes, he's an awesome actor.

I need to restart my TZ watching. I started watching them last year after Phil ran podcasts about Twilight Zone episodes.

Yep.  I think he's in a total of 3 different TZ episodes, and Shatner is in 2. 

Whoops...4!  He's in 4 episodes. 

Wow, that's a neat setup! What's the price for that cart?

Marco:  It's less than $60 shipped from the UK. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Kung-Fu-flash-c64-cartridge-flash-cart-uses-sd-card-easyflash-Pal-and-ntsc/254728951413?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Notes so far after playing with it for a few days.

• CRT/PRG files work fine and load FAST.
• D64 support is spotty.  Some work, some don't. 
• I expect firmware updates will address some issues
• The "reset" and "menu" buttons are really super nice.  Great features.
• Overall, huge thumbs up for this product.  I'm so happy to have it.  SD2EIC is nice, but a lot more difficult to use.  I prefer this by a factor of 100.  Just because it's so much easier to use. 

I haven't played ET but from what I've heard, reading the manual is critical for success. Unfortunately, reading and following directions is a lost art(? skill?) for many people. That thing about everything you need to know you learned in kindergarten? 

Ha! I saw these yesterday and was thinking about your shelf crew there, Rick 🙂

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3398934796871945/ 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1388198574888825/

@Gianna I like the ones in the middle. 

Next on my "want" list is a Rikey and a Wesley. 

This is kind of cool:  Calculating pi in Atari BASIC:

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/pi-day-estimating-the-value-of-pi

I'd only buy the items that have astronomical prices now.  Just imagine how much money we could make hawking truly rare items on Ebay!

Buy all the games, and also buy some Apple stock.  Keep the games and sell the stock once you get back. 

That was a great year for everyone. Atari, video arcades, the Cars. I was turning ten years old in 1984. I remember it like yesterday. :O)

All of them.  Only working stuff in the tub. 

Does the non-working stuff go in the bathtub?

Nope.

Only the 5200 gets a "tub".  Everything else is small enough to fit in a normal box. 

ROTG pinball is excellent. I only have it on the 3DS so far. For my GB pinball fix, I play Kirbys Pinball Land, made by the same people.

Cool! I found a Revenge of the Gator cart at a pawn shop during a trip to Idaho last month. Addictive little game. I love the intro screen. I posted my high score a few days ago on the forum scoreboard. (Using an SP, yes I admit. 🙂) Maybe one of you can beat my score!

The intro screen on that game is FANTASTIC! It seems that Revenge of the Gator has become a bit of an Atari I/O trend. I'd love to get my hands on the physical cartridge someday, as it's pretty cheap and I'd definitely get my money's worth.

I have been getting back into Game Boy stuff recently. So far, I only have the Advance and Super Game Boys, not the "brick". I like my standard GBA better than the SP for a few reasons. For one, I can use AA batteries. I bought a few rechargable ones last year with a gift card and have been using those. I always have one pair in the system and one pair charged/charging and ready to go. With the AA batteries, I never have to wait for the the thing to charge and if I don't have my rechargable batteries laying around, I can use any kind of AA battery in a pinch. The second reason I like it more is that it has a headphone jack. I love listening to my games with headphones and getting that sweet stereo sound. I imagine it'd be decently hard to find the GBASP headphone adapter these days. Thirdly, the GBA is more compatible with games. The SP,. when using a gyroscope game like Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble, will have the controls reversed.

Sure, the lack of a backlight is a problem, especially these days when it gets dark outside so soon. But I have found ways to work around it. When using Game Boy or Game Boy Color carts on the GBA, the games stick out about an inch from the slot. This makes the thing harder to fit in your pocket, but it also makes it so I can clamp a reading light to the cartridge and be able to play my games easily. GBA exclusive games are a bit harder to light, so I mostly avoid them. This works, but it is inconvenient and mostly falls off. I'm hoping that I get a Worm Light for Christmas that will make my life a lot easier.

For those of you who don't know what that is, here's a picture from the web. It plugs in to the Link Cable port.

Thank you for the kind words.

I feel like a lot of collectors are going to keep this thing in the original box anyway, which makes the kickstand even more pointless.  I do get that it's a feature missing that the original G&W had, but to me it's of no concern.  Hey, I'm also glad they skipped the LCD screen from the original design too! 

Haha good points Rick, and I agree! I get the collectability in this but I hope some owners unbox it and have fun, it looks really neat 

I'm of the thought that it would have been much, much cooler had they re-released the original Game and Watch Super Mario Brothers handheld. I have plenty of ways to play SMB on the go. At first I figured Nintendo was kind of phoning it in and releasing another Famiclone (and I still kind of do), but they seem to have added that usual Nintendo polish. I still think that Super Mario 3D All-Stars is a waste of money if you already own the original games, though.

@RickR, I agree with you that the original Super Mario Brothers is a masterpiece. Sure, Nintendo references this game a lot and it gets a lot of attention. It seems like every new Super Mario adventure is littered with 8-bit Mario sprites and World 1-1 recreations. However, if you play the game on an original NES with a real controller on an old-school CRT television, it's an amazing and refreshing experience. Emulation just doesn't do this game justice. I've used a great many NES emulators in my day; Switch Online, Wii Virtual Console, 3DS VC, NESDS, FCEUltraGX, et cetera. Nothing really captures the experience for this game in particular. I have yet to find a Nintendo emulator with the same amazing bass that the real hardware has.

I very much enjoy Super Mario Brothers, and would even argue that it's a better game than the often-acclaimed Super Mario Brothers 3.

WOW I had no idea! THANK YOU @RickR! The Master System and Game Gear are very similar - can the Genesis Everdrive run Game Gear games also? Can you run Game Gear games on a Master System Everdrive?

Wow, thanks, Rick! I had been thinking of picking up a SMS console, but I will put away that idea. And it sounds like I don’t even need a Powerbase—nice!

I do not know about the Game Gear games, but it is worth trying. 

Nothing stops you from buying the games still.  They still look good on display.  They will last longer if not used.  Heck, I have three of these things, and I bought a boxed Video Pinball today.  Put your worries away and have some fun. 

Hey @RickR-- how do you update the firmware on the Unocart? Been having some problems with a few games (not the big homebrews like you mentioned, but other games) and figured I'd try that. Thanks.

Well, I'm glad you asked.  Because I just did it, and I had to learn. 

First of all, check out what version is shown at the bottom of your screen.  Does it say "R.EDWARDS 17"?  If yes, you have the latest.  Since yours is so new, I'll bet you do.

In any case, you go here to get the latest, and there are instructions on what to do.  To summarize, you put an update file on the root directory of your SD card, and then the UnoCart will see that and have a menu choice for updating the firmware.  Choose that and BOOM...done.  Easy.

https://github.com/DirtyHairy/UnoCart-2600/releases

Happy Birthday @CrossBow 🥳

Happy Birthday 🎂

Thank you! It was a very low key and relaxing one and that was how I wanted it. Took the day off from work and played some of the new games I picked up at PRGE.

Wow, you've got a lot of cool things on their way to you right now Rick ☺️

Including an inflated Visa bill

Nice score @RickR!  I'll have to try this one out on Harmony!

I agree that so many games were released once the flood gates of 3rd party publishers opened. Lots of undiscovered games yet to be played. Thanks for sharing!

Interesting game mechanics and quite a challenge to avoid fire top and bottom! I also like the enemy sprites. Not bad at all! 

That's what I thought too!  It's really hard to focus on top and bottom, but I feel like with some time and effort, I could get a lot better at it.  Isn't that the mark of a great game?

Sweet! Can't beat FREE ! We don't have the room so I don't take in CRT's anymore but I am currently finally using a nice 14 or 15' CRT for the bulk of gaming in a little "retro corner" I set up, it also has composite and RF / coaxial input. I probably SHOULD have put the 20' Sharp CRT that is RF/Coaxial only since it is so heavy and takes up so much space BUT I just could not bring myself to do it, while there is no room to really set it up I am considering literally playing / using it as it sits in my closet ! Working CRT's here are becoming a rarity and though no longer wanted for me, having so many pre-NES consoles I fear not having access to any one day. 

Great score!

It is well built.  It's not a heavy weighted dial like the arcade version, and you'd think the shape would make it uncomfortable to hold.  But it fits nicely in the hand and it works well without any jitters. 

@Justin, we need to do an NES Arkanoid high score challenge!  I will kick everyone who uses a gamepad's butt!  LOL. 

I never could find that set to buy anywhere.  And that is one setup I rented that I had a blast with.  Awesome find, RickR.

That same mode is native to the 5200 with 5200 standard joysticks or the 5200's Trak-Ball controller.  It was one of my favorite setups.  Centipede took advantage of the 5200's setup as well.  And that setup is how I play Missile Command on my XEGS.  Pretty sweet playing that way, right?  Diggin' that XL.

Just so anyone else knows, you must press ctrl-T on Missile Command to activate the analog trak-ball mode.  It makes it as close to the arcade version as I've experienced.  Actually, a little easier since you don't have to decide which missile base to fire from.