KR155E wrote:

DogP schrieb:
I was working on a kinda cool project (more hardware related though).

vb-tv adaptor? link port to usb cable? something secret? 🙂

Not either of those… this is something new I started on a few weeks ago… it really shouldn’t take too long to do if I can just get some time to do it (and my equipment set up to work on it). I’ll post some details once I get a proof of concept going.

DogP

Same here… I wish someone would make something new ;-). I just bought a house and am still getting moved in… I was working on a kinda cool project (more hardware related though), but it’s sorta stalled because I don’t have all my dev stuff unpacked and my workbench set up yet.

DogP

On another note related to recent changes… I don’t really like the blue new/no new posts envelopes… IMO they’re pretty tough to differentiate between (at least on my laptop screen). The old envelope colors really stood out whether there was a new post or not.

DogP

Got a pic of the cart, or is it just one of those EPROM carts w/ EPROMs that someone burned for you? And I assume this is the broken version with all the graphical problems?

DogP

I personally thought the Super Bowl glasses sucked… Red/Blue gives me a much better 3D image with a lot less ghosting (or whatever the word I’m looking for is)… those Super Bowl ones seemed to be really dark in the one eye and practically clear in the other. I guess the best thing about them was the color… since the yellow side was so clear, you could still make out colors, unlike the red/blue, which basically makes stuff 3D monochrome (perfect for the VB).

On another note… I was in Microcenter the other day and they’ve got the iZ3D monitor on display to test out. I can’t say I was completely impressed, but overall it seemed like a good LCD alternative to shutter glasses with a CRT monitor. I’d say it was a little better than shutter glasses overall since there was no flicker, and the glasses are more comfortable, but I’d say the ghosting was only slightly less than shutter glasses. I’d also have to make sure I could modify Reality Boy to use it as well, since that’d be pointless to get a 3D monitor and not be able to do VB emulation on it 😉 .

DogP

Looks great, nice job!
LOL @ Robert

DogP

The sticky at the top of this forum about the glitchy display… that’s what you want to read. After the problem gets bad enough, the whole display goes out, most likely what you’re seeing.

DogP

Are you using a Japanese tap or a US tap? I’m just curious, because I know they have different connectors, and IIRC the US ones have a weird connector, but the JP ones are pretty standard.

DogP

Standard size connector as in… not that funky US SNES (gray plug) connector? Have you looked into the Japanese AC tap? IIRC that has a more standard connector (not the same as the US one).

Sounds cool though.

DogP

That sounds interesting… care to share some details? It’s not often that we get new projects popping up. What does it do that an adapter tap doesn’t?

DogP

IIRC there have been a few threads on this in the past and people say they work… I personally have tested the VB w/ rechargables with no problem, although I’d guess they won’t last very long (I almost never play w/ batteries at all).

I think the VB will start to drop out around 6V, and probably report that the batteries are low a little above that. Typical AAs are 1.5V each, but rechargables are 1.2V, which means that 6 rechargables will only be 7.2V rather than 9V of regular batteries. So basically fully charged rechargables will be fine, but as they start to discharge, they’ll fall below the VB’s working threshold quicker than regular batteries.

DogP

I’m not sure if they’re the exact same ones… it’s been a while since I’ve opened any of those carts, but I seem to remember them being larger than the ones in the VB.

Here’s a pic of the VB cart/battery:

DogP

Sounds like a dead battery to me. It is replacable by desoldering the old one and soldering in a new one.

DogP

Deadly-D wrote:

HorvatM wrote:

EDIT: Damn, DogP, you were 28 seconds faster than me! 😀

DogP is like Batman… when the signal appears he’s there 😛

Heh, well to be fair, HorvatM’s reply was longer and more thoughtful than mine 😉 .

DogP

Definitely sounds like the typical display problem.

DogP

That’d be cool if you could do that… I’ve been wanting to, but I don’t have any experience with any of those apps.

If you’re good with solidworks and have some spare time, recreating the stand center piece is another thing I’ve been wanting to do, so we could possibly get them recreated. I may be able to get access to a 3D printer to at least tweak the prototypes before doing a full run (assuming there’s enough interest to replace all those broken stand centers).

DogP

Sweet… that is really cool! I wonder what the odds are of getting work to send me out there… well, hopefully they’ll have a recording of it online or something.

DogP

So what good is it? The owners wanted the carts dumped for them so they wouldn’t release them?

How is that any better then NOT releasing them? If they were holding them that tightly to begin with, again I say they deserve no sympathy.

IMO it’s better to have a backup dump than no dump at all… whether or not they get released publicly. If you don’t have a backup dump, it doesn’t get released either. Plus, typically it’s not the owners looking for a dumper, it’s a dumper that has to talk the owner into letting them make a backup.

Your falling into some circular logic trap. A cart held on tightly and a ROM held on tightly are the same thing, only the container changes. Were these roms put in any public archive? Was there any level of redundancy that would have been better then widespread release?

There were several people with copies of the ROM… so yeah, there was redundancy, as well as some technical people got the chance to learn more about the system. Your cart/ROM held tightly thing makes no sense. The collectors weren’t holding their carts tightly, because that’s a single object… you can let someone borrow the cart, but when you get it back, it’s still the same thing. If you send someone a ROM, it becomes two ROMs… and can turn into a million or more ROMs.

Then the information was put at risk for no better reason then personal and illogical greed(because logical greed would at least mean there would be a financial benefit).

This is my point… the collectors who let their carts get dumped didn’t really want to have them dumped, but allowed them to be dumped with the confidence that they wouldn’t get released (to them, basically someone was just borrowing the carts). I can’t really say it’s greed, since they were kind enough to even let them be dumped… they could have said no, and it wouldn’t have been put at risk at all. They didn’t receive any sort of compensation or get any benefit out of it. The way you’re talking, it sounds like people who buy expensive carts have some sort of obligation to dump and release the ROMs.

Quite frankly, the people causing the most harm are those, such as yourself, that are justifying this action in any way, feeding those with this strange mental affliction that makes them believe what they’re doing is anything but stupid and petty.

I’m SO sorry for causing TERRIBLE harm to the collecting community for voicing and backing up my opinion, just because it doesn’t support the greed of people like you who seem to think they somehow deserve to get dumps of games for free. My whole point is that it’s up to the owners of the carts to decide whether or not to keep dumps to themselves or release them. The dumpers are just doing a service… the only obligation they have is to the owner, not the ROM leech community.

The ROMs are out, and we’re all that much better for it.

As I’ve said many times… that’s great that the ROMs of these games got released… it’s the way it was done that I have a problem with. And because of that, I can’t say we’re all better for it.

DogP

Ugh… this thread just won’t die.

Cyberdyne wrote:
OK! Everybody thinks that the prices drop when the dumps are released. The dumps are out so please tell me where to buy a cheap “Space Invaders”!

No answer?

With the release of these dumps, the number of produced carts has not changed. The carts are still as rar as before.

You’ve answered your own question. I haven’t seen a Space Invaders cart for sale… cheap or expensive for a while. It’s because they are rare. That doesn’t mean the market value hasn’t changed any.

realyst wrote:
The dumper of the roms should be applauded. He did a public service. those who aim to quash that ought to be ashamed.

The dumper(s), or the loser who claimed to dump them, then released other people’s dumps? I agree… the people who originally dumped them should be applauded, because they preserved games that otherwise wouldn’t have been preserved.

Unfortunately, the owners of the carts required the dumps to stay private to allow them to be dumped… so… were these people supposed to betray the owners and release them? Or say “nevermind… I just won’t dump them”.

Apparently, someone who’s not trustworthy got ahold of the dumps and allowed them to be released. This is why those who have things that aren’t public will hold on to them tighter. If the original owners of the 4 rare carts knew that their dumps would get released, they wouldn’t have let them get dumped, and they would have never gotten released.

That would have been great if the guy who claimed to dump these actually did, and released his own dumps. Then no trust would have been lost, the original owners wouldn’t be mad that the dump of their cart was released, and there’d be another set of dumps to verify they’re good dumps.

If someone wanted the dumps bad enough, they should have bought the carts themselves and dumped them. But notice how nobody ever did that, and instead just whined that they can’t have the ROMs for free.

DogP

Yeah, it’s cool for what it is… but the game is pretty lame. I almost bought one a couple years ago, but it’s pretty big and decided it’s not worth the space.

DogP