Portable Atari 2600 VCS

Written by Link on 15th May, 2008

While it’s no Ben Heck model, this is a very nice custom portable. While personally I have no interested in playing 2600 games on the go, or enjoy wood cases, I have to admit this thing could change my mind.

Specs include:

1 - This ATARI 2600 VCSp uses a led modded screen. With led mod applied; it saves a huge amount of battery amperage.

2 - This portable has 6XAA rechargeable batteries at 2500mAh.

3 - Batteries are recharged in the unit via a charge jack.

4 - Batteries last at least for 2-2.5 hours thanks to the led mod I applied.

5 - The unit uses new video mod and has perfect image.(Don’t take the photos as reference, though. They are taken by a 2mp camera.)

6 - Unit has both the four-way controller(with custom design) and the paddle controller. Four-way controller has seperate trigger unlike the paddle, whose trigger is located on the custom four-way controller. You see that little red triggerish thing? That’s it, cool isn’t it?

7 - Unit has a colour adjust pot at the back, over the battery compartment.

8 - The three knobs at the bottom of the front half are for volume adjust, brightness adjust and colour adjust(I mean you can change the setting from the very colourfull to B/W)

All in all, a very nice and well done mod. Ben Heck’s book has been sitting on my shelf gathering dust since it launched ( four years ago?), as has been a half hacked up NES system. I really should get back to that one day.

Link ($157.50 - Just under two days to go)

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DVD Player NES Emulator

Written by Link on 14th May, 2008

I randomly stumbled across these today and I’m actually pretty annoyed. I just recently bought a strap in DVD Player/Screen for my son (Bob the Builder is a savior on long trips), but you can bet your last dollar I would have been all over one with a built in NES Emulator.

Now to be honest, I’ve heard of stuff like this before… ages ago. I believe there was even a player that played Sega games in the early 2000’s. Just for some reason I had forgotten about it. It’s easy to do that when it’s so easy these days to get emulation on the go, all it takes is an iPhone, DS, GP32, Palm Pilot, etc.

Now the features are these are pretty snazzy. I don’t know about the image quality, as with a 7 or 9 inch TFT LCD, you pretty much need to see it in action before you pass judgement. Aside from the NES Emulator with hundreds of games on CD and two controllers, it included a USB slot to play digital files (must have these days in my opinion) built in FM transmitter for sending sound directly to your cars audio system and AV OUT and IN for auxiliary monitor and speaker connections.

I can’t find a full review on a unit, but I did stumble across this thread on DigitPress. According to two different posters, the unit does experience slowdown and bad framerates. From 25 to 75% depending on the game. The disc included is mostly made up of hacks, and only has around 150 unique games, with the same amount of doubles. It’s also said that the sound is horrible.

For you techies, the games as is aren’t compatible with a regular NES emulator. According to one poster, the ROMs are just regular .NES files minus the iNES header. They won’t play as is, but it is possible reconstruct them if you know what mapper they use. Another poster mentioned that they can’t figure out a way to get traditional NES roms on there - something I would love to tackle.

The main seller I looked at has pretty decent feedback, especially given the volume he sells. So I’m guessing these are decent electronics… even if the NES Emulation itself isn’t that great.

There’s not cheap though. I think I picked up my double set for roughly $150.00-$170.00 at Wal-Mart. They’re just strap in units, included one Player/Screen combo and a second screen. No media slot.

The ones I was looking at here run $169.99 for a one headset built in version, $319.99 for a two headset version, and $229.95 for a laptop version with a larger screen. While the seller is in the US, the auction states that the items are shipping from overseas so that throws up the shipping costs as well.

I’d really like to give this a go myself however, so I’ll see if I can get my hands on one to do a full review.

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GameCube Test Disc, Yellow Zelda, Pro Yakyo Van

Written by Nicola on 14th May, 2008

NINTENDO GAMECUBE Demonstration Test Disc october 2001

This is Service Center stuff! It’s not your “usual” kiosk demo!

Legend of Zelda Yellow Test Cart

It’s back!

NIKKAN SPORTS PRO YAKYO VAN quite CHEAP and ENDING in 2 hours (now)!

One of the rarest Mega Drive games ending on the low side (at the moment)!

Other stuff:
Gunhed Special Version
Coleco KidVid relisted
Star Fox Super Weekend
3DO Demo Disc Program Binder

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Sealed Super Nintendo Chrono Trigger

Written by Link on 13th May, 2008

Yup, it’s another Sealed Super Nintendo Chrono Trigger.

This one looks to be in a little worse condition than the last, as among other things it still has a price sticker attached. Looks like it was either 49.99 or 89.99 originally. A few dollars cheaper than the current $700 opening BID and the $1,200.00 BIN.

Given that this is coming from a collector who knows what they have, you would figure they could post some clearer pictures however.

Link

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