Mega-Cart

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:01 am

Jeff-20 wrote:I want my kids to play my games someday.

Congratulations!

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:12 am

To carry on the OT: I had 7 Vics up until last week. Now I have 6...and so the countdown begins! Even with 6 Vics I still don't have one that allows for non-wibbly-wobbly paddle contro so I'm constantly reminded of their mortalityl!!

I think I'll wait a bit and maybe buy another MC a little further down the line (waiting for the Mark II model

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Diddl · Post by **Diddl** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:47 pm

My MegaCart #0163 is here!!!

Thanks to all who made this wonderful cartridge!! I think I am gambling this night ...

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:57 pm

So, will there be software upgrades like iPod? I think the cart could benefit from a shuffle feature: a random game starts (and you need to figure out if it requires paddles or joystick or PAL.)

What about "Genius" feature where the cart guesses what I feel like playing?

(shake to shuffle?)

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:04 am

Diddl wrote:I think I am gambling this night ...

Just in time for your saturday night fever

Jeff-20 wrote:I think the cart could benefit from a shuffle feature: a random game starts (and you need to figure out if it requires paddles or joystick or PAL.)

From Cartridge games, Tape/Disk Games and Utilities menus, if you hit CTRL, the navigation bar jump to a random item and by setting the quick mode from the service menu you don't see the info screen (paddle, joy, PAL and other info).

What about "Genius" feature where the cart guesses what I feel like playing?

Why not a live update

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:54 pm

The MegaCart got a mention (and a picture) in the latest ish of Game Developer magazine, in a two page feature about development hardware for 8-bit machines.
Woo!

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:22 pm

Cool!
Hopefully this stimulates addtional interest in Vic-20.

oracle_jedi · Post by **oracle_jedi** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:37 am

Is there a separate thread for Mega Cart bugs?

Some of the issues I have found:

Hellgate is buggy - the sound is wrong the aliens eat into the lower side of the screen.

On my NTSC VIC everything else works ok so far.

On my PAL VIC:

Run Stop / Restore results in a blank screen
SYS64802 also results in a blank screen

In both cases the Reset button gets me back to the Menu.

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:05 pm

oracle_jedi wrote:Is there a separate thread for Mega Cart bugs?

Some of the issues I have found:

Hellgate is buggy - the sound is wrong the aliens eat into the lower side of the screen.

I believe the author of the game, acknowledged that he did not know of a good dump of this game in following post:

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2 ... &sk=t&sd=a

For runstop / restore issue - in which application or game did you encounter this?

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:09 am

For Hellgate, do you have a full working version on a disk/tape ? then you may post it in some place and inform us so all the Vic community will thankful you.

For Run-Stop Restore or SYS64802 in PAL, it works of course, tested a lot of times with many PAL machines, do you have other PAL machines for tests ? may you tell me exactly how you produce this problem ? which Memory Configuration, from Menu or Boot key, etc etc...

PS: Nice avatar Brian

oracle_jedi · Post by **oracle_jedi** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:08 pm

oracle_jedi wrote:Is there a separate thread for Mega Cart bugs?

Some of the issues I have found:

Hellgate is buggy - the sound is wrong the aliens eat into the lower side of the screen.

On my NTSC VIC everything else works ok so far.

On my PAL VIC:

Run Stop / Restore results in a blank screen
SYS64802 also results in a blank screen

In both cases the Reset button gets me back to the Menu.

Bizarre.

This morning the Run Stop / Restore works ok. No problems at all.

Despite repeated power cycles yesterday it was consistently producing the blank screen error. I guess we'll chalk that one up pilot error.

I have the original Hellgate on tape and I also think I have a non-buggy version on disk. I will see about uploading it tonight.

Thanks

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:19 pm

Well I've got Hellgate on TAP here if it needs uploaded anywhere.

Mermaid · Post by **Mermaid** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:19 am

Weeee, I just ordered one! :)

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:19 am

oracle_jedi wrote: I have the original Hellgate on tape and I also think I have a non-buggy version on disk. I will see about uploading it tonight.

Mayhem wrote:Well I've got Hellgate on TAP here if it needs uploaded anywhere.

Thank you, any working version is good for me, Mayhem if you can, send me via email your TAP file and i will compare it with tap/d64 oracle_jedi file once I've them too.

Btw the main thing is that it must be a working version, please check them carefully if you can

bokvamme · Post by **bokvamme** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:59 am

Run the tap through tapclean to check if it's a valid tap file/cbm rom loader blocks.

Denial

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