OK People, Time to Buy your Brian Lyons MEGACART!

dragos · Post by **dragos** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:28 am

actually its made out of hens teeth, three dollar bills and ground-up crossbow bolts pulled from a real crack-head.

deluxe models come with sprinkles....

martin_f · Post by **martin_f** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:24 am

Man - I have been off the scene for too long.

Today I had a moment of nostalgia, thinking of my Vic-20's and how much I enjoyed programming a game on it for the Mini-Game comp a few years back. Then I think - "Lets toddle over to denial and see whats going on - I haven't been there for ages (need to get my priorities sorted)" - and I see this thread. Amazing is what I say.

I would be mega keen on one (haven't read the full thread so if their is still a PAL/NSTC thing - PAL is what I am after).

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:03 am

martin_f wrote:I would be mega keen on one (haven't read the full thread so if their is still a PAL/NSTC thing - PAL is what I am after)

Almost all games have been fixed to work in both NTSC or PAL mode. The cart detects which you have (based on clever programming from NBLA000) and game will work correctly if you have a PAL or NTSC machine.

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:07 am

dragos wrote:deluxe models come with sprinkles....

I get the sprinkles from blind guys who I throw down flights of stairs

(at least that's what I have been accused of)

Supply of these sprinkles is quite limited.

eslapion · Post by **eslapion** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:18 pm

6502dude wrote:Supply of these sprinkles is quite limited.

Well, if sprinkles are more important to you than gold plating then I guess that makes the Megacart a very nice looking product that's not going to last very long...

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:38 am

6502dude wrote:Almost all games have been fixed to work in both NTSC or PAL mode. The cart detects which you have (based on clever programming from NBLA000) and game will work correctly if you have a PAL or NTSC machine.

Yes, exactly.

Games cartridges NTSC only:
BANDITS
CAPTURE THE FLAG
FINAL ORBIT
MOUNTAIN KING
TOOTH INVADERS

There are just one tool and 2 demo in extra section PAL only, they are:
HYPRA SYSTEM a tool by Mike
MUNAKOIS a demo
ROBOTIC LIBERATION an excellent demo

All other items, more then 250 (cartridge/tape-disk/tools/extra), work properly in both PAL and NTSC, in some case the menu detect automatically the system and select the proper rom PAL or NTSC,
you may use the same MegaCart in USA or in Japan or in Australia, Europe (i think France too but not tested in SECAM systems)

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:01 am

I would buy a PAL system to see Robotic Liberation on real hardware.

Wonder-Boy · Post by **Wonder-Boy** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:01 am

I am also interested in buying the Megacart.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:25 am

I split some of the off topic discussion to a new thread in the off topic section.

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:54 pm

Jeff-20 wrote:I split some of the off topic discussion to a new thread in the off topic section.

Thanks Jeff.

While I'm a bit behind schedule, I posted an update in hardware forum.

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... 7&start=58

Based on work projects getting in the way of my hobby time, my previous expecation for GA date was overly optimistic.

I now expect GA now in September.

Final production units should have gold edgecard.

I'm still looking for alternate source of sprinkles as blind guys on stairs seem to be very hard to find.

eslapion · Post by **eslapion** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:10 pm

6502dude wrote:Final production units should have gold edgecard.

Now you're talking!

Talk about some pro quality PCBs!

I'm still looking for alternate source of sprinkles as blind guys on stairs seem to be very hard to find.

Come on man, give it a break.

Obs1234 · Post by **Obs1234** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:41 pm

Are you keeping an email list to notify when the mega cart is ready for shipping???

I would love to get one as well!

Dave from Calgary

6502dude wrote:
Jeff-20 wrote:I split some of the off topic discussion to a new thread in the off topic section.
Thanks Jeff.

While I'm a bit behind schedule, I posted an update in hardware forum.

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... 7&start=58

Based on work projects getting in the way of my hobby time, my previous expecation for GA date was overly optimistic.

I now expect GA now in September.

Final production units should have gold edgecard.

I'm still looking for alternate source of sprinkles as blind guys on stairs seem to be very hard to find.

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:02 pm

Obs1234 wrote:Are you keeping an email list to notify when the mega cart is ready for shipping???

I would love to get one as well!

Dave from Calgary

6502dude wrote:
Jeff-20 wrote:I split some of the off topic discussion to a new thread in the off topic section.
Thanks Jeff.

While I'm a bit behind schedule, I posted an update in hardware forum.

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... 7&start=58

Based on work projects getting in the way of my hobby time, my previous expecation for GA date was overly optimistic.

I now expect GA now in September.

Final production units should have gold edgecard.

I'm still looking for alternate source of sprinkles as blind guys on stairs seem to be very hard to find.

A made in Canada Mega Cart too

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:11 am

Obs1234 wrote:Are you keeping an email list to notify when the mega cart is ready for shipping???

I would love to get one as well!

Dave from Calgary

Thanks for your interest.
I have not maintained a mailing list.
Once ready, I will post how to order details in this thread.

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:57 pm

I posted an update to the Hardware forum.

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... 7&start=62

Over the past week it has been a pure pleasure testing the hardware and remembering - wow, it can to that too!!!

This is a really big accomplishment with NBLA000's programming skills and ideas for features.

Hopefully, I will be ready to take pre-orders in a couple of weeks.