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Retron 5 (aka 4)
Ozzy_98:
--- Quote from: sheep2001 on June 03, 2014, 12:46:38 PM ---And on the speccy. I remember hacking speccy games for infinite lives etc, by poking to a specific address that held the number of lives.
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That's why I'm happy the PS One my wife bought me had the serial port. I have a game shark pro, great for searching for codes in-game.
Falconhood:
I went to Gamestop today to see if they had any in stock, and the dude said "We only sell legit systems. Those Retrons aren't on the down low with their illegal copying of the hardware"...I let him know that the patents were expired, and therefore they are legal and legit. Then I left. If it's not old, I don't want it.
wiggy:
--- Quote from: Ozzy_98 on June 02, 2014, 04:01:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: wiggy on June 02, 2014, 01:09:52 PM ---The Zapper and most every other light gun actually use both to track where the gun is pointed. The white boxes to know if the gun is even aimed at a target area and the refresh to determine WHICH white box the gun is aimed at. That's why they don't work with modern TVs.
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Nes zappers do not track horizontal refresh like other system's guns, it only has two bits to check, light sense and trigger, bits 3 and 4 located at registers $4016/$4017. When you program the games, you have to show only one target at a time per frame on a nes (VS any other system), then check the next target. There's some info over at http://wiki.nesdev.com on it too. So to check a target, you show it with color $20, check is bit three and four are both on, if so, it's a hit. If just trigger but no light sense, it's a miss. Just light sense but no trigger, they were looking at the target at least. You generally check the trigger, then show targets, then check light sense since you know they just pulled the trigger.
And not to seem rude, but you seem to try to correct me a lot.
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=16336.msg141669#msg141669
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=15674.msg139112#msg139112
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=15837.msg137332#msg137332
And a few more but I'm busy at work and can't search. I'm not exactly a noob you know. If I say something, maybe look up what I say to make sure how you understand something is actually how it works. I mean heck, I've developed on many of these consoles. (Making lines on a 2600 counts as developing, damnit. That ones HARD to make stuff work)
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Honestly, you just kinda get on my nerves, and I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. You tend to do the same thing, which is probably why we don't get along.
segamer:
I just got a confirmation email from Amazon letting me know that my Retron 5 will arrive on June 11 and at $99. Yay!
dashv:
Grey or black?