Yes that’s correct! As far how it plays I have no idea. The picture was taken just after I fired the game up for the first time. I’ll let you know once I have more time to play it.
Honestly, they released a console equally powerful to the most powerful around (Colecovision) which had launched only months earlier. It even has a marginally better joystick than the abominable Coleco one
The Famicom was just a huge leap with some crazily forward thinking ideas.
Yeah, well see if I ever have time for it but if you liked it that much I thought I should give it a go. I’m really hoping they keep the pixel art look for the battle sequences in whatever form comes to the Switch. Also, I wish they would make a new Advance (Switch) Wars game. That series could really use the awesome story telling the fire emblem team has been able to accomplish on the 3DS games.
Man, just a day or two ago I mentioned here that I had been looking for a high-res PC CRT monitor, and while cleaning out an outbuilding at work, here one is (with a friend)!
A Viewsonic A90f+! It’s a 19" Flat Tube, (Samsung as a matter of fact). up to 1600x1200, though I use 1440x1050. I got it cleaned up and dialed in in a couple hours, man these things were filthy. I have to say, aside from a locked green level, the adjustment layout inside the case and on the OSD are some of the best I’ve ever used. After working on cheap Dells, HPs and Gateways, it’s awesome to find a monitor with decent, accessible controls.
Also, I recovered a smaller Mitsubishi DiamondScan Plus 74sb. It’s a 17" screen, only up to 1280x1024 by default, and the anti-glare coating is in bad shape, but it also works! Not the best picture or adjustments available, but the tube is strong and I think the look and external design is the best I’ve seen on a CRT PC monitor.
And then there are games! I try to pick up a couple every payday, here’s Digimon World 3 (probably my second favorite PS1 RPG) with some bootleg art, and Area-51. I had the demo of this one back in the day and liked it, but never saw the game at any stores. For $4 why not?
The JP Starfox is the “blob” PCB with no way of modification aside from a tiny overclock. The US Starfox is a standard PCB but with no timing crystal, therefore trickier to mod.
My plan:
Desolder the ROM chip from Starfox US, same for Stunt Race.
Swap the ROM chips round and solder. Stunt Race FX PCB is now Starfox and vice versa. Close up stunt race.
Install the 27mz crystal into what is now Starfox. Done! Better framerate and all three carts will still work. I’d probably put the modified Starfox into the JP cart case so I can use it on my SFC and the NT.
I have a Starfox cart, but I lack the know-how and soldering skills to do something like this. Is there a way to achieve similar results with an emulator?