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It was Deja Vu (on the NES), for me. I really enjoyed that game.

I'd didn't play Video Games as a kid (they didn't exist, then), but I got plenty frustrated playing games as an adult. It was a Godsend when Nintendo started putting batteries in cartridges, so you could save your progress, and not have to START OVER!

It's relatively easy for scientists to make a robot avoid a stationary object, but much more difficult if it's moving. The brainiacs at MIT announced a new algorithm that helps robots avoid moving objects, including each other (handy for an army of Attack Drones). The algorithm uses a 4-dimensional map to navigate, the 4th dimension being time. Reminds me of the Twilight Zone.

Yeh, I was dealing with an Intellivision Set, and many graphics were missing... Argh!

Is it common for lots of the Artwork in a ROM Set to be missing?

On the Home Page for LaunchBox, Sonic was the 'game of choice' to display. Out of all the games there are, I would've had trouble choosing the perfect one to display. So many are more than suitable. My uneducated guess: Sonic is definitely cool, and Jason's son loves Sonic - A great reason to use it! P.S. I'm surprised some celebrity hasn't named their child Sonic, or have they?

That's still pretty damn sizeable. My first PC had a 240MB HDD. I would've needed over 1,800 Hard-Drives just for that one ROM Set. Yup, a whole Server Room just for that.

SentaiBrad said DOS games range from 250kb in the mid 80's to several hundred mb in the mid 90's Ah, there's my ignorance showin'. I didn't realize they could be that large. That clearly says there aren't gonna be 1.2 million games.

SentaiBrad said No worries, I am glad you're dedicated more than anything. Thanks. I do enjoy participating in the LB Forums, although I'm probably irritating at times. Sorry.

SentaiBrad said I also recently got the eXoDOS set... it was huge. It was however A LOT of DOS games... like 600GB worth. 600GB?!?! I don't really know how large these DOS game ROM's are, but using what I suspect is a generous figure of 500KB/ea, that would mean there are (using that size an the average) 1.2 million games! Am I missing something, or is that an insane number? Surely my math is flawed, or I'm working with a false premise of game sizes, or there's additional content that isn't Game ROMs, or somethin'.

Okay, it seems clear that No-Intro is the best place to start for 'reliable' ROM Sets. Thanks for your thorough replies! This Emulation stuff to me, is the epitome of the ol' adage: The more ya know, the more ya realize how much ya don't know.

Good news for the Zen chip I wanna buy (more money for development).

SentaiBrad said The closest you can get to that are CRC checks from a release group. So, I don't manually perform the check myself? I just want to ensure the 'release group' has done it? I'm assuming we take their word they did it, but that their reputation makes that a safe bet, or not?

I don't suppose some tricky sucker has made an auto-tester, that would at least launch every game in a set (consecutively) and report at the end which games successfully launched and which ones didn't? 'Course, even if that were possible, it would still take a heck of a long time to do that with 40,000+ game collection, as most of them probably don't start in the blink-of-an-eye.

Cool! You guys sure are busy, to our delight. Always something new to look forward to, without a long wait, either.

Intel proposes to replace the 3.5mm mini-jack (among other connectors), with USB Type-C. [Click below for more]

fromlostdays said [Insert everything fromlostdays said here] This Emulation stuff is more complicated (for me, anyway) than I realized, but I suspect it's good exercise for my aging brain to [attempt] to figure this stuff out. But, I must say, without the help from the Internet, and especially this Forum, I believe I would have eventually given-up because of the difficulty. But everyone's willingness to readily share information makes it possible for me to get at least some of these things working. Thanks muchly!

lordmonkus said Yes, you need to test them all to see if they all work. It's all part of building your emulation collection, especially if you are one of the "must have it all" types of people. Really? But don't you have thousands (or was it tens-of-thousands) of games? That's some Gaming integrity there! No 'posing' in LaunchBox with a pretty piece of artwork, that when clicked-on, doesn't do anything. Bravo! But still, the time required must be quite formidable.

DOS76 said One thing for sure is that you need bios files to get Intellivision to work so make sure you have those files or you won't get far. Yes, I did get those, and I've been launching the games, but I can't get past the Title Screen on many of them. That's part of it - most of 'em get to the Titled Screen, but many, no further. Doh! 'Course, it may be because I'm not pressing the correct key or button that would allow me to enter the game ('Enter the Game' - the premise of the TV show ReBoot. Back in it's day, it was awesome, IMHO. With villains such as Megabyte and Hexadecimal, how could ya not like it? Graphics were really good for CG on weekly TV back then, too, I thought). Anyway, that'll be another topic. How do I control those games ('cause an original Intellivision had a lot of buttons on it's controllers)?

Has anyone used this, and if so, Yay or Nay? I've very recently downloaded and installed it. It looks quite full-featured. We'll see if I can get it to work easily, how 'intuitive' to use is it (that's a big factor for me), and do I like it. It's free for the basic version, and $60 for a lifetime license (or monthly payments of $5) for the 'Plus' version. You can record videos from dozens of streaming services, automatically skip the commercials on ad-supported shows (I'd love this feature!), and stream videos from the PC to phones, tablets, game consoles, and connected-TV devices, such as: Xbox One & 360 PS3 & 4 Wii & Wii U iPhone/iPad Android Chromecast Roku Fire TV/Fire TV Stick Excerpt from PCWorld: PlayOn's hope is that people who hate losing Netflix shows to expired licensing deals, can’t stand sitting through ads, or don’t want to grapple with limited streaming bandwidth, will finally take notice. [The picture below is a Link for it]

As I mentioned in some other Thread, I'm a late starter in Emulation, 'cause I had an early Xbox modded with an Xecuter chip. So, there were hundreds of Emulated games from other Consoles built right in, so all I had to do was find the game I wanted to play. The GUI is really cool, too. Unfortunately, it, as well as my Intellivision and NES, don't seem to like my new TV. Rather than fight with those problems, I figured LaunchBox could come to the rescue! Since my first Console was an Intellivision, I decided to start with that. I went with Nostalgia for the Emulator. I found a ROM Set (about 150 games) that seems to have just about every game the Intellivision ever had. Anyway, Questions #1/2: When you import some huge ROM Set, do you test every game? How would you know if any of 'em will work, until you actually launch each game? It doesn't seem feasible to test them all, with the size of some of these sets. Note: The above pictures are Links. P.S. Should this be in the Emulator Forum?

Oops, I'm embarrassed. I was just glancing (while talking on the phone), and I thought some section of the Forum Database has been obliterated, as all the Topics and Replies were gone. Wouldn't be the first (or one-hundredth) time I was lame. Thanks for enlightening me, Derek.

Games Conference in September! Check out the accomodations.

This screenshot taken moments ago...

I would've taken a picture of it, but no cameras in the building, and you couldn't take the quick stealth Cell-Phone picture, because that technology wasn't available then. Shit, my early photos back then (the 70's) were all on 'slides'. The actual camera film was encased is a little cardboard frame, for use in a 'slide-projector'. (You may have seen the use of a slide-projector on Season 5 or 6 of Mad Men (can't remember which one, but I think it's 6). But, anyway, I'm glad my electric bill is much lower than $350K/month!