On Tue May 26 01:54:05 1998, Chris Wilkson wrote:
>> Last night I hooked up my 2600 and tried to "prop up" the Pitfall II
>> cart, as described here earlier. Guess what? It *worked*! Thank you
>> guys. Still I wonder if there's a way to get it working again without
>> needing to be propped.
>
>You probably can't do it without propping or without opening the cart and
>doing some fancy soldering work. The problem is the fact that the printed
>circuit board is too thin. (figure a) Pushing the end of the cart simply
>changes the angle of insertion to allow both sides of the board to make
>contact with the connector. (figure b) If you open the cart and add solder
to
>the contacts, they will be thicker and will make good contact, but if they're
>too thick they could permanently deform the connector in the 2600.
OK, I won't go for that...
>Your Mangia cart may still have valid code. If the contacts don't go all the
>way to the edge of the board, they may not make contact on one side. (figure
c)
>Try pushing it the other way...
OK, now I tried the "backwards propping" too... but it still didn't
work. But that doesn't really matter to me,
to me.
Mama, just killed a man... sorry, out of topic.
Anyway, tomorrow I'll get rid of the Mangia, and in a few weeks someone
else will have the chance to try again...
>Don't know about your interference problems...
These are not problems, I only wanted to share my experiences and was
curious if someone else encountered that.
And from Eric:
>On my TV, they're a lot more visible when the color saturation knob is
>turned up really high, and they do go away during the wait for a WSYNC.
>My favorites are games like Kaboom and Super Breakout, where you can
>watch the paddle tracking by the different interference on different
>scanlines.
So, that means Mario Bros just waits for some WSYNC's in the
mid-title-screen, while Ms. Pac-Man already does something else while
the lower screen border is displayed. Anyone confirm?
With love (and many WSYNCs to wait for)
Kurt Woloch
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