RE: [stella] Brazil

Subject: RE: [stella] Brazil
From: "Bob Colbert" <rcolbert1@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:12:38 -0500
What happens when you try to load the tapes on a Supercharger?  I'd like to
get a .wav of one of the tapes to see what the format looks like!

			Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Lee Krueger
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:58 PM
> To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [stella] Brazil
>
>
> Glenn Saunders wrote:
>
> > At 12:38 AM 8/22/2001 -0300, you wrote:
> > >games local distribution channel... or even the Cyberpunks Stella CD
> > >distribution, who knows? ;-)
> >
> > We did go to quite an effort to make sure the PAL games were complete.
> >
> > >This is a scanned Canal3 SC ad, its on one of my friend's
> personal page:
> > >http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/4081/scharger.html
> >
> > This is a priceless scan.
> >
> > Were these just resells of PAL Superchargers or Supercharger clones?
> >
> > If they are clones, they ripped off Starpath's ad graphics!!
> >
> > This is so funny.  It looks like some guy in Brazil reverse
> engineered the
> > encoding, dumped ROM images, and created his own encoder (ala
> Makewav) and
> > then exploited the fact that you can run most 2 and 4K games on
> the thing
> > by pirating them off.
> >
>
> The Canal 3 would also play 8k games. See the ad and you'll notice Ms
> Pac-Man.
> I have a couple of tapes (Subteranea being one of them), but no Canal 3 to
> play them on.
>
> -Lee
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