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SnapCraft

Member Since 15 Apr 2009
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Vectrex Joystick interlacing

Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:59 AM

Here's a problem I haven't seen on the boards:

When using the test cart (or Kelly's cart :) ), I can't go up/down on Joy1. Joy2 makes Joy1 go up and down when Joy2 is moved in a circular motion.

The joysticks are fine. It's something on the base board. I re-soldered the 9-pin joy ports. Nothing.

Suggestions?

When I first got this I had the semi-famous super bright dot in the middle of the screen with the "webbing" and horizontal lines for text (no, it wasn't the brightness knob). I did the tip of replacing with a Vic-20 6522 chip and it worked. Only to discover the sound didn't work.

I noticed one of my re-caps was on backwards :roll: , fixed it and now have sound!

I can't give up now. This baby is almost back to life! Please help!

Commie Questions

Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:17 PM

Some newbe questions (some with solid answers, some with opinion):

1) What's the story with Bounty Bob Strikes Back? That'll never be cracked for use with real hardware? I'd really like to play this on my C64; I keep reading that the protection on this was top notch.

2) Why do some (many) games use port 2 as the main joystick port?

3) Are you able to list the contents of every Commodore disk? I was an Apple guy growing up and there were plenty of disks that you could not "CATALOG".

4) Why does it appear that some scrolling games (Commando) seem to jump every 2 inches (vertical and horizontal scrolling games)? Yet they don't seem to in emulation. (Yes, I've seen this on different C64's)

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