• Oliver Klink@retrochat.online
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    7 days ago

    @[email protected] finally watched the video yesterday.
    First thought: That’s some impressive games for a 2600.
    Then I looked up if those games were available as digital download and found out that most of them require a Harmony Card. That was a no for me then. And I was a lot less impressed…
    Not only is this limiting the user to buy either a real cartridge version or an expensive flash media from overseas. It also feels like cheating to me to rely on modern hardware add-ons to even run the software.

    • root42@chaos.socialOP
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      7 days ago

      @[email protected] Melody boards can be emulated by Stella IIRC. So ROM download makes sense. A Harmony cartridge is a good idea anyway, in my opinion, if you have real hardware. But ymmv. Melody doesn’t add that much to the 2600 hardware. It can emulate Sara, DPC and DPC+ and also do all the bankswitching. But you are still massively limited by the TIA.
      Also the Audacity Games do NOT use Melody boards.

        • root42@chaos.socialOP
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          6 days ago

          @[email protected] but then I would suggest getting the full cartridge. And all Champ Games have demo ROMs to try out before you buy. Those you can play on the emulator if you don’t have a Harmony. If you like the demo, you can buy the cartridge.

          • Oliver Klink@retrochat.online
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            6 days ago

            @[email protected] I already have a Uno Cart for the 2600 and I don’t think I will buy another flash cart just for some additional games. The 2600 is one of around 40 old systems I own and there are others I’m definitely more inclined to buy add-ons for. Money isn’t infinite you know… 😉