Retro gaming hacks tips and tools for playing the classics
<div> Maybe it was the recent Atari 2600 milestone anniversary that fueled nostalgia for the golden days of computer and console gaming. Every Game Boy must ponder his roots from time to time. But whatever is driving the current retro gaming craze, one thing is certain: classic games are bac...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Beijing :
O'Reilly
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627158406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Retro Gaming Hacks; A Note Regarding Supplemental Files; Foreword; Credits; About the Author; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Why Retro Gaming Hacks?; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari Enabled; Got a Hack?; Where to Read More; Supercade; Arcade Fever; Digital Retro; Videogames: In The Beginning; Digital Press Collector's Guide; 1. Playing Retro Games; Hacks 1-14: Introduction; Hack #1. Buy Retro Games; Online Shopping; eBay.; Online retailers.; Private online trading.; Offline Shopping; Retail stores.
- Gaming conventions.Thrift stores.; Flea markets/Tag sales/Yard sales/Garage sales/etc.; Hack #2. Collect Original "Pong" Systems; Odyssey; Will the Real Pong Please Stand Up?; Being an Informed Consumer of Pong Stuff; Hack #3. Buy and Run an Atari 2600; A Bit of History; Buying an Atari; Necessary hardware parts.; What games to buy.; What to ask the seller.; Running an Atari; Common troubleshooting issues.; Hack #4. Buy and Run Later Classic Consoles; Mattel Intellivision; Colecovision; Atari 5200; Atari 7800; Hack #5. Play with Power: Set Up an NES; First, Some World History; "Toaster" NES
- "Toploader" NESNeo-Fami and Yobo; Hack #6. Make Your NES Work Like New; The Dying Process; Installing the New Connector; Hack #7. Take Your NES Games on the Go; Official Re-released Games; Game Axe Color; Game Theory Admiral; PokeFami; AdoFami (Time Machine); The Shape of Famiclones to Come; Hack #8. Buy a Famicom from Japan; Family Computer; AV Famicom; Famicom Disk System; Twin Famicom; Famiclones; Hack #9. Buy Retro Games from Japan; Online Import Game Sellers; National Console Support ().; Yamatoku ().; Play-Asia ().; Online Auction Sites; eBay ().; Yahoo! Japan Auctions ().
- Or Just Go to JapanHack #10. Find, Fix, Play, and Emulate the Vectrex; Collecting the Vectrex; Fixing the Vectrex; Emulating the Vectrex; Hack #11. Collect Classic Handhelds; Why Handhelds?; Web Sites of Note; Popular Handhelds for Collectors; Mattel Classic Football.; Coleco tabletop games.; Nintendo Game and Watch.; Hack #12. Buy Your Own Arcade Hardware; Arcade Cabinet Hardware Basics; Finding a JAMMA Arcade Cabinet; Buying used American JAMMA cabinets.; Buying used Japanese JAMMA cabinets.; Building your own JAMMA cabinet.; Hack #13. Find the Holy Grails; Golden-Age Grails
- Chase the Chuckwagon.Quadrun.; Keyboard Component.; 3D Imager.; Post-NES Grails; Stadium Events.; Nintendo World Championships 1990.; Super Star Fox Weekend.; Hack #14. Find Classic Games for Cheap; eBay and Other Online Shopping; Garage Sales, Flea Markets, and Thrift Stores; Before the sale.; At the sale.; 2. Playing Neo-Retro Games; Hacks 15-19: Introduction; Hack #15. Play Retro Games in All-in-One Joysticks; Jakks Pacific; Atari Classics 10 in 1 TV Games.; Atari Paddle Controller with 13 TV Games.; Atari Flashback 2.; Activision 10 in 1 TV Games.; Namco: Pac-Man.; Namco II: Ms. Pac-Man.
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