Kickstarter Projects

[Shadowrunner]

Here's another one and I just backed it. There's only 8 hours left but it's already been funded.



Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy

10 bucks for a cool looking puzzle game on the Wii U 

[TrekMD]

That looks cool.  Looks like they'll have it in plenty of choices.

[zapiy]

That does look awesome. Think I am too late to the party though.

[Shadowrunner]

That does look awesome. Think I am too late to the party though.

Yeah it ended last night unfortunately, but it says they are setting up a paypal page for anyone who missed out and still wants to support it. http://heroesneverlose.com/getthegame/

[zapiy]

I will take a look fella..

Thanks

[Shadowrunner]

I will take a look fella..

Thanks

No problem 

[Shadowrunner]

This is pretty interesting, and for people who play a lot of games on a PC with emulators it would be very handy.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/544088930/bliss-box-4-play-one-adapter-for-many-controllers

Not sure about that goal though. $150,000 sounds a little out of reach, but I wish them success

[TrekMD]

That certainly looks nifty!

[zapiy]

Looks brilliant but like you say that's a lot of money.

[Antiriad2097]

$40 is only £25. This will fill the gaps in my USB adapter connectivity, since I've already got Atari, MD, PS1, Saturn and Dreamcast adapters. I'm in. It's much cheaper than buying adapters individually.

[zapiy]

Good point actually. Now I need to think about this one. Seriously.

[zapiy]

Blinking Light Win - Resurrecting your NES


About this project

THE PROBLEM

We all know how much fun it was to get our toaster NES to work in the good ol days. Our lungs got a pretty good workout from blowing into the cartridge and the system hoping that in the off chance it will magically work. As much as we'd like to believe that blowing the cartridge through your shirt bettered your chances, it all came down to luck.

The real crux of the issue is with the design choice to make the NES as toy-like as possible. But we don't blame the engineers one bit. The video game crash of 1983 just happened in recent memory and everyone had a bad taste in their mouth when the words "video" and "game" were mentioned in the same sentence.

The system shipped with a ZIF (zero insertion force) connector to make loading in a cartridge sideways as easy as possible. Unfortunately, ZIF connectors simply weren't designed to withstand the fascinations of an avid gamer. Eventually the contacts would wear out from the constant bending of inserting and removing a game. (Sorry Mr. Rodriguez, not all of life's problems can be solved with bending).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/113891498/blinking-light-win-resurrecting-your-nes

[Shadowrunner]

That's really cool! Easy to replace and very cheap, I'm in

[JoeMusashi]

Quite a simplistic fix but what happens if habit takes over and I put a game in and press it down?
Does it block the 'press down' mechanism?

[Greyfox]

Wanted to be the first in with this. Chris Abbott of c64audio.com has just announced that there Back in Time Classic Sid concerts have just begun and started a Kickstarter Campaign to help make this Concert one to remember, doesn't matter if you love Sid music, this is going to be one hell of a vintage music celebration of classic 8-bit music played live by some famous C64 musicians

Cracking stuff!!!