2005-01-07
Not a DTV bug!
I've heard a bit of complaining about the C64 DTV and bugs it has. Few of them are legitimate - most are unfortunate manufacturing defects that affect some units.
There's the sound problem that one of my four sticks has - go into Hot Dog in Winter Games and if it sounds like the crashing sea, or if you play a game of Uridium and get very annoyed by a piercing noise instead of the really difficult attack waves coming at you too fast, you've got it too.
There is a software bug too, caused by *me* - but it's so obscure (and doesn't affect gameplay at all) that I think no one has found it yet. To narrow it down, it's in a game starting with E. Comment when you've discovered it!
But level 3 of Jumpman Jr. doesn't have a bug. I've heard this a few times: the ladders get seperated, and get stuck to the top or bottom of the screen. Well, the original does that too - I just played a game on my 21 year old Jumpman Jr. cart I bought for $10 at Zellers. My buddy Ron and I hoped on our bikes, and without getting permission from our parents, went and blew some of our paper route earnings. Ron bought Gateway to Apshai, also on cartridge, on that trip. And because of the intense nostalgia associated with both of those games, I did everything I could to get them both on the DTV, and it worked :)
Anyway, look here for the bug on a real C128, 1902A monitor, and Jumpman Jr. cart.
There's the sound problem that one of my four sticks has - go into Hot Dog in Winter Games and if it sounds like the crashing sea, or if you play a game of Uridium and get very annoyed by a piercing noise instead of the really difficult attack waves coming at you too fast, you've got it too.
There is a software bug too, caused by *me* - but it's so obscure (and doesn't affect gameplay at all) that I think no one has found it yet. To narrow it down, it's in a game starting with E. Comment when you've discovered it!
But level 3 of Jumpman Jr. doesn't have a bug. I've heard this a few times: the ladders get seperated, and get stuck to the top or bottom of the screen. Well, the original does that too - I just played a game on my 21 year old Jumpman Jr. cart I bought for $10 at Zellers. My buddy Ron and I hoped on our bikes, and without getting permission from our parents, went and blew some of our paper route earnings. Ron bought Gateway to Apshai, also on cartridge, on that trip. And because of the intense nostalgia associated with both of those games, I did everything I could to get them both on the DTV, and it worked :)
Anyway, look here for the bug on a real C128, 1902A monitor, and Jumpman Jr. cart.
