Amiga CD32

Post by **The Apprentice** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:18 pm

Something I've always wanted to ask: How do you hold one of those controllers? Are they comfortable? I know somebody said something about the D-pad, but I want to know how something like that sits in your hands.

Post by **Ivo** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:25 am

The Apprentice wrote:Something I've always wanted to ask: How do you hold one of those controllers? Are they comfortable? I know somebody said something about the D-pad, but I want to know how something like that sits in your hands.

They are comfortable (not super comfy). When you think about it, you only hold them on the sides which aren't that different from, not on the middle, so it doesn't really matter that the "middle" bar is on the bottom rather than on the top or middle. It just looks weird, and the D-pad sucks in terms of quality (and I personally prefer other D-pads, this thing is literally a flat disk with 4 bumps).

Post by **GagaMan** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:16 am

arion wrote:
GagaMan wrote:darn, still no luck with the sound issue. Tried a different RGB cable, even tried the system on a different TV, but still half the sound missing. To give you an example, I was testing it on the Monty Python game, which plays the theme at the start of the game, but now it just plays the background beat, not the actual tune. Bum bum bum bum bum...that's it. Ugh.
Sounds like one of the audio jacks isnt working correctly. If only one is connected it is like you said just half of the sound. If it keeps doing that you could try connecting the audio through the headphone jack with something like this

http://www.milkhoneyland.com/35mm-to-2- ... p-776.html

I tried listening to the sound through the headphones to see if their was any difference from how it plays though the TV, but still had the same effect.Sometimes you can hear the other channel of sound very quietly trying to break through, but it's still mainly one out of two channels of sound.

Post by **arion** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:46 pm

Try moving the volume slide for the headphones back and forth for a while see if you hear some diffrence. Could be a simple case of dust breaking the connection.

Post by **GagaMan** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:16 pm

Yeah, there was some dust in there. Still not working though.

Got that other torrent (the 200,350,444 and 888 one) and burnt all those discs. Keep finding so many games I forgot all about from my childhood, it's fantastic. A few favorites:

Bob's Bad Day: Like Cameltry but with loads of different items that mess around with the gravity and daft animation.

Wizkid: Totally bat-shit sequel to Wizball. Murder the shite out of penguins, bees and butterflies by bouncing blocks at them with your green pac man head type thing.

Fury of the Furries: Not what the title suggests at all. You may know it as it's namco bought-out SNES port Pac in Time. One of the few games I didn't play as a kid but have just played and grown to like a lot. The green furry blob guy is the best, as he has a grappling hook ala Bionic Commando.

Morph: Fantastic puzzle platformer that has you transforming into a cloud, bouncy ball, iron ball and water to navigate about, but they only give you a very limited amount of times you can transform per level, so it gets tricky.

Rodland: Oh yes, first time UI've played this since I spotted it in a Florida arcade. The inspiration to the Minky characters in Mangagaga, if I hadn't mentioned it already.

Superfrog: The Amiga has a lot of sort of-Sonic clones, this is the best one.

I'm pretty darn tempted to set up an Amiga blog now. A lot of these games have very little wrote about them, and I want an excuse to rip footage from them, if I can get all the sound working anyway.

Post by **arion** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:11 pm

Hope you get the sound working aside from connecting the cd32 through an rf cable im out of ideas.

And Rodland is awesome

Addictive and simple and has over the top Japanese cuteness

Post by **GagaMan** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:29 am

Think it could be something within the system that's come loose that could be easily fixed? Is the system easy to open up or is it not recommended, and is there any links to show what's what inside it?

EDIT: Found a link with inside the system pictures: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardw ... ?HARDID=32

Also: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardw ... HARDID=274
VGA Support? WANT!

EDIT2: Opened it up, was full of a cloud of dust, didn't appear to be anything loose though. You know, I belive there was an RF cable in the box I got the system in but I threw it presuming it didn't go with it. Doh!

Post by **arion** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:36 pm

i only tried this with my amiga 500 but a nes rf cable might work or just about any rf cable that has a similar plug that goes to the console.

Btw if you have the time try Lionheart on the 444 games compilation i just tried it by chance and its a great platformer. It´s also on the 200 games one but when i got to the first boss fight it crashed.

Post by **GagaMan** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:01 am

Well I got my hands on a RF cable and...ugh, it's still not giving me all the sound! There must be something wrong on the actual circuit board, maybe something needs a bit of soldering.

Post by **GagaMan** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:19 pm

I've resorted to the only way I can think of sorting out my problem: I've bought another Amiga CD32 on Ebay. Wasn't quite as cheap as my one, but came with six games (including Cannon Fodder and Banshee) and a nice CD32 third-party controller that has all the buttons but is mega drive controller styled. Gonna be picking it up hopefully this week.