Anyone else own one of these? I picked up one recently from a boot sale for a tenner, hadn't come across one before. The Amiga 500 I used to own was too bulky for me to keep, so this seems like a nice console alternative with faster load times, and you can plug Mega Drive/Atari 2600 controllers into, which is nice. Found myself a CD image that contains 200 games which is nice, although somehow the QAmiga managed to scratch it up within days so I've had to burn it again. Runs official discs fine though, maybe it's the speed I'm burning them at?
One small problem i seem to have come across is in the last day or so the sound has sort of half vanished, like only one side of the stereo is working, so the music sounds completely different in places and some SFX vanish completely. I've checked all the cables and they appear to be perfectly fine, and the sound was perfect not too long ago.
Did you really get all that stuff for 10 quids? Wow... That is massively, massively underpriced, it would have been a not bad price for the pad alone from what I know of the current prices. If you got all those games with it for £10...
I have one myself, and there is a thread recently discussing also these multi games compilations. The problem is probably with the burning speed, always burn at lowest possible. The optical drive of the machine is not so good and from 1993, a bit fussy I guess. I haven't tried them myself but another member of these forums had them working well.
The official pad (the one in the picture) has a weak D-pad that breaks easily. Unmodified Genesis / Megadrive pads apparently can be used for the red and blue button.
As for Pirates! Gold - I liked this version of it, I read somewhere it was similar to the Genesis version but I don't know if it is true. It has nice (or great?) CD music, and the graphics are better than the floppy Amiga version "Pirates!". Although now more recently there's more modern ports of Pirates! I think.
Ivo.
Last edited by Ivo on Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Great find and congrats on getting a cd32 i got one as well it´s a great console
As for the burning problem all i can add is that the cd32 doesnt seem to boot every brand of cdr´s. For me TDK cd´s burned on 16x has worked well and the only brand i know doesnt work is Verbatim. Also sometimes the iso might not boot on the cd32 even though it works in winuae.
And the sound problem i also noticed the lack of sound effects if the cd32 audio is connected to the rca jacks in the back. If you get no sound effects or few you might try to connect the audio through the headphone jack on the front or in worst case connect it through RF while the picture quality gets worse all sound effects should be heard It did seem odd when i played Pinball Fantasies and all i got was music and no sound from the flippers.
Ah, thanks for that tip, I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the links also, the 888 pack has been sitting in my torrent downloader for a few days now, hasn't had any seeds for a bit though. The 200 game disc I got is fantastic though, only missing a few games I remember fondly (Morph, Sleepwalker and many others). I don't think I'll dare try and grab that 9GB one, could be there forever on that!
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.
I've got one... doesn't really run too well on an NTSC tv. I'm pretty sure it has a SCART cable (I haven't opened it in years), one day I'll have an upscanner and then I'll be able to play some Chaos Engine.
Someone on Ebay is selling about 8 brand new copys of a game called Marvin's marvelous Adventure for £2.50 a pop (or best offer). Looks alright from what I've seen, don't mind for that money. =)
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
It did seem odd when i played Pinball Fantasies and all i got was music and no sound from the flippers.