Got my Phoenix today!

azure_optics · Post by **azure_optics** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:27 pm

And I'm duly impressed. A very nice piece of hardware. The only complaints I have are that the battery door very easily opens up and the buttons are a bit loose. But all in all, I'm very VERY happy!! Off to play some portable berzerk!!

Ben you ROCK!

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:48 am

does it look as good as in the pic?

your luky you have one of the first ever phoenix portables

Hikaru · Post by **Hikaru** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:38 pm

whats the difference between that and the atari 2600 p that ben built?

Post by **gannon** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:58 pm

The phoenix is Ben's mass-produced vcsp

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:05 pm

azure_optics wrote:And I'm duly impressed. A very nice piece of hardware. The only complaints I have are that the battery door very easily opens up and the buttons are a bit loose. But all in all, I'm very VERY happy!! Off to play some portable berzerk!!

Ben you ROCK!

Its not a mistake, its a feature!

Post by **bicostp** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:20 pm

Hikaru wrote:whats the difference between that and the atari 2600 p that ben built?

Phoenix (Mass-produced and inexpensive)

VCSp systems 1-6 (one or two of a kind)

Dare to compare!

azure_optics · Post by **azure_optics** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:34 pm

It looks as good or better than the pics. I got one of the textured ones, and I like it a lot, it looks very much like the black texture on the original console.

HK - I've also decided they are 'design features'

poopiesman · Post by **poopiesman** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:20 pm

It looks as good or better than the pics

quit teasing us and give us some pics of your phoenix!

pmpddytim · Post by **pmpddytim** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:18 am

Do these have difficulty and B/W switches or not. Many homebrews utilize these switches and it would suck not to have them.

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masterpaul · Post by **masterpaul** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:13 pm

VCSp Gold- has the best looking front from all of them. and that the battery door very easily opens up and the buttons are a bit loose are probably because he had rushed it.

azure_optics · Post by **azure_optics** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:19 pm

Well, I've got a digicam around here somewhere. If I can find it I'll post some pics. But I warn you, I'm rather lazy and wont look too hard, heh. Besides, my pictures wont look any better than Ben's. If you want to know what it looks like first hand, I suggest you buy one.

It doesn't have a B/W switch, and only one difficulty switch, probably the left one. Also, theres only the single paddle control, and it's always set to the leftmost paddle, so games that use the rightmost paddle in the left controller slot (Demons to Diamonds) you can't control. These things are minor to me though, the majority of games work excellently, and I get the sufficient ooh's and aaahhh's when I show it off lol.

Hikaru · Post by **Hikaru** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 10:20 am

you should have just built your own that's what I'm doing

I got my support files from ben's site and am getting the atari from ebay

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