Nope. Regular version came in a black cart and the Deluxe edition in a transparent shell.

Link to further info: http://www.myatari.net/issues/mar2003/scatbox.htm

We had an eight player BS network at the first JFUK using a combination of catboxes (3) & Jaglink2 (4) & scatbox (1) Also had the same with Aircars & had a no real problems with that either.

Gaztee

Hey Gaz, moving to Canada eh? Gonna be my neighbor? What part of Canada?

Connectors; the two Jaguar linking ports, RS232C & 4 line phone type of link for the Jaglink.

Not to mention Audio (left and right) plus Composite Video, S-Video, and RGB connections.

bet you guys had a blast! i cant wait to network with all the buddies!

Hopefully I can find a job in Halifax First lot of paperwork goes off today, so once i know that I can come I can get a handle on looking what the job situation is. And Halifax is only 4 hours from the GF, bit closer than she is now, so will have to turn the deaf aid down when I get there Dont know how much of a jag collection i'll have when i get there though as I plan on travelling light with my arcade tables

Gaztee

Sorry my bad. Thought you said you were moving to Canada.

So you saying Nova Scotia isn't part of Canada now?? I love The Maritimes got a few friends there too, so it will be good for me

Gaztee

viMaster corrected my mistake. Didnt know Canada had a Halifax too.

Welcome to Canada Gaztee! Halifax is a ways away from me (Winnipeg) but the country will be better with you as a part of it! 4 hrs from the GF eh? Is that Toronto or something or is the trip from Halifax to Toronto longer than that?

Haven't got there yet but the wheels are in motion I don't know where I will end up but my hope is for Halifax, NS. Not too big, not too small & just enough to keep your social life kicking. My GF lives in Saint John NB, so the road trip is about 4 hours or 45 mins by plane Its great having someone over there to help with stuff. I am just a bit bummed that I probably wont get there til October when (hopefully) I get to sit my exams Plan on taking a road trip to Boston to celebrate by seeing some NHL action The one thing that keeps me going is the amount of game shows I get to take the VR too! 4 weeks til Bochum in Germany, Paris in April, maybe the Czech Republic in May, italy in June/July, JFUK in October? And then hopefully Australia in early 2009!! Then off for new life in Canada!!

Gaztee

In BattleSphere Classic: Why does the same ship, used in different modes, vary in the amount of enemy hits it can take before shields give out and hull gets compromised and my ship blows up? I've played Free-For-All, and Guantlet, and Training modes a lot but, AATE the least. I want to start playing AATE more now.

I've been using the "Ajax" O'Catanut Supership, (it has a high shields rating) in Guantlet and it can take a shitload of enemy hits before the shields give out, but play that same ship in AATE and after 5 or so hits I'm out of shields? I think I noticed a difference between Training and Free-For-All shields strength too.

So why the difference in shields strength with the same ship, but in different modes??

I want to start playing AATE extensively, but even on "trainee" level I die much quicker than in Guantlet & FFA.

Ok, was thinking about it and, if you only have to clear enemies from all the sectors in the entire quadrant, one time (all the green ships displayed on the galactic map) only, and then the game ends and you receive your ranking - then lower strength shields in AATE may be a balancing measure since you have to kill far fewer ships in AATE than in other modes???

Of course AATE features the ability to dock with a starbase and have a repair droid fix your hull, that's always good.

Because we tone down laser strength with decreasing AI level as part of playbalancing...

You're not imagining things...

It could ALSO be "bad" at the same time.

I see now , I think,... enemy laser strength is directly tied to enemy AI level. So once I get used to a ship like the Ajax supership or any other, I can know the level of AI I'm playing against by how fast my shields are going down per enemy laser hit on my craft.

So even though I am starting on trainee in AATE, the AI is/seems much higher than say the first fifteen to twenty levels on Guantlet.

Is this correct?

The amount my shields go down per enemy hit on me, would probably also depend on, AI as has been stated, and/or whether I get hit by a supership or an ejected pilot - the laser intensity inherit in various enemy vehicles, right? I think.

Just think of it as "when the levels get higher, the enemies get smarter and their lasers get more powerful"

I like that this topic has 64 pages now.

SOON IT WILL BE 65!

On a sad note, Arthur C. Clarke passed away today.

Oh did not know :-(
Sad, I enjoyed his stories...

The film director Sir Anthony Minghella also died today aged only 58.

Two respected story tellers passing in one day.

Sad times indeed.

I thought he was only 54? Sad day indeed

Gaztee

Just played Battlesphere Gold again for the first time in some month and remembered that I wanted to ask something since I got it actually. Is there any reason the "cursor" colour flashes from orange to blue and back again every ten seconds? I always thought it is a good idea to highlight the selected option because the dark blue is sometimes hard to read against black, but why does it flash back to blue. Was there some intention. Doug, Scott?

Fiddling around with some codes I found an interesting behaviour of my energy. First the laser count starts garbled and then counts down then my energy drains completly and the first ship that fires at me kills me. That was weird. Oh and I found the little pilot again who controls the flashing starbase hehe, forgot about that...fun memories...

I'm lost regarding what "cursor" you mean. Depending on what you mean it could be any of several different screens.

Also, we never said the codes were foolproof. They're just debugging tools we left in for you guys to have fun with. It is possible to set things to illegal values and make it behave oddly. That should be considered part of the "fun". :-)

It is in different screens.I meant the screens with the dark background and stars where for example in free for all you can select the difficulty, number of ships, respawn time and so on. Or in gauntlet number of bases and difficulty etc.
If I go up and down on the options the cursor is highlighted. That's what I was referring to. Let's say the number of ships. So there is a 15. This number changes from the blue in which everything else is written on to some organge and back to blue. I just thought that it was odd it woud flash back to blue and not stay different since that makes you know where you actually are. It is nothing important just saw it again and asked myself if there was some purpose.

Yes it is interesting to see the game behave in strange ways using the codes. I just forgot about some stuff that can happen.

By the way talking about codes...when do we get to know what's up with that codes no one knows what they do? And what about that other shiptype I once read you talked about which is still undiscovered? I guess after the big raid for codes has come to some halt for the last few years we could use a hint or two ;-)

Oh and what happened to the video of the BS trio intro? I thought Williard gave his ok to post it or did I miss something? Would be really interesting to see what you did with that. Since we can't own it, it would be sure nice to see what it looks like at least :-)







Edit:
oh damn it is 5 am here and it shows in my typos, sorry...

Are you sure your monitor is adjusted correctly? The highlighted items on those menus use a pulsating flashing color cycle to show which one is highlighted. It doesn't tunr one color and back to the original color (unless you move off and onto another menu item).

No actually I am not sure;-) But strange since I never seemed to have other problems with colours. Alright then I somehow just see the two colours and no change in between those. Well have to check it again and play around with the settings of the tv. Again it is not a real problem but caught my attention, interesting to hear that there is indeed happening something...

pushing 66 pages!

but if we are all extinct,who will manage the site!

I need to get back playing Battlesprhere. time to kick the 360 out the door.

i kicked my 360 out the door too!

Nice work, you guys!

an East Coast Battlesphere™ network WILL happen. ill be there!

lol,i dont have that many Battlespheres™ ....yet....

You konw , the odd thing my 360 isn't working right now! This is round 2 with M$

my buddy is sending his back for the 6th time!!! its a terrible problem they still havent really fixed......

for sure!

I pointed this out in the Microsoft forum but those 360 fanboys thought I was merely gloating!
Anyway, I've posted an article there relating to apparently getting 360's fixed more quickly if that helps anybody.
Anyway x2, back to Battlesphere...

All this trouble (with everything) caused by a bunch of lazy douchebags in europe who couldn't be trusted to recycle their electronics so they made it illegal to use lead in the solder of any new products produced so when they tossed their old hardware in a landfill the lead wouldn't get into the environment.

Now everyone has to use metal in their solder that doesn't really work well at all and electronics failures are way up, especially on complex items that get a lot of heat during use.

A few 360 owning neighbors of mine eventually switched to PS3's because of those problems with the overheating over and over again.

Out of the five 360 consoles that i have right now, only one has red-ringed (and that was a launch unit) all the others are going great. Apparently the problem has been resolved with the Elite units, but the others are still influenced by M$'s Russian-roulette chipset.

why are we talking about the crappy 360 when this thread is about the AWESOME Battlespher™

interesting , but terrible...

What the hell is a "Battlespher" anyway?