Gamebase Odyssey 1 [INCOMPLETE]

sut · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: Gamebase Odyssey 1 [INCOMPLETE]

http://rapidshare.com/files/114393795/Gamebase_Odyssey_v1.0__Sut_2008_.rar.html

Thought I would release this Gamebase I have been sitting on, This will not be of interest to everybody, nor gamers. Think of this as more of a curio.

WHY INCOMPLETE ?
The Magnavox Odyssey was the very first home console, now one of the reasons I stated this Gamebase is more of a curio is because most of the games required either overlays and/or accessories. The current state of emulation for the system doesn't incorporate these at the moment. I have emailed one of the Emulators authors and he currently has no plans to update the emulator.

SO WHATS INCLUDED ?
All the games are included. along with current emulation screenshots and a decent amount of extras, unfortunately alot of the games are not playable due to the lack of overlay & accessory emulation.

SO WHAT CAN YOU PLAY ?
Three games are currently playable they are Table Tennis (No overlays or accessories were required), Tennis - the only game where the overlay is emulated and no accessories are required to play & finally Volleyball - the overlay is not emulated but is still playable.
Note:The games are 2 Player only.
You can also play the Rifle games (Dogfight, Prehistoric Safari, Shoot Out & Shooting Gallery) but without the overlays they don't really offer much

WHAT ABOUT THE EXTRAS ?
The extras include scans of the overlays and accessories taken from the excellent Odyssey museum http://www.magnavox-odyssey.com/. This will give you the general idea how the games worked.

WILL THERE BE A VERSION 2.0 ?
Not unless the emulation status improves so more games are playable.

WHY SHOULD I DOWNLOAD ?
As before this won't interest many people, but like with my Channel F Gamebase, this allows people information on the older more obscure systems that once coloured the videogame landscape.

sut · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:17 pm Post subject:

Slight update i've been sitting on for a while, now added overlay image to screenshots folder. Also added the excellent Chronogamer blogs for each game (you really must read it).

Unfortunately the emulation level is still along way off what it needs to be, I have emailed the author of the emulator/simulator but he is not currently working or planning to work on it in the near future.

Here's the link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/357245389/Gamebase_Odyssey.rar.html

luca1976 · New Member Joined: 25 Jan 2011 Posts: 10 GB64-Points: 10

the emulator under win 7 doesn't work!
I can't let it work in windowed mode.
Is there anyone that know how to solve the problem?

OX · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:42 pm Post subject:

luca1976 · New Member Joined: 25 Jan 2011 Posts: 10 GB64-Points: 10

.mad could you help me please :
To solve the problem i used dosbox
the script that i made is :
Run_Emulator_Send_Keys([1]{mount c c:\gamebase\}{Enter}{c:}{Enter}{cd odyssey}{Enter}{cd odyemu}{Enter}{odyemu }%gamefile%{enter} [1]||30)
but when I run the script it doesn't give me the point of the %gamefile%
OX when i finish the script I reupload gamebase odyssey

.mad. · Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:26 am Post subject:

instead of all that, try using %gamepathfile%

but without the emu files and your setup.
we can't test it.

luca1976 · New Member Joined: 25 Jan 2011 Posts: 10 GB64-Points: 10

.mad
if I reload the gamebase you can try it?
Why not work as you said from the same problem

.mad. · Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:59 am Post subject:

the games require accessories and a much better emulator.

why not try
ODYSSEY2 GameBase by 420.

http://www.gb64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4290&sid=2e70026d1c7d3de5397e756d52ac518d

at least you can play a few games.

OX · Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:10 pm Post subject:

sut · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:25 pm Post subject:

Not an update but I have stumbled across something of a much more complete emulator for the DS

http://dsgamemaker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=4722&start=15

Worth a look for people interested in the Odyssey as it is in a far more advanced state than Odyemu currently is.

Leonis · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:46 am Post subject:

Please, reload please GameBase for Odyssey 1. Very interesting to see it

Hidron · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:15 pm Post subject:

Leonis · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:42 am Post subject:

I also collect databases, as links to them eventually die

sut · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:39 pm Post subject:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-75ba2fc6.html

Reupload as requested by Hidron, I will at some point try and get this to run through Dosbox for people with Vista and Windows 7.

Also if there is a budding artist who understands how to create an image in this format

OX · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:53 pm Post subject:

Updated to work via dosbox :-

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-a95148b1.html

now if someone would be so kind as to get hold of the overlays and get them working

Apparently this susurreous fella on here http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?11994-Full-Magnavox-Odyssey-Setup-%28Wheels-Art-Pointer-Database%29/page3 has all the re-touched hi-res scans to all the games for hyperspin.

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