Looking at A52 Maxicart

[mezrabad]

Has anyone bought one of these yet?

http://www.vgwiz.com/a52maxicart.html

How do you like it? Worth the price? Are Videogame Wizards known and respectable? (forgive if newbie question, I'd not heard of them before this product.)

Input appreciated, thanks in advance.

[jonjandran]

That's a Nice product.

Doesn't seem worth $85 to me because I could get almost every 5200 game made for around that price.

But then again I would probably get it just to tinker with it.. :D

[portnoyd]

I don't have one, but I've seen the 2600 one in action, and it works great. I'm sure the 5200 one is the same, and it'll support every game save for Bounty Bob.

VGWiz was at the past NAVA, as well as the past 2 PhillyClassics. I've talked to them as well and they're respectible guys.

dave

[icbrkr]

I have one, and am using it for development. Works great! The bad thing is that it's only for Windows currently - the good thing is that it works under VPC if you're a Mac user :)

Jon: I'd love to see you pick up every 5200 cart for 85! :) After 3 years of searching, I'm still only half done.

[mezrabad]

I'm waffling back and forth between both points of view. Yes, cool to be able to play most every game on the original hardware. BUT, out of all those games that I would be able to play, if I were to hunt for only the ones that required the control pad to play and emulated the rest, I may spend less than $85. Anyway, thanks for inputs.

[jetset516]

DEFINETLY worth the $85.00
Besides all the original releases (besides Bounty Bob) you can play unreleased protos like Blaster, or 800 conversions like Donkey Kong and DK Jr. I got mine within a week of ordering it.
Oh, and there's no way to get an entire 5200 set for $85. Meteorites alone would be that much or more. True, most of the commons can be had on ebay cheap, but try and find Frogger2, K-Razy Shoot Out, Mr Do's Castle, and Zenji for under $20 each.