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[nintendodork]

Really, will the CC allow you to do something from CD too?

It allows one to load ROM images (games) into an Atari 2600 using an audio interface such as a CD player

It's the Dreamcast of Atari games, so to speak

[Blue Protoman]

And Intellivision, if you have a CC3.

[TanookiSuitSam]

But the CDs would have to be burned like audio CDs, right? So we're talking 80 minutes. How many minutes or seconds would a ROM of let's say 4kb take up?

Considering a 80 black is usually hold about 700mb, it's safe to assume you could probably fit the entire library on one CD ROM.

Maybe 2

[Blue Protoman]

You probably could fit the whole library one one CD.  This is 4k per game fitting into a 700MB CD.

That is, the entire commercial, 2600, non-homebrew library.  New 2600 games are being developed all the time.  Plus, if you use a CC3 on the Intellivision, you have 2600, 7800, and Intellivision games at your disposal.  That might not fit on a whole CD.

[shoggoth80]

I think some of the more interesting games for the 2600 exist due to the homebrew video game hobby. There are a million that I would love to add to my collection, not the least of which being Dark Mage, Venture 2: The Abysmal Abyss, Fall Down, Starfire, and Skeleton +.

I am not entirely sure how many Atari ROMS will fit on a 700Mb disc... I don't know how big the entire current library is, but I imagine that you could get close to the whole thing. Maybe split it up between two discs... I mean really, what have you got to lose at that point?

[UglyJoe]

Keep in mind these devices aren't loading roms the way an emulator loads roms.  The roms have to be converted to an audio format and (presumably) burned as an audio CD.  The filesize of the audio for that 4kb rom will far exceed 4kb.