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Tiger Electronics Handhelds?
#351235 - 03/06/16 10:52 PM
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To my knowledge, no emulator exists for the low-end Tiger Electronic handheld LCD games. I'm assuming they run off of rom that is likely in need of preservation and I'm familiar with MADrigal's line of simulators, but even the latter doesn't tackle the Tiger Electronics series which is quite extensive.
Granted, emulating the parts that could be emulated would be only a part of the issue. The artwork system would have to be leveraged to simulate the LCD output. However, it surprises me that there has been no major focus on these. I know they were never popular, but many of us were the recipient of these in the late 80's and early 90's by well-meaning family members that thought they were buying you a video game 
Other than potential lack of interest, is there any reason that I'm missing that this area for emulation remains untapped?
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Re: Tiger Electronics Handhelds?
[Re: Pr3tty F1y]
#351244 - 03/07/16 06:02 AM
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They typically use naked dies bonded straight out to the PCB and covered by epoxy blobs. These are quite fragile, and need to be decapped and dumped visually for the most part. Sean Riddle, Kevtris, etc. have been working their way through other handheld and tabletop LED/VFD/LCD games for a while. They'll probably get around to the Tiger handhelds eventually. It's just that all this takes time, effort and skill. So you'll just have to wait, really.
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Re: Tiger Electronics Handhelds?
[Re: Vas Crabb]
#351292 - 03/08/16 12:14 AM
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> They typically use naked dies bonded straight out to the PCB and covered by epoxy
> blobs. These are quite fragile, and need to be decapped and dumped visually for the
> most part. Sean Riddle, Kevtris, etc. have been working their way through other
> handheld and tabletop LED/VFD/LCD games for a while. They'll probably get around to
> the Tiger handhelds eventually. It's just that all this takes time, effort and skill.
> So you'll just have to wait, really.
Thank you for the explanation. I wasn't asking necessarily because I had a great desire to play them. They just seemed like an apparent gap in the preservation of video game history and I was curious to the reason. Now I know 
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Re: Tiger Electronics Handhelds?
[Re: Vas Crabb]
#351313 - 03/08/16 10:44 AM
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> They typically use naked dies bonded straight out to the PCB and covered by epoxy
> blobs. These are quite fragile, and need to be decapped and dumped visually for the
> most part. Sean Riddle, Kevtris, etc. have been working their way through other
> handheld and tabletop LED/VFD/LCD games for a while. They'll probably get around to
> the Tiger handhelds eventually. It's just that all this takes time, effort and skill.
> So you'll just have to wait, really.
I like handheld games. I'm waiting on more to be added. Artworks too.
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Re: Tiger Electronics Handhelds?
[Re: Dullaron]
#351314 - 03/08/16 10:54 AM
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> > So you'll just have to wait, really.
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> I like handheld games. I'm waiting on more to be added. Artworks too.
Oops, if we all wait, nothing will happen! :P Help is needed for external artwork, it's low-threshold enough.
We had a nice flow of VFD games getting playable until someone had the fabulous idea of dissing the *only* source of ext.artwork (from the dumper himself). That won't get back by waiting.
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