Back in 2021 I bought my first PC Engine. The first game I tried was R-Type and I loved it. The music on the first level is a banger. I recapped the unit and installed the jailbar fix MLCCs (C120 and C134), you can see the blobby joints on the SMDs of a younger me. 😄 #retrogaming #pcengine
In 2020 I purchased an OG Xbox on eBay, which looked quite alright, or so I thought... I opened it up and then saw the mess on the second picture. I wondered what the hell had happened to it. Then I got to work on restoring it. #retrogaming #xbox
In 2021 my ZX Spectrum +2 (grey, issue 3) stopped booting properly. Dead RAM, as it turns out. While I was in there I recapped it and the PSU, replaced the 7805 and also fixed a factory error.
My newest article for RetroRGB went live this morning! I spent an absolute enormous amount of time troubleshooting this issue, but now I can announce the solution for anyone else who has two Vectrex controllers and the V3 Multicart! retrorgb.com/vectrex-v3-m... #retrogaming #vectrex
Vectrex V3 Multicart Simple Fix for 2-Player Glitch - RetroRGB
Vectrex owners using Sean Kelly’s V3 multicart may occasionally run into an unusual issue when launching some 2-player titles such as Armor Attack or Rip Off - player 2's joystick directions don’t register, even though the face buttons work normally. Fortunately, the solution is both simple and reliable! After launching an affected game from the
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Today is my birthday (turning 30), which is the only time each year when I ask you for a repost should you like my art. Have a good day! 🦦🌿✨️ - Simon
Handheld MiSTer testing has gone well this week. 2 x 21700 Battery cells and life is looking around 10 to 11 hours on the PlayStation Core. The Gameboy is looking like 12 Hours. Zaparoo front end is looking really good too.
New product launch - PAL N64 S-video & Composite combo cable, with custom PCB em-modshop.com/product/pal-...
A couple of days ago, I picked up this thing again. hitmanmcc.com/entry/wonder... And I've made some progress.
Sega Wondermega HWM-5010 Restoration (1st Unit) · Hitman's Museum
Absolute labour of love on this Sega Wondermega HWM-5010 from Japan: corrosion, missing components, broken traces and a RAM package with broken legs. The Mega Drive side eventually came back to life; ...
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All that blast processing exploded the super capacitor in one of these. Might as well change it on all of them. #retrogaming #sega
I've posted the FX3 documentation to the github here: github.com/LimitedRunGa...
GitHub - LimitedRunGames-Tech/snes-fx3: Super Nintendo FX3
Super Nintendo FX3. Contribute to LimitedRunGames-Tech/snes-fx3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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It's-a me, 3D CSS Mario! 🍄 ⭐ I'm recreating Giles Goddard's iconic N64 face engine, so we can use it on the web. The rendering is handled by CSS matrix transforms, without WebGL or canvas. demo: codepen.io/alowpoly/pen... repo: github.com/layoutit/css...
Two Sega Game Gears, every cap leaked. The electrolyte got so bad that parts fell off the boards, transistor Q9 among them. Hours of vinegar cleanup and a recap later: a partial win, not a clean revival. hitmanmcc.com/entry/the-ga... #retrogaming #Sega #GameGear
Sega Game Gear Heavy Electrolyte Recovery (2 Units) · Hitman's Museum
Two heavily contaminated Sega Game Gears, so badly that components were falling off the boards from the electrolyte. Many hours in, one has a partially defective screen and the other boots and plays a...
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Bought a slim Xbox 360 E and opened its power brick to find bargain-bin caps plus dead flies and larvae. It still worked, so pure TLC: Nichicon recap, board cleaned up, scratched shell polished up. hitmanmcc.com/entry/xbox-3... #Xbox360 #consolerepair #retrogaming #recap
Microsoft Xbox 360 E: Recap, Reflow, HDD & Clean · Hitman's Museum
The Microsoft Xbox 360 E's PSU was packed with bargain-bin caps and the board had clearly had something spilled on it. A recap, a reflow, a fresh HDD and some elbow grease on the shell later, it's a m...
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I put together a guide to making a flip switch for CRT monitors, when the game wants to be oriented the other way but you don't feel like rotating the whole heavy beast, nor do you want to reach into the hurty electric death zone to flip the plugs. It's fairly easy, and cheap!
Will you power down your PS5 for a week in protest of Sony's all-digital future? A new petition encourages you to pull the plug on PlayStation www.eurogamer.net/playstation-...
Will you power down your PS5 for a week in protest of Sony's all-digital future? A new petition encourages you to pull the plug on PlayStation
Players will not accept the all-digital future posited by PlayStation as a new petition aims to show the company strength in consumer unity.
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A fellow gamer, Dennis, gave me this PSOne (SCPH-101) for no reason but kindness. I cherish what I'm given, so I took the recap slow: no hot air, pulled the SMD caps by iron. Then a quick test with some Gran Turismo. hitmanmcc.com/entry/psone-... #retrogaming #PlayStation #PSone #Sony
Sony PSOne (SCPH-101) Careful Recap: No Hot Air · Hitman's Museum
Sony PSOne (SCPH-101) gifted to me by @PointerFunction for no reason other than fellow gamer kindness. Took extra care with this one; no hot air on the SMDs.
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Diddy Kong Racing: #Nintendo64 Original vs our WIP #SegaDreamcast Port It's been so long since I played on N64, and I've had my head down so deep in the code, fighting for every 0.1FPS win, that I had started to lose sight of how our port even compares... Reality check. #gamedev #retrogaming
The Jeff Chen PlayStation 1 VGA Dongles are up for sale. Grab yours here⬇️ em-modshop.com/product/play...
Excellent piece by Fabien Sanglard about the technical aspects of Silpheed on the Sega Mega CD: fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/ind... #SegaGenesis #SegaCD #RetroDev
Diagnostic firmware updated & unified The sd2snes diagnostics firmware has been updated. Now there is just one unified firmware download... The sd2snes diagnostics firmware has been updated. Now there is just one unified firmware download for all... https://sd2snes.de/blog/archives/1360
Yeah, I bet this will be fun. It's not like this thing is packed full of boards with lots of MLCCs and it's not like some of them are even bodged between points at awkward angles. It seems like this might be the reason why this Wondermega doesn't read discs.
This Sega Wondermega HWM-5010 had leaking caps and a motorised disc tray that only opened aided by hand. A 5-board recap, new belt and clean later, both sides run and the tray opens on its own again. hitmanmcc.com/entry/wonder... #retrogaming #Sega #SegaCD #MegaDrive
Sega Wondermega HWM-5010 Full Restoration (2nd Unit) · Hitman's Museum
A pig to take apart and put back together, but the end result speaks for itself. Both the Mega Drive and Mega-CD sides of this Sega Wondermega HWM-5010 are fully operational.
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The holy grail of Muppet Lost Media has finally found it's way online; the original unaired pilot episode of The Muppet Show. Here's a preview featuring the original extended opening.
Been working my ass off on #DiddyKong Racing for the Sega #Dreamcast! I've optimized and vectorized the audio synthesis and mixing tasks that the N64 originally offloaded to the RSP, but we're having to emulate on our main SH4 CPU! #gamedev #retrogaming #n64 #mariokart
In creating the GT40 to defeat Ferrari at Le Mans, Ford inadvertently laid a bit more groundwork for the supercar species as we’ve come to know it. We drive the icon.
This is pretty nuts - Thanks to @anime0t4ku.bsky.social you can now boot games directly from original optical discs on many #MiSTerFPGA cores. Links and more info in the post: retrorgb.com/mister-boot-...
MiSTer: Boot your disc-based games from any USB Optical Drive - RetroRGB
The developer Anime0t4ku has just added physical disc support to the MiSTer FPGA project for the PlayStation, Sega CD, TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine CD, Sega Saturn and the Philips CD-i cores. All external optical drives should work, although you might need a powered USB hub for slimline drives. At the moment, disc loading is running
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