Virtvic
@tenpencearcade.bsky.social
Blogging tinkerer, ex host of the Ten Pence Arcade Podcast. Collector of over 300 famicom carts. Arcade joystick maker for many platforms.
@leadedsolder.com I’ve just been reading some of your Soggy1000 blogs. Can I not get certain (eprom burned) games to work because of an internal ram moving anti piracy ‘thing’? Circus Charlie and the msx converted pac man spring to mind. The EPROMs are good, but I just get a black screen on the SG
As I always have trouble getting the right feel and function on D pads, I’m making a universal one that works well and use it on all my tinkerings in the future. This is the prototype -
@leadedsolder.com Hello Mr Solder. I have recently been on a massive SG1000 kick after picking on e up in Japan. I'd like to get hold of a Soggy1000 board, assemble it and make a nice custom case for it. How could I go about getting the PCB and some installation guides? PM me if need be...
New Substack post, where I make some stuff for Sega SG1000 - open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Adventures With SG1000 (CONTRABAND CONTENT)
Only because SG1000 stuff is SPENDY $$$. Carts and controllers covered in this blog.
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I got around to checking out @flynnsarcade.bsky.social Viral Reload EX - it’s a great little bullet hell shooter in the style of a ‘sort of’ Pico 8 game. Loads of blocky pixels and bullets! It’s also cheap as chips…
New Substack post - I have recently come into possession of a very R@re Atari 2600 Jr prototype. open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Atari* Master Junior
A never before seen Atari* Junior Variation
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Can someone please make Mr Driller for SFC / SNES already?
Play Expo Glasgow, this weekend. Chris Binarystar, Laurence Bennion and myself will be presenting an extensive Vectrex exhibit. Come and say Hi if you can.
I've written up a debrief on the things I bought in Japan recently - Read it on Sibstack - open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Japan Trip (DEBRIEF)
Testing and logging
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Atari 2600s are bastard hard. I composite modded this and tested it. Works perfectly.
@nataliethenerd.com I’m sure I’ve asked you about this before - is there anywhere you can still get OG gameboy pocket lcds from? I’ve just been to Akihabara and the shops there didn’t have them.
Last full day report from Japan. Nakano Broadway. open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Japan Trip_Day 8
Last Full Day
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BICU BICU BICU BICU CAMERA!!! I may come back from Japan a bit brain damaged by the constant jingles in some of the shops…
I have been trekking around Japan looking at video games again - Substack blog post day 7 in Japan. open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Japan Trip_Day 7
It's my birthday (and I'll go to a Hard Off if I want to)
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Dang! Boxed SG1000 II and a boxed cassette vision right next to it! Hard Off Ueno
Day 6 in Japan (substack post) - Shibuya and Akihabara (again) open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Japan Trip_Day 6
Shibuya and back to Akiba
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Day 5 of my Japan Trip on Substack - I visit BEEP among other things. open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Japan Trip_Day 5
Not much buying, but other good stuff.
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WTF? I’m really getting into the FOREVER REPEATED Hard Off jingle.
Sat in a Starbucks in Shinjuku watching the world go by. I am at peace (which is rare)
As well as witnessing a bloody earthquake, I managed to write my Friday in Japan up - open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Japan Trip_Day 3
Arcade and rain heavy
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Day 2 in Japan and it was a belter! open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Japan Trip_Day 2
Hachioji and Yokohama
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I’m sitting outside this dream palace. It’s pishing doon with rain and I am at peace with myself.
I'm away in Japan for a bit, so thought I'd write up my time there. I'll be on the lookout for as many cheap, broken, interesting or down right odd video games I can stuff into my suitcase(s) open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Japan Trip_Day 1
Less tinkering, but hopefully more to tinker with when I get back
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New Substack Post - Modding and improving a Brazilian Bootleg Atari 2600 - open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
I Love A Brazilian Bootleg!
Relax, it's not some sort of treatment to remove hair from the shin area.
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Have you ever wanted a pause button on your Master System controller? NOW YOU CAN! - Substack blog - open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Idiot's Guide To...
Adding a pause button to your Sega Master System Controller
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Sega paddle controller? Oh yes. Go read about it - open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Sega Did WHAT???
Relax, it's not that mind blasting...
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New Substack blogpost! A bunch of things to read about. Gaming related, of course. Tinkering guaranteed. open.substack.com/pub/virtvics...
Multiple Tinkerings
A hotchpotch of things
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