It’s been a busy year with study at university and a bit of freelance photo work on the side. I want to thank the gaming giants of yesteryear for releasing these magnificent little consoles. It’s given me the ability to … Continue reading
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The Darknet Revisited
The darknet, what wonders exist there? Why checkout retrojunkie.net for your gateway into the lighter side of the darknet! Thanks to a free weekend (or two) I finally got the onion (tor) side of things running at 100% – on … Continue reading
SCSI2SD on Dreamcast HKT-0120 Development Kit
I ended up mounting the SCSI2SD in my recently sold Sega Dreamcast Katana into a 3D printed sled. I’ve just noticed now that there are plenty of caddies that help them fit into the space of a 3.5″ hard … Continue reading
Sony PSP CFW 6.61 on PSP-1000 and PSP-3000
I stumbled onto a PSP-1000 (Phat) and PSP-3000 (Brite) to tinker with. When the owner had last looked at these the Official … Continue reading
Rotation Magic by ExifTool
Recently my iPhone has been doing that thing where it doesn’t realise it is actually in landscape mode and captures my 4K video in portrait mode so everything is sideways. How fun! Thankfully Phil Harvey has created ExifTool that allows … Continue reading
Sega Saturn Power Supply Swap Hints and Tips
Here’s a few of the potential pitfalls to watch out for when swapping power supplies between your Sega Saturns. In this video … Continue reading
Denon DCD-F101 Eject Mechanism Repair
This one sure was a doozy, I lost most of the footage and just ended up with what you see in the above video. At … Continue reading
The Jewel of the Xbox
For the longest time I’ve had this Kasumi Blue Xbox from a fellow game enthusiast from way down Melbourne way. And for the longest time the darned jewel has been crooked. I got around to straightening it up. I ended … Continue reading
27C1024 EPROM Dumping with the MiniPro TL866
Ah yes, the ways of the 16-bit chip. Here we dump a Mega-CD BIOS several times to ensure we aren’t getting any errors. … Continue reading
The Two Sides of Every Unboxing Video Ever
The first side is as vanilla and ordinary as you would imagine an unboxing video to be. The controller in the box is extracted through … Continue reading
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