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EarthBound Completed on a Nintendo DS Lite with SNEmulDS

Nix McRetro // 30th November 2013 // Gaming, Nintendo, YouTube

After I nuked my SNES save game, I realised I wanted to back up my save games! Emulation does come in handy once in a while, and I couldn’t be tethered to the TV screen for half a week while I played day in, day out. So I finished EarthBound... Continue reading

Cleaning the Sony PS one Eject Button Mechanism

Nix McRetro // 30th November 2013 // Hacks, Repairs, Sony

Mary Poppins would be proud, shining up the old PS one eject-button mechanism. No idea what Mary Poppins is? Shame on you! (Or maybe your parents!) Dirt and friction can make the plastic mechanism stick, although damaged parts can cause similar symptoms. Clean the moving surfaces carefully and check that... Continue reading

SNES SuperCIC Switchless Modchip - More Testing (Part 3)

Nix McRetro // 28th November 2013 // Hacks, Nintendo, YouTube

They always say you can never have enough testing, so let’s test the homemade SNES cartridge I made a few weeks (or is that up to months now?) ago, combined with the SuperCIC beast. I had to remove the CIC on the cartridge for this experiment. My guess was that... Continue reading

SNES SuperCIC Switchless Modchip - The Test (Part 2)

Nix McRetro // 27th November 2013 // Hacks, Nintendo, YouTube

Part two moves onto testing, and what better to test with than John Madden and some Urban Strike! Look at those pixels fly! Related posts SNES SuperCIC Switchless Modchip - Installation (Part 1) SNES SuperCIC Switchless Modchip - More Testing (Part 3) Continue reading

SNES SuperCIC Switchless Modchip - Installation (Part 1)

Nix McRetro // 27th November 2013 // Hacks, Nintendo, YouTube

Part one of the newly flashed SuperCIC chip, a PIC16F630 running the console-side lock firmware. This video mostly shows the installation and various steps towards actually getting to testing. The earlier written SNSP-CPU-02 article records another installation, but its programming instructions and circuit diagram were left unfinished. Use the original... Continue reading