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Converting XRGB-mini Adapter to EuroSCART

Nix McRetro // 4th April 2013 // Guides, Hacks, YouTube

Just a quick video on the pinout of my XRGB-mini adapter cable. Taste the colours! Aqua, Pink and Blue! The adapter supplied with the XRGB-mini Framemeister uses the Japanese RGB21 pinout, not EuroSCART. The 21-pin connectors are physically the same shape but are wired differently. This video shows repinning the... Continue reading

VHS Sega Saturn Magazine - Exclusive VHS Tape

Nix McRetro // 4th April 2013 // Gaming, Sega, YouTube

Here is a rip of the VHS tape supplied with issue 1 of Official Sega Saturn Magazine, cover-dated November 1995. Includes: Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally Championship 1995, Virtua Cop, X-Men: Children of the Atom, Clockwork Knight 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Alien Trilogy, Defcon 5, Virtua Racing, Hang on GP,... Continue reading

Mean Machines Sega - Mega-CD Preview VHS Tape

Nix McRetro // 4th April 2013 // Gaming, Sega, YouTube

Here is a rip of a VHS tape given away with issue 3 (December 1992) of Mean Machines Sega. Apologies for the stuttering sound at times. I guess VHS tapes just weren’t meant to last this long in perfect condition. The VHS tape box had this on it: Sega Mega-CD... Continue reading

ASUS EeeBox B202 Disassembly and Upgrade Access

Nix McRetro // 2nd April 2013 // IBM PC, Repairs, YouTube

I don’t own this ASUS EeeBox B202 anymore, but this video is still useful if you need to get inside one. The B202 is one of ASUS’s little Atom-era nettops, built around an Intel Atom N270 and the 945GSE / ICH7M chipset. It is very compact, which naturally means getting... Continue reading

Accessing the Sega / IBM TeraDrive Built-in Setup Program

Nix McRetro // 1st April 2013 // Sega

Sure, there isn’t much to the actual setup. Only three options and none of them that exciting… I suppose it is better than a kick in the teeth! Anyway, to sum it all up, choose DOS from the TeraDrive menu and press F1 during the PC-side startup! Above is the... Continue reading