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Xbox 360 RROD Repair Attempt Serial 072261382807

Nix McRetro // 9th July 2013 // Categories: Hacks, Microsoft, Repairs

This is my attempt to repair the RROD Xbox 360 from the earlier assessment. It did not work. I hope you, and me, can learn from my mistakes and see if you can repair yours with more success! I thought I’d try something a little different for this video, so... Continue reading

SuperCIC Planning Notes for SNSP-CPU-1CHIP-01 with F413B

Nix McRetro // 8th July 2013 // Categories: Guides, Hacks, Nintendo

SuperCIC Planning Notes for SNSP-CPU-1CHIP-01 with F413B

This will be the article on how to install SuperCIC for switchless region-free gaming. Provided I can find the time. The board I’m working with is an SNSP-CPU-1CHIP-01, featuring the PAL F413B lockout chip at U8. The idea is to install a SuperCIC and hopefully get around some of those... Continue reading

Block Imaging Drives with dd under Mac OS X

Nix McRetro // 8th July 2013 // Categories: Apple, Guides, Raspberry Pi

I’ve found dd extremely useful when dealing with older or otherwise inconvenient disk formats. This was particularly handy for Mac OS Standard / HFS media because OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard treated HFS as read-only. I also used it for Raspberry Pi media containing Linux filesystems that OS X did... Continue reading

Netgear DG834Gv5 ADSL2+ Modem Router Cooling Mod

Nix McRetro // 4th July 2013 // Categories: Hacks, YouTube

Here in the outback it sure can get hot, even in the middle of winter! My DG834Gv5 was running hotter than I liked, so I added some extra cooling. Nothing particularly elegant, just a fan, a resistor and a little bit of plastic surgery. What could possibly go wrong? The... Continue reading

Sega Sophia Target Box PAL Switch Settings and Hardware Notes

Nix McRetro // 2nd July 2013 // Categories: Guides, Repairs, Sega

Sega Sophia Target Box PAL Switch Settings and Hardware Notes

Here are the PAL switch settings and hardware notes I recorded from my Sega Saturn Sophia Programming Box. I originally called these the “factory settings”, but I have not established that they were universal PAL factory defaults. One useful troubleshooting note from the time: if no video appears, it may... Continue reading