The Blog

Nintendo 64 Loose Controller Socket

Nix McRetro // 8th February 2020 // Nintendo, Repairs, YouTube

Controller sockets losing their connection, is there anything worse? You’re in the middle of a slam dunk or a race car race and wham! No response and you slam into the backboard or into the wall! Game over man… until now! Today we have a peek at the Nintendo 64... Continue reading

Sony PSP-1000 Button PCB Replacement

Nix McRetro // 3rd February 2020 // Guides, Sony, YouTube

Here we dissect the PSP-1000 to try and work out why my buttons aren’t working. I don’t think I got very far with this one unfortunately, even though it is a massive 39 minutes long. At least I know now! Continue reading

SD2SNES Glitching with Added Scanlines!

Nix McRetro // 1st February 2020 // Nintendo

Here’s EarthBound (1995) on the SNES, at the character select screen. Incredible game that I cannot recommend enough. Earth Defense Force (1991) SNES. This game is amazing with scanlines. But nothing good ever seems to last forever. Above is my glorious SD2SNES working as it should, listing the games on... Continue reading

Xbox Kasumi Blue 24" IDE PATA Cable Routing

Nix McRetro // 1st February 2020 // Guides, Microsoft, YouTube

The Kasumi Xbox of awesomeness! Such an incredible shade of blue, and now full of so many cool upgrades. Released back into the wild a while back, it still lives on in my memory and in this video. Related posts Xbox OG 24” Super IDE PATA Cable Folding and Routing... Continue reading

Glitchy Goodness on the Mega Drive

Nix McRetro // 27th January 2020 // Hacks, Sega

Circuit bending. Don’t you just love the colours? Sega! CONIC TEOM, GAROC ONTC! Blue streak? More like garbled blue smudge! Casino Night Zone? More like… I can’t even! I am pretty sure this was done on a Mega Drive Model 2. However, I don’t seem to have labelled my source... Continue reading