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SD2SNES Dying with Added Scanlines!

Nix McRetro // 1st February 2020 // Nintendo

EarthBound (1995) SNES. Incredible game that I cannot recommend enough. Lifted from Wikipedia: EarthBound takes place in the 1990s, several years after the events of Mother, in the fictional country of Eagleland, a parody of the United States. The player starts as a young boy named Ness as he investigates... 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. Continue reading

Glitchy Goodness on the Mega Drive

Nix McRetro // 27th January 2020 // Guides, 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

Live Streaming in 2020

Nix McRetro // 26th January 2020 // YouTube

I knew I’d eventually get around to setting up some sort of gaming live stream! Too bad OBS on the Mac doesn’t run terribly well and tends to crash when in the background. Yet when booted to Windows 10, it’s perfect! As a result I’m on the hunt for a... Continue reading

Super Nintendo (SNES) Electrolytic SMD Capacitor Replacement

Nix McRetro // 25th January 2020 // Nintendo, Repairs, YouTube

Not too far around the corner is always another Super Nintendo. In this video we recap the Electrolytic SMD capacitors since they are at that ripe age of olden times. Continue reading