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Capture Tests from Composite and Mac

Nix McRetro // 14th December 2019 // Gaming, Nintendo, Sega

Mario Tennis (N64) (2000) Super Strike Eagle (SNES) (1993) Super Turrican (SNES) (1993) This is how we do it! Game on! These were mostly captured with my old composite to USB H264 encoder. Unfortunately it no longer worth with the 10.15 Catalina operating system from Apple. I guess I will... Continue reading

Sega TeraDrive Model 3 WDL-330P Hard Drive Recapping

Nix McRetro // 14th December 2019 // IBM PC, Sega, YouTube

With the two spare hard drives recapped, we move onto the main course. The drive is removed and recapped. After this we have just the floppy drives to recap - which prove to be a much more error-filled adventure. Tear a cable here, tear a cable there. That’s my motto!... Continue reading

Sega TeraDrive Spare Drive WDL-330P #2 Recapping

Nix McRetro // 13th December 2019 // IBM PC, Sega, YouTube

With the first spare drive fixed up, good as new, we move along to the second spare drive. I can’t remember if I bought these as a combo deal or not. Either way I ended up with three separate drives which are all TeraDrive compatible! Lucky! Continue reading

Sega TeraDrive Spare Drive WDL-330P #1 Recapping

Nix McRetro // 12th December 2019 // IBM PC, Sega, YouTube

The recapping to end all recapping begins. In this video the first of three WDL-330Ps gets the capacitors swapped back to surface mount - the way it should have been in the first place! Continue reading

Current State of the WDL-330P 30MB Hard Drives

Nix McRetro // 11th December 2019 // IBM PC, Sega, YouTube

A video review of the horrors I had previously done to these innocent WDL-330P hard drives. Don’t worry, we’ll fix then and their counterpart floppy drives in the next set of videos. This series will take us right through until the coming weekend. So please, pull up a seat and... Continue reading