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Slinky the Fish

Nix McRetro // 26th November 2019 // News, YouTube

I could watch this little guy zoom around for hours on end. Slinky loves it when the bubbles are powered up! Go Slinky go! Slinky is a Senegal Bichir (Polypterus senegalus). Powered by lungs and gills, Slinky does all the things that make the other fish look lazy! Continue reading

What's Inside a GameCube Controller?

Nix McRetro // 25th November 2019 // Nintendo, YouTube

Incredible! I had always wondered how Nintendo got away with such a compact controller compared with the likes of Microsoft and their giant rumbling controller. Who would have thought they used both contact pads and cables! (Why didn’t I just delete this footage?) Continue reading

Circuit Bending on the Mega Drive

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Hacks, Sega, YouTube

Here’s a whole bunch of circuit bending footage I found from what feels like a different life - Way back in August 2016. Sonic 3 appears to have some safeguards in place to prevent glitching and errors, where Sonic 1 just goes with the flow slapping a glitch here and... Continue reading

Xbox DVT4 XBpartitioner and Game Demos

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Devkit, Microsoft, YouTube

And this video concludes the five or six parter on the Xbox DVT4 Development Console. What a ride it has been. Regarding data on the old hard drive… the original hard drive was imaged thanks to fatxfs under Ubuntu. Interestingly while the recovery software for the Xbox “xdk 5849 (Xbox... Continue reading

Xbox DVT4 Booting Signed Code

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Devkit, Microsoft, YouTube

Sometimes I leave the raw footage for these videos sitting on my computer way too long. This recent series of Xbox DVT4 videos date back to early this year. I’ve got to be honest, I can’t remember what half of them are about. A great example is this video right... Continue reading