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Cybdyn Systems PSIO Unboxing Video (August 2016)

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2018 // Sony, YouTube

Today we take a peek at the PSIO and the way it is packaged, what is on the packaging and the packaging itself. Yes, you got me. It’s a damn unboxing video. But to be fair, it is a PSIO unboxing making it infinitely cooler than just a regular unboxing... Continue reading

Building a Development PC

Nix McRetro // 4th November 2018 // Devkit, Sega, Study

Quick, down memory lane! This one was a fun video to put together, slowly piecing an AMD Athlon K7 onto a brand new, old stock motherboard. All-in-all it went together quite well. This PC went on to be used for testing the Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 dev kit. It worked a... Continue reading

Nintendo Game Boy Vertical Line Repair

Nix McRetro // 19th October 2018 // Nintendo, Repairs, YouTube

Finally, a repair where nothing caught fire. I was surprised when carefully applying controlled heat along the LCD ribbon-cable bond brought the missing columns back and appeased the pixel gods! It worked on this unit, but “wave a soldering iron at it” is not a universal Game Boy display repair... Continue reading

Intel Compute Stick STK1AW32SC

Nix McRetro // 7th October 2018 // Guides, Raspberry Pi, Study

When I revise for university exams I seem to be in a habit of falling asleep rewatching lecture recordings. Heck, I nearly fall asleep during lectures I attend. I’ve found the only way to stay engaged with the material is to speed the lectures up somewhere between 1.2x and 1.5x.... Continue reading

Nintendo Game Boy Tetris Stress Testing

Nix McRetro // 4th October 2018 // News, Nintendo, YouTube

These two Game Boys were just waiting to be played. I wish I had been able to source a link cable to battle myself at Tetris. Unfortunate, but I guess I can just play both Game Boys and compare scores at the end of the battle. That makes sense, right?... Continue reading