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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

Sega Dreamcast Controller Function Checker Overview

Nix McRetro // 7th September 2018 // Devkit, Sega

This is one interesting piece of hardware. The ROM from the cartridge was dumped a couple of days ago in Dreamcast Arcade Stick Checker Version 2.00 ROM, and indicated that even at version 2.00 it was from August 1998. The 27th November 1998 was the launch date of the Japanese... Continue reading

Dreamcast Arcade Stick Checker Version 2.00 ROM

Nix McRetro // 5th September 2018 // Sega

At long last, the Dreamcast Arcade Stick Checker Version 2.00 ROM is free of the black box it has been living in for the past twenty years. The hunt for 1.00 begins, and the betas? Will the search never end? In other news, I have some 4K videos of the... Continue reading

Sony PVM-9044QM Overview and Minor Repair (Part 3)

Nix McRetro // 3rd March 2018 // Repairs, Sony, YouTube

Always ground your ground! In this case, that meant connecting the video ground properly. That’s the lesson learnt here! Nice and simple. That picture looks amazing. Here’s to the next 20 years of that screen working without any intervention! :P We then have some glitching video of Sonic 1 which... Continue reading