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PICO Fuses by Littelfuse

Nix McRetro // 15th August 2016 // Repairs

There I was sitting at my workbench replacing a fuse in a Super Famicom when I noticed the original part was marked 1.5 A, 125 V. My first thought was: “125 V? But this is Australia! We have 250 V fuses here!” That was the wrong reason. A fuse’s voltage... Continue reading

Capacitor Order Day

Nix McRetro // 14th August 2016 // Nintendo, Repairs, Sega

Capacitors, there’s nothing more fun than replacing capacitors. As a result I’m on the hunt for the following capacitors from my local friendly Element14 / Farnell. TeraDrive power supply is on the list as are four Super Nintendo / Super Famicoms. SNES values are thanks to Console5. Turns out I... Continue reading

Circuit Bending - Sonic the Hedgehog

Nix McRetro // 12th August 2016 // Guides, Hacks, Sega

I finally got around to doing some soldering on a somewhat faulty Mega Drive 2 I had lying about. I started from the old gieskes.nl circuit-bending diagram, but after checking the VRAM pinout properly I deliberately stayed away from the VCC and VSS power pins. On the VRAM I concentrated... Continue reading

Trout is Salmon, Salmon is Life

Nix McRetro // 11th August 2016 // News

I know a lot of you enjoy reading this blog and I can’t help but blog utter rubbish. Today the topic is salmon, or rather trout and the similarities it shares with salmon. There’s been a lot of misinformation going around and I’d like to help stir that pot of... Continue reading

Who Wore It Better - Stargate or Dead Like Me?

Nix McRetro // 11th August 2016 // News

Who Wore It Better - Stargate or Dead Like Me?

Well I’ll be. Stargate SG-1 reused Dead Like Me’s Der Waffle Haus set for “Threads” (S08E18). Not entirely sure why Daniel isn’t eating his waffles though. The Dead Like Me cast ate there for two whole seasons and he can’t even do it for one episode? This is clearly pure... Continue reading