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Onions, Great with All Websites!

See that little purple “.onion available” note? Thanks to the work by the Tor Project here they’ve got a way to present clearnet (normal) internet sites to route through tor at the click of a button. Of course this has … Continue reading

Installation of the Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gWT1esQAw

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip – Installation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gWT1esQAw)

The Sega Saturn Phantom Universal modchip uses Kynar wire for great cabling! 26-30 AWG wire on the 5V rail seems to work well. … Continue reading

Xbox 360 E 4GB Hard Drive Hacking

With what feels like 500 years ago now, I had an Xbox 360 to play Burnout Revenge. I picked up a brand new Xbox 360 from my local EBGames… Yeeeep! That’s now long ago it was, the darned thing was … Continue reading

Sony PSP-1000 Button PCB Replacement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uwagtdv6wc

Sony PSP-1000 Button PCB Replacement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uwagtdv6wc)

Here we dissect the PSP-1000 to try and work out why my buttons aren’t working. I don’t think I got very far with this one … Continue reading

Xbox Kasumi Blue 24″ IDE PATA Cable Routing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjcbPIL0CzY

Xbox Kasumi Blue 24″ IDE PATA Cable Routing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjcbPIL0CzY)

The Kasumi Xbox of awesomeness! Such an incredible shade of blue, and now full of so many cool upgrades. Released back into … Continue reading

Glitchy Goodness on the Mega Drive

Circuit bending.

Don’t you just love the colours?

Sega!

CONIC TEOM, GAROC ONTC!

Blue streak? More like garbled blue smudge!

Casino Night Zone? More like… I can’t even!

I am pretty sure this was done on a Mega Drive Model … Continue reading

EarthBound Cartridge (SHVC-1J3M-20) SuperCIC Key

Ahh yes, trusty old EarthBound also known as:

EARTH BOUND NTSC
24Mbit (3MB)
ROM and SRAM
64 kbit (8kB)
FastROM
English

SHVC-1J3M-20
1 indicates number of ROM chips.
J means HiRom
3 means 8kB SRAM
M is MAD-1 chip

After … Continue reading

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Testing & Region Lock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI_V0MdpCL4

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Testing & Region Lock (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI_V0MdpCL4)

The last step in every mod is testing and probably something about region locks if the title of this post is … Continue reading

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Installation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLh8V7IQtBs

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Installation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLh8V7IQtBs)

We’ve reached the most important part of the Phantom Universal installation – the installation itself! So grab a bucket of popcorn and watch in … Continue reading

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Overview & Disassembly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L58APMhOyw

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Overview & Disassembly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L58APMhOyw)

A deeper dive into the installation of the Phantom Universal. Bad_Ad84 sells these over at his new home – http://retrogamerstuff.com since Assembler … Continue reading