Throw out your isopropyl! Pencil erasers are here! A quick video on cleaning game carts. Blowing on your cart just makes … Continue reading
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Super Nintendo / SNES Cartridge Battery Holder Installation
Zip, zap and away! Just solder in a holder and… well mine didn’t have enough clearance, but maybe yours does! Good to … Continue reading
Basic Testing of a 7806 Voltage Regulator
Here’s just a quick test on some 7806 voltage regulators. The 78XX series is used on both Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive … Continue reading
Disabling F413B – Installing SuperCIC onto an SNSP-CPU-1CHIP-01 Board
This will be the article on how to install SuperCIC for switchless region free gaming. Provided I can find the time.
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Block Copying Under Mac OS X
I’ve found that using dd is quite useful for older software. This has been especially important for copying Mac OS Standard disks since 10.6+ do not support read/write. One thing to note is that using “rdisk” instead of “disk” allows … Continue reading
Sega Sophia Target Box – Factory Settings for PAL
Here’s some notes from my work on the Sega / Cross Systems Sophia. Please note that if no video is showing it might be worth switching the NTSC / PAL switch to NTSC (OFF) as there were some issues from … Continue reading
Apple MacBook Pro Heat Gun Repair (Mid 2007 / Early 2008)
Here we have a video of me bringing a 17″ MacBook Pro back to life. While not a permanent … Continue reading
XBOX (Original) PSU Solder Cracking Reflow Repair
The power supply was arcing like crazy when power was connected. A little bit of a resolder/reflow with some fresh solder and it … Continue reading
XBOX (Original) TSOP Flash Overview
Here’s what I soldered to flash the BIOS on my revision 1.2 or 1.3 original XBOX. We have a Winbond BIOS on this. Soldering the … Continue reading
XBOX (Original) Softmod Recovery
This guide is by no means complete but might have some hints if you are stuck like I was. Soooo errr the … Continue reading
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