One of the best parts about having retro gear pass through your hands is the ability to perform preventative maintenance on hardware. What’s the easiest preventative maintenance that can be carried out? Lovely little through-hole capacitors. Here’s the list for … Continue reading
Category: Guides
PSIO Multi-Disc Formatting (MULTIDISC.LST)
Carriage returns (CR) and line feeds (LF). CR LF, or CRLF. You’ll want to make sure you get the formatting right or PSIO will get angry at you by wrapping all the discs onto one line – a recipe for … Continue reading
Replacing 27C040 with 29F040B
I found some images of DIP pinouts in my “Desktop” desktop folder. Why does one need a desktop folder on their desktop? It’s like a dumping ground for things that sit on my desktop too long but I can’t bring … Continue reading
Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip – Testing, Testing!
What a week it has been! There’s always more video of the Phantom Universal from Bad_Ad84! Here we have a look at … Continue reading
Xbox OG 24″ Super IDE PATA Cable Folding and Routing
These things are supposed to be limited to 18-inches, while I had no issues in my testing at 24-inch, your … Continue reading
Microsoft Xbox OG Kasumi Blue TSOP Preparation
Oh my lovely Kasumi Blue, we have long since parted ways but fond memories still remain to this day. In … Continue reading
Sega Mega-CD Region-free BIOS Burn in the GQ-4×4
Today we have a very quick video from the archives that gives a vague idea of how to flash your newly patched … Continue reading
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
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