I finally got around to doing some soldering on a somewhat faulty Mega Drive 2 I had lying about. Now I took the … Continue reading
Category: Hacks
Third Party Dreamcast Shell
I’ve bumped a smoke / sun tainted Dreamcast into a fresh new smokey translucent case. Fits in pretty well with the This is COOL Saturn. I had a Broadband Adapter (BBA) in this particular Dreamcast so I dremelled away at … Continue reading
Generating Custom Darknet Onion Names
Shallot is a great little program for generating your own vanity darknet onion address. I’ve used it for my old http://mcretro35qepy5cy.onion/ address. I figured I’d share how it all works.
So I fired up the old Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit) and … Continue reading
Dumping the Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 Dev Kit SCSI Hard Drive via dd_rescue
At least I think it was dd_rescue, might have been ddrescue at the start. Either way, a successful … Continue reading
Status Update – April 2016
We’ve got a few videos to crank out this month and I think I may be working on too many projects at once. I guess we’ll … Continue reading
Circuit Bending VRAM on a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis 2
Turns out, after looking at the datasheet on console5.com for the Mega Drive / Genesis, there’s two sets of VCC and VSS… that explains the random resets… I’ve updated my past posts so no one fries their VRAM – no … Continue reading
Configuring an XTIDE / XT-CF-Lite for the Sega TeraDrive
This is quite a long video, some things that just didn’t go the right way caused it to drag on and … Continue reading
ROM Hacking Super Mario World (USA) with MIX4AAE
I had a request for some help on getting this working on a flash cart. So I figured sure, why not! 🙂
First up we take the Super Mario World (US) ROM which weighs in at 512kB, making it a … Continue reading
Livestream Test… and Failure
The fun starts in 45 minutes, let’s see if I can work out how to configure … Continue reading
Introducing the GQ-4×4 / GQ-4X v4
Well I’m back on the wagon again, my GQ-4X in hand and a spare Mini Pro TL866CS, K150 and Wellon VP-390. Overkill? Very much so. The GQ-4X has just become so familiar I can’t live without it anymore. Dammit! As … Continue reading
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