I stumbled onto a PSP-1000 (Phat) and PSP-3000 (Brite) to tinker with. When the owner had last looked at these the Official Firmware (OFW) was up to 6.60 and there wasn’t an exploit available to unlock his PSP-3000. The PSP-1000 … Continue reading
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Rotation Magic by ExifTool
Recently my iPhone has been doing that thing where it doesn’t realise it is actually in landscape mode and captures my 4K video in portrait mode so everything is sideways. How fun! Thankfully Phil Harvey has created ExifTool that allows … Continue reading
Sega Saturn Power Supply Swap Hints and Tips
Here’s a few of the potential pitfalls to watch out for when swapping power supplies between your Sega Saturns. In this video we are looking at a “This is COOL” Skeleton Saturn and bumping it from 110V-240V for use in … Continue reading
Denon DCD-F101 Eject Mechanism Repair
This one sure was a doozy, I lost most of the footage and just ended up with what you see in the above video. At least the darned thing works. Not that I personally use CDs or DVDs for that … Continue reading
27C1024 EPROM Dumping with the MiniPro TL866
Ah yes, the ways of the 16-bit chip. Here we dump a Mega-CD BIOS several times to ensure we aren’t getting any errors. It’s also a good idea to reseat the chip in between dumps to make sure you are … Continue reading
The Two Sides of Every Unboxing Video Ever
The first side is as vanilla and ordinary as you would imagine an unboxing video to be. The controller in the box is extracted through the process one would usually expect. You could consider this the safe for work (SFW) … Continue reading
Sega Dreamcast Dev Kit Software Overview
We check the HKT-0120 dev kit and HKT-0400 GD writer using DA-Check v2.32 and then play around with GDWorkshop 2.9.0K running firmware 2.9.1b. The game that we were able to tinker with was WSB2K2 – World Series Baseball 2K2, not … Continue reading
Cybdyn Systems PSIO Unboxing Video (August 2016)
Today we a take a peek at the PSIO and the way it is packaged, what is on the packaging and the packaging … Continue reading
Building a Development PC
Quick, down memory lane! This one was a fun video to put together, slowly piecing an AMD Athlon K7 onto … Continue reading
Nintendo Game Boy Vertical Line Repair
Finally, a repair where nothing caught fire. I was surprised when simply applying a lightly heated soldering iron fixed the problem and appeased the … Continue reading
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