I purchased this game back in 2019. I was totally looking for a homebrew game that would take me back to my childhood in a game created by our fellow sage @Vectrex28 in family picross.
I purchased a steam package from Second Dimension, yes there are nes homebrews on steam!!!!
Today, I got to looking and found this game had come with the pack. The game is Perfect Pair.
So, I clicked play. This little puzzle game is actually a fun time killer. Released in 2016, this littl
Enjoy endlessly falling down the mine shaft! The music will get stuck in your head! The controls are simple and tight, press left or right to go in that direction. You don't even need buttons.
Try not to land on the red ledges, as they will remove one heart. Always try to have some hearts in reserve in case you must land on a red ledge. Losing one heart is better than falling into the bottomless pit of game over.
Don't take too long to decide where to jump, because if you touch th
INTRODUCTION:
This is an NES Homebrew made by Vectrex28 called Brony Blaster. My Little Pony has been canceled and the Bronies are causing a riot. You are called in to stop the madness. Punch your way through the levels and face off against the boss!
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay is that of a fairly standard beat 'em up. You can of course move left, right, up and down, as well as jump, but you can also punch the everloving shit out of people too, in true beat 'em up fashion. You ca
So this was a boardset that I got from 8_bit_guerrilla as he no longer needed it. When he bought it, he got it from a seller saying that it had minor sprite issues. I think the seller lied a bit, because it was a bit more than minor. Essentially, the positions of sprites were all goofed up. On top of that, the original braze kit (an old one mind you) also no longer worked.
The first step I followed was finished converting it back to stock, which was a simple as removing the leftover bodge w
So today i will touch on the more obscure listing for GB carts.
As a junkie for GB i have looked into the addition of the Obscure list to add to my world lists and sets. i have identified a few that will be in the OG catagory and few that fall in the after OG/ and color.
VG is littered with various HB and INDIE companies and where do they fall in to a "Collectors" set. As far as I'm concerned the HB, INDIE, and whatevers belong in the set. Disagree as you may. so with that being sai
This is something a bit different that I did a couple months ago. I'll start off by saying the Wii U Kiosk owner should consider doing this fix to their monitor. It is cheap and easy to do if you have any experience with a soldering iron. The monitor is fairly easy to pull out and dissassemble.
As an overview, there are three boards, a logic board, a power supply, and a backlight board. I theorized that it was just cheap capacitors as I still heard a buzz coming out of the speakers. B
A Homebrew Draws Near!
A blog series by @Scrobins
Episode 3: Anguna: Scourge of the Goblin King
Introduction:
Just about every classic console has experienced new life with the rise of homebrew games to supplement its library. However few homebrewers develop games beyond one preferred console. Those brewers who dare to branch out find new challenges to enhance their skills, and new audiences eager to play with the fruits of their efforts.
For this entry, I’m coverin
On the bench today was a neo-geo sent to me by GameN' Clyde with video RAM issue as shown below.
Symptoms - no boot, Video RAM Error
Solution -two pins on the Neo-GC2 chip were shorted together, fixed as shown below.
I'm really looking forward to playing some neo geo games, I can't wait to finsh building a harness for it and picking up some games.
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The guys sit down to discuss their favorite Amusement Park and County Fair memories from the past 30 years.
That first hill into the small tunnel on the Beast at King’s Island is killerMatt and Luke both had these cheap Beast hats with a built in mulletThe Vortex at King’s Island is about to be removed but the guys have so many memories of riding it.That slide on the right is a doozy!Flight of Fear at K
This was an old repair that I did a while back, there was a lot wrong with it, surprisingly all CPU board issues...
Symptoms: -5V rail was shorting to ground
Solution: The bypass cap connected to the -5V rail had shorted, needed to be replaced. One thing to note is that several capacitors on this bubble bobble boardset had started leaking, so I ended up replacing all the capacitors with new ones.
Symptoms: Not booting
Solution: The game was stuck in a reset loop, it ended up
Symptoms - VERY QUIET audio, was barely audible with my audio amp all the way up
Solution - There was a single burnt resistor, R13, which was just a 1k ohm resistor. After replacing that and the damaged capacitor that was next to it. The resistor is connected to the 5V rail, so based on the fact that it burned up makes me question whether or not the power rails were swapped around on accident. I got half a hacked harness in the box, so that further supports this theory.
Anyway,
My Sega weekend began with my finding of the cartridge for Eliminate Down, which led to my buddy @OptOut telling me that I really should work harder on to finish up my full set of Sega Mega Drive carts, since I've got one of the more expensive ones out of the way.
I then ended up digging in that jungle of a game room I have, and waded through a lot of the other Sega stuff I have, including bootlegs of USA/ Europe exclusives made for the Taiwanense market, some Asian-version games, the stuff
Symptoms: 20EZ losing high voltage and is burning up the resistor R471 and was blowing the 300mA fuse.
Solution: replaced the burnt resistor, checked the HOT to make sure that was still good. HOT tested bad, so replaced with a NTE89. Fired it back up again, same results. Afterwords I swapped the flyback as that can cause the same issues (and I had one off a working chassis on hand), this solved the issue. Chassis is now working just fine and is ready to roll again.
A Homebrew Draws Near!
A blog series by @Scrobins
Episode 2: KUBO 3
Introduction:
Homebrew development can be as stressful as it is fulfilling. Between writing code, designing sprites, and storyboarding, all to produce a game that will appeal to a small, but devoted community, it’s an impressive feat when a homebrew crosses the finish line. Many homebrewers balance their passion projects with primary careers, families, and a host of other responsibilities that demand the
So apparently I do not know how to use the publish time feature because I entered the wrong date. Looks like I still have issues entering data into devices just like I did in this story....I am sure this next story has happened to pretty much everyone at some point in their lives. It is not a long story that needs a big long set up or write up. It is the dreaded classic... The wrong address. And why was it wrong? You may assume I was giving the wrong address but no, I entered it wrong on Google
Back in my prime Kijiji collecting years from 2010-2012, before kids and even before my girlfriend (now wife) lived with me. I really didn’t know how good I had it. Deals were everywhere literally all the time. So having a girlfriend that was very busy with College, I was free to roam around the city, chasing video games with next to no commitments. Oh the glory years! So I often would go after deals regardless of how small or non-epic they were. It was just fun to do. This one in particular was
Game - Donkey Kong
Symptoms - Garbage on screen. It boots to the highscore table, but full of junk. From there it moves to the attract mode but mario falls below where he's supposed to be, game resets, and repeats this process. (Ignore the inverted color in the first picture, I didn't have an inverter board on hand).
Solution - The board was originally missing stuff and had previous work (it was an 'untested' special on ebay). The previous work looked fine so I could start. I fig
So this was one of those mysterious deals that I never got a name or a phone number. Way back when Kijiji was new, you could only contact each other by phone number or email. If the seller never left a phone number, email was the only way to communicate. Some times in the name space, instead of actual name it would be just a letter like "H" or a period "." and that is it. So you had no clue who you were talking to.
One Saturday morning, I replied through email to an ad for a CIB Golden Sun
Greetings and salutations,
I have decided to get more active on this forum like the old days of NA. So I am going to be posting excerpts from a long lost NintendoAge Magazine article that sadly never made it to print. Keep in mind most of these stories were written in the 2010-2012 era, I only wrote them down after telling them to co-workers who found them extremely bizarre and entertaining. I probably could have applied more editing but I am definitely not a writer. So no matter how
A Homebrew Draws Near!
A blog series by @Scrobins
Episode 1: Project Blue
Introduction:
Promoting a new homebrew game must be exhausting, especially if you are maintaining hype and anticipation while continuing development of the game itself. Each tease must generate enough curiosity and excitement to stoke conversation while saving enough detail for the release, which has its own rules to communicate an engaging, persuasive pitch.
As a new game crosses the finish l
So after a nearly year long wait, I finally got my TG16-mini, so I have been digging into some 16-bit goodness from this forgotten console.
Though I would share some of my impressions and playthrus, the good, the bad, the weird.
I did own a Turbo Grafx back in the day, but I only had a couple games like Keith Courage and Darkwing Duck, so needless to say I missed out on much of the good $hit. Some of the titles in this collection I have played elsewhere, but many titles this is my f
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