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And personally snapped each of our necks

We're not that bad in the discord! If we were, spacepup would have been disappointed in us and gloves would have shut us down by now!

I suppose that brings into question other mediums as well. You can buy a modern eprom programmer such as the TL866 for $40 and burn eproms that you can just throw into a cart and call it a proto. I suppose it depends though, for example, any of the NROM sample carts like those cluclu land samples IMO are subject. They use a retail board (as nintendo didn't change the pinout of their mask roms for them) and use eproms with sometimes handwritten labels. Anyone can just source chips with date codes from that era. It makes the whole proto-world something to be very skeptical about it. Personally, I don't trust anything not on dev hardware.

In response to the OP, what do you want? Everyone here is a volunteer for the most part, nobody is really making money off this site. I feel like it is just something that the people running the show like gloves do in their free time. Everyone has their own life outside of here. To me, this site is about BSing and learning more about the hobby I've grown to love. What we got is a forum. So I guess if you aren't happy, step up to the plate. The folks here love doers, not complainers. Personally, I have been very happy with it so far, and the fact that things are still being added is just icing on the cake. I guess I don't understand what other forums and communities like reddit have to offer comparatively speaking other than what the communities make of it. That said, like what spacepup said, let's all just remain constructive and maybe even help out...

Yeah, I actually just started playing it too, it's been fun so far.

3.3V chip with no buffer? It's weird seeing a linear regulator inside a cart like that.

I love the famicom disk system, there are a lot of neat games for them. Also, those are really neat sleeves, I'll have to find my cut out replacement for the wax sleeves that you can tape together and post in here.

My Life in Gaming - Lots of incredibly useful information about how to get the best picture quality out of your stuff. They do a lot of good work and I really enjoy their insight into things. GamingHistorian - Norm's documentaries are top notch and are very interesting. He does a really good job of presenting the full picture in a way that is not only easy to follow, but is also very appealing to learn about. For example, his video on the history of tetris was a very detailed one that explored what was happening from all sides at the time. ArcadeJason - he does a lot of arcade repair and does a lot of vector monitor stuff. He has a lot of useful information and is able to get the point across in his videos. He also goes into depth of how some of these circuits works. Not so much a gaming channel, but is kind of related. 8-bit guy - he does mostly computer stuff, but does explore on how things work in regards to the computers. He has lots of useful information in regards to the retrobrighting process, so that is also pretty useful. RetroRGB - Bob is a really interesting guy who reports on the newest stuff in the world of video. He also has lots of videos on how to get good picture out of your consoles and even some good interviews with people in the community. Cinemassacre - can't go wrong with some AVGN. His james and mike mondays and other film related stuff also tend to be high quality. I don't really have much to say about this... Lazy Game Reviews - another good computer gaming channel that goes in to depth on various thing computer related. Very fun channel with quality content OneyPlays - Oney Plays is probably my favorite "lets play" channel. They are funny and go on crazy tangents. If you want a good laugh, I recommend them.

Yeah no thanks, quality over quantity.

When I first read this, I though of actual bugs inside carts and consoles. My immediate thought on that is to throw it into a plastic bag and take it outside lol. But in regards to programming errors and whatnot, I feel like they add a charm if they are minor and non-gamebreaking. I think it is kind of difficult to seek out games that are bug free, no matter what there is always some sort of imperfection and that's just part of the game. So it's just best to sit down and have a good time with it. However, there is something to be said about games that are filled with silly and obvious bugs, that's just lazy programming/bad QA.

I don't know who this Scott fellow is, but he seems like a pretty cool fellow. Thanks for helping our friend, Scott from Paypal.

Maybe I should go back to Florida to go see this. Although, I don't really know what else I would do, I would rather not go to disney...

Nice pickup, those ms. pacmans are really rough in regards to monitor burn, I suppose it's just part of the charm. I would still rather have a monitor burnt real bad than an LCD in those things though. Sucks about the water damage though, thats a tough fix. However, it looks like it cleaned up nice.

Does it actually look like a component was placed? A lot of times manufactures leave unpopulated areas on the board. These changes with board revisions or regional differences, I'm no expert on the gameboy player though, I don't have access to mine at the moment, otherwise I would take a pic for ya.

That was a silly video, but whatever, just more internet drama I suppose.

I wonder how much it really is. I would like to assume that they re-use code, and if you have multiple people coding a game, I feel like it could be reasonably possible. It would still be a time crunch and quality would suffer however...

This is really neat, the four to six weeks turnaround mentioned at the beginning was kind of funny to me. But I suppose for simple games, it doesn't take that much...

Already done in your other thread?

I don't ever plan getting rid of my CRTs, I love them too much. Although I do plan on doing the HDMI mods to some of my consoles, the problem is that for some things I just prefer the look on a CRT. On top of that, the cost of entry is way too high for me right now for HDMI mods. The one I really wanna do is the dualGC to get that RGB goodness and HDMI, but thats about $125 just for the kit, then I gotta perform the mod. However, with TVs getting objectively better and mods getting out of this world, I see a future where CRTs become much more niche than what they already are, primarily used in arcade cabinets and for light gun games. But who knows, the future is full of surprises and there are a lot of great people in the community doing excellent work to help modernize some of these consoles.

For really stubborn contacts, I use TarnX. It is a fantastic cleaning solution, although I advise that you do not get it on your skin and I also advise following up with rubbing alcohol. I use it for standard gold plating to even HASL plated arcade board contacts and it works just fine. I've also heard of people using Deoxit. I have never tried it myself...

Now I wish those would go on sale, I could actually use some solid SNES controllers for switch.

They started the sale a month ago and announced it on twitter then (I bought mine on December the 6th). That said, sucks that you missed out, I ended up with a pair and they are ok.

One of my favorite things that I have is a signed photo of Charles Martinet (the voice of mario and plenty others). My buddy is stationed in Japan and went to a show over there that Charles was at and he got the autograph for me for my birthday. It's one of the coolest things anyone has ever gotten me and I couldn't get rid of it for anything...

Hi everyone, I've dabbled with repairing game boards and have had moderate success. I was wondering what kind of equipment I should be using to diagnose issues? I have two oscilloscopes (both an analog and digital one), a logic probe, a bench variable power supply, a reliable fixed 5, 12, and -5V supply, good soldering equipment, monitor discharge tools (both a hv probe and screwdriver with ground), a good eprom burner, and a test pattern generator. I guess what I'm looking for is recommendations for other useful tools that I already don't have. For example, does anyone have a recommendation for a good 74/4000 series chip tester?

I'd love to get one of these small monitors with RGB inputs for a test bench. Cool pickup gloves!