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Has anyone had any issues trying to reach Brad at Best over the phone? I've tried calling him to place a CC order and he doesn't seem to be picking up during business hours...
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Experienced my first RIFA capacitor failure with my IIGS tonight. God these things reek!
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Finished fixing up the smashed 810 drive I got on eBay last week and it's looking pretty damn good, all things considered. Check out the replies for before and after pics...
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And the after! I was able to reconstruct the smashed corner as best as I could with super glue, and also repaired the hairline crack to prevent the rear top half from coming apart. The case also got a good cleaning beforehand, and then after the repairs were done, I slathered the case with cream peroxide developer and placed it in my UV box for whitening. Less than a day later, the case came out an acceptable shade and I reassembled the drive.
Oh and the best part? Despite all the damage and everything this drive has been through, it still worked perfectly fine! I was able to play several games for a few hours with the drive powered on the entire time and it worked like a champ.
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Got a spare ColecoVision and spare SNES, all cleaned up and working great, anyone interested?
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Like an idiot I went and picked up an Atari 810 last night (with the MPI "garage door" mech). Anything to look out for?
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Modified my breadbin C64 with a VIC-II2 switcher so I can finally experience PAL C64 games and demos on real hardware, though I'm rather disappointed with the video quality on the PAL side of things. Wondering if the PAL VIC-II revision I got (6569r1) has something to do with it.
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I'm in the midst of converting a Fatal Run cart into the NTSC version and for some reason it's not booting. Any ideas?
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Oh, the 32 is a quad OR gate, I use that on my VersaBoard for address decoding.
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Just scored a copy of M.U.L.E. on the C64 for a great price!
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Well well finally got a copy of Dracula X on the PC Engine for a "decent" price
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I discharged a CRT for the first time today, literally one of the most underwhelming things in my life.
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Looking through the various subreddits I'm on, I'm still amazed that people don't know how (or don't care to) search Google for basic questions...
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Hey.
Yeah this is a thing. But don't actually tell people just to 'Google It' as a reply.
Nothing really makes me wanna punch someone after I spent basically two days trying to find an answer to a thing on Google, etc and when I ask get told 'Lol Google It Lazy F**k'. :-/. Either answer it, or move on.
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Spent a good chunk of time yesterday taking pics of most of the stuff I'll be selling. Will be updating my FS thread soon with lots of goodies!
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I'm beginning a purge of my collection, check here if you're interested in anything: https://bit.ly/2zFqVNn
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PSA: If you have a Sega Nomad, get it recapped if you haven't done so. I worked on mine earlier today and found that every single surface mount electrolytic had leaked. Thankfully there was no board damage, but still not fun to clean up.
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I got back my original Sega Saturn today from my brother and I didn't realize how cobbled together VA0 Saturns are. Yellow tape everywhere holding down excessively long wire harnesses and PSU in the top case, yuck.
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Picked up a VA3 Genesis 2 which was sold as "non-working", turns out the power LED was burned out and the system worked perfectly fine. Score!
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Just finished doing a UAV composite mod on a 7800... while having a migraine.
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I did this on my otherwise untouched 1984 7800, and I wound up doing a very simple mod with a standard 3.5" jack, outputting just video and mono audio. It really pained me to drill a hole in this particular console, but it was a very clean job and I made the entire mod as unobtrusive as possible. That's more than I can say for my LHE-modded 7800 which acted as a "guinea pig" system for years.
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It's really something when like half the posts on the Game Boy subreddit are people asking if their games are bootlegs
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Interesting what you can find on Newspapers.com sometimes, I found a May 1986 ad for a store that was actually "celebrating" the release of the 2600 Jr. by putting games on sale for 49 cents!
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Got my first hyper elliptical stylus for my turntable today and I'm amazed that I didn't bother with getting one sooner. Added lots of detail and it's greatly reduced inner groove distortion on some of my more questionably mastered records.
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@Keatah Records were still big in the 90s and and early 2000s (and still are) thanks to the electronic music scene, so much so that it kept the medium alive.
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Just bought a UAV board for modding one of my 7800s, and now I'm torn between which one of my 7800s to install it in. My 1984 system is currently unmodified and waiting for an upcoming RGB mod, then I have my 1990 system which has the terrible LHE mod, and now I have my first 7800 back from my brother, which has the simple AV mod. Hmm...
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Got a Wico joystick for the NES and opened it up to find the rubber grommet had completely dry rotted. Time to find out if the arcade stick grommets fit...
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Don't buy SCART cables from k.antoniuk2012 on eBay! They're unshielded, filled with hot glue on both ends and have poor soldering!