7800fan
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Just got mine today. It came at a bad time though. No my Lynx didn't catch on fire or something. It's the start of maple syrup season. So I would be quite busy in the woods most of the time for the week or 2 and I would be too tired by the time I get back in the house to do anything that requires concentration like soldering in new LCD.
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Even with massive bankswitching to handle monster sized memory, is it even practical to have really huge game? How long would it take to flip one "page" via bankswitching to reach data that's about 2Mb away from the start? A few second of blank video? From what I understand of 2600 bankswitching, it advances only, doesn't go backward so if you needed some new data from 2 or 3 pages backward, you'd need to flip through almost entire 4MB to reach the desired page. Keeping track of which page while retaining game variable would quickly run through the tiny 128 byte RAM (yes, bytes, not Kb or anything) so added RAM would be required just to keep track of page #
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I don't like 9v bats, I will keep looking.
I got an old universal AC adapter from 80's that has 4 tips and 9v plug. From when many of the early LED handhelds used 9v battery. That works for the meter I have, never have a run down battery. It's dang near impossible to find an universal AC adapter today with 9v plug.
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Populous is the only Hucard with built in save battery. But some Hucard can use save feature of Turbobooster Plus or Turbo CD system. I can't find the list at all and Google-fu is failing for me. Is there a list somewhere at all? Just the Hucard list that supports save banks.
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500k is .5 M.
K for kilo, M for mega. Mega = 1000 kilo.
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Sill got the pinout? I got quite a lot of spare NES controllers, assuming they have same data protocol as Famiclones
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The mini 7800 model is not 2600/7800 compatible, it is a bit different due to extra buttons on the controller. Is there a pinout info?
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So the 2600 cart Ram It will fit and work for sure?
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I got something similar, very similar to this one: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 151608720074
and works good for me. Stick an object in 2 or 3 of the holes and push button. It tested for capacitor rating and its ESR, resistors, transistors, and inductors.
Most of them go for under $15 for bare board model with common 2x16 character display. I haven't seen one with graphic display as shown above
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But in the US you also have customs in between that takes time.
9 out of 10 times it only takes a few days in customs. If the item is not illegal, not marked high value (I think $10,000 and up), and is not from or to suspected source/destination of illegal activities like drug dealer and nothing unusual shows up in quick X-ray, they go through.
One good thing about USA customs, I have never been hit with tax. I figure I imported over $25,000 worth of goods from eBay and other direct forum member to member sales and not once needed to pay any extra,
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Why stop at the tiny speakers?
If you were to take the difference between stock LCD and the improved LCD, and apply them to sound system, you would probably need this sound system:
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Boston? Why couldn't you offer this back in the first week of October? I was through Boston (and few nearby cities) on the way to Cape Cod. At present I don't have any reason to drive out of Michigan and it won't be cheap just driving to pick it up. (gas, food, motel if needed, Canada custom if they stop me even if I am only short-cutting through Canada to reach Micigan)
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Sign me up for a physical cart as well. Just the cart is fine if you're planning on a deluxe set with nice box and manual.
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Plenty of power supplies for external hard drives if you don't mind hacking. I searched for USA sellers, plenty of them under $12. If you include HK/Chinese/Taiwan sellers they can be bought for under $5 but with very long and often unreliable shipping.
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If you're in USA, try putting DHL tracking code in USPS and see what it says.
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Another classic case of not RTFM first?
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You can't reliably measure resistor in circuit. You would need to desolder or clip one leg and life it out to break any connection before you can measure it.
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#FirstWorldProblem complaining that certain game doesn't look right on 98% of the new LCD when the rest of the world never had the luxury of a portable game system of any kind.
Mine's in NYC waiting to get through constipated custom.
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Double box it. Even if it's well packed, get another, bigger box, stuff it full of good padding material (newspapers are for fire starting, not for padding) and UPS would need to intentionally run over the box to damage anything inside.
As for one lot vs breaking it up, it comes down to: do you want to sell it fast and easy or get the most money? For fast and easy, one lot usually works. For more money, break it up and take your time describing everything. More work as you'd need to pack individually and keep track of who gets what.
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Some modern TV also don't like ancient 240p signal and mine gives me half a screen of picture and half black lines like giant comb. VCR "cleans" the signal to be more 480i and seems to work properly.
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Got white lithium grease, cleaned the old parts, applied the grease, put it back together, spend the next 30 minutes cursing whoever thought of using a tiny locking washer to hold the middle gear in (about the size of pin head).
Tested it with a CD game, it worked fine. Still I'll sooner pay someone than to take my CD apart again, it was a major pain in the butt to get all of the 100 or so tiny pieces in the right place without losing one piece or ending up with a leftover.
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looks brown-black-brown to me as well, 100 ohms. gold for tolerance, I believe 5% so the resistor should be between 95 and 105 ohms.
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If you checked the power supply when it's not connected to 7800 or with 7800 on, your reading may end up high. Power supply brick with no load tended to read much higher. When it's connected to a load (a 7800 that is turned on for example), it should be closer to 9v.
Your power supply's fine.
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But if it's going to get connected to a 50" LCD TV, you could really see the difference in S-Video and RGB.
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SMS controller thumbstick?
in Classic Console Discussion
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I got my first SMS, a 3D bundle with the light gun, 3D glasses, and Missile Defense 3D. The controllers had a cover hiding the screw hole but I never saw any screw in thumbstick. I didn't even know it was an option back then until I noticed much later on the internet that there were a few variations of SMS controllers, early one with plug cover, later one with fake bump, and much later that was all flat.