What dumb little tech repair have you done recently that felt good anyways?

[What dumb little tech repair have you done recently that felt good anyways?]

Replaced my HTC 10's battery. Not as much hard, as it is tedious by all the cables needing unplugged. The big part is getting the screen off without breaking the lcd. I ended up scratching the lcd as the cards I used to cut the adhesive went between the lcd and glass. Also somehow goofed the contact button LEDs. Got the replacement board with those buggers, and I'll be ordering the new screen tomorrow. The battery is holding up, so I can consider that a victory.

[Rarest Stuff You Own?(including Atari)]

Not sure if they are rare, but going by how often I don't see these in the wild, I have;
-3D dot game Heroes(PS3)

-Tecmo's Deception(PS)

-Trapt(Deception series, PS2)
-Shadow Madness(PS)

-Half Life Dreamcast strategy guide.

-Killer Instinct logo promo pin. 

[Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A]

5 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

And then a 6 year old niece or nephew will come by and you'll be like... "Have you ever played Math Fun?" 

Actually... when you see what I'm doing with it... you'll see it's actually very cool.  And can be played by all age/skill levels with the Karma Gaming Engine.  And a GREAT license (sorry Electric Company... you've been replaced) that has info and learning about animals as well. 

 

Great! I picked up the 2 Electric Co. games for my kiddo when she got old enough. Glad to hear that it's getting revamped!

[About a Area 51 game for the intellivision]

You play a guard that has to defend the gate from waves Naruto runners. Have power ups and what not. Maybe a 2P mode where one controls a guard and runners? 

[Happy 40th Intellivision! Pre-interest thread for limited edition custom Stickler sets!]

This is really cool. I need to scrounge up the funds for a set! 

[Loot Crate is bankrupt]

The only Funko that interests me is the Knight Rider one, but I don't feel the need to get it. 😛

[Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A]

Pretty neat!! Think my brother and I will be hitting Nightstalker and SNAFU often. I'm pretty stoked for this more than the next gen consoles! Welp, off to go freeze myself...

 

[Recommend an Android gamepad]

Last controllers I used on my phone were the Dual Shock 3 and 4. Not as convenient as the Moga or similar controllers, but there's probably a 3D print option out there.😛  

[The Raspberry Pi and Retropie discussion thread]

Somewhere on the retropie subreddit there's a thread about a Pi 4 Lakka build running 64 games. Here's one of the threads;
https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/cknyj5/raspberry_pi_4_n64_4player_multiplayer_games_at/ 

[Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A]

2 hours ago, Alpha82 said:

My dream game would be The Last Starfighter actually based off the arcade in the film.

 

I second this! I've fired up the fan game, but never dove into it. @Tommy Tallarico, this would be great to see made. Love a coop, and vs mode, too. Do your magic, mister!

 

[Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A]

I'd go with the classic wood grain model. So, with the new Intelli, will we be seeing a new generation of Activision patches?

[Has anyone able to successfully play any gameboy game on Pokemon Stadium?]

Yeah, you can transfer your Mario Golf character from the GBC to the 64. Originally Perfect Dark was going to use the camera to transfer faces on characters. The Columbine shootings was a reason they removed it. I can't remember if I read it here or elsewhere, but I thought some of the coding for the feature was still in the game.

[Super Mario Bros for the c64]

And it's gone;

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/04/remarkable_commodore_64_port_of_super_mario_bros_attracts_nintendos_watchful_eye

 

At least it was a completed project this time.

[Love the new Claritin commercial.]

Needs a rewrite - I am guessing that it is supposed to be HER childhood system that she is showing to her kid. Been in storage and is old = hence the dust... They could have expressed that better,

I guess you could say, they weren't, Claritin clear?

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[What are you playing on iOS/droid/mobile?]

I went and got Mighty Fighter 2 back on my HTC 10. Have to get it outside of the play store.

[PC Engine Duo issue]

Man, I need to start recapping more caps on mine. I seem to have come down with a severe case of the procrastinations.

[What dumb little tech repair have you done recently that felt good anyways?]

Resoldering my 2600's power jack was a good fix. I also fixed a couple broken wires for a SNES controller.

[What were your initials?]

W X for Weapon X in the mid 90's, that shortened to X later on, then anymore its my initials; SRV.

[How to Effectively Repair a Nintendo 64 Controller?]

Here's a kickstarter for replacement sticks. The last update was about a year ago. I didn't pledge, so I don't know anymore than what that page has.

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1483354489/enkko-repairing-the-n64-controller

[The Raspberry Pi and Retropie discussion thread]

So far, I've scraped my NES, MAME, and Game Gear sets. The next big scrape will be the SNES. Also, if I add a game, will it rescrape that set, or go for the added game?

[The Raspberry Pi and Retropie discussion thread]

For those looking into "scraping" your roms for Retropie/Emulation Station, I started to use Universal XML Scraper V2 the other day. Initial opinion ... awesome!. The program runs on your PC/Lappy and you can directly link to you raspberry pi via the network. Hence, your PC scrapes the game data online, then can send it directly to the pi over your network. So easy. The 3 pic image scrapes look gr8 as well (ie screenshot, boxart, title marquee). Some good tutorials on lubetube.

https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Scraper/releases

I did a fresh 4.4 install this weekend and decided to try UXML. Currently scraping as I type. I had Skyscraper, which did good, but for some reason it wouldn't scrape my NES or MAME sets. Muljord tried to help, but he couldn't recreate my issue.

[Games your parents liked]

Mom and dad rocked Super Mario Bros. back in the day. Dad could pull off the troopa 1-UP trick. He also liked playing Contra, too. When the SNES came along they both played SMW. Dad kept on with it and played Contra AMD F-Zero. Then my brother got them a Wii and created a bowling monster with dad.

[Where is best place for replacement N64 label? (Conker's Bad Fur Day)]

I'd say ask pboland. I whipped up a label for my Super Everdrive China and he printed it. The quality is just as good as the originals. I was going to have him do up a Smash Bros. label, but once I got my ED64, I sold off my loose carts.

[D&D Computer Labyrinth]

So, I took a look at the traces the 3 resistors are on and see they go back to the M34012. One is on pins 4(VDD - Battery) and 9(INIT - resistor to VDD), the resistor that's between the ribbon and the M34012. Then one side of the other 2 are on the same trace/path, which goes to pin 3(R10 - Speaker). Could it be a bum speaker, or something on the chip that's not sending a signal to it?

[PC Build for Emulation]

No worries. Someone on that subreddit also has that kind of monitor and a similar style of case.