So after moving house, my PVM developed an issue where it would intermittently show the red in the picture. It took a while to figure it out as I thought it was just a loose connection but it seemed to be something internal. The symptoms and fix After I realised it...
Everyone knows how annoying it is to charge PS3 controllers, you have to have them plugged into a PC or the PS3 itself powered on, well I attempted to work around that. The solution A while ago, I came across this Github project thats aimed to solve this issue by...
Somehow I ended up with a bunch of faulty Dualsense controllers and then a few mates wanted theirs fixed as well, so I ordered up a bunch of them to do them all at once. Removing and reinstalling Tearing down the controllers was pretty easy, although I did realise...
I have always wanted to build a very high end Batocera emulation rig that can run everything from an Atari 2600/C64 all the way to up a Playstation 3. This is what I came up with. Case and main parts The whole build is based around the NR200P, a nice SFF ITX case that...
After realising that the Core 2 Quad Xeon rig I built a few years earlier was totally bottlenecking the GTX Titan in my Dual Booted Windows XP / Windows 10 Gaming Rig / workshop PC I started doing some digging and found out that one of the last platforms to support...
I had been having issues with my childhood PS1's for a while, one of them had a bad laser and the other started displaying grey scale only and the CD drive making awful noises. Figured I would finally address it. Motherboard issues Only one of the units had issues, it...
After a bad power surge both my original crystal xbox and the component switcher died a horrible death. This started with the dreaded flashing orange light. The Symptoms Orange flashing lights and bad capacitors were the start of this project. It took a while to...
This is round 2 for the SNES. It has had a re-cap in the past but some of the leaky cap juice was missed and continued to corrode away traces. This was found out while trying to get a SNES scart cable working. Fixing capacitor leakage First step was neutralising the...
All this started from watching the Macho Nacho video about making a Gameboy Macro using a faulty Nintendo DS or DS XL. Doing the mod As referenced in the youtube video I just followed the guide here on gameboymacro.com. All you need is a couple of 330 ohm resistors...
After a powercut / surge this Joytech component switcher decided to died along the the OG Xbox that was plugged into it. Stripdown of the unit Stripping down the unit was fairly straight forward. Everything looked fine and there was no immediate problem...