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Post by Kazin on Oct 5, 2022 14:57:03 GMT -5
Ex I had Tiger LCD handheld games as a kid, too, and let me tell you the Nintendo ones are leaps and bounds better than those pieces of garbage. You can tell Nintendo took care to design good games, nevermind the nice style of the G&W units. The only exception is Game & Watch Pinball - that game is terrible, even if it's a lovely looking unit. I've also never found Octopus all that fun but I think that's just personal preference, really.
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Post by Kazin on Oct 8, 2022 22:59:30 GMT -5
Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but retrobrighting works: I just use hydrogen peroxide and a UV light and just leave it overnight, none of that gel stuff or whatever that always looks like it demolishes plastic to me. Anyway, this one was hard to photograph - easiest place to see the difference is in the stickers just above the power and reset switches before and after the brightening, as the color now matches afterwards. Hooray!
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Post by Sarge on Oct 8, 2022 23:30:17 GMT -5
Looks very nice indeed! I've got a few spare NES frontloaders that look super yellowed that I should do this to eventually.
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 8, 2022 23:47:46 GMT -5
Kazin: That is pretty rad. What you did sounds like the Odd Tinkering method, those videos can be weirdly addicting haha...
I have a modded Saturn and Dreamcast that could definitely use this treatment.
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Post by Kazin on Oct 9, 2022 8:10:42 GMT -5
Xeogred He has a more elaborate setup than me - I literally just plop this 50w floodlight on top of a tinfoil covered plastic tub, fill it with hydrogen peroxide, and leave it overnight. I don't have LED strips or heating or anything like that, all of which probably speeds up the process considerably, but I'm fine with it taking a while, so it's no big deal. This was much faster than the clear N64 controller backs I retrobrighted the first time I attempted this process, probably because I only had to do the one side and I had a much, much easier time keeping the Famicom underwater (N64 controllers, you will be unsurprised to hear, are very oddly shaped so taping stuff to them to keep them weighted down is difficult, especially since I was trying to brighten the inside and outside of them since they were clear lol). That guy's videos are great, though, I've watched a ton of them, and they along with a few video game focused youtubers are what gave me the confidence to finally try this (and a fellow hobbyist having done it successfully on another forum), and I'm glad I did, because there's just something about that sickly yellow plastic that I just can't stand, you know? Just looks dirty or something.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 17, 2022 23:26:18 GMT -5
What the fluff? I thought my 3DO's audio was kaput, but I just hooked it up on a whim and it's working great! Weeeeeeird. Wonder if it was an issue with the TV it was hooked up to, audio cable, or it really is still caps? Anyway, there might be some 3DO gaming in my future, haha.
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Post by Kazin on Oct 21, 2022 14:08:58 GMT -5
Fun - if weird - fact: if you get the battery polarity wrong, Pokemon Gold will not boot at all on a Gameboy Light (it won't even display the Nintendo logo or anything, just a blank screen), but WILL boot up on a GBA SP! The batteries I was using was a new package and I didn't notice the positive lead was on the bottom now. Easy fix, everything works fine, just thought it was interesting that it booted on one system and not the other. I should've tested other Gameboy models.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 21, 2022 17:16:35 GMT -5
Very interesting indeed. Wonder if they included some protection circuitry in the even it got swapped? I'd almost bet that OG hardware won't boot, either.
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Post by Kazin on Oct 24, 2022 19:52:11 GMT -5
Absolutely thrilled to point out that if you install this Sega Genesis s-video mod, there are potentiometers on the board that can be adjusted to fix the image. Mine was SUPER, SUPER dark when I first installed it, and I worried I screwed up the install or had a bad Genesis or something. Nope! Just needed an adjustment, and now my Genesis output is sharp as hell. Credit to this post on reddit. Glad I went searching for it. Was really bummed my system looked crappy, but now it doesn't!
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Post by Sarge on Oct 24, 2022 20:04:33 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I forgot about that! I think I actually ordered one but just haven't gotten around to installing it. It'd probably be a lot easier than the SCART-to-component converter thing I've got going, but at least I got that fixed not too long ago in regards to the colors. There was a pretty marked green tint to the proceedings.
EDIT: Yep, it's in the drawer, haha. Man, I've really let some of these little projects stack up. And yes, I bet things look a ton better! Genesis composite is just awful.
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