PC-Engine DUO : RGB mod and jailbars fix
The video output of the original PC Engine DUO is composite only. Fortunately, the quality of its output is really good comparing to other consoles from the late 80’ / begining of …
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Repairing and Extending PC Engine Duo Backup-Memory Life
The PC-Engine DUO line of consoles has an internal memory to store game’s saves. But this memory is not like an SDCard as it needs to be powered in order to retain the data. Unless …
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Atari Lynx 2 : replacing the speaker
One of the most common problem with the Atari Lynx 2 is bad sound output. It can becomes very low and / or kind of saturated. Usualy, the source of the problem is the speaker. The …
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PSP 3000 : changing an old and yellowish screen
From all PSP models, the 3000 serie is my favourite (I don’t like the sliding mecanism of the PSP GO). It has all 2000 serie’s advantages (thin, bigger battery, 64Mb of ram, …
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PSP : hacking any model to play ISO images
The PSP is a very nice portable console, but its UMD drive is quite fragile and tends to miss read games. This may leads to (very) slow loading or even not loading games at all. Fortunately, …
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Modded Game Boy Pocket : IPS + backlit buttons + Lipo
The Game Boy Pocket is my favourite model. I already modded one with backlight and bivert. This considerably enhance the display and the gaming experience. However it is still a passive dot …
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Replacing All Capacitors in a PC Engine Duo
In the PC-Engine consoles line, the DUO is my favourite. It plays Hucards, all CD-Rom games (excepted Aracade ones) and has still a nice dark gray look despite its age. I know that the DUO-R …
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Sega Game Gear with Retrosix LCD : What is the battery life ?
Some time ago, I wrote about my pimped Game Gear with a brand new shell and an new LCD display from Retrosix. We all know that the orginal Game Gear has a very bad battery life of about 3 …
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MegaCD 2 : region free bios install
The Mega CD (1 or 2) is region locked. Unlike the Megadrive, the region check is not done in hardware, but directly in the BIOS. It means that all MegaCD are (almost) identifcals but a …
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Game Boy Color : IPS display and new shell
The Game Boy Color is a pretty good portable console with some funny games (e.g. Wario land 3, Motoross maniac 2). Unlike others handhelds, the screen has not a big ghosting effect like the …
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