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Retro projects
Hands-on retrogaming, retrocomputing, console restoration, repair, and hardware modification projects.
The Sega Megadrive, whichever revision you look at, has a different cartridge slot’s shape depending on the model japanese or an EUR / US. This was a cheap but not so efficient way of …
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The Sega Game Gear, like all gameboy variants, has received some good aftermarket attentions. It’s quite easy to find replacement parts, including better display, complete shell …
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You may already experienced this problem : you just burned a game and the game boots fine. But as soon as a CD music starts, you just ear trashed sound, like a “KSSSHHHHHHH”. …
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Despite the Megadrive has a quite fast processor for its time, the Motorola 68000, some games like Sonic 2 or Thunder force IV (and many others) suffer from slowdowns. It’s probably …
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As you probably know, the Atari Lynx is the world first color handheld console. Back in 1989, when the console was released, LCD technology was not as mature and not as cheap as today. The …
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The Sega Megadrive for PAL regions, like other consoles from the 90’, suffered from slow games because of 50hz TV, thus 50 fps max versus 60Hz, thus 60 fps max in NTSC regions. Some …
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Some time ago, I wrote about my modded Neo Geo Pocket color with an IPS Display. This mod brings the console’s screen to today’s standards. However, this new display needs a lot …
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The Game Boy Advance is a marvelous console, even today in 2021, games are still fun to play on this handheld. Chance is that the console is still very affordable and replacement parts like …
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Like a lot of (all ?) handheld consoles with a color display that was released in late 90’ / early 2000, the Neo Geo Pocket color’s screen is barely visible if not exposed to a …
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I’m pretty happy with my Backlit+Bivert Game Boy pocket. After several hours playing with it, I was surprised by the battery life. The Game Boy pocket is known to runs out of juice …
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