Recent content by MRKane

Frankencasing is a lost art! I love it!!

I should add that it doesn't have to be perfect to be "finished" - hell I broke my screen hours before the competition closed and so I entered a "this was great until 5 minutes ago" video entry! lol

While the flat lady may be getting warmed up she's not on stage and singing yet! Have a sleep, have a think, see if you can fight through the Autodesk BS! I believe in you!

People can read my logs and find out all the ways not to do something because it seems I killed and inordinate number of consoles ;) EDIT: Oh, and fantastic things to do with a Wii U gamepad!

I'll note that I hit a lot of stuff like this, even when buying the same screen (previously known good) from the same manufacturer. What I did as a last-ditch resort was used a s-video to HDMI adapter that magically worked like a charm, and didn't show a noticeable quality difference when I...

I agree totally! Frankencasing is a lost art now and it's very dear to my heart as it's something I spent the better part of a decade doing!

When I last brought one of the 8" Eyoyo screens it advertised has having yPbPr support and turned out that it didn't. I was very dissapointed and ended up using a s-video to VGA adapter just to get the project finished. I did spend ages looking into programming the RTD2660H chip myself, but was...

I've been trying to think of something to add here as I've screwed around with the N64 a lot. There are a couple of troubleshooting steps I could suggest that might help :) To see if the system has booted have a look at chatter on the PIF chip, Pin 2 or 5 (I can't remember sorry, and my notes...

I came here from Modretro and Assembler too. Such a shame to lose all that knowledge when the sites closed down!

Start a new forum post for help. I'm not going to keep helping you if you're just posting on someone elses completed project ;) With the components still on the PS2 board and the router the magnetic decoupling will still correct the signal, allowing you to get an idea of what the wiring should be.

Hey dude, Step one would be starting yourself a thread for this as it'll be a lot better than sitting on top of a finished projects thread :) Step two: read heaps, then test heaps, cry in the shower, read and test some more! So it looks like the router you've got is different from the one I...

The magnetics can be bypassed by putting pullup resistors on the Mango/Router to RX0 instead of 3.3v - this was something I did accidentally at the beginning and spent ages trying to figure out why it wouldn't work later on.

And here I am having given away two Wii U gamepads just recently when I could have stuffed another PS2 inside one! That one I made (and then sold) really was one of my favorite builds, it's just such a comfy case!

Is it possible to salvage something in time for the competition close? I ended up busting an entry of mine in the final hours also and figured what the hell - I'm going to enter this broken mess. It didn't win anything, but it was something.