Recent content by Diminuendo

Hi all, I’ve got an interesting design challenge I’d like some help with. I’m a high school teacher and I teach video game development. Over the past two years I have slowly acquired 12 Wii consoles whenever they went up on Facebook marketplace place for $20 or less. My intention is to use...

This is incredible. I apologise if this is rude to ask but have you considered releasing your video processor FPGA as a mod for the stock PS2? There is a legitimate hole in the market for a HDMI mod that simply delivers a clean digital signal to upscalers like the Retrotink 4K. Something like...

Currently trying to restore some disassembled GameCube portables I started over a decade ago Specifically hoping someone was able to cleanly remove their memory card slots. All other expansion ports are welcome but not strictly necessary. Hopefully there’s an Australian with these lying around...

Respectfully, you seem to be new to soldering and it shows. I would recommend only using the usb contacts and not those deeper into the board, because it seems like you might have gotten the wrong traces. You also have way too much exposed wire, and I can see the red wire easily shorting with...

Super excited for this, looking a cheap way to hook Wii’s to VGA for a video game literacy unit in the media arts class I teach

Yes, it does. I think Lightning also did an integrated VGA that grabs everything on he board for progressive signal but I’ve been out of the community for a while and am struggling to find it.

Not sure if this helps at all but here is a circuit diagram and BOM

Very cool, how are you outputting video? Component cables, GCvideo? this could be really cool with a retrotink, got any footage?

Unfortunately as I an Australian I am in this exact situation. If I remember correctly you worked on a universal PIF replacement a couple of years ago, how did that go?

I’d love to see the ultraPIF included on a future revision; https://github.com/jago85/UltraPIF_Hardware

Maybe you can try one of these $15 capture cards

This is really interesting. I remember a post from a couple of years back that tried similar things. That was on assembler games, so it’s gone now. Here is a link to another forum which sums up a lot of the info. https://nfggames.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5223.msg35898#msg35898

I recently started a new job in Tokyo and checked out some game shops. Everything is super cheap here. I mean look at what I found: that’s a N64 hori pad, basically a collectors item. Do you know how much that goes for? 3400 yen. So hey, if anyone is looking for anything in particular and...

alternatively you could convert the C-stick into a dpad. https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/analog-to-d-pad-circuit.547/#post-5209

I really want that analog stick box, it’s such a nice design.