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Small update: after a lot more frowning at the sheets I simply concluded that "test points for everything" was the way to go about solving this problem, and designed a little prototype board based around two PIF chips, and to muxers. I liked the idea that Otakus had of using IDC connectors for...

So the boards I designed with JLC arrived a couple of days ago and I've been sitting on them while waiting for the PS2 SX4MISO unit and the LEDS. As fate would have it both of these arrived today so I opted to try and do some assembly and see if the power system could at least be kicked over -...

Right, after prolonged interest from people here in NZ it'd appear that I'm doing this - I've also got a grudge to settle! I'm thinking of a simple 2 PIF setup as demonstrated here: https://www.retrovideogames.de/mods-adaptors/nintendo/n64-multinorm-single-switch-mod-overclocking/ This has a...

Hey guys, so it's been about six years and thanks to friends talking with me I'm kicking the hood off of this one again: what's the state of multi-region mods for the Nintendo 64? I'm aware of the UltraPIF, but it's cheaper to buy another N64 and use a donor PIF (so I'd just do that). I'm...

Liked it for the project, LOVED it for Morty!

So the delay in this work thread has been me waiting for parts to arrive - they showed up three days ago so I was finally able to start getting everything set and measured. It's worth saying that over the course of this mod I spent way too much time under the hood of my 3DS, and there's no room...

So a quick touching of base - no treble. Around the 3DS overhaul and trying to perfect my prior PS2 portable I've had a little time to look into getting this project working. The BlueRetro adapter has been nothing short of amazing*, and naturally the controller I purchased for the Switch didn't...

So about a month ago I decided to purchase a 3DS as I had loved the standard DS. Thing is there were a couple of shortcomings with the unit that I dearly needed to fix, and we need way more new 3DS XL love out here on the internet! So, about my most pressing issue: Holding this thing is...

So after a few days of trying to assemble a lot of that junk, reading heaps of different things, coming to terms with the fact that New Zealand seems to be an unreachable wonderland in the eyes of the US postal service, I've finally actually got a plan. It's not pretty. Not pretty at all, but...

Oh nice! We're going to be walking similar paths this year I think, except I suspect that mine will be significantly stripped down and lacking features in comparison with yours! I will note that the wiring for the capacitive coupling doesn't quite look correct as you don't have a line from R5 to...

Just your idea alone might have been enough to get my vote this year! This is a really exciting project!

Ok, so it's not secret that I'm wrapping up electronics as a hobby so that I can move onto other things, but over the last decade or so I've accrued a collection of essentially worthless bits and pieces. This is something to light a fire under my ass so that I'll either make something with them...

Sorry dude, with the exception of something exceptional I've put down the soldering iron thanks to developing multiple sclerosis (for what it's worth I've also got arthritis I so can strongly sympathise with you there!). Given what the Pi can do in comparison with cheap handhelds such as a...

That's an ineloquent solution! lol GMan might need to start selling a "Just 5V PMS" now!

I really love easy solutions! I'll have to give it a crack myself - not that I want to make another PS2 portable, but more that I'm just interested to try it out! I have used this board for a couple of projects and frustratingly it cuts out when you plug/unplug the power supply - it'd be...

The question isn't silly at all - this took me weeks to get my head around, and even longer to pick the Micrel documentation apart and create a working solution! In theory to get the SBC you've got talking to your PS2 I'd first try the 33nF connection that GMan used (just in case it's actually...

Of course the thread title could have also been called "the PS2 portable of Theseus" because that's kind of how it came about. I've continued to try and perfect the PS2 portable I made for the BitBuilt competition back in 2020 (man doesn't that feel like a lifetime ago!) and I think I'm at the...

There's a few projects here that have used the Wii U - I'm very fond of it myself. I was able to squeeze in a 6.5" HDMI screen which had been intended for the Raspberry Pi, but will note that I got very slap-happy with cutting bits off and thus ended up gluing things back together in the end so...

I'm interested in trying to get the last few oversights ironed out so that I can get the PS2 portable I made playing God of War and a couple of other games, but I've already built the PIC chip into the project which makes me kind of stuck with that as a solution. Speaking with RCD over at...

Man that was a quick reply! I did muck around with VGA and HDMI solutions for PS2 portables but always seemed to hit some shortcoming when doing it, so I settled on yPbPr as a good video solution - my excitement on seeing this, of course, was that the driver board seemed to handle this input...