This Nintendo Switch Was in a House Fire! Let's Fix It! I paid $100 on eBay for a Nintendo Switch that was damaged in a house fire. The outside is gross and I'm guessing the inside is worse so, of course, we'll be opening it up to assess the damage and do the needed repairs and hopefully get everything working again. Bonus Fix:...
I’m glad to see this community starting to grow. As a mod, I haven’t had a single report or anything to do since I started this community. But I’d like to have another mod, since I don’t want this community to die if I fall off the face of the planet. Plus I’m not doing anything to “help” it grow lately. Anyone...
This gameboy was gifted to me from a Family member who found it one day in their Attic. I’ve tried fixing it a year ago, but since some parts never got delivered, it kinda slipped out of my mind until now....
I would make sure to clean the cart and the slot. A quick way for the slot is to load up the cart contacts with ipa and insert it a few times. For the game itself, I’m a fan of using a white pencil easer, followed by ipa.
For the lines, it could be the contrast wheel is dirty. Adding a few drops of ipa and working the wheel could help, though long term deoxit would be better.
Beyond that, more pictures of the board would help.
More pictures are always useful. Assuming the pins in the connector aren’t bent out of shape, your issue sounds more like a problem with the game. A common issue is that some pins need to be reflowed on the rom and ram chips. Here is an example video of what I’m referring to youtu.be/Hg21VeFM-_Y
To add context, I’m the developer of this PCB and in no way affiliated/compensated by the seller. Selling is permitted by the license so that’s all cool. I do think you’re better off learning basic soldering if you really care about original carts and doing fully diy, but there is now an option for buying.
I happen to have a board from my FunnyPlaying build so I figured I’d give it a shot. Used enamel wire to make the button contacts and got 3.3v from the cart slot. I also removed the caps as to not power any circuits that didn’t need (CPU and RAM were donors to the other board). Power is provided via AA batteries.
Still very much a work in progress but it works reasonably well (about 8ms of lag). I want to ultimately create an easier to install PCB rather than the perfboard I used.
Thanks. I was looking at these carts and thought about hard it would be to make something similar that you could use a old shell with. I recently made a SNES to Bluetooth adapter so the code was pretty similar. I really like projects that recycle parts like this.
Space and simplicity. There is not a lot of room in a GBA so a custom PCB would probably be needed from the start. Also the DMG display PCB is basically trash if the screen dies, which is all you need for this project. The GBA equivalent would need a donor motherboard.
It’s crazy that there is even anything close in this election. The only hope at this point is if enough republicans get tired of all the “woke war” bullshit and the orange turd’s multiple court cases that they just don’t bother to vote. Political races are treated more like the Superbowl than an important part of our lives, so I just don’t see them voting against “their team”.
I am having issues flashing ESPhome on these ESP32 s2 minis. I have tons of esphome devices. This isnt nearly my first. However it feels like it today…...
Bought this little kit for a few dollars on aliexpress awhile ago figuring it was an interesting project. I would not recommend it and I’ve already revered back to stock....
An update to my previous post. I was able to improive the average lag by disabling the serial monitor, passing a reference of the controller to the polling logic (eliminating the need to loop over the current state and previous state to determine if buttons should be pressed), and adding a 1ms delay between loops (should have...
Took a badly marginal gba pcb and transplanted the CPU and RAM into this new motherboard. The soldering was a nice challenge but I had an issue with the cart slot. A pin was bent, so had to fix that before games would boot. Very happy with the result. I’ve uploaded a picture of the back of the shell as well....
This Nintendo Switch Was in a House Fire! Let's Fix It! (youtu.be)
This Nintendo Switch Was in a House Fire! Let's Fix It! I paid $100 on eBay for a Nintendo Switch that was damaged in a house fire. The outside is gross and I'm guessing the inside is worse so, of course, we'll be opening it up to assess the damage and do the needed repairs and hopefully get everything working again. Bonus Fix:...
Mod wanted (lemmy.world)
I’m glad to see this community starting to grow. As a mod, I haven’t had a single report or anything to do since I started this community. But I’d like to have another mod, since I don’t want this community to die if I fall off the face of the planet. Plus I’m not doing anything to “help” it grow lately. Anyone...
[WLED] Anybody manage to get WS2814 LEDs working?
I’m following the settings on WLED’s wiki for the WS2814 strip:...
I need some help finding the issue with an Attic found Gamboy DMG-1 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
This gameboy was gifted to me from a Family member who found it one day in their Attic. I’ve tried fixing it a year ago, but since some parts never got delivered, it kinda slipped out of my mind until now....
SummerCart64 open source N64 flash cart revealed — turns a regular console into a Nintendo 64DD (www.tomshardware.com)
Etsy Seller Making Open Source Cart Extenders (www.etsy.com)
To add context, I’m the developer of this PCB and in no way affiliated/compensated by the seller. Selling is permitted by the license so that’s all cool. I do think you’re better off learning basic soldering if you really care about original carts and doing fully diy, but there is now an option for buying.
Another GameBoy Bluetooth Controller (lemmy.world)
I happen to have a board from my FunnyPlaying build so I figured I’d give it a shot. Used enamel wire to make the button contacts and got 3.3v from the cart slot. I also removed the caps as to not power any circuits that didn’t need (CPU and RAM were donors to the other board). Power is provided via AA batteries.
Old Gameboy Shell As USB C Rechargeable Controller (lemmy.world)
Still very much a work in progress but it works reasonably well (about 8ms of lag). I want to ultimately create an easier to install PCB rather than the perfboard I used.
Biden Makes Up Ground On Trump in Latest PA Polls (www.politicspa.com)
esphome on ESP2 s2 mini
I am having issues flashing ESPhome on these ESP32 s2 minis. I have tons of esphome devices. This isnt nearly my first. However it feels like it today…...
Avoid Aliexpress FRAM Upgrade (lemmy.world)
Bought this little kit for a few dollars on aliexpress awhile ago figuring it was an interesting project. I would not recommend it and I’ve already revered back to stock....
Update: SNES to Bluetooth Lag is now at 8ms and code is available (github.com)
An update to my previous post. I was able to improive the average lag by disabling the serial monitor, passing a reference of the controller to the polling logic (eliminating the need to loop over the current state and previous state to determine if buttons should be pressed), and adding a 1ms delay between loops (should have...
Black Gold GBA Motherboard Fully Complete (i.imgur.com)
Took a badly marginal gba pcb and transplanted the CPU and RAM into this new motherboard. The soldering was a nice challenge but I had an issue with the cart slot. A pin was bent, so had to fix that before games would boot. Very happy with the result. I’ve uploaded a picture of the back of the shell as well....