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These came today, 4 x YM2612 Sega Mega Drive sound chips and 4 x SN76489 Master System slund chips for the MIDIbox Quad Genesis synthesizer I'm building. I desoldered the existing YM2612 in my Mega Drive and soldered an IC socket to test the 4 chips and they work fine!





Didnt realise the Mega Drive shows a blank screen if you try and load a game without one installed.
The synthesizer will require 3D printed transparent buttons so I may have to summon Steve x2's skills at some stage!

Also a new toy came today, a Hot Air Rework Station and soldering iron combo, cost about 46 dollarydoos delivered by DHL within a week.



Ill need to solder a lot of SMD chips for this project so decided to invest in a hot air rework station, and it was only a few dollars more for the Soldering Iron combo model. Going for the hot air and solder paste method as it seems the easiest.

Luckily everything is earthed properly also, so no modifications were required!


Also this came with it, and I havent the slightest idea what it could be! Any ideas?

The handle & springy metal thing is for moving the hot smd components you just blasted with the hotair gun.

Unless you got a stencil/oven and a lot of boards to do then don't bother with solder paste. Its quicker to manually solder them.

Great fun arent they ? my daughter got one for the xmas from santa po-14 "sub"...although i've probably used it more :pac:... the po -12 is next on our list

although my reality of making a song are nothing like the youtube vids

That ugly rack hanger lump of plastic on the top of them was a really poor choice...

Steve X2 wrote: »

Great little fun portable synth. This is the "Arcade" version, I plan to get the rest of them and hook them all up in a loop.


PO-20 Arcade Pocket Operator Synthesizer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaljksnTsUQ

Is this your first time buying a synth Steve?

Thread carefully, synths can be just addictive and costly as buying / collecting retro games and consoles! Especilly the vintage kind!

The PO-28 does a decent SID sound:

A few pickups from over the yule tide season, right up to last week!



The NES Mini, Steam Link, and Megadrive games were all gifts. The Famicom Mini & Secret of Mana are gifts from me to me

Doge wrote: »

These came today, 4 x YM2612 Sega Mega Drive sound chips and 4 x SN76489 Master System slund chips for the MIDIbox Quad Genesis synthesizer I'm building. I desoldered the existing YM2612 in my Mega Drive and soldered an IC socket to test the 4 chips and they work fine!





Didnt realise the Mega Drive shows a blank screen if you try and load a game without one installed.
The synthesizer will require 3D printed transparent buttons so I may have to summon Steve x2's skills at some stage!

Also a new toy came today, a Hot Air Rework Station and soldering iron combo, cost about 46 dollarydoos delivered by DHL within a week.



Ill need to solder a lot of SMD chips for this project so decided to invest in a hot air rework station, and it was only a few dollars more for the Soldering Iron combo model. Going for the hot air and solder paste method as it seems the easiest.

Luckily everything is earthed properly also, so no modifications were required!


Also this came with it, and I havent the slightest idea what it could be! Any ideas?

This sounds proper amazing. Looking forward to seeing how it all turns out.

Danonino. wrote: »

This sounds proper amazing. Looking forward to seeing how it all turns out.

Heres some vids in case you missed my post about it,

Some eye candy and VGM file playback:





4 VGM files played at once for the lolz:


and voice mode, only watch this if you're really into synthesis, its quite long:

Not retro but I received a present from Game Atelier for my help in the Monsterboy game so I could play the game when it first comes out on ps4

Full disclosure, I made a first trailer for them for which I was paid. We were then in contact regarding my making more covers to include in the game as unlockables. Since I had planned on doing them I just went ahead and bumped them up in my schedule. There never was a question of of money for these, I was just happy to do it (and I was going to do these covers regardless) .
But I came home Wednesday and this was waiting for me with a thank you note
So I went ahead and bought Bloodborne and last guardian .



Oh also I did another trailer for them recently too

First non-illness related get of the year.

Street Fighter II Turbo on a PAL SNES, from corholio on here.

Had to get it, so I'll be up to speed for Street Fighter II SUPER ULTRA HYPER TURBO ULTIMATE on the Switch.

BrownFinger wrote: »

I tired to play bloodborne,
we didnt get along,
do you want a copy ollie?
I'll post it down to foc you if you do .

ah man. I bought one yesterday, not used to paying full price for anything these days

Not really gaming related but it is retro! Wanted one of these for a while and found one locally for $60.



It's an iMac G4 straight outta 2002. Came with the pro speakers too which are actually pretty decent. Mainly going to use it for music and see if I can get some form of mame running on it.

Steve X2 wrote: »

If I got MAME running on an old G3 running at 400mhz with 128MB RAM, you'll definitely get something running on that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTrQyg-yEMM

I've a whopping 800mhz and a gig of RAM to play with!