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Tom Mann Centuria · 28-06-2018 04:39PM

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

It's very straightforward. If you're feeling fancy you can use a soldering iron to get it off but a bit of gentle rocking with a pliers will free it just as easily.
The Xbox comes apart quite easily too. No need for the posh screwdrivers, the basics will do

That's alright then, thanks, I've had it open when I changed the hard drive, soldering is beyond me, so I'll go with the plier option.

28-06-2018 05:02PM

This link will show you where the capacitor is located on the board, I'm on my phone so I can't share the images directly but everything is there
https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/wiki/clock_capacitor

Nerdkiller1991 · 28-06-2018 07:59PM

It depends on the console though, as the later Xboxes cannot operate without the clock capacitor.

28-06-2018 08:15PM

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

It depends on the console though, as the later Xboxes cannot operate without the clock capacitor.

The later Xboxes don't have one.
It's the earlier consoles have issues but any softmod or hardmod removes that dependency

Doge · 29-06-2018 12:23AM

Retr0gamer · 29-06-2018 10:09AM

Doge wrote: »

Damn!

You must really love your Japanese visual novels!

Doge · 29-06-2018 06:40PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Damn!

You must really love your Japanese visual novels!

I'm more interested in running Retroarch than playing that weeb ****e! :P

DaveyDave · 29-06-2018 09:33PM

My Utopia disc works but won't boot NTSC House of the Dead 2...ideas?

30-06-2018 01:03AM

DaveyDave wrote: »

My Utopia disc works but won't boot NTSC House of the Dead 2...ideas?

Bad burn? Have you tried a self booting image?

DaveyDave · 30-06-2018 07:12AM

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Bad burn? Have you tried a self booting image?

Might be, lowest write speed on my sister's laptop is 10x. Must try a self boot later but I'll also use something other than Utopia.

Nerdkiller1991 · 01-07-2018 01:33PM

What's with this song going on in the background of the Clare/Cork rivalry vid just now on Telly Eireann?

Oh, and by the way, I went to Token yesterday and managed to beat TMNT.

Doge · 01-07-2018 08:53PM

So theflow0 released the Vita hack today. Unfortunately the hack needs to be initialized after each power down or reboot.

Will update later when I have Retroarch running!

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

What's with this song going on in the background of the Clare/Cork rivalry vid just now on Telly Eireann?

Oh, and by the way, I went to Token yesterday and managed to beat TMNT.

Did they play Derrick May's original you linked or a remix?

Would be strange if they played the original as its fairly undeground sounding.

Nerdkiller1991 · 02-07-2018 02:03AM

Doge wrote: »

Did they play Derrick May's original you linked or a remix?

Would be strange if they played the original as its fairly undeground sounding.

Original it was.

eddhorse · 02-07-2018 12:25PM

Doge wrote: »

So theflow0 released the Vita hack today. Unfortunately the hack needs to be initialized after each power down or reboot.
Will update later when I have Retroarch running!

Arrrrgh that's a shame

03-07-2018 03:01PM

It's mad how the Brazilians are still updating Pro Evolution Soccer for the PS2:D
https://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-913966905-pes-2018-ps2-europeu-atualizado-de-maio-_JM

DinoRex · 03-07-2018 04:51PM

Aren't modern consoles stupidly expensive over there?

CiDeRmAn · 03-07-2018 06:44PM

DinoRex wrote: »

Aren't modern consoles stupidly expensive over there?

I think the prices are comparatively high, compared to the low average income.
Apparently the average income there, per month, is about 520 dollars US. The US itself is 4.8k gross.
So a PS4/XB1 is not far shy of a monthly income in Brazil.

03-07-2018 06:56PM

As far as I know there's also a massive tax on importing foreign made electronics. I think Sega licensed production of the Mega Drive mainly to bypass it back in the day

Shapey Fiend · 03-07-2018 07:37PM

Lots of these old games have surprisingly manic modding communities. I used play a lot of Total Annihilation and at there's a third game engine currently being built from scratch that supports all the original game file types 1:1 cos the guy thinks he could do a better job. The amount of work people put into these things is insane.

DeusVolt · 05-07-2018 08:42PM

Wonder if there are any sites where you can buy those old TecToy MD and MS games? Ebay does not get much of the stuff.

Doge · 06-07-2018 10:45AM

DeusVolt wrote: »

Wonder if there are any sites where you can buy those old TecToy MD and MS games? Ebay does not get much of the stuff.

If they were sold here they'd probably be sold as @RARE@ I'd imagine!

Inviere · 06-07-2018 10:49AM

Doge wrote: »

If they were sold here they'd probably be sold as @RARE@ I'd imagine!

Sonic 1 for the Sega Megadrive
Rare cart from 1990’s
No box, slight label damage
Getting hard to find these now
€45 no offers

DeusVolt · 06-07-2018 10:06PM

Would even just be cool to scroll through a site and see if there are any differences between box art and so on.

Doge · 07-07-2018 02:12PM

Is anyone heading to the 8-bit retrogaming conference at the end of the month? Thought there would be a bit more hype about it on here.

eddhorse · 07-07-2018 03:05PM

Doge wrote: »

Is anyone heading to the 8-bit retrogaming conference at the end of the month? Thought there would be a bit more hype about it on here.

Went last year, was a bit meh, didn't go to any of the talks which would have made it better i guess.

Retr0gamer · 09-07-2018 11:58AM

Was back stage at Queen last night playing pac man, Sega rally and point blank 2 on the arcade machines they had there with Brian May's grandson.

o1s1n · 09-07-2018 12:18PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Was back stage at Queen last night playing pac man, Sega rally and point blank 2 on the arcade machines they had there with Brian May's grandson.

Your next line better be;

I approached Brian May with my copy of Rise of the Robots and said;

'Hey Brian, I meant to get you to sign this last time we met, can I have your autograph please?'

Brian chuckled, signed the boxart and cart while regaling me with stories about producing the soundtrack for the game and the hype surrounding it.

Inviere · 09-07-2018 02:25PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Your next line better be;

That, or...

"I decided to stop playing games & went out to see one of the greatest bands of our generation playing"...

o1s1n · 09-07-2018 02:38PM

Inviere wrote: »

That, or...

"I decided to stop playing games & went out to see one of the greatest bands of our generation playing"...

I'd agree with that statement if it meant this;

And not this;

Inviere · 09-07-2018 02:39PM

I know I know

Still, it's Queen!

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