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Son Of General Retro Discussion

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  • #4952
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    :eek:

    Sega Neptune project?

    I think I remember reading they can run hot. So something to watch out for (Unless I completely made that up)

    Yep, it's time enough I did it I think. Any links to why they run hot? :confused:


  • #4953
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,313 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Heh, I knew I hadn't gone mental. Apparantly the ICs can run hot. So says a lad ove ron Sega-16 who has build some. He usually installs a fan and a few heatsinks.

    http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?9428-sega-neptune!!!!!!!!!!&p=205049&viewfull=1#post205049


  • #4954
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Heh, I knew I hadn't gone mental. Apparantly the ICs can run hot. So says a lad ove ron Sega-16 who has build some. He usually installs a fan and a few heatsinks.

    http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?9428-sega-neptune!!!!!!!!!!&p=205049&viewfull=1#post205049

    Hmm, this particular mod details only having 1 psu for both. I'm not sure there's enough juice to power a fan also, plus the noise would be off-putting. More thinkage required :(


  • #4955
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,313 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Could always make it airtight and go the oil olive oil cooling route? :D


  • #4956
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Could always make it airtight and go the oil olive oil cooling route? :D

    :D

    weird_pcs_oil_cooled_pc.jpg


    Someone near the end of the thread on Sega16 suggested using a Saturn shell instead. Great idea I thought, would allow for better passive cooling also.


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  • #4957
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,313 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The Neptune kind of looks like a mix between a Megadrive 2 and a Sega Saturn. So using a Saturn shell is a pretty interesting route to go down.

    sega_neptune-prototype.jpg

    You could always gut a CDX (!) and link it up so that the Saturn CD part plays Mega CD games. The Megadrive/32X games could go into the RAM expansion port.


  • #4958
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Definitely gonna do this this year

    DSCN3175.jpg


    Edit - Actually, Steve SI's forthcoming 3D printer...I wonder how well it could fabricate a Neptune case if we got the specs/dimensions?

    It wouldn't be great for a final product to be honest with the way it layers the plastic during the print. But to prototype a design it's perfect and then send off to be printed by shapeways or someone like that it would be fine.

    Shapeways can print in lots of different materials, even gold and silver if you want. And the printers and processes they use are way out of the reach of the normal person right now. There basic plastic printers cost a minimum off 100k.

    I've used them before and the prices are ok on most things.

    .


  • #4959
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,313 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I saw a thread somewhere where a guy was trying to make a neptune case. The last I remember, he'd made a clay prototype model and (I think) was sending it off to have to fabricated.



    Can't quite remember if he had dimensions or if he was just estimating from the pictures available online.

    Edit- ah here it is, was Sega-16 too. Not quite to the standard I remember.

    http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?10231-Project-Poseidon/page2

    LOL at the clay shrinking when it dried and the cart not fitting.


  • #4960
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I saw a thread somewhere where a guy was trying to make a neptune case. The last I remember, he'd made a clay prototype model and (I think) was sending it off to have to fabricated.



    Can't quite remember if he had dimensions or if he was just estimating from the pictures available online.

    Edit- ah here it is, was Sega-16 too. Not quite to the standard I remember.

    http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?10231-Project-Poseidon/page2

    LOL at the clay shrinking when it dried and the cart not fitting.

    Dead link?


  • #4961
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    A gem I came across while searching the forum for something. You can all thank John Ultimate, he made it

    161fez4.jpg


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  • #4962
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    EnterNow wrote: »
    A gem I came across while searching the forum for something. You can all thank John Ultimate, he made it

    161fez4.jpg

    What the **** were you searching?!


  • #4963
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    What the **** were you searching?!

    The pic of retr0 & sera as avgn & the guitarist. Can't find it :(


  • #4964
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    MY EYES! :mad:


  • #4965
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    cannot_be_unseen.jpg


  • #4966
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Well then.....................
    picture.php?albumid=1882&pictureid=11774


  • #4967
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,313 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Dead link?

    Odd!

    Pasted again -

    http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?10231-Project-Poseidon

    Hmm, seems to be something to do with their archived threads.

    Put project poseidon 32x sega-16 into google and it'll be the first link.


  • #4968
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Put project poseidon 32x sega-16 into google Bing


    FYP! Your guvnor must be wondering who the rogue agent is! :pac:


  • #4969
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF24QAR8hFA


  • #4970
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,313 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    FYP! Your guvnor must be wondering who the rogue agent is! :pac:

    Heh, everyone keeps getting given out to for using Google in work. One girl who sits beside me actually got told by senior management -

    'I never want to see that logo on your screen again'

    Bit hard to stop using something so fundamental to your every day life for over a decade though! I've tried my best in work to use Bing, but when I want to search something, 'www.google.com' just automatically appears in the address bar. It's finger muscle memory at this point. Absolutely no control over it!


  • #4971
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Heh, everyone keeps getting given out to for using Google in work. One girl who sits beside me actually got told by senior management -

    'I never want to see that logo on your screen again'

    Bit hard to stop using something so fundamental to your every day life for over a decade though! I've tried my best in work to use Bing, but when I want to search something, 'www.google.com' just automatically appears in the address bar. It's finger muscle memory at this point. Absolutely no control over it!

    Bing is actually a bloody good search engine. Another reason I am really warming to Windows Phone.

    Actually cannot wait to get a Lumia 900 in March (rumoured UK release date). Awesome phone. :)


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  • #4972
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Got the retro itch again and noticed I'm missing a Mortal game for my snes collection, so opinions on the best one to get? I think I remember 2 being the best one but I'm not sure :)


  • #4973
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    Bing is actually a bloody good search engine. Another reason I am really warming to Windows Phone.

    Actually cannot wait to get a Lumia 900 in March (rumoured UK release date). Awesome phone. :)

    Had a super secret demo of the Lumia 900 yesterday from a client. It's a very nice phone man. I like my iPhone 4S but the Lumia made me smile when I held it.

    .


  • #4974
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Had a super secret demo of the Lumia 900 yesterday from a client. It's a very nice phone man. I like my iPhone 4S but the Lumia made me smile when I held it.

    .

    Have you seen the #smokedbywindowsphone campaign at CES?

    The Lumia 900 absolutely DEFECATES on every phone out on the market today, and by some way too.

    Call me a sucker for a good marketing campaign, but as you said in your own words, it's some phone isn't it? Mango really made all the difference.

    My iPhone is getting fecked out the second that cheeky pup launches in the UK, never mind Ireland! (Unless it's a simulaunch of course).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjGe53zw6w


  • #4975
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    It'll all come down to the apps and apps marketplace really.
    Anyway, the more top class phones we have out there the better.

    .


  • #4976
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Also, as I just past my 2000th post on boards:

    2000%20posts.jpg

    .


  • #4977
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Steve SI wrote: »
    It'll all come down to the apps and apps marketplace really.
    Anyway, the more top class phones we have out there the better.

    .

    ...which Windows Phone is sorely lacking. I think this year though will see a big increase in apps and games for it.

    Let's face it though, as great as Android and Apple marketplaces are, how many of the apps are total pony? Especially on the Android marketplace!


  • #4978
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    ...which Windows Phone is sorely lacking. I think this year though will see a big increase in apps and games for it.

    Let's face it though, as great as Android and Apple marketplaces are, how many of the apps are total pony? Especially on the Android marketplace!

    Microsoft are really trying to entice devs to windows phone though. If they push enough money at it I'm sure this time next year it'll be a different story.

    .


  • #4979
    weeder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    continuing on with my "xbox r best evar" postings here, i have done this

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056529989

    everything looks amazeballs now, also a decent little system for 720p when you have a transcoding upnp server.


  • #4980
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,178 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    weeder wrote: »
    continuing on with my "xbox r best evar" postings here, i have done this

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056529989

    everything looks amazeballs now, also a decent little system for 720p when you have a transcoding upnp server.
    Interesting
    Will XBMC run at 720p with this mod?


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  • #4981
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Forgot about modding old Xboxes, raspberry pi is the future :) Looking forward to getting my hands on a few.

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/


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