The Revenge of the Post Here When You Get Something New thread

Anyway to update the 3dsxl firmware offline? It really doesn't like my broadband connection for some reason...

Probably a good idea as I still have lots of spare parts laying about .
What stick did you use to replace the stock one ?

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

You don't need a jailbroken iPad anymore, Mame is available and called Gridlee, a team used a work around, selling the public domain game Gridlee but not mentioning that it was running on Mame, and an updated Mame at that.
You can use a file manager program to side load the appropriate game files in to play any game you like, with icade support.

Oops.
Looks like Gridlee was taken down, in the US at least.

Yes, but you need a jailbroken iPad to use the iCade with unsupported games(not talking emulators here).

Achilles wrote: »

Anyway to update the 3dsxl firmware offline? It really doesn't like my broadband connection for some reason...

Any chance you're on UPC ? I notice recently they turned on my routers firewall and it was blocking my 3dsxl from updating. Once I disabled it the 3dsxl had no issue.

Myrddin wrote: »

Same here. UPC user & the 3DS and XL won't download anything while the firewall is on

yup - I always had it disabled, as it screws up some games on the PC - anyway, sometime in December it magically turned itself back on and was only when I went to update the 3DSXL did I notice it.

Lovely MVS pick up this morning. Just opened up and all originals too



I've been after Pulstar for years now. When I opened it up there was a dead spider inside! Little fecker had taste.

This was unexpected, check out the serial number on Puzzle Bobble 2. I wouldn't be one of those loons who purposely goes out looking for low serial games, but can definitely appreciate a low one when it comes along..and this is crazy low.



PCB came with it too, a fairly unknown Namco Shmup called Nebulas Ray.



Down side, came as non working. It just boots to the warning screen in dodgy colours and that's it.

Fairly easy to figure out what's wrong, leaky hairy caps!



Check out what this little ****er has done to the underside of the jamma connector, corrosion right through to the pins on the other side.



There's another bulging cap too. I think I'll remove them and neutralize the pcb with some baking soda before trying to convince someone to see if they can mend the traces... :pac:

A lot of that above corrosion turned out to be rust, it came off with a toothbrush. The underside of the jamma edge almost looks 100% okay now. Traces are actually alright, thank feck.

Also managed to get the game booting. It wasn't booting before because the dip settings didn't match a jumper pin setting. Basically region security.

Doesn't coin up now though for some reason and there's no sound. Not sure if the lack of sound has to do with the no coining or if that's a separate issue.

Still, nice to see the game running! One step at a time. The caps still definitely need to be replaced.

How are the caps next to the sound amp ?

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

You don't need a jailbroken iPad anymore, Mame is available and called Gridlee, a team used a work around, selling the public domain game Gridlee but not mentioning that it was running on Mame, and an updated Mame at that.
You can use a file manager program to side load the appropriate game files in to play any game you like, with icade support.

Don't you need to be jailbroken to run a file manager anyway, or is there an alternative to iFile that can do it without the jailbreak?

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

No, there are several that I've seen that work with non jailbroken iOS devices.
I'm sure I may be wrong.
Not a big fan of Apple, which is ironic given my username!

Me neither! Cant even download an mp3 ffs!

keithgeo wrote: »

Thanks, ill take a look at it and see if i can spot anything.

Good luck

I think I'm going to buy a half decent iron and try my hand at soldering again. Replacing caps seems like something I really should be able to do at this stage!

ondafly wrote: »

Any chance you're on UPC ? I notice recently they turned on my routers firewall and it was blocking my 3dsxl from updating. Once I disabled it the 3dsxl had no issue.

Good thinking. Not something I would have thought of but got a new router from them recently so the firewall is more than likely enabled.

Thanks for the head's up!

Now the long wait for the charger, docking station and a few games to arrive.

o1s1n wrote: »

Heh, were there many caps on that?

A lot of the boards I have seem to just have three to four big, radial caps. They have longish legs so there doesn't seem to be anything too fiddly. Just stick the legs through, bend off the ends and apply a bit of solder.

By the way, has anyone ever received this message when bidding on something?

PCB seller in Korea, ships internationally, but something wrong with me apparently...

Your problem is not ordering from Best Korea.

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Seen that before with a UK seller, basically they'd 'closed' up for the Xmas so weren't taking bids on anything.

Interesting, this is a live auction which ends in 9 hours. (and there are bids on some of their other items)

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If someone fancies bidding $50 for me, feel free