Ok, then you should do the pin swap mod using the gnd pin. The shield is the metal thing that wraps around the wires inside the cable. It should be connected to the sleeve of the link port connector which in turn connects to ground inside the Gameboy. If your cable only has wires inside and no shield wrapped around the wires inside the cable, well then you're screwed.
1,026 Dec 6, 2012 10:02 am
Re: Gameboy Cable Pins (27 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
JuiceCBean wrote:
This seems like it would be practical, but wouldn't I still need the ground pin? It says to move it to the power pin right?
The trick is to use the cable shield as ground, since the connector shield is connected to ground inside the Gameboy. Alternatively, you could move and reuse the SOUT pin (the one that sends data from the Gameboy) as +5V if you don't need that functionality (sending MIDI from the Gameboy.) Without some kind of ground connection, the circuit won't work.
1,027 Dec 2, 2012 7:11 am
Re: ems64 battery solder question (5 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
But why? Why destroy a functioning (?) EMS64 cartridge? Buy a GB cart replacement battery and solder wires onto the battery tabs, or better yet, solder that battery into place on the other cartridge you have. You will typically only need to change the battery every few years so it can't be that much of a hassle.
1,028 Nov 30, 2012 10:41 pm
Re: Trackers on OSX Laptops? (Missing delete/insert keys...) (31 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
So, I've edited the title...
1,029 Nov 29, 2012 10:27 pm
Re: Trackers on OSX Laptops? (Missing delete/insert keys...) (31 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Renoise lets you remap every keyboard shortcut. Also, doesn't fn+backspace produce a "delete" keystroke?
1,030 Nov 29, 2012 4:46 pm
Re: LSDJ Draining my Batteries? (9 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Avoid batteries marked "heavy duty". (Misleading name...) Use alkaline type batteries. Or better yet, buy Ni-MH rechargeable ones and a charger. You won't regret it.
1,031 Nov 29, 2012 1:36 am
Re: Megadrive / Genesis keyboard??? (12 replies, posted in Sega)
Maybe this could be done in a more simple way if Genesis has a clocked serial port of some kind similar to the Gameboy one, so it could interface PS2 directly. So, well, does it?
1,032 Nov 28, 2012 4:17 pm
Re: Gameboy Cable Pins (27 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
There used to be images here, but apparently Tim didn't renew his Flickr Pro membership, so you can't see the images until he does. (Flickr has a limit on how many imags and sets you can have without a Pro membership.)
1,033 Nov 28, 2012 3:32 pm
Re: Gameboy Cable Pins (27 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
No, DMG.04 doesn't. That's why you need to do the pin swap mod on those.
1,034 Nov 26, 2012 6:55 pm
Re: solution to multiple lists of social media threads (17 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
I don't think these threads are meant to be necessarily be a directory to use when finding person x's contact details, but more of a random meetup thread to discover new people/artists.
Hover to reveal details. Maybe.
What about perhaps a new forum that contains only directory type threads. Users would not be able to create new threads here, only reply to the existing ones. Thoughts? Maybe I'm overthinking it.
1,035 Nov 26, 2012 6:24 pm
Re: lsdj keyboard shuts off my gameboy (11 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
So, the keyboards lights don't even blink when you plug the keyboard in? You've probably swapped two or more of the wires.
1,036 Nov 26, 2012 4:08 pm
Re: "Opera Mini is banned because it was used as a troll proxy" (7 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
It's detected through its IP addres range. One of them, anyway.
1,037 Nov 26, 2012 3:26 pm
Re: lsdj keyboard shuts off my gameboy (11 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Yeah, sounds like either a short, unless your batteries are low which might cause this as well.
1,038 Nov 25, 2012 6:41 pm
Re: Technical Question: When LSDJ is run on a CGB, is it running at ~8MHz? (5 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Nothing much would happen. You could go down to 40 BPM instead of minimum 80, and some songs would start to lag because they would overload the CPU. Ie, same as on a DMG.
1,039 Nov 25, 2012 6:32 pm
Re: Technical Question: When LSDJ is run on a CGB, is it running at ~8MHz? (5 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Why would you want to switch to 4 MiHz mode? The higher speed mode is off by default, but software can enable it, and LSDj does enable it.
1,040 Nov 25, 2012 4:33 am
Re: ui at GAMEXPO (VENEZUELA) (25 replies, posted in Past Events)
ui will be "playing"? If there's a "stream", I will definitely try to "watch" it. Please keep us "posted".