You might be able to scrape off the soldermask (the green layer) and solder directly onto the connector. Though, that's probably destined to fail. What you might want to try instead is to transplant a Gameboy Pocket display onto the display board. This would still involve fine soldering, but at least you'd be soldering on surfaces meant to be connectors.
1,121 Sep 25, 2012 6:58 am
Re: DMG-01 Backlight=FAIL Detailed Pics of Motherboard, Traces & Cables (2 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
1,122 Sep 24, 2012 2:21 am
Re: ASM - PCB Mount Pro Sound V3 @ Retromodding (494 replies, posted in Trading Post)
Underclock units can be useful because the pulse channels reach one octave lower. (B455!) But in the same time, you lose half the CPU power, so you won't be able to use as much effects and such. The pitch mod is just silly and might be fun for novelty, but not much more than that.
1,123 Sep 23, 2012 7:20 am
Re: WTB: Smartboy (23 replies, posted in Trading Post)
Xuriik wrote:
I've always known that gold plating isn't necessarily better but now i have an argument to throw at douchebags who gloat about their gold plated headphone jacks. Thanks, nitro!
Well, not so fast. The gold plating does after all protect plated surface from getting tarnished. When it comes to headphone jacks, the connector naturally rotates, which helps prevent corrosion simply by mechanically scraping it off. A GB cart will sit in the same spot when the cartridge is not removed, and even when it's removed and reinserted, the position is predictable. Sure, you can mechanically remove some of the corrosion by doing the in/out ten times routine with the cartridge, but it's more vulnerable than a headphone connector. On the other hand, chances are any number of other thing will fail before the jack gets corroded, so in the end I do agree it's probably a waste of a perfectly good microgram or something of gold.
1,124 Sep 23, 2012 4:05 am
Re: WTB: Smartboy (23 replies, posted in Trading Post)
Telerophon: MBC5. MMC is NES lingo.
Ian: EMS's unit is called GB Smart Card with a D. And I believe most people just call them EMS cartridges.
And about gold plated contacts. Gold plated contacts are not always a good idea. There's something called galvanic corrosion. If you have contact of two metals with different anodic index (basically how noble the metals are) the metals will form a battery cell in the presence of some degree of humidity.(*) This effect gets worse the more different the metals are. This will cause corrosion to attack the least noble of the metals.
So this is a problem which would affect a Gameboy where a cartridge is plugged in in the presence of humidity. It's arguably more difficult to remove corrosion from the cartridge slot than from the cartridge edge connector. For this reason, gold may actually be a bad choice, and a nickel plating or even just bare copper a better choice. This may be a theoretical problem with little impact in real life. But my point is that it's easy to assume that something that is GOLD PLATED must be better than something that isn't, when in fact it may not be the best engineering decision for a particular situation.
(*) Compare this to the experiment where you put two different coins on top of each other in your mouth and feel a tickle on your tongue from the voltage produced. I would generally not recommend this experiment for obvious hygienic reasons, though.
1,125 Sep 21, 2012 9:48 pm
Re: Drag'n'Derp: the gameboy cart to end all gameboy carts (705 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
9-Heart wrote:
Weird, did really nobody notice that Apeshit sold a small patch of it like 17 hours ago?
I guess they sold out in 3 hours because nobody noticed, right?
1,126 Sep 21, 2012 5:39 pm
Re: anamanaguchi ripoff in disney commercial. (152 replies, posted in General Discussion)
9H05T wrote:
disney changed copyright to keep their characters from going public domain.
Nope. They did keep some of the individual cartoons out of the public domain by lobbying for copyright extensions. The charactrers are trademarked however, and will continue to be protected as long as Disney are using the characters commercially, and renew the licenses.
1,127 Sep 21, 2012 12:51 pm
Re: anamanaguchi ripoff in disney commercial. (152 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I like Turtles. And closing threads. So stick the topic, eh?
1,128 Sep 18, 2012 7:16 pm
Re: anamanaguchi ripoff in disney commercial. (152 replies, posted in General Discussion)
snesei wrote:
cant tell if srs or not
Come on to the IRC channel. You've got a few things to learn, son.
1,129 Sep 18, 2012 2:48 am
Re: New Marketing Slogan for Your Local Chipscene (60 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
This spam will soon be deleted and diplomatic document collab compilation GO GO GO!
1,130 Sep 18, 2012 1:15 am
Re: anamanaguchi ripoff in disney commercial. (152 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Not to be the negative nancy in the light of potential drama, but maybe someone should first check with Anamanaguchi if they perhaps actually licensed the song? Even if this is the case, Disney might not be keen about mentioning this too loudly.
And also could someone download the app and see if there's any other music in it? (Or any music at all.)
1,131 Sep 17, 2012 6:09 pm
Re: Live Footage Exchange (206 replies, posted in Motion Graphics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Chzr3xUAk
Live set by DEADBEATBLAST.
1,132 Sep 17, 2012 4:18 pm
Re: NEW VID (2 replies, posted in Releases)
Well, the set is cool and all, but does this really belong in the releases section? I think a better place would be this thread for example:
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5914/ … ge/page/7/
Perhaps it needs to be moved or something to be more visible. I'll bring this up for discussion with the other mods.
1,133 Sep 16, 2012 8:24 am
Re: _ 1 3 3 - a---l o n g---w e e k (5 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)
Come! On! "Releases" is for proper releases, ok?
1,134 Sep 15, 2012 9:20 am
Re: Pizza Trade El Numero Dos (II) (33 replies, posted in Trading Post)
Telerophon wrote:
Guys, I'm going to claim "Death By Pizza" as a song title right now.
Ok. Make sure the pizza has a lot of arpeggio and formaggio on it.
1,135 Sep 13, 2012 9:20 pm
Re: Shnabubula covers Bit Shifter on Piano (49 replies, posted in General Discussion)
"Shnabubula posted 1 month ago
I have to apologize for the deleted videos. It was done in the heat of the moment and there was a thought behind it but I don't think it was justified, they are gone unfortunately and unrecoverable at this point. I promise I will make it up to you guys"
1,136 Sep 13, 2012 6:08 pm
Re: selling some stuff... (5 replies, posted in Trading Post)
You posted that in the wrong forum. Sales in the trading post, please. (Moved) And also, you need to indicate prices for the items you are selling.