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(35 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

ashimoke wrote:

it's the SMT that discourage people from the USB design

Maybe. Shouldn't be too hard unless your iron completely sucks. However, this gave me an idea. If you're building your own unit and you're afraid of surface mount, you could use a pin header and base your design around an FTDI, like this one: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9716?

1,186

(35 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

These days, there's really no reason not to use the USB version of the schematic as described on the Reiner Ziegler page.

1,187

(24 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Yeah, this should work. Someone just needs to write the software. I'll ping mikeryan.

Didgeri-303.

Zan-zan-zawa-butt wrote:

blackstreet
hugo weaving
sharon osbourne
art garfunkel
the xx (these guys are total shit btw)
fear factory
gnidrolog
rudyard kipling
carob-covered peanuts and raisins
general patton and the x-ecutioners
fela kuti and egypt 80
the bangles
tofurkey
agamemnon
demilich
parappa the rapper
stone temple pilots
the jive bunny
gerry and the pacemakers
depeche mode
elo
elk
elp
elf and consequentially black sabbath featuring ronnie james dio
red hot chili peppers (these guys are total shit btw)
edith piaf
and ned's atomic dustbin

1,190

(33 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I hate to break the ice, but I've always found Pixelh8 to be a mediocre artist who mostly profits on gimmick.

1,191

(6 replies, posted in Sega)

Major concern, is the screen working?

1,192

(25 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Dude, no. Nitrotracker is just a crippled XM tracker. At best, it can become a decent XM tracker. If you get porky with the piggy, you'll find command tables like in LSDj, and a nice filter. And live mode, again like in LSDj.

1,193

(13 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

They don't use RAM. However, the ROM header reported that they did, so if you opened one of the old ROMs in an emulator, it would create a sav file that's completely unused. Crikey. I fixed this too.

Winzip? I hope not. All civilized operating systems these days come with tools to pack and unpack zip files out of the box. And even so, there are better programs for handling cmopressed files.

1,194

(13 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

II had a couple of minutes to kill before bed time so here are fixed version of the PixelH8 tools which work with flash cartridges.
http://gbdev.gg8.se/files/musictools/PixelH8/
pixelh8-fixed.zip is the file to go for.

The reason why he doesn't want you to contact him is probably because he later signed some form of contract with Nintendo (playing a show at a meeting/fair iirc) which probably includes a clause forbidding him to support "unauthorized software".

I'm wondering if there's any actual difference between the "free" versions and the ones sold on cartridge, other than the text. Anybody here who owns a cart and fancy dumping it?

And yes, it was released on cartridge:
http://m.matrixsynth.com/2007/09/pixelh … lable.html

1,195

(494 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Telerophon wrote:

lackluster to nonexistant OS X support

I see what you did there...

1,196

(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Lazerbeat has a point...

relo wrote:
nitro2k01 wrote:

Dude! Why Are You Capitalizing Every Word In The Sentence Like That?

You didn't read "belt" and "but" did you...

Nah. He Made Two Mistakes. Didn't Want To Point Them Out.

Freak Assassins wrote:

Made An Old NES Controller In A belt Buckle but No Gameboy Mods Yet.

Dude! Why Are You Capitalizing Every Word In The Sentence Like That?

1,199

(32 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Title line edited and topic moved to appropriate location. Gee...

1,200

(10 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Yeah, they are. The typical way of connecting a backlight to the unregulated power supply is to connect the positive side lead to the 1k resistor near the top, on the side closest to the ribbon cable. If you don't care about the backlight, you can remove the resistor and solder the wire through the hole. Negative still goes to ground.

Of course, with this method, the backlight intensity varies with the battery voltage, and maybe the 6V from four fresh batteries may be slightly higher than what is healthy for the panel.