Oh excellent, people want to do this.
First post updating
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Oh excellent, people want to do this.
First post updating
Added something I want to the list. (gp2x midi box)
No one seems to have followed through on the SID still.
Doesn't the SID required more power than a usb port is willing to give?
Wow, this is amazing.
And based in Sydney, excellent. Time to jump on the waiting list.
Andy, i'll bring it down to sandboats for you.
INFOTOXIN: sure thing, email me god *at* chkdisbrk *dawt* com
Post me a drawing of a whale and you can take it for free.
Sure thing CMDR, I'll get to it this afternoon after work.
Sometimes it's fun to make your gameboy run slow. The upsides of doing so are, lower pitches, easier to win tetris, and killing yourself with laughter at first view of the start up screen.
I did this ages ago and only have a few bad photos of it, and the wires are such a mess in there that im not going to open it again any time soon.
Assuming you haven't touched the innards of your sacred gift from the gods, you should probably grab one of those snazzy tri-wing screw drivers from kitsch-bent or ebay. http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/tr crewdriver
I'll wait while that gets posted out to you.
You'll also want a small switch, i found a snazzy little one that made sense to use for hole mounting. I suggest you do the same, because this tutorial covers a drill free way of doing that.
Next you'll want a different clock, the one currently in your gameboy is 4.194304MHz. Which seems a little ridiculously precise, though i'm sure there's some technical explanation as to why that value was chosen.
You can underclock, with 2.097152MHz, which halves the speed and pitch, or overclock with 8.somethingsomethingsomething. use a calculator.
I however, did the lazy way and just went with 2mhz because they are easier to find, and work fine if you're just using them by themselves. But if you want to combine it with other musical sources, or are just a little bit anal, use a 2.09kdsjhdfgk one, OR retune a copy of lsdj.
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/0
e-boy.html
If you're doing that though, swap out the regular clock for a 4mhz one at the same time.
Now because I wanted to be able to swap back and forth between underclock and regular speed, because really, I feel like theres limited application for an underclocked game boy, I installed a switch.
It's really simple and looks just like this amazing drawing™
Simple right?
You'll understand it more by the time i show you some more pictures.
That white patch on the board with wires attached is where the clock will be, unsolder that.
If you just want to underclock and not have switchable speeds, stop here, and install your new clock in that same spot.
If you want it switchable, look back at the amazing drawing™, and wire it up as so.
Which hole goes to which wire, goes to which leg of the clock is irrelevant, so long as it has the same basics as that image.
You'll want your wires long so that you have somewhere to put the clocks, I hide mine behind the speaker(which i think causes noise through the speaker when its used)
I also wrapped it all in tape because i didn't want anything shorting out.
Now we get to the destructive part, mounting your switch.
My sister got a Gameboy back in 92 or 93, and in that whole time, no one i've known has ever used the DC inlet.
I think it's time we made that hole useful.
Find the inlet on the pcb, and remove it, through means of unsoldering, cutting, explosives, whatever, just get it out of there with minimal damage to other components and the pcb itself.
The spot left behind will be that little outlined square labelled "DC"
You'll have to connect two parts on that board so that the battery power will stay connected.
I did it here with a piece of resistor leg.
Now all thats left to do is poke the switch through the hole, and you're all done! its even flattened so the nut will go on nicely
Trades are good.
Looking for guitar synth stuff (axon preferably), synths with knobs and keys
also 4 track cassette recorders
All these prices are in American dollars, and are pretty open, I might take less, and I might take a trade.
Also postage will be from Sydney, Australia.
So, without further time wasting, here's what's on offer.
SNES APU related pcb
A project I never got around to completing. Find out more here.
http://www.caitsith2.com/snes/apu.htm
$10 + Postage(if you want I'll include a PAL SNES, but shipping will be a bitch and it has no cables of any kind with it.)
Korg KP3
another piece of gear i impulse bought and never got much use out of. it really just plays whale songs in during my set. and lets face it, i dont play much. comes with the power supply/box/manual all that stuff. theres probably even a price sticker on there.
$300 + postage
Arduino dimuenelsomething
make your LEDs flash and shit
comes new in still sealed static baggie
$20 + postage
I will come to your house
and we can record some awesome jams
$1500 + postage
crappy dmgs
with fail screens or missing battery covers, basically shit.
theres two of these, offer me your favourite 90s cassette in return
protools with mbox micro
pretty snazzy i used it for uni. it might be registered to me im not sure, it hink you just need the dongle to use it.
$200
Dont tell anyone i'm on here at work.
When I get home I'll try a bunch of these.
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