1 Reply by JMackerl

(16 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I had a really similar issue happen to my EMS cart when I first got it. If you look at the battery housing there is a tab that connects it to the circuit board on the south side of the housing (North being the top of the cart). My tab was unsoldered to the board and was actually positioned above the contact area.

To solve the problem I just took the... solder blob? and re-heated it while holding the battery contact against the circuit board, this melted the solder back onto the board and fixed the battery housing into position. Now the cart always holds saves and I haven't had any problems with it.

I didn't even have any soldering experience when I attempted this and my soldering iron was actually a woodburning tool that had a soldering iron tip you could attach. So even if you're hesitant to try because you don't have experience either I wouldn't worry about it since it's a really easy procedure.

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2 Reply by JMackerl

(6 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The LSDJ manual is a really good place to start, I would recommend leafing through it initially to become familiar with the program and then checking out these channels:

Chris Penner: Zef(Chris Penner) has a great series on LSDJ commands and some really good tutorials.
LSDJguides: a channel with some great tutorials. It'll get you up and running fast. The channel has a bunch of instrument patches as well that are helpful for starting out.
AndruaGO: Some good tutorials that'll help as well, he's got some good tips and tricks.

Kitsch-bent has some great gameboys and I'd definitely recommend them (I think he's got a pretty nifty green and white DMG that's around $80 since there's a small crack in the case). If you want something a little more plain/wallet friendly, Thursday Customs has some really nice backlit DMG's (~$80) that you can add a prosound to (+$15?) for a little extra. He does them by order and takes about a week or so to send it out. I got one from him and I'm really happy with mine. 

Hope this helps, I'm pretty new myself but these were the places where I started off.

Oh also, noisechannel.org has some pretty cool guides called "LSDJ & you" by roboctopus that are really good. The subject matter is more along the lines of intermediate/advanced techniques but they're awesome. Noisechannel also has some really great album releases there.

Ubiktune is another site with great chiptune music as well, there's some awesome albums and artist compilations up there. Lots of LSDJ but other stuff too.

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3 Topic by JMackerl

(0 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

Short version:
Problem: Smart Card has weird saving issues. It appears the battery housing is not fully soldered to the board.

Solution?: I have no access to a soldering iron, could I connect it to the circuit board with hot glue?

Long-ish Version:
So I got a new cart the about 2-3 weeks ago and have finally gotten around to using it (running LSDJ). However, whenever I power on my gameboy it almost always initializes my .sav data. On the occasion that it doesn't initialize I'm still able to back-up the .sav file after playing and when i power on the gameboy again.... WHAM initialized. I think it could be battery related and when I popped the cart open it looks like one of the battery housings connections isn't fully soldered to the board (the tab facig the "open" end of the cart). So what do you think, does this seem like a likely problem?

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4 Reply by JMackerl

(11 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

I was having a lot of trouble with this a few weeks ago as well. Had all the right drivers, enabled test mode, followed all the instructions and nothing worked. Then I found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pwjey8ICXQ
It has all the necessary steps in the description so you don't have to sit there and actually watch the painfully long video. Hope this helps!

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5 Reply by JMackerl

(3 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

I'd hate to necro this thread but......

Anyways I spent a good hour or two today trying to get different .nsf plug-ins to work on Winamp and once I finally did i had used a form of this one with the amazing keyboard function! Then Winamp started having issues (I think i dragged another .dll file from the folder into the plug-ins that i should not of...) and when i went to put bag the .nsf plug-in back into Winamp it worked but no keyboard!

Thankfully now I can just step around that whole situation and just use this player on stand-alone.

Thanks for the excellent work!

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