657 Reply by kitsch

(25 replies, posted in General Discussion)

yes, however it'd require two variants, and being that the parts are made now i'm comfortable with them.  they install with barely any work. and space isn't a concern.

but mainly, the costly component (the LCD) is 'universal', and the cheap part is what customizes it to the device.  rather than have it already established with one FPC part.

skipping the adapter would require two 'hardwired' variants.  which, sure, would give a cleaner install, its just an investment where the 'problem' doesn't really justify doing that

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658 Reply by kitsch

(25 replies, posted in General Discussion)

NOS meaning new, yet old, stock.

these are new, new.  not new *old* stock.  newly manufactured.

i'll get some high res photos taken when i can get my camera sorted out again.  well, i might have taken one when i installed one myself, i'll see.  aspect ration is great

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659 Reply by kitsch

(25 replies, posted in General Discussion)

^ have them live now

http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/ba … lcd-screen

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660 Reply by kitsch

(1,485 replies, posted in Trading Post)

hello cm.o

a secret heads up:  there are only TWO clear green cases and FOUR clear blue cases left

these colors aren't planned again, at best we'll do a similar shade

http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/custom-dmg-case

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661 Reply by kitsch

(86 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

green and blue are my favorites right now too i believe.

however, the white with the very slight discoloring at the burn is growing on me.  its reminding me of something but i can't put my finger on it.  ceramics class maybe

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662 Reply by kitsch

(676 replies, posted in General Discussion)

thebitman wrote:
Bitamin wrote:

Hi smile I am new here and would like to know some fellow chippy producers too :'D

Saw your username, did a doubletake. Welcome to the site smile

totally did the same thing  smile

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663 Reply by kitsch

(86 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

i might have to use the pics from this thread guys, i'm having a camera difficulty and cell phone pics just don't cut it.  these pics seem alright honestly...  for now at least

just wanted to mention that.  i'm getting a few emails on these guys and know some of you are anxious.  i'm also leaving town this weekend so would love to get shipping them out of the way.

i HAD decided to keep them after looking at them, but i won't.  i should share.  they are sooo nice though.  i'm even happier about going with a super flat/square case redesign now smile  worked great with this method

(soon)  and, re: price, the two black ones that got weird on the back will be discounted (priced for the front half only, but sold whole).  need to double check with arfink on pricing these guys

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664 Reply by kitsch

(8 replies, posted in Trading Post)

annnnnnd PM'd back wink

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665 Reply by kitsch

(86 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

uhhhhhh

these are awesome. 

the white is too great.  i'm really impressed, man.

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666 Reply by kitsch

(86 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

cases got here just now, haven't opened the box even.  hope to have these up asap!  realizing i tore down my photo booth area tongue

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667 Reply by kitsch

(7 replies, posted in Trading Post)

its really not THAT bad.  just make sure it comes with support and you should be fine.  its very rare that people simply can't ever get it to work.  usually something very simple, if there is even a problem at all.

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668 Reply by kitsch

(84 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

(if anyone's lightbulb above their head is going off now)

pull the ICs from Nintendo carts.  the new ICs which are available seem to have a decently high rate of not working or failing over time.  since i was left to swap these ICs out on carts myself, I found pulling the Nintendo ones to be worth the extra effort rather than using the new part because of their poor quality.  even if the new ICs worked when replaced, it wasn't that infrequent a customer would right back saying, 'hey man, when i turned on my cart today, it is filled with all this 1A crap".

eh, i can't recall how they are marked.  not 1134A though...  something else.  i'm really having some brain farts this morning, meh hmm

edit -- new ones are marked 6735.  ones Nintendo was using were '134A' on the bottom line.  just from my experience with that, if you can pull an original for the replacement, i'd suggest doing this to save a future headache.  maybe its not a quality issue, it could be something like ESD or simply those carts used bad parts sourcing.  or were designed incorrectly.  don't know, but that singular part was my bane for a while.  and putting the nintendo ones on instead solved nearly all those issues.

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669 Reply by kitsch

(84 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

yeah, thats it!

the "1A" bug

i knew it was a repetition of something...  sets the time to 26:26:26 or something too, from memory.  among other things (chains phrases)

that was the main overall problem with them.  thankfully easy to spot and fix.

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670 Reply by kitsch

(42 replies, posted in General Discussion)

maxo's bandcamp has had things added over the past couple days.  i think 5 or so albums just last night!

http://maxoisnuts.bandcamp.com/

some of them are dated pretty old (he's just now uploading i guess), but still.  more maxo!

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671 Reply by kitsch

(84 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

katsumbhong wrote:
kitsch wrote:

there were quality control issues

Problems with every component or just one in particular?

the main issues were failing MM1134A ICs. 

essentially... ~25% of the ones we got had some kind of issue.  the 1134A bug was easy to spot because it filled LSDJ with 00 39 00 39 on every line (or, it was something like this).  but, there were all sorts of other problems too.  lifted IC legs was another big one.  the 'quality control/assurance' step following assembly was skipped, basically (it appeared, or else whoever was doing this simply didn't check the right things).  pretty lame.

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672 Reply by kitsch

(84 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

there were quality control issues

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