RetroGaming
It's honestly good advice, but I much prefer original hardware when possible.
DarthBueller 1 month ago • 100%
Did screenshots taken with the method you mentioned have bloom, Like you would see from an image taken from a CRT? I associate bloom in screenshots from being directly Photographed from the CRT.
RetroGaming
It's honestly good advice, but I much prefer original hardware when possible.
DarthBueller 1 month ago • 100%
Nintendo power had tons of images taken directly from photos of CRT‘s. Some of them may have used your Method, but many of them (Especially contests) Specifically asked readers to send in photos to show whether they’ve done certain things.
DarthBueller 2 months ago • 58%
Truancy courts are not controversial. Literally holding a parent criminally liable for not sending their child to school. Maybe there’d be less Lord of the Flies gangs of tweenage criminals in every major city if truancy was better enforced.
DarthBueller 2 months ago • 100%
I haven’t mentioned Project 2025 to my parents or my siblings because it is the culmination of everything they’ve been told they want since they voted for Reagan. It would make them vote harder. So yeah, you’re right.
RetroGaming
What's your financial cutoff point on game collecting?
DarthBueller 2 months ago • 100%
The price of the console, any modern quality of life upgrades (RBG out, in game reset, etc), the price of the best flash cart and an SD card loaded with ROMs.
Console Repair
Dead DSi XLs - Repair failure - Question
DarthBueller 2 months ago • 100%
I already tried the Wi-Fi reseating. One unit I bought, that was the only thing that was wrong with it. But not the two ones that I managed to kill more than they were already dead. The Wi-Fi boards are interchangeable between units, aren’t they?
I will try the battery again but I already hold the battery in place when I’m testing and I highly doubt it’s the issue given that the contacts were working fine prior to the failed repair. I also tried several batteries that I know work. Nothing worked
I recently replaced power connectors on two DSi XLs. Both couldn’t charge, and one worked on the battery while the other didn’t. I replaced the connectors and a dead charging circuit fuse on one of them (only one dead fuse). Now both are dead, and one only has an orange flashing light like the power fuse is burnt when plugged in, while the other is just … no life. New Power connectors all beep out just fine for continuity. All fuses beep out just fine. All ribbon cables are seated. What the hell did I do or fail to do? Any guesses? My soldering was accurate, no stray touches, etc. Just wondering if there’s a common other issue that I might have overlooked beyond power connector & fuse replacement.
Technology
Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
Also good for getting to pornhub.com if you live in one of the states they’ve blocked.
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
Neusthetic counseling or WTF the fundies call their fake therapy and then he’s fine. They will call him a recovering sex addict (I.E. On the same level as a married man who watches porn, in their usage of the phrase) and who will dissociate when you try to talk to them about what he actually did.
Technology
Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
I can't hear you over the din of the kali box whites and the screaming child, what did you say?
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
And yet we act like boiled frogs, each generation making fun of the prior one for expecting things to be better than they are. Gen z is so used to things being like shit that they think that all older generations are entitled fuckers And that we should get used to everything being worse because Right now it’s the best they’ve ever known.
RetroGaming
1990 - 2005 Gaming Build
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
I had an entirely different experience with Windows ME than seemingly everyone else. In my experience windows Me fixed a ton of hardware issues. I preferred it over 98 SE back in the day.
People Twitter
The US healthcare system is broken...
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
They’re repurposed Borg nanobots in saline solution.
Console Repair
Game Gear (VA0) - works when removing C49
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
Did you ever figure it out? I spent some time puzzling over your post, wondering if you managed to spot a difference between the other working GG and the one that operates when the cap is removed??
Console Repair
What is the solution for a hard-to-register right shoulder on Nintendo DSi?
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
Winner winner chicken dinner. I had to take off the back, but to get a good angle on the button I had to remove the orange stylus retainer and lift up the button PCB. Contact cleaner, working the switch, and then one failed and one successful shot at getting the button assembly perfectly aligned - VERY easy to JUST BARELY misalign it and remove ALL click which is entirely the opposite of what we're looking for.
I finally see why people directly blasting contact cleaner into the button area [EDIT: without opening the shell] IS a viable trick, but given the excess you spray to actually get the button means that you're also risking saturating the screen (which might not be permanent, if you're using a regular contact cleaner and not fancy shit like deoxit, which would almost certainly ruin the screen). Thanks for the assurance that it's a solid chance of success, you're totally right. I just hate flex cables and their connectors.
Console Repair
What is the solution for a hard-to-register right shoulder on Nintendo DSi?
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
Console Repair
What is the solution for a hard-to-register right shoulder on Nintendo DSi?
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
My human! Thank you, time to break out Ol’ Spudgy McSpudgerson and the ifixit Driver Band, I hope we do enjoy the show.
Console Repair
What is the solution for a hard-to-register right shoulder on Nintendo DSi?
DarthBueller 3 months ago • 100%
Thanks. I truly dislike working on the NDS and its progeny, except for the 1st gen 2DS. It is stupidly easy to disturb the ribbon cables even with the most careful hand.
Which doesn’t do much to explain why I bought a pile of DSi XLs to fix up. Separate issue.
I figured disassembly and cleaning might help but thought maybe there was an actual viable trick.
Note that a big risk with contact cleaner is that it easily penetrates into the screen. If you’re using an old school contact cleaner this usually isn’t fatal as it tends to quickly evaporate over a few hours at worst. But if you’re using deoxit or something with oils, you will damage the appearance of the screen.
I have a DSi that is in very good condition but for the right shoulder button. It *does* work but I have to press very hard to get it to register. The "lift up the button and blow into it" does actually improve the function of the button for a bit (I use canned air, not moist mouth) but it doesn't take long at all to NOT work either. Does anyone have a REAL solution that actually works short of disassembly and replacement of the button?
DarthBueller 6 months ago • 83%
Beep boop. You’re on my list.
DarthBueller 6 months ago • 100%
Trust me, my rural neighbors on all fucking sides of me aren’t hunting with the ARs they start shooting the fucking moment the get home from church on Sundays. And given the number of stray bullet incidents, they ain’t Boy Scouts either.
DarthBueller 6 months ago • 100%
Actually the level of ignorance is easy to express, if you’re William Faulkner. There are vast swaths of humanity that are dumb as fucking rocks. It’s not polite to talk about but as someone involved in education admin, there are these kinds of parents EVERYWHERE. I’ve literally sat in disciplinary appeals where the parents try to explain that their child HAD to have a concealed dagger for protection. In a k-12 school with 400 kids total, no school resource officers/popo, no fights, highly involved parents, etc. Um, no, your child is expelled and I’m slightly terrified that they’ll shoot us up when they turn 20 and start going schizto.
DarthBueller 6 months ago • 85%
Downvoted to feed your paranoia.
linuxmemes
So many things I'd rather do than go back to Windows
DarthBueller 7 months ago • 100%
I’ve got to say that the file explorer tabs are a great addition/comeback, and a vastly improved experience over the 90s incarnation where drag and drop was often hamstrung by system responsiveness (and could you even drag and drop to inactive tabs to activate them and bring them to the front back then? Don’t recall.) Using them in KDE Plasma at home , when i got a new win11laptop for work I was thrilled with many of the interface improvements. The telemetry and “widgets” are trash, though, as are the permanent ads in the windows context menu.
GreentextDarthBueller 7 months ago • 66%
You sound like an a-hole. How does it feel to be bluntly communicated with?
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 33%
Oh, you’re just interested in throwing shit. Okay. A curse upon your people. Forever. Since you have zero agency and everything is my country’s fault for the rest of eternity.
VideosDarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
No, I’m saying that regardless of theory, popular understanding of intersectionality is actually quite the opposite, a way of siloing off issue areas and the losing issue is ALWAYS labor rights. I’m telling you that in practice, I’ve had SJ groups tell me that food deserts in my overwhelmingly white rural area are the result of racism. And that the vast majority of poor white people of course had their own intersectional issues, but we had to address the racism rather than think about it as an economic and labor issue that impacts everyone. Literally, insisting that they be as ineffective as possible by approaching it in a way that loses everyone except the farthest left.
MemesDarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
I try to remember to use the old paper, but usually I despose of them in a cardboard toilet paper roll with one end pinched shut.
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
Because the blades I get aren’t packaged this way. Is that a reusable outer package? I’ve never seen anything like that.
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
If you use an electric beard trimmer to cut the long stubble down first it works better. Any razor does, but especially safety razors, since there’s only one cutting blade per side and when it’s clogged with longer hairs must be fully cleaned out for a perfect shave.
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
As someone whose grandfather was a carpenter for Gillette in Massachusetts from after WWII until a few years before his death, I’ve got to say that while i use safety razors because of the price, I do get a far superior shave in less time with the “fuck everything it, we’re doing five blades” (basically the 3+ blades modern razors). I just don’t like having to take out a second mortgage for refills.
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
Define “everything”
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 25%
No, leaving people to die on the street is a leftist thing. Because “intersectionality” promised social justice for everyone but all the left is doing is playing a defensive game of identity politics defined by the right, and any mention that labor and social benefits should accrue to everyone will get shut down. I once had a SJ group tell me that the food deserts in my poor white rural area are the result of racism and I needed to politely STFU about how goddamn fucked we are for missing the forest for the trees.
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 50%
Oh, we’re playing the evolved monkeys throwing shit at other groups of evolved monkeys!!! So much fun. Hey you can name your nationality and I’ll take a shit on your people, okay?
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 5%
Don’t worry, so long as you say the magic word “intersectionality” it will be okay. It doesn’t matter if progressives spend all of our energy on shoehorning every issue into racism and identity so long as we say “it’s okay, bro - INTERSECTIONALITY.” See? Couldn’t you feel the magic happening?
World News
UK and US airstrikes will not stop Red Sea attacks, Houthis warn
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 24%
Yes, I’ve noticed it here and on Reddit. I’m like, you are supporting folks that think slavery is required by Islam and calling them freedom fighters? The hypocrisy is tangible.
Console Repair
Replaced Some Rusty SP Buttons
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
Whew did you source the buttons? Did you run into any challenges?
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
Awesome! Thanks for the clarification, I was clearly mixed up. And thanks to the downvoter who clearly dislikes idiots like me. :)
World News
Outrage in Iran after woman whipped for refusing to wear hijab
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 100%
Are the mullahs still getting publicly disrespected and gunned down? That was epic, seeing those bloody effers getting a tiny taste of the brutality they’ve been doling out capriciously for the last 40 years. They’ve done wonders to make many Iranians go from marginally religious to adamantly anti-Islam, political or otherwise.
DarthBueller 8 months ago • 66%
What do you mean Spirit manufacturers the airframe? Spirit is an airline, Boing is the manufacturer, right? I thought all Spirit does is maintenance.
News
Iowa's Christian conservatives follow their faith when voting, and some say it leads them to Trump
DarthBueller 9 months ago • 0%
There is no difference. They think there’s a difference. Got it backwards.
As mentioned, fuse was blown on battery board. There was also battery corrosion. Reflowed solder on corroded solder joints, used fiberglass scratch pen to expose traces next to the absent fuse solder pads, and used a wire fragment/solder blob to bridge the gap for testing. It worked. Now need fuses. Overscratch area was covered with clear nail varnish (not visible but it’s there). Someday I’ll get myself some proper solder resist and a UV light. Three items of note: (1) the power connector (red/black wire connecting battery board to main board) disconnects by LIFTING the connector out of the socket, not by pulling horizontally. (2) the D-pad left button didn’t work well. I blasted the rubber pad and external d-pad button with contact cleaner (even though there is no electrical connection involved with these items). There was hardly any dirt, so I didn’t think it would work. Holy shit was I wrong. (3) the blue power LEDs don’t light. No idea if my board work broke the LEDs or if it happened when the fuse blew.   
There was a deleted post on here where someone was getting no response from the Wii but it was outputting a black screen with a white dot in the upper right. My guess was that it is a dead/loose bluetooth module, but I took two months to notice the post and only realized it was deleted after I was unable to comment (mods can see deleted posts). Regardless, I wanted to bring this Wii troubleshooting flowchart to people's attention.
Sorry about the stock photo. Anyone ever have luck rehabbing one of these boards? Recently got my hands on a DSi XL missing the battery and battery cover. Yellow flashing light of death even with replacement battery. On disassembly, there was battery corrosion. The fuse on the battery board was not only blown, it was totally absent and the pads are corroded away. I could probably rework the fuse pads but it’s very tiny work. Ribbon connector also corroded but might be salvageable. I know there are replacement boards still readily available. Anyone know where you can get replacement battery covers, besides buying either a parts unit (for stupidly high prices, what do these hawkers think a repair unit is worth?!?) or a full replacement shell for $30? Anyone 3D printing them yet?
Do you wonder "what is the appropriate goop to use in this repair?" Let's talk about it. First things first: - petroleum based products risk degrading plastic and should not be used - WD-40 is a petroleum based *solvent* and is not a good lubricant in any situation - Plastic on plastic interfaces (e.g., microswitches in a joystick) can be lubricated with white lithium grease spray - Rosin-containing (amber colored) "no-clean" flux liquid is good for solder rework but HOLY FUCK it is hard to clean up even with IPA - Hot glue is NEVER THE RIGHT CHOICE. Use kapton tape to hold wires and for the love of god if you are doing a mod that adds a port through the case, use a compatible 2 part epoxy or a 3d printed bracket (or hell, a spacer made of paper) to friction fit it, because that glue is going to give way, it's just a matter of when. Your turn - share your hard earned lessons regarding the right and wrong goops to use in different repair situations.
One of my favorite mods to do is restoring RGB and S-Video capabilities to the NTSC SNES Jr. (which is a cost-reduced version of the "one-chip" SNES) using [voultar's mod](https://voultar.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=59&product_id=88). What I want to know is this: why can I use [a cheap-ass friction-welded Aliexpress SNES multiout RGB NTSC SCART cable](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802494022391.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.3c5da124XA77yE&algo_pvid=3fb96576-8ff9-4f45-8164-dbeb317f6d86&algo_exp_id=3fb96576-8ff9-4f45-8164-dbeb317f6d86-0&pdp_npi=3%40dis%21USD%2112.09%217.86%21%21%2112.09%21%21%40212279b716891036562332890d07af%2112000021684228295%21sea%21US%214667127970&curPageLogUid=PO9sqjMuAY87) (EXAMPLE ONLY, I DID NOT BUY FROM THIS PERSON) to connect my voultar mod SNES Jr. to the OSSC, and I have a PERFECT PICTURE on my HDTV, when, alternatively, I use the [console5 mod](https://console5.com/store/nintendo-multiav-add-on-rgb-bypass-s-video-kit.html) with the same cable and OSSC and I have sync issues (sometimes a distorted signal, sometimes "No compatible signal" black screen from my HDTV)? Voultar uses a better video amp than most of his competitors, mainly because with the THS7374 you can disable the LPF, while most competitors use the THS7314/7316 video amp with the LPF permanently enabled. But this should not impact sync, should it? Someone explain why I can use stupidly cheap cables on voultars SNES RGB mod but not other's mods.
How long does it take for a properly working Nintendo DSi softmodded with Twilightmenu++/nds-bootstrap to load a game from the SD card? It seems to take nearly a minute to load a game for me. Everything works perfectly, it just seems to take a stupidly long time to get through the nds-bootstrap process (the first load of a game takes the longest, but subsequent loads of that game are only slightly faster). Meanwhile I have a Nintendo DSlite with a flashcart that is wicked fast to start a game, but the power consumption of the thing in standby mode is out of control to the point that standby mode is essentially unuseable. Is the trade-off really between stupidly long game loading times if using nds-bootstrap to start a game on the DSi but great power consumption, and wicked fast game loading but terrible battery life on a DSlite with a flashcart? Or is something wrong with my Twilightmenu++/NDS-bootstrap install?
[!consolerepair@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/consolerepair) There was no coordinated effort to relocate r/consolerepair to a lemmy community, so we're starting from scratch. The community is open to console repair questions for all generation consoles, as well as functional mods (e.g., ODE/RGB/HDMI mods). Come on over!
I have an NES front-loader where I fried something in the "silver box" that handles power and A/V (this NES part has no consistent name in the repair/modding community, that I can tell, so I'm calling it the front loader's "silver box"). I was using poor technique with my multimeter trying to test the voltage regulator and I think I shunted 12v to ground. I have an entirely socketed NES for chip testing and all of the IC's work fine. The issue seems entirely limited to the silver box. Rather than try and rebuild the silver box, I was thinking of seeing what "no-cut" options are out there. TheRealPhoenix used to sell [Borti's no-cut NES-IO](https://trp-retromods.ca/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=76) but COVID part shortages made the PIC it relies on hard to get, and he lost interest in returning it to production as certain features it had are now unnecessary (e.g., game controller activated in-game reset and palette mod changing is now available with v4 of the Tim Worthington NESRGB mod). Does anyone know where I can order a "silver box replacement kit" that has the following features: (1) interfaces with v4 of NESRGB, and (2) uses a mini-DIN for RGB output and also has s-video output? I know I could locate an appropriate PCB that comes with a BOM (parts list) where I could source parts separately, but I'd rather buy a kit. A lot of the bare PCB's that are posted online seem to require trimming a corner of the NES PCB or the internal case to make it fit, or rely on cutting a hole in the brittle NES case to install a SNES multi-out) Givent the above info, can anyone recommend either: - a no-cut kit that is available for purchase, or, if none exists, - a straightforward PCB that requires no trimming of the hardware or the case with a BOM/parts listing that doesn't require unobtainium
I see folks crossposting but I don't see how to do it in my lemmy interface (lemmy.world) - I can choose a single community to post to, not multiple. Is there a way to not have to select "english" every time I post or comment? I thought my language selection at account creation would take care of it.
I love how Adrian Black shows what the scope should look like for the C64 on power on, etc. but I have never seen anyone do the same for an NES. It would be a fascinating video. Anyone seen anything like this?
I am looking for a console repair community. I didn't see one when I searched "all" communities on lemmy.world. But I'm new here and didn't want to reduplicate a community that already exists perhaps under a different name?