– Retrodrömmar
In a previous post on Game Gear recap I briefly mentioned that I was working on putting a Raspberry pi in a broken Game Gear. In this post, I will describe this project with more details. Similar to when building a Gameboy Zero, the process of building a Game Gear Zero essentially involves creating a handheld emulation device through the use of a raspberry pi…
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Sony’s Playstation Portable (PSP) was an attempt to seriously challenge Nintendo’s dominance on the handheld market where prior challengers, such as the SEGA Game Gear, had failed. PSP has been released in numerous variants. The first version was released in Japan in 2004, followed by USA and Europe in 2005. Today, the PSP is still popular due to how easy it is to softmod the…
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I rarely like to to major modifications to original old hardware, with a few exceptions. A couple of such exceptions were a paint job of a Game & Watch Donkey Kong in horrible condition, and a VGA-mod of an original Gameboy. In this post, I will to some modifications to a Super Nintendo (SNES), which I bought from a local seller. As seen below, the…
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I have a tendency to buy broken Gameboys on Swedish eBay for around $20-$25, and then fix them. They usually suffer from two faults that are easy to repair: corrosion on the battery connectors, and vertical lines on screen. However, in some cases, the screens are beyond repair (if they have dead horizontal lines, or damaged flexible PCBs). Then, a VGA mod may come in…
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In this post I will mount a Raspberry pi 3 in a Commodore64c. The purpose is to create an emulator environment for a variety of videogames and computers. When I ran the emulators for Commodore 64 and Amiga, I think the right “feeling” did not kick in due to lack of keyboard and the possibility to use old joysticks. For this build I choose to…
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