Mounting the DreamPSU
Dreamcast The Dreamcast was released in 1998 and is still going strong. However, as with any old console, it requires some maintenance and updates to keep functioning. Even if the Dreamcast…
Mods and improvements
PS Vita slim battery replacement
The PS Vita slim, or PCH-2000, was released by Sony in 2013, two years after the original Vita. The slim variant is 20% thinner and 15% lighter compared to the…
PS Vita softmod
The PS Vita, released in 2011, is a very capable handheld console, and you can really benefit from softmodding it, allowing you to play homebrews, backups, emulators, etc. In this…
Install WHDLoad on an Amiga 600 with Kickstart 2.05 / Workbench 2.1
I recently bought an Amiga 600 Now, the time has come to make use of the machine and to install some software on it. My goal is to create a…
Dallas RTC battery replacement
In a Swedish post about my Victor 386MX PC, I wrote about replacing the battery in a dead Dallas RTC. So, I figured I would devote a post to this…
Game Gear Zero
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…
Playstation Portable (PSP) softmod
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…
Super Nintendo (SNES): composite mod, blue LED, and paint job
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…
Gameboy DMG-01 Bivert + VGA mod
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…
Raspberry pi 3 in a Commodore 64c
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…