Repair and refurbish

Joystick tester db9 (Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari, etc)

Dreamcast 14 September, 2018 4 Comments

I recently bought some broken joysticks (Tac-2, Wico Command Control, etc) at Swedish Ebay. Some of them had cut cables for some reason. So, after I’ve fixed them I want to make sure they work properly before I plug them into a real joystick port. A quick way to do this is by construct a joystick tester. The idea is rather simple: You connect the…
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Joystick tester

Game & Watch Donkey Kong refurbish

Dreamcast 11 September, 2018 31 Comments

In this post I aim to refurbish a poor Game & Watch Donkey Kong that has been severly mistreated by a former owner. The classic handheld game from Nintendo was bought on Swedish Ebay together with two broken Gameboys, of which one is repaired (we will cover this in a later post). Anyway, the below pictures show the state of Donkey Kong when we recieved…
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Repair and refurbish

DonkeyKong, GameandWatch