Sega Master System FM sound expansion module
It is a well known thing now : the japanese Sega Marks III had additional hardware compared to its US and Europe counterpart (the Master System) : a Yamaha FM sound chip. Not all games […]
Read moreIt is a well known thing now : the japanese Sega Marks III had additional hardware compared to its US and Europe counterpart (the Master System) : a Yamaha FM sound chip. Not all games […]
Read moreIn a previous article, I pimped a good old Socket 7 based PC with a K6-II 400 (overclocked to 500Mhz) and a Riva 128. For sure it was running very nicely, but I found two […]
Read moreBack in the nineties, I was using boosted Amiga computers and a Playstation, not a PC. Of course, I had the chance to play Doom on my father’s PS/2 with its 486SLC, but I did […]
Read moreChanging the BIOS of a Playstation 1 may sound weird. As explained in a previous article, my console is a Japanese model thus it has an additional region check in its bios. So even with […]
Read moreThe playstation 1 is not my favourite system, but I have to admit that it has some good games. I got an NTSC PSOne for really cheap and some NTSC games can be difficult to […]
Read moreI recently had to replace the touch panel of my Nintendo DSi XL : it was not working anymore and some games were even crashing while touching the screen. I think it is worth replacing […]
Read moreAmiga computers are by far my preferred retrocomputing machines. Several years ago, I owned multiple ones: A500, A2000 + SCSI, A1200 (+68060, tower, Zorro 2 bus, C64/3D) and ultimately a marvelous Amiga 4000 PPC with […]
Read moreThe Wonderswan color has an horrible screen, but good IPS replacements exist and are easy to mount. However, the Wonderdswan power source is very limited with only one AA battery. An IPS screen can drain […]
Read moreThe Wonderswan color is an upgrade of the Wonderswan which had a black & white display… Well an upgrade regarding the colors of the display, but not its quality. The original screen is even worth […]
Read moreI recently modded my N64, first by converting it to NTSC, then by adding an Tim Worthington’s RGB kit. The motherboard was still out of its shell and the temptation was high to apply a […]
Read moreIn a previous post, I shared how I converted my PAL Nintendo 64 to NTSC. The problem is that my CRT TV does not support NTSC composite signal, so an RGB mod was mandatory. I […]
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