Some time ago, I had the opportunity to get both an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1200. While the Amiga 500 was restored as a fairly traditional machine, I had a more ambitious project in […]
Read moreThe PC-Engine DUO line of consoles has an internal memory to store game’s saves. But this memory is not like an SDCard as it needs to be powered in order to retain the data. Unless […]
Read moreOne of the most common problem with the Atari Lynx 2 is bad sound output. It can becomes very low and / or kind of saturated. Usualy, the source of the problem is the speaker. […]
Read moreFrom all PSP models, the 3000 serie is my favourite (I don’t like the sliding mecanism of the PSP GO). It has all 2000 serie’s advantages (thin, bigger battery, 64Mb of ram, better speakers) and […]
Read moreThe PSP is a very nice portable console, but its UMD drive is quite fragile and tends to miss read games. This may leads to (very) slow loading or even not loading games at all. […]
Read moreThe Game Boy Pocket is my favourite model. I already modded one with backlight and bivert. This considerably enhance the display and the gaming experience. However it is still a passive dot matrix screen which […]
Read moreIn the PC-Engine consoles line, the DUO is my favourite. It plays Hucards, all CD-Rom games (excepted Aracade ones) and has still a nice dark gray look despite its age. I know that the DUO-R […]
Read moreSome time ago, I wrote about my pimped Game Gear with a brand new shell and an new LCD display from Retrosix. We all know that the orginal Game Gear has a very bad battery […]
Read moreThe Mega CD (1 or 2) is region locked. Unlike the Megadrive, the region check is not done in hardware, but directly in the BIOS. It means that all MegaCD are (almost) identifcals but a […]
Read moreThe Game Boy Color is a pretty good portable console with some funny games (e.g. Wario land 3, Motoross maniac 2). Unlike others handhelds, the screen has not a big ghosting effect like the Sega […]
Read moreThe Sega Megadrive, whichever revision you look at, has a different cartridge slot’s shape depending on the model japanese or an EUR / US. This was a cheap but not so efficient way of zoning […]
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