PSP 3000 : changing an old and yellowish screen
From 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, …
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PSP Go : screen replacement and microSD storage
The PSP Go is a pretty good version to play with original hardware on the go, as it is the smallest version of the console. It has however 2 mains drawbacks : its limited internal storage …
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Repairing and Extending PC Engine Duo Backup-Memory Life
The 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 …
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Replacing All Capacitors in a PC Engine Duo
In 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 …
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Revive the colors of an original Famicom
With all the photos we can found on the internet, we tends to forget that the orignal Famicom colors are plain white and dark red. Over the time, the white part tends to become yellowish. I …
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RGB Scart cables may not display RGB on a real CRT TV
This may sound strange, and sometime the exposed reason is “bad quality cable”: some RGB cables may not actualy display RGB signal on a Real CRT TV. The cable can be of a good …
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Sega Game Gear with Retrosix LCD : What is the battery life ?
Some 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 life of about 3 …
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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 take …
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Sega Megadrive : switchless region mod
The Sega Megadrive for PAL regions, like other consoles from the 90’, suffered from slow games because of 50hz TV, thus 50 fps max versus 60Hz, thus 60 fps max in NTSC regions. Some …
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Sega Megadrive 2 overclock
Despite the Megadrive has a quite fast processor for its time, the Motorola 68000, some games like Sonic 2 or Thunder force IV (and many others) suffer from slowdowns. It’s probably …
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