I keep buying peoples collections for like 1 thing... This was part of the collection with the NEC in it. paid £400 all in for this plus the pc engine.Nice haul, now get them cleaned!
Vince's Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)
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What a total bargain. No envy here at all, no nothing to see here, move along.
I think so. I'm happy with this, all came from the same guy I got the Mega CD off of. Got him ion the mood for selling with the Mega CD. Originally he didnt want to sell the rest but after tasting the cash and me not caring about working condition etc he now cant sell me enough
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Oh dear what a shameI think so. I'm happy with this, all came from the same guy I got the Mega CD off of. Got him ion the mood for selling with the Mega CD. Originally he didnt want to sell the rest but after tasting the cash and me not caring about working condition etc he now cant sell me enough
Will enjoy the hours and hours of fun bringing them back to nearly new condition, and then selling them for a small fortune.
Oh dear what a shame
Will enjoy the hours and hours of fun bringing them back to nearly new condition, and then selling them for a small fortune.
Last ST I sold (was CIB to be fair) sold for £250 - There is absolutely a market there for them.
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Arrived back this morning (super Reliable Royal Fail
) - quick test on a monitor at work and all fine 
But dude I have a long way to go in terms of quality of camera and production - I click record and what we get is what we get
- I promise ill spend a bit more time on it in the new year making it watchable Arrived back this morning (super Reliable Royal Fail
Good news dude, good news indeed! you know where i am any further issues my man
So last night I fell down another rabbit hole! For a while I have been trying to build a fully working tetris cart for the swan that holds saves properly. It's been evading me somewhat and I don't know why. The board specs are quite simple, ROM, 2001 mapper, 1kbit eeprom (for saves) - No battery, no sram. It's about the most simple configuration for a swan game. Problem is I haven't yet managed to build a copy that will save, even after spending nearly £100 buying just about every 1kbit eeprom I can find I still havent managed to crack it. Last night I got a bit fed up so I patched the rom file to instead save to sram on a different config cart and guess who now has a working copy of tetris - Now I have to work this same thing out for golden axe! But first I bought some more eeprom chips that may just do the job!
- Now I have to work this same thing out for golden axe! But first I bought some more eeprom chips that may just do the job!
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What's life without a dreamBefore long I will be a rom patching master
What's life without a dream
100% And whats life without tetris on every platform known to man?
Last night I took my new found knowledge and made an sram copy of final lap!! And yes my little label printer is in fact amazing!!
I also made headway on Golden Axe - So I haven't been able to get it to save... in any cart configuration including on the exact PCB it would have originally been supplied on, I also built it onto a cart using both the 2003 mapper and 2001 mapper chips basically if there was a cart config I could set it up on, I did. So I decided to check the game files and see if my hack works...
You can see here my 2 versions of golden axe rom with one modified for SRAM and the original the standard eeprom... Now the interesting part, I loaded both roms into an emulator and then tracked what was happening after each game mode and screen to try and work out what was being saved. I spent hours and literally nothing would save at any point in the game. We have raised this on reddit etc but having read some bits I think this title was a rushed port! I think the devs originally intended the game to save but never actually finished the port and rushed out the title without a save feature. I'm currently seeing if this is something I can actually fix but first I need to understand what the original devs were actually intending to save in terms of game data... super interesting!
Oh and another interesting thing... When you take a rom pull that was meant to be an eeprom rom and convert it to sram the save data pointers can corrupt which in turn can cause crashes on the original hardware. So we have made a tool to reset the sram chip! Shout out to my mate Remmy here!
You know what I have really come to love the swan, its such a unique and obscure little console and because it was a Japan exclusive it opens up so many cool little projects. I love making things so that we can enjoy these more obscure titles in English and on the original hardware!
I also made headway on Golden Axe - So I haven't been able to get it to save... in any cart configuration including on the exact PCB it would have originally been supplied on, I also built it onto a cart using both the 2003 mapper and 2001 mapper chips basically if there was a cart config I could set it up on, I did. So I decided to check the game files and see if my hack works...
You can see here my 2 versions of golden axe rom with one modified for SRAM and the original the standard eeprom... Now the interesting part, I loaded both roms into an emulator and then tracked what was happening after each game mode and screen to try and work out what was being saved. I spent hours and literally nothing would save at any point in the game. We have raised this on reddit etc but having read some bits I think this title was a rushed port! I think the devs originally intended the game to save but never actually finished the port and rushed out the title without a save feature. I'm currently seeing if this is something I can actually fix but first I need to understand what the original devs were actually intending to save in terms of game data... super interesting!
Oh and another interesting thing... When you take a rom pull that was meant to be an eeprom rom and convert it to sram the save data pointers can corrupt which in turn can cause crashes on the original hardware. So we have made a tool to reset the sram chip! Shout out to my mate Remmy here!
You know what I have really come to love the swan, its such a unique and obscure little console and because it was a Japan exclusive it opens up so many cool little projects. I love making things so that we can enjoy these more obscure titles in English and on the original hardware!
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Its half way through a rebuild! Getting the screens out of them - Total pain in the rear! I apologies profusely in the video of the tear-down but what happened has happened and its now a pile of parts
Ill probably do a part 2 this evening building it back into a deck @dazzerd @rare - Stuff shipped this morning gents so with you in a few days max.
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What's life without a dream
I made a video that doesn't have shocking quality and also has some very basic editing!! Oh yea, this year we are aiming for like 50 youtube subscribers! - Or if we could get as many subs on youtube as followers on ebay that would be and achievement for me lol. Setting the sights low, very low
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