/v/ - Video Games

Get a hot air rework station for surface mount work, especially for removal of small components. I have a Hakko FX888D for work at home and a Sealody SSA51 for my job, it's a cheap and decent iron.

Currently I'm fixing up a model 1 Genesis (with the serial port, earliest model) which appears to have some issues with its sync pulses, so I'm going to be getting into that soon. Not a console but I'm also working on fixing up my Ikegami HTM-2050RA1 which just had a vertical foldover last night. Shouldn't be a pain to fix, just a sudden upset that I've contacted Ikegami about and have some service information already.

Other than that I'm flashing a PS1 Gameshark with UniROM soon, just gotta dig my PS1 out and get my RGB cable made.

This one fits your description well, and the EE community on youtube has given it the green light.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2016-NEW-TS100-Pen-type-MINI-Programmable-Smart-Adjustable-Digital-LCD-Electric-soldering-iron-Soldering-station/32652186852.html

I'm currently trying to build a modchip for the switch. Space is an issue, not that much to work with.

>>14808565

Nah man, not trying to remove the IC, just solder to its legs. Funnily enough I just added a sync line to a PS2 Component cable, since the pins for YPbPr and RGB are the same.

>>14808571

I'm going to need some more info, that thing looks really cheap, though $60 from china, I don't know what to believe now. I've never really done fine soldering, planning on picking up some mid 00's junk electronics at goodwill or something for practice before I try to do a SNES SPDIF mod. SHVC modules are pretty inexpensive, too, so I can afford to make a few mistakes.

>>14808501

I busted out my PS3 slim the other day to jailbreak it (possibly) but I gotta get a new power cord. Is it possible to jb slims anyway?

>>14808608

Have a review from a hardware engineer.

>>14808621

>>14808571

Now that's an impressive iron. I think I'll have to order one soon.

>>14808658

Same. That thermal performance in such a small form factor is amazing, and that's not even considering the wide input range and hackable firmware. I think someone already made a PID controlled version of the stock firmware.

>>14808680

Jesus, I just wanna melt metal onto electrical things, there's firmware for this thing? What could it even do? By the way, know any other good electronics channels? I only follow Voultar who doesn't update very frequently and while he focuses on a consoles I'm always interested in learning more hardware and technique.

>>14808680

Where can I get some tips for that? A chisel is way too broad for my needs. That and that home made reservoir tip seems like it'd be great.

>>14808697

Oh, fuck, that thing requires a bench PSU, I ain't looking to drop that kinda money, anon.

>>14808697

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2018-Quicko-TS100-Soldering-Iron-tips-Lead-Free-Replacement-Various-models-of-Tip-Electric-Soldering-Iron/32858159651.html

>>14808693

I think messing with the firmware is optional, but it's a nice feature if you like to tinker.

I can recommend: EEVblog, mikeselectricstuff, bigclive, tesla500, jeri ellsworth. Those are the ones i remember from the top of my head. Mikes channel is a wealth of knowledge if you are into EE, in depth reverse engineering and other advanced electronics topics.

>>14808721

It's build for laptop chargers i think, has a standard barrel jack at the top

>PS4 firmware low enough to hack

>don't bother because I can't find any of the games I didn't already have and lack of guides

>finally find one of the games I was looking for

>5.05 firmware soon fellow pirate

>still haven't modded it

Anybody have pirates for Gundam Breaker 3 with DLC, City Shrouded in Shadow or Natsuiro High School?

>>14808765

Share thread be over yonder, anon.

>>14778127

>>14808731

Thanks, anon. Will definitely consider it. TS-1 looks like what I need.

>>14808793

I've asked in many previous share threads.

>>14808860

Depends on the accessibility of the power rails.

>>14808875

The Saturn made it so wonderfully simple with the test points for each rail right on top.

>>14808501

If you're doing surface mount you want one of the hot air rework blowers. Get a cheap one off ebay, but be sure to watch some videos from someone like Voultar on youtube to learn how to use it properly so you don't cook shit.

You shouldn't try a regular soldering iron on surface mount unless you're a drag soldering god and you have a nice soldering iron.

>>14810321

Read the thread, anon. I'm not trying to reflow or remove components.

>>14810374

Sorry, I just sort of jumped to answer your original post. I'd say it's still worth looking into though if you're looking to do other projects down the road, it's handy to have around.

Bought an XBOX HUEG of which I am cloning and swapping the hard drive, and I need to make a controller post- USB cable for the softmodding. Also bought a LAN adapter for my PS2 for a harddrive. Not really anything going at the moment. If anybody has some nice mods to show off or guides to post, please, I am curious what you guys have built in the last few months.

>>14808615

Only the early models. Get that minvercheck PS3 update and it will tell you.

A couple of days ago, I found out I was too pleb to roll a piece of aluminum foil for Fusee Galee, but in one of my crazier attempts, I bought an updated electronics repair kit (the one I was using came straight from 2003 and didn't even have security torx bits). The idea was to have the foil hang out the bottom crease, but those edge seals are air-tight.

Trying to mod my switch with some aluminum foil

I've got a backlit screen for a Gameboy Pocket coming in the mail, and the only reason I'm even swapping screens is because the bottom left corner has issues.

I just repaired a PS2 controller that would turn off under heavy vibration. I figured the cause would be some broken solder joint somewhere so I just reflowed the ics on the board with an iron. Seems to be working fine now.

Besides the youtube channels ehats a good way to learn to solder shit. Lesrn a bit then fuck with something you don't care to lose?

>>14813697

Practice makes perfect. I knew a guy whose preferred means of practice was sitting down and drawing geometric shapes on cardboard with his solder and iron. He strove to make thin, even, straight lines. It might help you, provided you have a bunch of old boxes laying around that you don't particularly care about.

Just don't leave the iron on the cardboard, or you'll risk starting a fire.

>>14813697

Do it yourself, do small solder jobs, practice with through-holes, solder sucking, practice cleanly soldering to surfaces, etc.

>>14813655

I've had a lot of trouble with PS2 controllers. I'm convinced the controller chip on them just fails.

>>14808571

I just got my TS-100 in the mail. That thing is fucking amazing for the price. Easily rivals, and even out performs comparable Hakko and Weller irons. Heats up in seconds, and is actually easy to set the temperature, unlike Hakko's 888d, just because it has two buttons. I don't want to be a complete shill for it, but of all the irons I've used, the random Chinese one is probably my favorite.

However, I'm not working on any mods right now. Any relatively simple ones I can get started on? Most of my soldering has been those cheap Chinese kits from ebay, and an old 9-5V power supply I built my freshman year.

>>14814513

Console warring and general cuckchannery.

>>14814514

Also, if you're going to start modding, it helps to get a bread board to stage your circuits before committing them to a PCB.

>>14814625

I make no promises, since I don't know how you handle an iron, but practice on cheap shit you don't care about is the best thing you can do.

>>14814705

It's great and the second best one in a great generation. Once you have one modded the options and convenience are absolutely tremendous.

>>14814705

>greatest console of all time

Seconding this. I've always been a PS2 boi but as soon as I slapped in a brand new SATA HDD I realized how better Xbox was at playing the same games. Midnight Club 3 is a great example, I'm pretty sure the PS2 lacks widescreen support.

>>14816006

Might be a loose cable or component somewhere, I'd say grab a magnifying glass and check every part.

>>14814514

>>14813697

For a further 'step-up', there are frequent good deals in Amazon for Arduino kits and such. The packages include a breadboard along with many components in several quantities: LEDs, sensors, jumper cables, little switches, LED matrix, you name it. Much cheaper than buying them separately and you get a CD and/or downloadable Engrish schematics for simple projects. Even if you don't plan on using Arduino for whatever project you want to do, you can learn and have some fun.

>>14816048

PS2 does widescreen on a per-game basis.

>>14816006

is it one of the dualshock 2's with a flexible contact film that is pressed to contacts on the controller board? If so replace the squishy foam with a piece of cardboard.

>>14819011

RROD was fixed before the Slim with the Jasper board used for most HDMI enabled 360s.

>>14818845

>>14816006

This, or clean all the contacts and the entire board with alcohol.

>>14820231

I hope you realize people aren't as retarded as you think they are.

>>14820333

The guy literally made a shitpost in the emulation thread about collectionkikes and the mods deleting all of his posts.

>>14814451

Got the dimensions on the barrel connector? I want to make sure I don't need to buy an extra power brick

>>14820231

Crying here about it with a (1) sure is helping your case and need for support you paranoid schizo.

>>14824756

yeah if we can find a standard one that does the trick that would be great. I was looking at some of the multi-system power supplies at work but they weren't at the right minimum voltage rating. If it's just $50 for the iron, +$10 for a power supply that would be fantastic.

>>14824756

The connector is a DC5525. I purchased my iron from Amazon because it came with a 19V charger that works well enough, and I didn't want to wait for it from China. This is the one I got:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MDTO6X7/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_GUTaBbFTY3NA8

>>14820333

Checked, mein fuhrer.

I've just performed (and nearly fucked up by overdrilling in haste) a composite video mod for my Atari 7800. Looks much better now, and since I had to pull the RF out due to the sound being static, that actually works now, so a double plus. Whenever I can be bothered to, I intend to replace the Xbox's clock capacitor, but I really don't have the drive to perform any other mods, really. Well, maybe composite video or something for the Atari 5200 and 2600.

Any anons with an up to date tutorial for modding fat-ps2s? Everything online seems rather outdated, also, is there a way to have save files directly stored on the HDD or will I need a gorrilion memory cards?

>>14834710

There's some useful youtube tutorials. My advice is run everything as administrator on the PC end of things. You could manually manage save back ups on the HDD, but games don't really recognize the HDD so if it's something you're actively playing keep the saves on the memory card.

>>14808615

Old models have permanent CFW, new ones require rejailbreaking it from the web browser every time and disks have to be converted to pkg

>>14835142

>cut it open

it's just a few plates held onto a frame with screws. It's doable but honestly kinda stupid and would be a gigantic project. Those monitors are incredibly rare and are only getting more uncommon and modifying one or exposing it to any knid of interference or taking it off spec could severely damage it. Not to mention if you're going to emucucking there's the issue of dealing with 480i output unless you get an even more expensive 480p one, having to go outside the case anyway for inputs due to decoding of video signals being handled separately from the monitors electronics.

>>14835152

Is CRT good for retro games or am I getting meme'd on? There is so much shitflinging around here that I honestly can't tell anymore.

>>14835219

Not normal consumer grade CRTs, per se. At least, they're not optimal if you can get your hands on studio tier equipment like the tv in >>14835142

>>14835233

So my idea of an all-in-one wonder-box that plays every game worth caring about at optimal resolution about isn't going to work? shit.

>>14835256

There's solutions for 480i/240p output from PC, especially for emulators, but it's not very feasible.

>>14835269

arcadevga, crtemudriver with older ATi cards

>>14835275

noice, thank you.

Any anons with a modded xbox 360? I was thinking of modding a slim for the xbox exclusives and the better multiplats, but I was also wondering how good of a media center the 360 is? My rebug PS3 is alright, I use movian but I always run into issues with 1080p video as the CPU is to slow to encode it. Does the 360 also run into these issues?

NIGGER

>>14835256

>>14835233

I don't see why that couldn't be achievable with filters.