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Hardware appreciation thread Anonymous 12/10/18 (Mon) 23:20:17 a48bc9 No.15853024

We may always have emulation as the best alternative but sometimes we just like to keep the original stuff around and better if it actually works, recently I have seen you can even replace the disc reader for a card reader on a Dreamcast, there is the whole capacitor replacements for PC Engine and some other tricks for a handful of consoles.

So what do you keep around people? do you mod the consoles in one way or another?

Anonymous 12/10/18 (Mon) 23:21:46 c2b80a No.15853032

Reported

>>>/tech/

Anonymous 12/10/18 (Mon) 23:22:29 a48bc9 No.15853036

>>15853032

What? we can't talk about the console hardware this way outside of /tech/?

Anonymous 12/10/18 (Mon) 23:24:17 ea0a28 No.15853045

>>15853036

Its either a raid or cuckchan is down or something, many of the threads are being shat up

Anonymous 12/10/18 (Mon) 23:25:51 a48bc9 No.15853050

>>15853045

The funny thing is I get my threads called "raid" or something, I know this is /v/ but is not like worthless threads wouldn't get buried.

Anonymous 12/10/18 (Mon) 23:28:56 5e9079 No.15853065

Daily reminder to remove the time capacitor from your OG Xbox

Anonymous 12/10/18 (Mon) 23:31:20 a48bc9 No.15853077

>>15853065

I am not familiar with that, is that a meme or a real fix for something important?

Anonymous 12/10/18 (Mon) 23:44:52 7a45e6 No.15853140

>>15853077

It's something important, but only on specific board versions of the OG Xbox.

The clock cap on that specific board tends to leak eventually. Doing that on the later boards causes it to not boot though and you should replace it on that one instead if you need to at all. If you have one you should see what revision you have before you start cutting shit out.

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:27:50 5e9079 No.15853592

>>15853140

It's every board but 1.4 the newest one there's an infographic I don't have saved but look it up on YouTube or something

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:30:18 b1fec4 No.15853601

How long does my SNES have until I have to replace the caps?

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:30:42 b789d5 No.15853604

File: 0e9899583554423⋯.png (89.08 KB, 280x231, 40:33, ClipboardImage.png)

This is the most perfect piece of technology that humans have created and you can never prove me wrong.

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:44:55 c60673 No.15853645

File: 166ad14370860cf⋯.jpg (68.36 KB, 1000x691, 1000:691, CUTE.jpg)

whoah there buddy i think you just made a >>>/tech/ thread!

>>15853077

It's a real fix, the capacitor can leak on the mb and fucking kill the xbox because microsoft was too jewish to put good capacitors in just like mark is too jewish to let us have decent threads

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:45:34 a48bc9 No.15853647

>>15853604

What am I looking at?

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:48:16 85266d No.15853658

>>15853647

Look up the name on the chip.

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:49:56 250f27 No.15853675

>>15853592

1.6 is the safe board revision. Every revision earlier must have it removed or replaced and the vented electrolytic fluid cleaned up.

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:50:48 671d63 No.15853682

File: ec7ab05be4217d1⋯.jpg (19.57 KB, 790x287, 790:287, MOS_6502AD_4585_top.jpg)

>>15853604

>>15853647

>sid chip

>not just pulling out a keyboard

the 6502 is the better meme technology

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:51:15 c60673 No.15853685

Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>15853647

look up the model number lazy nigger

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:52:03 efb181 No.15853691

File: aadb6e2289c8e95⋯.jpg (99.13 KB, 1026x658, 513:329, 8008.jpg)

>>15853604

If that's true, then this baby is the most important piece of technology ever created and no one can ever prove me wrong either.

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:54:57 4ba117 No.15853708

>no mention of z80

>no mention of 68k

What's the matter? Too COMMON?

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 01:58:46 250f27 No.15853721

File: a0cb3fc6a49392a⋯.png (540.1 KB, 640x457, 640:457, ClipboardImage.png)

>>15853604

>sid chip

nah

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 02:01:05 df6629 No.15853730

>>15853721

i've heard that the genesis can use newer/more powerful models of the sound chip and makes games sound different. some guy had a youtube video of it. (not the mega amp)

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 02:01:59 68682d No.15853733

File: 7a9a1559f63e35c⋯.jpg (6.39 KB, 220x100, 11:5, MEIN SYNTH.jpg)

>>15853721

>posting the gimped version

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 02:04:55 250f27 No.15853747

>>15853730

It's more like they just sound worse. Genesis consoles are a mess as far as hardware revisions but fortunately the most desirable ones are common. Games don't really care if you have a ym2612 or not, they'll still try to use the same addresses and if they aren't there or are changed, they'll either use them or not resulting in unintended results.

>>15853733

Just posting the one that got the best results

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 02:12:06 68682d No.15853778

File: 9456c1a5888418f⋯.webm (1.61 MB, 454x256, 227:128, Sid Fishes - C64 music (F….webm)

>>15853747

Yeah, but people forget that the Commodore 64 had a FM add-on. Also, someone is working on a YM2608 tracker program, so I cannot wait to see how that pans out. The best FM chip is the YM2151, hands down.

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 09:32:58 a48bc9 No.15854902

So you can actually "change" the original chip with a different one with somewhat the same specifications or something like that?

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 09:43:14 ecf4f8 No.15854917

>>15853601

SNES had higher quality caps than most consoles, but some people suggest electrolytic capacitors should be replaced every 25 years because they tend to go out of spec. If you've never done it before you may as well get a cap kit and get it overwith.

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 11:07:13 be3ed7 No.15855017

File: 012b143834278ef⋯.jpg (1.53 MB, 3264x1836, 16:9, IMG_20180707_232524.jpg)

>>15853601

The SNES is not really in the list of systems in dire need of re-capping. That list includes the TG-16 (and its derivatives like the Duo) and the Game Gear. Newer CD-based systems, too, I suppose.

>>15854902

Essentially, yes. As long as the inputs and outputs are still on the same pins, and there's no difference in the input our output levels (voltage, current). It sounds complicated, but it's often like simply using a different brand of vanilla to make cookies or something.

>>15854917

If one has nothing better to do, re-capping old computer motherboards and game system boards is at least very effective preventative maintenance.

Image is all you have to do to get expansion audio from an Everdrive (with the appropriate OS version, of course). Just one resistor.