New video:
The Horror: GameBoy Backlight Mod
The original GameBoy (DMG) had not the best LCD display that one could wish for. Most importantly it was a reflective only display, which required substantial amounts of external light to be visible. A friend sent me their DMG with the request to install an LED backlight mod. I thought: how hard can it be? Well, you be the judge of it...
https://youtu.be/0jMW3nCg9B0
#nintendo #gameboy #modding #retrogaming
So after seeing a post about a year ago on Tinker Different about a Philips Discoverer Mod, I bought a replacement main board for my own TV to implement composite inputs.
"Wonderful have no limits"
Man, I don’t know. People might judge me for ordering stuff on AliExpress, but that’s the only place where to get that stuff. The rest is just dropshipping from the same vendors.
#modding #ipod #gameboy #gameboydmg #ipodclassic
Security engineer @alexhaydock acquired a Wii at the #EMF2024 Swap Shop. He intended to use it to emulate games, but when he realized that it could be used to host a website, he decided to try that instead. @404mediaco’s Samantha Cole spoke to him about how well it’s working, and what he’s planning to do with it (#EMF2026, here he comes). Check out the second link to find out how our friends at 404 are doing, and what they’re cooking up next.
https://www.404media.co/this-website-is-running-on-a-wii/
https://www.404media.co/how-404-media-is-navigating-economic-headwinds/
Exciting news for retro gaming enthusiasts and Open Hardware fans!
The Open DMG Display project is now live! This open-source TFT mod for the original Game Boy (DMG-01) is powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2350B. Features include dimming, palette switching, automatic game detection, and more. All files are available, making it fully open-source and open hardware. Check it out and bring your Game Boy into the modern era! linkhttps://www.embedded-ideas.de/posts/250417_open_dmg_display/ #OpenDMGDisplay #GameBoy #RetroGaming #OpenSource #Modding #RP2350B #OpenSource #OpenHardware #DIY
Project Release: Open DMG Display is now live!
An open-source TFT mod for the original Game Boy (DMG-01), powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2350B.
Please repost!
#opendmgdisplay #oshw #gameboy #modding #retrogaming #codeberg
https://www.embedded-ideas.de/posts/250417_open_dmg_display/
Some more progress on the Black Hole Generator! I messed a little with particle effects and tried giving it a little Accretion Disk that gets bigger as more stuff gets sucked into the Schwarzschild Radius. It's not perfect yet, and the particles can get a little funky if they're turned down in the settings, but overall I like where this is headed!
After an initial round of feedback, I've tweaked how the BHG "fires" the singularity. Instead of it being thrown from the gun itself, it now spawns wherever you're looking when it fires. Because of this, the player themselves are also beholden to the gravitational pull, which is definitely an added risk to the reward of being able to immediately delete everything across the battlefield...
I've been trying to decide what other weird weapons I want to add to my pack along with the pipebombs I've showed off before, and I've got a few stewing in some early notes documents here and there, but I was quickly inspired to make this behemoth, the Black Hole Generator, or BHG. Most of the base weapon code pulls from the standard BFG-9000 that HDest defines, but instead of a giant ball of Gretchenfrage flavored death, this gun fires, as the name implies, a Black Hole Singularity.
Still working on the graphical assets while I nail down the mechanics, but I finally got this thing behaving in a way that doesn't immediately crash or destroy itself out of nowhere, so that's progress!
One more photo of the keyboard frame after the surgery. Almost all holes went in the middle, except one. 
But that still holds its screw just fine.
And no sign of any modification is visible from the other side. Perfect.
Commodore 116 keyboard repair and modding in progress. 
Step 1:
Drilling the plastic rivets, and making tiny screw holes in the case, using a 1.4mm drill bit. The drill stop is set up in a way, that one can't drill through the plastic.
Step 2:
"It's cheaply built keyboard smoke! Don't breath this!"
Step 3:
Using 22 tiny M1.7x4mm screws in place of the rivets. The keyboard can be freely dis- and reassembled now.
#throwbackthursday today to when I used Freetrack and my webcam to turn head movement into mouselook then changed the game's camera.ini so objects near the camera move faster relative to objects further away, which effectively turned my game into a 3D diorama based on my viewing angle.
(framerate's smoother than captured)
#hacking #modding #tbt
aaaaand, I released the PU-22 RAM mod. I actually expect this to work on other models too, but I don't have tested it yet.
Kept working fine here after a day of testing/playing around. All RAM still addressable. I'll let other people have fun with it.
I bought and upgraded a GameBoy Advance SP with a new case, IPS screen, buttons, and battery.
I was going to make a post about the Xbox 360 store shutting down and say "countdown to the community-run alternative"
But it turned out my friend Derf (maker of Console mods .wiki) had been working on a homebrew replacement in anticipation of the shut down and within 24 hours of the Xbox Live Store on 360 shutting down his homebrew store went live!
How amazing is that? The modding community *rules!*
#gaming #pcgaming #modding #Fallout #FalloutLondon #gog
Fallout Fans, ihr dürft euch freuen
Heute wird die Riesenmod Fallout London veröffentlicht
Yuhu
Ich freue mich. Ich habe schon mit Fallout 4 viel Spaß gehabt
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/fallout-london-erscheint-heute,3417011.html
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