Things you have fixed/modded recently

MrCokeacola · Jul 26, 2019

"fixed" in the most lightest sense of the word my Dreamcast today. Did the most laziest fix for a GDEMU and put a few resistors on the 12V rail to ground like shown here https://retrogamesultra.com/2019/02/17/sega-dreamcast-gdemu-installation-and-setup/

Alexander1970 · Jul 27, 2019

MrCokeacola said:
"fixed" in the most lightest sense of the word my Dreamcast today. Did the most laziest fix for a GDEMU and put a few resistors on the 12V rail to ground like shown here https://retrogamesultra.com/2019/02/17/sega-dreamcast-gdemu-installation-and-setup/

Thank you that is EXACTLY what i searched for !!! (3x1Kohm 1/4W resistors)
Many,many thanks my friend !!!!!

Alexander1970 · Jul 28, 2019

A Singing and speaking Winnie Puh.
He comes "without singing and speaking".

nasune · Jul 31, 2019

Last week I finally got my package with the parts needed to finish some fixes/mods, so I've been busy. The first fix was a Sega CD (model 2). When I bought it and brought it home it wouldn't turn on, the culprit turned out to be a blown fuse. It's not a difficult fix, so after adding a fuse holder and a fuse everything works like a charm.
After that I decided to finish my SNES supercic mod which actually needed to be fixed afterwards. As it turned out I lifted the wrong pin (25 rather than 24) on the PPU, so after another quick (albeit more difficult than the last) fix everything runs smoothly on that regard as well.
Following that, the next project was a Casduino in a printed case, which surprisingly worked out just fine as well (I'm not gonna lie, I expected at least one of these projects to fail miserably).
Finally, I made a small nightlight for my niece, and slightly modded a 3d print of Koholint island to have a LED in the wind fish egg.

my casduino (unfortunately my paint ran, making the markings unclear)

My nieces nightlamp containing two LEDs

And Koholint

MrCokeacola · Jul 31, 2019

Softmodded my Nintendo Switch. Now if only I had some games to play on it besides Mario Odyssey.

Mythical · Sep 1, 2019

Just fixed my PS3 (getting it ready as a couch co-op machine)
I had some formatting error on the hard drive a while back then lost the sata cable until now

MrCokeacola · Sep 3, 2019

I could not fix it but I replaced the Power Supply for my N64 today. It was making a buzzing sound when turned on and this was causing lines to show up on the screen. Replaced it with a 2nd power supply I had and no more lines or buzz. Opened up the old Power Supply and saw the caps on it were starting to bulge. Safely put it in the trash after that.

alexsandro22 · Sep 7, 2019

I've just modded my splitting maul. Speaking more clear I've sharpened it. If here are people who use this tool for cutting wood or maybe for some kind of other activity they probably know how important to sharpen it. Anyway it was quite hard work to do it and I've done it well enough. I followed all tips I'd found in article https://cozyhousetoday.com/how-to-sharpen-splitting-maul and got exactly that result I'd expected to see. Rate it guys!

RattletraPM · Sep 24, 2019

Installed Coreboot on my Thinkpad X220. I'll be completely honest: I haven't done it due to free/open-source software related reasons (I support FOSS, but disassembling my laptop and hooking its SPI chip to an external flasher just to say "it's 99% powered by free software now" is a bit too extreme imo) rather mainly because I needed to mod my BIOS to remove the whitelist and replace/upgrade the Wi-Fi card anyway. I already had the right equipment for the job so I decided to give it a shot as that'd also give me other benefits compared to the stock BIOS as well (faster boot, ME cleaner, custom payloads, unlocked flash, etc.)

PalomPorom · Sep 25, 2019

Flashed TWRP, Magisk, and EdXposed on my Note 10+. Didn't even want to upgrade from my Note 9 unless there was at least root. Just gotta wait for devs to do their thing and release custom ROMs

Sent from my toaster running Rebug

nasune · Dec 8, 2019

Fixed the keyboard on one of my MSX machines. One of the tracks on the membrane was broken, so fixing it was fairly easy. On the modded side of things, one of my Sega Megadrive model 2's now has a regionfree switchless mod plus an actual scart port on the side. Besides that I've added both composite outputs and a flashcart to one of my Atari 2600 consoles. And finally, while not so much modding as making from scratch, I've made my own MSX controller since I lacked a proper one.
Pics:
The Megadrive in PAL mode

The female scart connector

The composite connectors (white is video, red audio)

The only external part of the flashcart, the micro SD port

Flashcart menu

And a game in action

And finally the controller. Unfortunately the paintjob was ruined because the glue used to bond the plexiglass to the rest of the controller was way too aggressive (I swear I'm not that bad at painting :S ). Literally everything aside from the switches, and 9 pin connector are custom (the PCB, the casing and the cable are all designed and fabricated by myself).

Dinoduck · Jan 28, 2020

alexander1970 said:
Our 9 Year old Dyson DC 20 Animal Pro (change the vacuum cleaner motor)
Thats the ONLY part that really can be broken if you take care.

Great device.

Nice. I can't say the same about my Roomba. I was trying to replace the wheels that suddenly felt apart but I couldn't assemble it back. It was only 2 years old though. The search on Amazon doesn't show this model anymore, weird. I guess I'll need a new one, maybe a 960 or 980 according to this review.

Got a Gameboy Color, it was both dirty cheap and dirty itself. But now it looks a bit better.

nasune · Mar 2, 2020

I'm not sure whether it's right, but it probably fits under modded.

After finding a broken New Ghostbusters II bootleg (one of the eproms was busted) I decided to turn it into a Holy Diver bootleg (including a patch for the english translation). The process was fairly simple, and, while the box is nothing to write home about, the game works like a charm.
The cartridge itself was left yellow on purpose (as is the R in the upper left corner and the cut off nature of the label) to ensure that it's easy to identify as a bootleg/repro.

Tom Bombadildo · Mar 2, 2020

A couple months ago I bought a "broken" launch Xbox One off a friend of mine for like $40. It was just overheating, so I pulled it apart, cleaned out the inside (which was full of dust), and then bought a replacement heatsink/fan for another $10 and bam, $50 Xboner.

Also repaired my Atari 2600 I bought ages ago, just needed a new voltage regulator and that was it but I replaced the caps, too, just because.

Sathya · Mar 15, 2020

i have modded my electric tyres inflator. the pressure sensor (PSI or BAR) was demage, and its so hard to find that item online. so i cut the pcb module to 12 volt input with a car magnetic relay. it works fine, but i need to buy external PSI pressure regulator for control the air pressure on tyre.

NB: i try to modded my stomach, because i always eat 600 gram rice every day.

wiitendo84 · Apr 13, 2020

Fixed a nonworking n64 gameshark months ago by hooking it up to my good one and changing the key code to the normal keycode. Got it for free due to a friend just going to trash it.

micp · Apr 14, 2020

Today's job involves cleaning and re-capping two GameGears. The case on one of them is pretty beat up too so I'm going to give give it a sand and polish, try and make it look a little nicer.

Navonod · Apr 16, 2020

Gameboy DMG backlight mod with rechargeable battery mod. Gameboy Color backlight mod with sound amplifier.
Gameboy advance backlight with rechargeable battery mod and aluminum housing.

I need to get a new shell for the Gameboy color. You can see where I used the wrong screws because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing.

Chains · Aug 5, 2020

Few weeks ago I finished modding both of my Switches.
Was a very long process, due to my PC being extremely under-powered, but its done.

slaphappygamer · Aug 5, 2020

Snagged a switch from another device. Turns out that switch fits this little slot on the 360. I’ve got a 12v constant to the stock fans. I wired one side of the switch to 3.3v and the other to 5v source. Now I can toggle between 7v or 9v to my fan with this switch. Don’t ask for a photo of the wiring, it’s not pretty.

Next, I’ve got leds to install and window to cut in. May cut a window into the dvd drive as well. Progress will be slow due to my schedule.

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