Just my opinion, but it feels like Alalogue is run by a single person, building systems by hand. That explains away the year-long waiting list. But feel free to change my mind. (They've been like this before the fake chip shortage too, btw.)
Just modded my cheap multimeter with a spare GBA battery I had laying around and a spare TP4056 I had. The output voltage is close to 6v, but it's good enough for this. I just hate 9 volt batteries with a passion.
Got my copy of NieR:Automata today in the mail. It's a day late, but I'm glad it's finally in my hands. It even includes the DLC on the cartridge! This is the alternate cover featuring A2 on the front, and I love it!
It also came with a pre-order shirt! This is the design:
I asked in the GBdev Discord server if anyone knew of any tools to brighten up color pallets for Gameboy Color games, and after analyzing the Zelda DX ROM I sent him, this dude just cranks out this amazing Python script from scratch, like it was nothing. (I wanted to desaturate the colors for GBC accuracy.)
Only thing drive me crazy is all these new horror games nowadays is its so dark, all time. I can't even play them. I understand they trying to create spooky but be creative a little, not just darkness with pop out scare scenes.