Things you have fixed/modded recently

[Deleted member 397813]

my 3ds... again.

 

[Alexander1970]

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EDIT: Sorry wrong Thread....


Ok,something I have fixed in the last Days:

Fixed an Video/Picture Capture Issue with the XBox Game Bar in Windows 10.

 

[FAST6191]

Friend of mine was on a site the other month and in the bottom of a skip was that guy.

Chucked it in the back of the van and it then made its way to me (too big for their bench in the garage).
Nobody normally chucks out a nice £300 English made large Record vice with quick release so I thought I was in for a serious repair.
Nope. Pulled it apart (technically did have to use an impact driver for a couple of the face plate screws)
Cleaned it (a bit)
Greased the various internals.
The quick release was broken. Normally someone does something silly over years and breaks the half nut or something like that. Again nope. The bit of pressed steel (couple of mm thick) had the tang that limits the travel of the rod that pushes the half nut was bent. Couple of whacks with a hammer and a little go in the arbor press and it is fine again. I guess they failed to realise quick release is mainly for getting it to the point you want it to be, not releasing it when you have already clamped down.
Travels in and out quite happily so I guess nobody even used the back part as an anvil which is a rarity.

Hardest part of the whole experience was drilling new holes in the bench (some bastard made it out of stainless and I don't have a mag drill) to mount it (the one it replaced was far different in hole pattern) and finding suitable bolts.

Did also fix one of my bedroom vices -- the little rotary lock (as a general rule never buy a rotating vice) was marred when I got it as the people making it thought it was a good idea to put a hardened pin up against a machined face. Had been putting it off for years and standing at odd angles. Was bored though so pulled it apart, and then I played on the lathe ( https://gbatemp.net/threads/things-you-recently-bought-or-got.347639/page-587#post-8985763 ) to remachine the face. Also got to feel like a big boy doing compound angles. Then put a copper face on the pin to crush that down instead. Can now stand at the front of my bench to use the vice.

 

[Alexander1970]

Hello.

I have modded a black Wii using the str2hax Exploit for the first Time.

Usually Letterbomb is my Favorite and I have still no Linux around to try the Bluebomb
(...very,very sorry @KleinesSinchen ,I am very,very lazy and "faul" on this Topic..)

FlashHax did not worked because the Internet Channel was not installed.

It worked on the first Attempt.Unfortunately the Wii is not boot2 compatible for BootMii.

Thank you.

 

[KleinesSinchen]

[…]
Usually Letterbomb is my Favorite and I have still no Linux around to try the Bluebomb
(...very,very sorry @KleinesSinchen ,I am very,very lazy and "faul" on this Topic..)
[…]

Get a Raspberry Pii 3 or 4 → Cheap, versatile and easy to use. Takes less than five minutes to prepare Bluebomb on a Raspi 3 running Raspbian.

It worked on the first Attempt.Unfortunately the Wii is not boot2 compatible for BootMii.

This is sadly true for all Wiis which came with a non-white housing.

 

[zxr750j]

Got me a Vita PCH1003, ordered memory and a cheap SD2Vita (2, because 1 was less then 1$ and i'd have to pay shipping cost).
After all arrived (takes some time from China) went to http://henkaku.xyz/ and did the whole installation with the sd2vita etc (needed 1 retry because I edited the config file with a faulty line). Did not do enso btw. Happy chappy!

 

[Ryccardo]

It all started with Big Battery demanding their racket fee for the possession of a 13 year old PC...


Take cover off. Start car. Go to the mall. Buy a CR2032. Can't really screw that up, right?

But whatever creativity I've ever had kicked in. Go to the DIY store too.



The next day... there it is!


3 days later the car still smells of thinner... not like it's a bad thing

 

[Alexander1970]

A self Charging-GamePad Wii U.



Used this Universal Charging Cable



from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07JC1Q5H7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[MikaDubbz]

A self Charging-GamePad Wii U.

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Used this Universal Charging Cable

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from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07JC1Q5H7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm more intrigued by your LED mod of the Game Pad, that looks cool!

 

[IC]

I'm more intrigued by your LED mod of the Game Pad, that looks cool!

LED mod? Do you mean the Wii sensor bar lights?

 

[Alexander1970]

I'm more intrigued by your LED mod of the Game Pad, that looks cool!

Yes,that is very cool,I remember it was very hard,very tricky,needs hours and hours,because the.....




I am sorry to disapoint you,that is only a Camera "Reflex" I presume...Infrared.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Yes,that is very cool,I remember it was very hard,very tricky,needs hours and hours,because the.....




I am sorry to disapoint you,that is only a Camera "Reflex" I presume...Infrared.

heh, all the same, it looks neat, not something you normally see with your naked eye on the WIi U gamepad.

 

[chrisrlink]

I'm getting a scph- 3001 fat ps2 with a laser issue after it's fixed free-dvd-boot time

 

[emcintosh]

LED mod? Do you mean the Wii sensor bar lights?

Yes, it's just the infrared LEDs that the IR camera in the Wiimote uses to work out its position. They're not visible to the human eye, but some cameras can see them e.g. (Wiimote, obviously, or) the front-facing (selfie) camera on my phone, but not the rear-facing one…

If you did want a visible 'sensor bar', you could use candles, or anything else that's emitting IR because of being hot:
https://nintendo-wii.wonderhowto.com/forum/use-candles-as-wii-sensor-0149980/

 

[VinsCool]

I've fixed a Commodore 64 to its fullest, using parts of several other ones in mixed condition.

I plan to also fix those in the future.

Old photo but that's the one I entirely fixed, I swapped the keyboard at a later time after this photo but it's the same machine

 

[Alexander1970]

I've fixed a Commodore 64 to its fullest, using parts of several other ones in mixed condition.

I plan to also fix those in the future.

Old photo but that's the one I entirely fixed, I swapped the keyboard at a later time after this photo but it's the same machine

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Congratulations,looks like fresh out of the "(Bread) Box".

 

[VinsCool]

Congratulations,looks like fresh out of the "(Bread) Box".

Yep a lovely breadbin after all the repairs!
It had several problems, like a bad SID chip, broken case, keyboard having few unresponsive key (repaired now, but swapped before I figured it out for a VIC20 keyboard in perfect condition, but said VIC20 currently doesn't work properly lol), now it's fully operational and works great.

I've got some other breadbins I have yet to figure out. They all turn on but half of them don't even display the BASIC prompt

Gonna be fun to try and match chips I can replace, assuming nothing else was damaged.

I do know few of them do work but have issues, like bad SID, bad keyboard, bad video chip, and one also displays in random colours due to a bad Color RAM chip lol.

 

[Alexander1970]

Yep a lovely breadbin after all the repairs!
It had several problems, like a bad SID chip, broken case, keyboard having few unresponsive key (repaired now, but swapped before I figured it out for a VIC20 keyboard in perfect condition, but said VIC20 currently doesn't work properly lol), now it's fully operational and works great.

I've got some other breadbins I have yet to figure out. They all turn on but half of them don't even display the BASIC prompt

Gonna be fun to try and match chips I can replace, assuming nothing else was damaged.

I do know few of them do work but have issues, like bad SID, bad keyboard, bad video chip, and one also displays in random colours due to a bad Color RAM chip lol.

For such Cases I also like to have one Device "as Backup".Made from other "Spare parts dispensers".
This strange "Behavior" started with the Classic XBoxes (now there are around 20 Units "strolling" around in our Apartment.).
Then for the PlayStation/PlayStation 2,Wii,Dreamcast,DS Lite......Sky is the Limit I think.

 

[Jayro]

I did rebuild my Gameboy Color this summer with a backlit IPS screen, rechargeable 2000mAh LiPo battery, magnetic charging port, new shell, and complimented with an EZ-FLASH Jr and the entire North American ROMset.

(And yes... this is my picture of the end result, and not a stock photo.)

 

[Jayro]

I was bored one day a couple weeks ago, and built a car stereo boombox. No CD Player, but it has USB, Aux in, has Bluetooth, reads MP3, WAV, M4A/AAC, and FLAC formats. Everything I could ever need for music. I still need to add speaker isolation chambers with foam and airholes, but even without all that it sounds phenominal. I'll be adding some rubber feet to it later this week.