Sign of the times?

Well I know my blog is mainly about the Spintendo build, but I wouldn't be doing my video game duties If I didn't report that Playstation will also be following Nintendo and ceasing production of their Playstation Magazine. What is the world coming to?

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RIP NINTENDO POWER

I was sad to hear that the last issue of Nintendo Power will be Dec 2012. I'll always remember the awesome reviews,comics,strategy guides, and cheats provided by this marvelous magazine. It was a huge part of my life growing up and will always be remembered.

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Retrousb Pricecuts

If you are in the market to build an NES PC then today would be a good day to buy your retro chips. Head on over Retrousb.com and pick yourself up some NES/SNES chips for just $14 a piece. It's a pretty good deal if you ask me.

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Project ADD

I have ADD when it comes to working on projects. I'm actually taking a break from the Spintendo to work on a new project which involves a millipede arcade cab. I'll be converting it into a cab that plays Point and Click adventures such as Maniac Mansion, Sam and Max...ect. More to come on that later. I know it's not as cool as the Spintendo, but like I said, I have Project ADD. I guess I always like to keep busy with one project or another.

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Redo

I decided it was time to redo the soldering job on the NSB ports. They were pretty terrible. I had never really soldered before so they look like crap to say the least. Also it made the pins really lose since the heat melted the plastic. So here's the old and the new. The pic new doesn't show them connected yet, because I purchased another broken nintendo for dirt cheap on ebay to replace the melted and shotty ports.

Old Way

And the new way

The new way uses the original pins to connect to the port instead of soldering them directly.

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Or not...

So it was a long shot, but I decided to pull the motherboard battery. Well after I did that it's back to normal. I'm not sure the hdmi will output sound but at least I have everything back and running.

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Back to the dead...and the grave.

Well another major motherboard failure has deemed this prjoect dead. I'm calling it quits. This motherboard also produces no sound from the hdmi, and will no longer boot any OS from a hard drive. Zotac produces very low quality products...at least the ones I've recieved. It was the first and last product I'll buy from them. Game Over and I'm out of continues.

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Finally...

After many months of waiting/delaying its back. The build is back and running and is pretty stable. I had some issues trying to install xp via usb,but other than that its running well.

Speaking of xp via usb...don't! Just save yourself the trouble...spend 10 bucks and buy a crappy usb cd rom. Trust me it will save you from a lot of headaches. Windows 7 on the otherhand will install pefrectly. I wanted xp...therefore I must of wanted some headaches. Everything is running good now though.

Right now I'm setting up my controls to run with joy2key. It will make operating Hyperspin a lot easier.

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Final Tear Down...Hopefully

Well here is the final tear down...at least I sure as heck hope it is. I can tear this bad boy down while being blind folded and hung upside down.

I re-soldered my power connectors and added some shrink tubing as well to make it a little more seamless. Turned out quite nice...especially since the soldering number I did on it the first time around was absolutely horrendous.

I also added a grill finally and added some shrink tube around the NSB connections as well.

And last but not least...I removed the piece of credit card I used for a backing for the power supply and added a thick piece of plastic.

Also as I mentioned before I replaced my standard hard drive with this nice new Sandisk SSD.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll have more to post. Possibly even the cartridge art.

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Status Update

Well it's time to get back to the project. I pretty much just bought everything I needed to finish the project. I decided to bite the bullet and go with a 120gig SSD (Solid State Drive) Hard Drive. This will drastically reduce the heat produced because it contains no moving parts. It cost almost as much as the motherboard and processor together @ $135 so I hope it was worth it. I also purchased new some new LEDs for the power light, because I ended up breaking one of the ends off of the original by accident. Another thing I finally purchased was a fan grill to protect the fan and polish the look of the project. I bought a heat gun, and some shrink tube to protect the soldered wires as well.

As far as the new site is going...well lets just say right now it's at a stand still for now. Eventually I'll get to it.

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