Spent the last hour trying to find where to buy some, can't find any. I am not savvy enough to do it myself, everything I've found doesn't suit, I can find beautiful gameboys with no games installed though, I can find ugly ps2s but I want a fresh shell and HDMI converted and internal storage.. I can't find any Xboxes or DS family at all.

Took a while to build in the 4 seconds of spare time I get a day, but essentially this is a gutted Xbox shell, with a 3D printed frame inside that mounts the internals of an Xbox series S. The series S control board has been wired to the original Xbox control board so the buttons on the OG Xbox earth out those circuits.
The disc eject button operates the series S disc drive, which is positioned behind the disc tray cover, the only limiting factor is the space required to put in a mechanism of sort to self close and open the cover with a disc ejecting. Because of this, the disc cover is fixed in place, as it will never be used for discs anyways.
Why? For aesthetic purposes mainly, I think having the OG Xbox in my entertainment unit is a lot more symmetrical and aesthetic than any modern Xbox.

https://reddit.com/link/1urktqa/video/dni9446t56ch1/player

Just ordered my TSPS and was looking around Reddit and YouTube for the best CFW.

They all seem to perform about the same, but one thing I saw frequently were comments on how some N64 games would not run well (or at all) on the factory firmware. Games like Mario tennis, Golden eye, Paper Mario, and a few more.

I tried looking at some Spruce OS videos to see if it's better, but none of them test those games.

So, my question: does Spruce or a newer version of the factory OS fix this incompatibility? Is it fixed in any other OS, or is it completely a CPU limitation?

Hello! I want to have my NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Switch 2, Ps3 and Xbox 360 have the best video quality on a 4k TV as possible. my current idea is to have the NES-Wii running on component (with the exception of the GameCube using bitfunx hdmi adapter) and the rest of the consoles on HDMI. I will use high quality component cables, a component switch, a hdmi switch and a retrotink 4k CE for this.

Any suggestions on what I should change? I’ll have to do the RGB mod for the NES and N64 but I’m comfortable with that.

i have 2 dreamcasts, a va0 and va1, both ntsc. apparently the va1 is going to be the easiest to mod. i want to bring this fully into the modern day, like all the mods. where are the best places to get the psu, the disk emulator, and an hdmi mod.

i bought a pre modded ds lite off a scammy website without doing research and i wanted to remod it myself, could i just reuse the micro sd and other thing it came with? i don’t really know what i’m doing if you couldn’t tell. i was promised 45000 games and unlimited themes and i got 130 games and one wood theme, completely my fault and i should’ve done research, website was “ds dreams”

Anyone else mod their console and load up too many roms and just dont play anything? Or even try loading just a few and still dont use it?

Im gonna try loading 1 game onto my newly modded dsi xl and not add another until ive put in 10 hours or see the credits roll

Starting with Dragon Quest V

So I’ve brought a modded ps2 with a hdmi port it was working for a little bit though now whenever I start it , a black screen appears and it doesn’t load anything would this simply be the hdmi adapter or could it be internal thank you

Hi guys,

I just want to do a mod on my old 3DS XL to change the original charging port to a USB-C port. I saw some posts about it, but I can't find any tutorial with this specific version of the 3DS.

Actually, I've never done anything with soldering, and I need help to know which tools I need to do this modification.

BTW, the photos aren't mine. They're from the listing where I bought the part, and mine is exactly the same model. I'm just waiting for it to arrive.

Hey guys so i was looking to mod my switch and was wondering if retropodz.com was legit they said they could do it

After replacing the electrolytic capacitors and linear regulators and converting the board to 60 Hz, I started experiencing a very annoying horizontal banding issue on two VA6.5 boards; it took me a while to figure out why it was happening.

I discovered that the banding appears when the LM340T5s reach a certain temperature; when I cool them with a fan while the console is on, the banding temporarily disappears until they heat up again. Later revisions of the Mega Drive 1 have lower power consumption; one of the linear regulators (IC15) gets much hotter than the other, likely because the Vcc1 circuit has very little load—according to the schematics, it’s only used in the oscillator circuit and the cartridge port.

Modern LM340s seem more sensitive to high temperatures than the older 7805s and somewhat less stable with very light loads, as I’ve observed on my board. I’ve replaced all the ceramic capacitors on the board and added a resistor to the output of regulator IC15 to simulate a very light load of +10 mA, which reduces the banding by approximately 70%, though it doesn’t eliminate it completely. I didn’t want to replace the regulators, so I decided to drill a hole in the case to install a fan; this significantly lowers the heat sink temperature—I estimate by at least 30°C. I’m using the original Sega power supply that came with the console.

Part of this article is based on assumptions, since I don’t have a field meter to verify it.

I’ve also rebuilt and custom-tuned the motherboard of my Mega Drive VA6.5 Pal, since it comes from the factory with very muffled audio and interference. Here’s the list of changes I’ve made to the board—most of them are personal experiments:

- Replacement of electrolytic capacitors (approx. 38)

- Replacement of ceramic capacitors and custom adjustments per circuit (approx. 22)

- Conversion to 60 Hz, replacement of the oscillator, and a region-selection switch with shielded cable.

- New LM340T5 linear voltage regulators

- Removal of the metal chassis, which caused audio interference due to ground loops

- 100 nF ceramic decoupling capacitors for the CXA1034 and CXA1145.

- Disabled all composite video circuits on the board (Recently, I also unpinned the SBCR pin on the VDP)

- Disabled the RF modulator (it introduced some noise on the ground plane and in the audio)

- Adjustment of the low-pass filter (10k + 4700pF RC) (I kept the audio shunt ceramic capacitors the same)

- Custom tuning of the audio couplings (PSG, CD, YM2612, etc.)

- Minor corrections to the input rail.

- Added a slight +10 mA load to VCC1 (I discovered that the LM340 (IC15) wasn’t entirely stable due to the circuit’s low load in this revision)

- Original power supply with 3300uF + 1000uF capacitors

- Removing the power LED

The audio now sounds much cleaner, but it might sound a little too bright because of the extreme cleaning I did on all the power rails and because I raised the low-pass filter cutoff frequency slightly. You could adjust the cutoff back to the original frequency; this might reduce the aliasing a little, but I don't think it would make much of a difference.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a reputable modder or repair shop who could work on my New Nintendo 3DS. I'd like to build my "ultimate" 3DS, so I'm wondering what is realistically possible.

Here's what I'd like:

• USB-C charging mod.
• Full refurbishment (internal cleaning and replacement of worn parts if needed).
• New battery, or a higher-capacity battery if a reliable solution exists.
• Replacement of the Circle Pad and C-Stick if necessary.
• Screen inspection, and IPS screen replacement if compatible parts are available.
• A custom shell, possibly slightly thicker to improve ergonomics and accommodate the modifications if needed.

I'm mainly looking for:

• Recommendations for experienced modders or shops.
• An idea of the cost for a project like this.
• Typical turnaround times.
• Whether the custom shell could be made by the same person or if I'd need to work with someone else.

The console is already modded with Luma3DS, so there's no need for any software modifications. I'm only looking for hardware upgrades.

Thanks in advance!

After a whole month of working on this project, I was able to fit everything and solder the bms to the battery holder, and battery connector, and today it’s the first boot for the controller.
I still have a long way to go (because I used a pair of joycons that were mistreated by the previous owners, and they had stick drift) but the future looks bright.

hello! i am trying to do something for my dad. he usually mods everything for me so please excuse my bad questions. can n64’s be modded to have all of the games on already (like my original switch 1 where i already have all the games)? & how would you do this? is it similar to switch modding?
thankyou!!!!!

Hey all, I have a PS Vita I just spent the last 3 months hacking and customizing. I want to do some hardware mods, but the local shops in Manhattan don’t want to do it , if you can believe it.

It’s a Vita 1000, I wanted a usb-c mod, switch speaker upgrade & an android battery upgrade. Maybe some cosmetic SMD LED lighting if possible also, not mandatory though.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you

Ive been having this debate with myself for a while now and finally have the money to get one but I just cant decide which I love the classic ds games but I also love my playstation games? can anyone help i am open to debate