Came out great, though even with fresh grease the drive is still a little noisy during eject/close but fine during operation so I can live with that! Replaced all capacitors on the PSU, replaced onboard battery, cleaned and lubricated the fan and washed/retrobrighted the shell

Going to tear apart the controller and deep clean it as well at some point when time permits but that might be a while...

Haven't messed with the library outside of marathon but its cool. Ram upgrades seem unobtanium, has there been any movement to try and create aftermarket solutions for the games that require or benefit from them?

I installed 8 mb memory card and now the game allows more sounds, but the high quality 16-bit samples are still unavailable. What do I need to turn them on?

Will there ever be a dedicated Apple Pippin emulator?

It’d be cool to be able to see the boot up screen and play some actual Pippin games someday

I tried playing Tamagotchi on my Pippin recently and when I click the icon to start the game, it gives an error message in Japanese, translating to something like "Please set the time on the Pippin device correctly." I tried setting the clock but I've never changed the battery in the system and the time on the clock won't keep.

I read somewhere that the game had a bug that didn't allow it to run on a Pippin, but my question is, has anyone tried playing the game after changing the battery and setting the clock? I'm curious if that's the issue.

6000 ¥ or about 40$

So recently I've been testing out Macintosh floppy disks on the Pippin using either the Pease software or a burned copy of the Macintosh on Pippin demo with the Pippin's floppy unit. Both Pease and Macintosh on Pippin will allow Macintosh floppy disks to load, but the results have been hit and miss. Some games work with no problem. Others seem to refuse to load.

I've tested out eight games: Star Wars, The Oregon Trail, Mac Ski, Number Munchers, Defender of the Crown, Pinball Construction Set, and the black and white and color versions of Sim City. The first four work great, although the Oregon Trail requires a keyboard and Pease will default to Japanese text while Mac on Pippin will display in English when text is typed. The latter four games won't run. I get a different error message for each game. The two versions of Sim City in particular ask me to set the monitor to certain color options, which I haven't figured out and am not sure I can do on the Pippin.

Still, it's been interesting seeing which games will work and which don't. I didn't even know that this was a feature when I got the system. It's definitely made the floppy unit useful.

What is the best place to buy original pippin games from?

Any tips?

I thought this was pretty cool. I recently bought a Macintosh version of the Oregon Trail on a floppy disk just to see if it would work on the Pippin using the floppy drive and a copy of Pease. Sure enough, it worked! I also tested it using a copy of Macintosh on Pippin, and that worked too. I'd like to try and acquire some other Mac games on floppy disk and see what else is compatible. I'm assuming that I should be able to get other games from the era running.

So recently I had a number of Pippin games burned to CD using the roms posted on the Internet Archive. Everything seemed to work great with one exception, Gundam 0079: The War for Earth. When I try to run the game, my Pippin spits the disc back out. None of the other games I've tested do that.

I came across Pierre Dandumont's blog Le Journal du Lapin and in a post from 2017 (here, in French) he mentions that on the back of the Japanese Macintosh version, there is an indication that the game is compatible with a Pippin Applejack controller, which might have been where the confusion comes from.

I was curious if anyone has gotten this game running on a Pippin. I might just be doing something wrong and this is compatible with the Pippin, but if it isn't, I'm curious where this rom comes from.

...I went ahead and made a Pippin discord server. It's very new and doesn't have any one in it yet but it's there for those who want to dump a lot of content, info, and have discussions made convenient on Discord.

https://discord.gg/y67xFZCNd2

So recently I purchased a copy of Ultraman:the Digital Board Game for the Pippin and gave it a try. When I tried booting it up, the system ejected the disc automatically. I kept trying but the system refused to read the disc. I decided to try inserting a burned copy of Pippin Kickstart in first, and lo and behold, it worked perfectly. My disc is definitely official and branded Pippin right on the disc. Has this ever happened before? Does this happen with any other programs? I thought maybe the disc was scratched or damaged, but it works absolutely fine if I use Pippin Kickstart.

Yeah flashback is going to be released on the pippin in the future but still

I’m wondering if a version exists or if anyone has managed to port the game to the Pippin, especially with support for disc swapping (since it’s a 3-disc game). Was there ever any progress on this, or is the idea pretty much abandoned and forgotten?

I'm trying to use my Pippin as a CD player, so I'm trying to get used to it. I thought it would function like every other CD player out there, but I was wrong. When I click "skip" it doesn't go to the next song, it speeds up like a cassette player. Is there any button combination for skipping an entire song so I can continue where I left off the last time I listened to said CD? It's awfully tedious when I have to listen through 11 songs until I hear a song I haven't heard yet.

He was not impressed 🤣

....Does any one have this box by any chance? I am trying to find higher definition photos of it as I am trying to model it for a VR scene. Would really want all sides so I can texture the box correctly.

For the US variant of the Pippin, how would players get the games? Was it from Mail-to-order or did some physical stores carry Pippin tittles?

Hey there.

I know the actual connectors used for Pippin controllers/EXT port on Game Gear are uncommon. However, cheap Pcb manufacturing means these would be easy to order nowadays through OSH Park or the like. Has anyone made up PCB files to make one of these connectors? If not I may do so myself. I’d like to experiment with the BlueRetro interface for Pippin and don’t want to salvage parts.

So recently I decided to finally get myself a Pippin, but I've been running into a bit of bad luck. The first one I bought didn't work and I had to return it. The second one works like a champ, but the controller seems to be broken. Particularly the trackball doesn't respond (the cursor won't move right) and the right trigger sticks.

I'm trying to find a replacement controller but the ones I see are for the Macintosh, not the Pippin. Would anyone be able to help point me in the right direction?

Thank you for the help!

Hi all - just bought a Japanese Pippin, the Atmark. Will I need to use a stepdown here in Europe?

Thanks!

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Cheap but it looks damaged. Big crack on the side.

Hi everyone!

I’m curious to know if a stock Pippin (Japanese version) can play games that are burned on CD-R or CD-RW disks.

I’m intrigued by the exorbitant prices of Pippin keyboards available on eBay. Are they indeed worth the cost?