Exactly

Understandable, but this picture is from my hotel waiting for my wife getting ready for the night out, so no time wasted and I had some peaceful rest.

The Jrs are great to mod since they are guaranteed 1-chip consoles.

My inspiration was a Pokeball so pretty close

The trick is to use a quality iron and practice. You can find practice kits on alliexpress pretty cheap (tiny speakers, radios, bunch of LEDs, etc…)

Thanks

Thanks! I use Krylon Fusion Matte spray paint

I cleaned the edge of the PCB with a pencil easer then ipa. After that I applied some dexoit for good measure. I also added some dexoit to the pins themselves.

Sleeper?

It’s not grey. The paint is matte white and matte black, all with a clear coat. The intent wasn’t a restoration since the case had cracks and nicks in it.

Yeah it probably would have been better content. When I started work on this it was more to help get the post count and engagement of consolerepair up.

Thanks! 8Bitdo make some pretty decent controllers. Modded mini or even a pi4 are great ways to play NES games, then you find yourself falling down the MiSTer rabbit hole.

Thanks!

Super Mario Bros 3 is the game I’m currently stress testing with, so far so good.

Got fixes for both of those. 2.4ghz wireless controllers and properly cleaned games and connectors (pencil easer and ipa fixes 99% of issues with the games themselves, long term blowing is bad for the contacts).

You can get an idea from this post and this one.

Yeah with Analogue you definitely need to go into their products expecting it will never be updated, and be pleasantly surprised if it does. I originally bought it just to play GB and GBA games via carts and everdrives, so OpenFPGA was a huge surprise when it was released (although my x7 didn’t work until I replaced the filters, thanks Analogue for that incompatibility).

If you ever do decide you want a og Xbox (which honestly with the state of emulation, you probably don’t need to), make sure it’s working unless you want a potentially challenging repair. They are very susceptible to leaky caps and trace rot.

I don’t think that would change the price much. The slot itself is probably only a few pennies and you can’t get cheaper FPGAs without reducing the cores the device is capable of playing. Adding another SKU would just make it more expensive and harder to stock.

The dock is ok, just wish it had more scaling and resolution options (I wanted to use it with the smaller display but that resolution is not 1080, so it looks too squished). It also lacks a lot in controller support. Otherwise it works well and does the job.

Yep it’s the vertical stand from RetroFrog (model is on printables). And yes modded 1.1 og Xbox with 128mb ram, XboxHd+, and Stellar mod chip.