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  • BIG Saucer Martian Mod for Attack from Mars

    I have this mod in mind for years and some other realised it befor me. But I wanted to use the original Martians from the Pin.

    I can kill Martians YES, YES, YES

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    Flasher must work

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    2 leds back inside

     

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    some cover

     

     

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    With the help of a new saucer anda new clear cover it was possible to show the new Martian more easier…

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    Video says more as pictures…

  • Martian LED Eyes Mod for Attack from Mars

    Nothing new.

    A lot of people done this before.  I used 2mm red leds fitts perfectly for the size of the martians.

    Some headache…

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    group therapy

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    and ready to go..

  • Amiga optical wirleless mouse

    I want to make a wirless optical mouse with the authentical look and feel 🙂

    For this I Used a small PC optical Wireless Mouse.

    Opened it removed the uneeded stuff and take a amiga mouse with the help of some dremel it fits into it

    Here you can see some pics from the progress

    Have fun

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    you can use this mouse at PC via USB, Amiga via Jerry Adapter, Atari ST via Jerry Adapter

    3 in 1 Mouse

  • Atari 2600 S-Video Mod PAL 6-switch Modell

    Putting the good old Atari 2600 to a proper view, needs some help of a little s-video pcb.

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    I done the mod and show some pictures comparing video Signal and S-video. I will prefer S-video and better RGB see other post.

    Opening the 2600 and go to the TIA chip. Here you have to solder some wires

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    upper side

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    (lift pin 9 and 13 and solder the two wires directly to the TIA Chip)

    wiring of S-Video/A/V cable

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    Some pics

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    (Video Signal)

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    (S-Video)

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    (Video)

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    (S-Video)

  • 8Bitdo SFC30 Gamepad optimized

    Recently I got some Pads from http://www.8bitdo.com/

    If you want to buy some Look here

    Great bluetooth Pads working on tablets, iphone, ipad, android phone/tablets, Windows, MAC, Nintendo Wii, Retrocon…

    The SFC30 is looking like a SNES Controller and reached it around 80-90%. But I want it 100%

    So I put the PCB of a SFC30 into a original SNES Controller. You need only some drilling and its a fast job.

    Look here for some pictures during the process

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  • Super Famicom PAD MOD to work with PAL SNES

    Hi Folks,
    there are two ways to make Super Famicom Pads work on a PAL SNES.

    a) You can mod the ControllerPort inside the PAL SNES and shortcut the 4 diodes with some wire.

     

    b) You mod the controller inside

    I found different PCB generations inside the SuperFamicom. A PCB copyright 1992 shows with big arrows: Only P

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    OK I have a look inside a PAL SNES Controller and shows to me: R1=1,2kOhm and R2=3kOhm.
    I done a quickshot with standard Resistors and used 1,2k and 3,3k. And 🙂 Yeah a japanese Controller is working on my PAL SNES.

    A „older“ japanese PCB from 1991 is missing the two resistor spaces. After checking the cirquits at 1992 Layout, no problem for this layout too.

    Put 1,2kOhm between Pin 5 and Pin 4 and

    3,3k between Pin 5 and Pin 3

    of the ControllerCable Connector and it works too

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    Have Fun

     

  • Amiga 600 cleanup, restauration, brightening

    I want a Amiga 600 in a like new state but the common prob is yellowing over the years

    With cleaning and some retrobright fluid I done the following:

    First a lot of work, to dissasemble the amiga and keyboard *puh*

    Have a look to the yellowed ASDF Row…

    After this cleaning in Dish Washer, Brightener for 9 Days + a lot of SUN.

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    Reassambling, and it looks like new:

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    Have fun

     

  • Amiga Mouse optical mouse to USB WIP Part#1

    My goal is to have a good Amiga Mouse working on every surface and without needing of a mousepad.

    The only solution is to make it optical.

    After some research I found a mini optical Notebook USB Mouse and tried to rip of the original amiga mouse:

    (The black box is a complete PC USB Mouse)

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    I removed the optical stuff to make room for the optical mouse:

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    Now its time to open the tiny PC mouse:

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    pcb only :

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    For testing I am using some tape to hold the lens in right position. The final version will hold via clue:

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    The USB Cable Connector is to big. Instead I found some better solder points for direct connect of a cable:

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    for fitting into original Amiga Mouse you need only to remove this pcb peace:

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    here you see how it fits. brown and red wire are left and right button signal

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    brown and red wire to the buttons and a ground wire and some screws to make it hold:

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    I changed the USB cable to make it look more authentical

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    openend the original cable holder and placed it to the usb cable

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    some clue and pressure

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    and now it looks like a real amiga mouse with cable but its working on PC

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    and with the help of this little device from Pawel Burdzy http://www.ebay.de/usr/electronika4you

    it is working on amiga too 🙂

     

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    you can order it here

    http://www.wolfsoft.de/shop/product_info.php/products_id/15230

  • UWRC Controller Hacks/Mods

    Some month ago I got a lot of uwrc from micro look here:

    http://circuit-board.de/forum/index.php/Thread/4500-Universal-Wireless-Retro-Controller-f%C3%BCr-SNES-Saturn-N64/?postID=401783&highlight=uwrc#post401783

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    I got some snes, saturn, smd, parts.

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    and a broken saturn pcb for hacking an old atari 2600 stick (one of my favorite console)

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    I put some micro switches downunder for start button and 2nd button

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    after some time I got my first hacked wirless Atari CX-40 Stick and it looks much better as the atari original

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    With the help of SegaMegaDrive Receiver all Kind of Controller works with eg:

    Sega Master, Sega Mega Drive, Sega MultiMega, Atari 800, Atari 800XE, Atari 800XL  Atari 2600, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore C64  🙂

     

     

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    I used a Retro-Adapter and a SNES Receiver from micro, to make the UWRC work with usb for PC Emulator using.

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    Now I can use all kind of controller at the original Consoles and PC

    I am currently have Controllers:

    4x UWRC Saturn Controllers

    1x UWRC SNES  Controller (micro I need more, please make a new batch of pcbs)

    1x UWRC Atari CX-40 Controller

    Receiver:

    some Saturn Receiver

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    2x Neo Geo Receiver

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    Snes Receiver

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    After all, gaming wireless is the best thing happens to my old consoles since years

    thanks to micro to make this possible

  • SNES prof. Cleaning and retrobrightner

    look here for a snes looking not good

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    After some cleaning and 1-2 weeks in sun and a retrobright lotion it looks really nice again

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    final

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