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pbj:
Not entirely sure where this thread is going, but here’s the latest unneeded purchase.
lilshawn:
don't forget about your free built-in games!
snail maze is harder than it looks.
pbj:
This one has Hang-On / Safari Hunt built in, but it turns out Snail Maze is still there! My eight year old mind was blown the first time I saw Snail Maze.
Also turns out that any LCD shutter frame glasses with a headphone jack plug will work, which is great because you can get adult sized, sealed ones meant for PC for less than $20.
Much like the PC Engine, you're truly better off buying a $20 Everdrive and moving on with life but we all know that's not an option. Most Master System games used custom chips with mappers built into the ROM. There's a handful of exceptions with an external mapper that will work fine with standard EPROMs, and the cheap ones are After Burner and Monopoly. I feel bad destroying copies of After Burner but meh. Monopoly will be converted over to Phantasy Star with the quality of life improvements.
:cheers:
pbj:
I'm generally not a believer in doing cap kits on things that are working, but I felt like the image could be improved. 100uF capacitors had to be ordered, but I had enough 47uF and 10uF laying around. There's apparently also a 1uF capacitor on the board. What does a 1uF capacitor even do?
Anyway, cleaned up some. I'll chunk the 100uFs in there when they show up from China.
:cheers:
(Here's the capacitor map, stolen from Console5 with the values added at the bottom)
danny_galaga:
Nice. Yeah I'm amazed people just replace all the caps straight away. Someone I know who does lots of monitor repairs said quite often the new caps are lower quality than the old ones that were still working. He just replaced as required. 1 microfarad might be a timing circuit with a high value resistor?
You've inspired me to hook up my MS. I have a 3 way switcher connected to my tv but only my 2600 is connected to it 😄
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