Nobus3r1
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While you’re there you should convince Sega(?) to release a current gen version of this:
This is probably already on your list @Markman, but Vita TV!!! I think it released yesterday, didn’t it?
Kyle
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Got a 32 Sony WEGA CRT today. It is a hell of a TV (and heavy). My girl was pissed. I ended up getting rid of most of my TVs in storage to appease her. It was worth it though.
I had a WEGA years ago. So I know that any thing bigger than the 27 is more than a handful - literally! You need a cart or two people to handle that thing.
It took me a while to find one, and I passed on a few 32’s before I finally came across a 27" - exactly like the one I had! 
Either way, WEGAs are awesome CRT’s, so congrats are in order.
Kyle
25730
Yeah 27 is as much as I can lift on my own. I just don’t see WEGAs (small town). The last one I saw had a large spot of discoloration.
I picked up a furniture dolly to help lol.
Two words… Road trip!!! That’ll piss off the girl even more, lol.
deBoru
25732
Damn spammers! Can you give it a break!
Kyle
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Roddy
25734
@Kyle I don’t get it, did you file a whole superfamicom? Also, before pics?
Kyle
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Widened the cart slot for SNES games. Here’s a thread with pictures that explains what is involved.
Masterfully done Sir Kyle of Super Famicon Filing
d3v
25737
Watching this video makes me wonder if we can do anything hamster themed with arcade sticks.
d3v
25738
Sorry for the double post. But this shizz just needs to be shared.
[Guide for a Battery Free 3rd Strike CPS3 Board](Guide to Battery-free 3rd Strike
Hey, check it out. My early morning and late night handiwork/fast fixing made it into The Behemoth’s PAX photo recap. I love under the gun “make it work” situations, it was a lot of fun to work with those guys. I hope to do it again in the future. The SSMM still had bugs in it by the time it was all up and running but I’m 90% sure it was a software issue with the iCade/BT hooks into their code to make it work with the peripheral.
The bug was that the game would literally bog down when you used the external inputs, specifically as soon as a new input was registered (so quickly tapping a button/direction would lag it to shit), but it was more noticeable with the bowling ball because it did a lot more stuttering due to the conversion and imperfectness of reading the ball. I think it was a two part problem, the ball they used was still slightly glossy, making the mouse read it less efficiently (stuttering), and then a possible software issue that was akin to a memory leak since this only showed up after about 5 minutes of play. Before that, smooth as silk.
You can see me slicing the left and right inputs since that added another issue with entering your initials (would sporadically go left and right). That was mostly because the casters were industrial and not exactly precision movements, they also needed some greasing. We circumvented it by just removing left and right 
@Phreakazoid - It was cool to finally see why the heck you were messing around with bowling balls on casters a while back, lol…
I think that a better implementation might have been to use Skee balls (assuming those are easy to come by), because they have a decent size that are more akin to the classic Atari track balls of the day. It sucks that pretty much all of the MAME targeted hardware available these days makes use of a 3 inch ball. Those early Atari 4 inch balls were perfect!
@Kyle - Very Nice job, although @Gummo would’ve used a Dremel! 
After seeing this, it definitely seems that modding a Super Famicom to use SNES cartridges is much easier than the other way around… I honestly don’t know why NoA thought that the US Market would think that the console would look like a toy. I like the look of the SF much more than I do the SNES. Doesn’t the slot have notches internally that have to be removed as well, though? IIRC, this kind of additional measure was taken with Genesis carts vs. their Mega Drive counterparts.
undamned
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Yeah, Darksoft and some other guys have really done some impressive stuff. It’s great to see that we will likely have CPS3 games for a long time. Now to revive my dead JoJo games…
-ud
d3v
25742
I wanna get me one of these just so I can make an XBone stick without buying one.
Nice… Bonus points if you can make the power touch sensor the Home/Guide button… Looks like it already comes wired for it. 
The Xbone uses a normal off the shelf AMD APU, DDR3 Ram and a Bluray drive.
Just built a small form factor Gaming PC Mobo and connect it via onboard HDMI connector to your TV. And it isn’t hard to get a TV Capture Card if you want TV streaming on your Gaming PC.
At Least the PS4 changes things up by using a custom 8 core AMD APU and 8 GB GDDR5 (unified)
Bets of all is your own Knock Off Xbone only needs One OS. The Xbone runs 3, for what who knows?
undamned
25745
Been looking for a good inventory management program to use at home on my projects so I can keep track of what I have on hand, need to order, etc. You might wonder why I don’t just use a spreadsheet. Well, a spreadsheet is nice if you just want a list of things. I want to be able to create a BOM (bill of materials) for a product and whenever I consume one (or more) of that product, the parts listed in the BOM (in whatever multiples I’ve specified) are deducted from my inventory. In short, the BOMs need to be linked to the master list somehow. I suppose you could create some multi-page spreadsheet and link cells between pages, but that just sounds like a nightmare as my product family grows.
Checked a few names I was familiar with, but those were all tier based and by the time I got to the tier with the features I wanted, it was at least $400 (I know, small potatoes for a decent MRP/ERP system, but I’m not exactly big business). Then I started looking at open source stuff and found that most of those relied on setting up some other data base which could be accessed by said program. I don’t want to learn all that. Finally I went back to searching for cheap/free programs and came across something called “ABC Inventory Software.” I looked at the features and it sounded like it might actually be a decent package, and not only that but it didn’t look like it was made in the 80’s. To my surprise, the free version not only does what I want it to regarding inventory management, but is totally set up for creating product orders, invoices, and all sorts of stuff.
I got it here: http://almyta.com/abc_inventory_software.asp
Highly recommended if you are serious about tracking stuff. Just keep in mind that it is geared towards a business, so in order to modify your inventory on a part, you don’t just open the details on that part and start fudging the numbers around. You have to modify your inventory “officially” in another section of the program. It sounds cumbersome, but it helps protect you from quick errors that might bite you later. Also keeps a history of those inventory changes, so if you did make an error, you can go back and find it.
-ud
