bout 3 months and 200 bucks worth of soldering equipment. Loving repairing consoles so far
solarknight
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Huge jump between the original and later titles. This game really does feel huge and the dungeons might be better that BoTW. More secrets than later games and a ton of different areas. It feels super good to get acquainted with the map and actually figure out where you’re going without a guide. Combat is pretty good too, although the knockback is somewhat broken with certain enemies (looking at you, gibdo). Planning order of operations is a big one for me too (i.e “first I’ll get the heart piece, then stick up on bombs, then hit dungeon 5”) and makes the game a real challenge. Just use a guide for the later sections of the overworld. Getting to 5 is pretty much impossible without a hint. It’s worth picking back up again if you have the time.
Ok, that’s REALLY cool! I use an everdrive with the original hardware but maybe someone made a romhack. Either way, bosses hitless sounds like a real PITA like you said. Can’t imagine beating Gohma hitless lol
This game gets really tough! 🫡 to anyone that can beat it, with a guide and two people it took nearly 6 hours. Probably my favorite game on the nes, it just feels so grandiose and huge.
I do know a bit about AES hardware, and there are actually 2 boards in there (pic related)
Sorry if this gets a bit technical, but iirc it uses a huge banks of ROM then a chip to synchronize both boards. Might be entirely wrong though, I can’t find anything on it recently
Holy jeepers! 12 grand usd for a game! Never grew up around these but they’re the only games I emulate seeing how it’s 400usd for a aes everdrive and 1.2k for a console (in bad condition). The games really are beautiful though. Fatal fury has some of my favorite pixel art to date!
2 Picoboots and I'm waiting for the nesRGB to be back in stock at etim.net.au
Good stuff!
My search terms are typically “tube tv” or “old tv” but I live near a major city so most people know what they’re selling. I've done a few gamecube picoboots that are way harder but like I said I might try on my POS sharp tv!
Thanks for the quick and helpful replies, I hope other people learn things from this thread too!
oh yeah, I've got instructions for it, a BA-5 is pretty easy. But I'm terrified of messing it up because it’s the only trinitron in my area that's a reasonable price (300 for a kv-20fs120?!) and I'm a little out of my depth here. But I had no idea about BNC connectors, so thanks on that. Maybe I'll start on my cheapo sharp crt and work my way up. You seem super knowledgeable, and thanks for the help!
sorry you hd trouble! if you want to send pics i can try to help but if a hacked memcard works for you thats fine too. with the price of games these days it's hard not to hack your gc/wii lol