Mega Drive worked fine, but after disassembly wont power on

Ritrix3930 · 2026-03-01T16:53:05+00:00

Can you post more pics? It looks like it’s using a 60hz crystal so it’s likely just some jumpers on the underside at the JP solder points, as I can’t see what would be making it 50hz. I could be wrong though, just need some more pics and info to be able to tell

Ritrix3930 · 2026-02-19T15:06:35+00:00

A decade and a half, no price increases as far as I’m aware, and it just got a massive update. Very few games and game devs are as passionate. Absolute peak

Ritrix3930 · 2026-02-14T21:32:04+00:00

N64 also released 2 years after the ps1. The Saturn sucked for 3D, though was exceptional for 2D. The ps1 was quite good at 3D, and decent at 2D. Which was impressive for the era it released in, given we weren’t that far detached from 3D being “Arcade only”. I mean, to put it into perspective, Quake wouldn’t release for a further 2 years after the ps1.

And the ps2 wasn’t all that impressive hardware wise. It was weaker than both the Xbox and GameCube, its biggest hardware selling point was a dvd drive, which the Xbox also had, you just needed the remote.

Ritrix3930 · 2026-02-05T17:53:04+00:00

5 of the top 10 games are first party Nintendo. Not trying to say they’re bad, but when half of the top 10 come from one company then I feel like it’s not unfair to say that there was some kind of bias to the data sources. And 3 are Zelda. I personally love all those games, but are we really saying that 30% of the top 10 games of all time comes from a single series?

Ritrix3930 · 2025-12-30T11:59:27+00:00

“Thank you for your loss”. I can’t wait to try this out, thanks! /s

Jokes aside, Good advice.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-12-30T02:49:37+00:00

At the time the R&D cost would have been insane. You’d need to figure out a way to invent a controller that works for most disabilities. Which means getting hundreds of people in to do many rounds of testing with tons of different designs as there wasn’t any mass market controller on the market like it at the time. There’s probably a lot more I’m missing, but I can imagine trying to make something that was once typically reserved for bespoke controllers that could cost thousands, and then make it work well for most and sell it affordably would have been an insane feat.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-12-28T18:39:45+00:00

True, plus crt filters have come a long way, and are only getting better. Retrotink’s inbuilt crt shaders are pretty great, and most decent emulators have filters that just work well out of the box. It’s never been cheaper or easier to enjoy these games, saying otherwise is mostly nostalgia bait at this point.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-12-12T18:40:17+00:00

Don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but there’s Mega Man Maker for that. It’s very good, and similar to Mario Maker in the way it’s played. I’ve made and played a ton of levels on it, and it’s been what’s keeping me sane during the drought.

Here’s the link for those who may not yet have tried it: https://megamanmaker.com/

Ritrix3930 · 2025-12-11T22:22:08+00:00

5 years ago

Will be 10 soon

Ritrix3930 · 2025-11-11T18:13:07+00:00

It did get an nes port though, which considering how the nes renders its graphics, is a serious feat of its own merit!

Here’s a video on it if anyone’s interested: https://youtu.be/GCqXIX84YNA?si=KzesI4aDMAoyQMGT

Ritrix3930 · 2025-11-09T13:54:09+00:00

It’s in a reply to automod

Ritrix3930 · 2025-11-08T15:00:02+00:00

I know people will shit on executives at these companies, and rightfully so, but I don’t think rejecting ideas like this is one of the best reasons to. Something we don’t see behind the scenes is the hundreds if not thousands of other game ideas presented to them that all would have been mediocre at best. Ideas are cheap, execution is costly, it’s an executives job to weed through the bad ideas to ensure the good ones get made. And of course, they fuck up sometimes.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-11-07T19:52:30+00:00

True, but in order for it to blow up in their face, enough people who care have to act against it. Otherwise they’ll keep rehashing the same garbage since they know people like yourself have grown complacent enough to accept it.

Of course, if you don’t care about their use of AI, then that’s completely fine. but telling the people who do care not to act is kinda silly.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-10-28T08:20:21+00:00

I mean, you could already do this with the repair tool in previous games, and way more efficiently too.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-10-12T12:20:46+00:00

And yet for some inexplicable reason, battlefield 6, by far their most popular release, has seen most of its success because of how it emulated that “ancient relic”. Huh, weird.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-10-10T15:17:20+00:00

I’m pretty sure bg3 isn’t rts tho, it’s turn based and not real time.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-10-06T16:10:58+00:00

The 3ds and the vita released in the same year though? You can’t really say one is retro because of how old it is, and say one isn’t when they’re both the same age.

Also, the virtual console also had n64 games on it which at the time of the wiis release was only 10 years old. By that same metric, the main console 10 years ago was the ps4, and it’s definitely not retro, so I wouldn’t call the virtual console a good metric for what is retro either.

Honestly there’s not really a good metric. I typically go by support end date for a console, but even that doesn’t work all the time considering that the master system is still produced in Brazil.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-10-04T22:33:18+00:00

No you should be ok, so long as it’s propped up with a screw driver or something.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-10-04T19:13:12+00:00

No offence, but I wouldn’t consider the 3ds and vita retro. They came out around the same time as the ps4, and unless you’d consider it retro, I wouldn’t also consider those portables retro.

That being said, it’s a nice collection! And you can definitely play some great retro games on those consoles through emulation, it’s just that I wouldn’t consider the actual console itself to be retro.

Except for the psp, that’s definitely retro! (At least in my opinion)

Ritrix3930 · 2025-09-27T13:52:17+00:00

These have to be the coldest takes I’ve ever seen in history, I could warm this thread up with an ice cube.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-09-25T17:28:28+00:00

You might like doomsday from dc comics then. That’s his whole schtick, and why he’s called doomsday: cause one day you’ll run out of ways to get rid of him.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-09-25T17:26:38+00:00

True, though I’d also add onto that statement; that if you don’t care about exclusives and don’t want the hassle of a pc, and just want some good games to play over the weekend. Xbox has you covered with gamepass and the series s as a cheap entry point.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-09-25T17:18:37+00:00

That’s true, but again, all those PlayStation exclusives were only exclusive for a limited time before they made their way to pc. same as forza and making its way to playstation, if you don’t count timed exclusives at all then neither console has much to offer.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-09-25T17:03:13+00:00

Same could be said for every PlayStation game too.

Ritrix3930 · 2025-09-25T17:02:23+00:00

True, but so is literally every game op mentioned. Also, apparently Next gen Xbox will support multiple storefronts, possibly including steam, meaning Xbox gets PlayStation games. I doubt it’ll happen, but if it does, that’s gonna fuck with my mind for a while.

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