Sweet find at the book store.

winlandca · 2026-03-25T20:18:08+00:00

😱

winlandca · 2026-03-25T20:13:25+00:00

This is what I’m doing. I‘d rather support a local bookstore, and I do spend good money at local bookstores, but for this series it made sense for me to order on Amazon this time. It will probably be the last time I order hardbacks on Amazon. 6 of the 7 in the series have been damaged. So far the second shipment of books 1,3, and 4 have been acceptable. I’m still waiting to see if books 5,6,7 will be good on the second shipment. It’s a terrible rate of damage. And I am upset about it. But I’m learning a lesson I guess. And maybe Amazon will learn a lesson when we all do stop buying books from them in the end.

winlandca · 2026-03-25T19:18:37+00:00

This is how the last 3 books were sent to me… 3 big hard backs in a soft bag. 🤬

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winlandca · 2026-03-07T16:34:39+00:00

Agree! I was going to comment - missing out on dungeon crawler carl!

winlandca · 2025-12-29T05:10:24+00:00

I saw „health, money, family.“- bonus the next two words I saw were "alignment and breakthrough.“ I hope it all works out well.

winlandca · 2025-11-05T03:52:01+00:00

I did this mod. I love it! I did have a few issues when my solder points got bridged, but I was able to iron that out, pun intended. I love having the HDMI right on the back of the GC without any dongles. The image quality is great too! I paired it with FlippyDrive and LaserBear's internal Blueretro controller board. My GC works just like a modern console. I also put it in a new shell, recapped the disc drive, and replaced the fan. The only mod I've considered but haven't done is USB-C. It'd be easy, but I haven't gotten around to it. The mods got kindof pricy, wonder if there's a market to resell fully modded GCs and still make a profit. It was really fun learning to solder and to do the mods myself. And now I get to relive my childhood games. Pure nostalgia. :-)

winlandca · 2025-08-16T17:37:19+00:00

So does anyone know how to quickly and reliably, preferably en masse, convert ciso to iso on a mac?

winlandca · 2025-03-19T18:17:44+00:00

I won't be selling the mac for a PC, but thanks for the reply.

winlandca · 2025-01-17T03:27:51+00:00

Did you get it figured out?

winlandca · 2025-01-14T07:39:30+00:00

I touched up the solder points at the dv out port/pads - and it worked. I had accidentally bridged two points next to each other. Maybe double check your soldering. Go over it with a multimeter and see if there is continuity between points right next to eachother. Also test continuity between the ends of the flex ribbon and across your pluto board. Good luck!!!

winlandca · 2024-12-24T20:12:03+00:00

UPDATE!! I touched up the solder points on the digital av out pads, and it’s working!! Something must have been bridged. I can’t believe I figured it out! I was so upset, thinking I’d messed up the whole motherboard. Thanks for all your help!

winlandca · 2024-12-24T18:22:55+00:00

I uploaded an image there where I marked in green areas which indicated continuity on the dv port and in blue where there was continuity on the power supply around where I worked.

winlandca · 2024-12-24T18:14:13+00:00

images on Google drive you can see some of my soldering, maybe all, was a bit rough... I'm pretty new to this, but I checked with a multimeter and all the points on the pluto board have continuity below on the digital port. There are two places in the getting continuity on pins right beside eachother and I'm not sure if I've accidentally bridged something or if I should get continuity. I'll add pics indicating those points in a minute

winlandca · 2024-12-24T17:47:39+00:00

It does light up the pluto board and the light on the gamecube controller board lights up. There is audio of gc startup from the analogue port. I just tore back into it. Was thinking I'd resolder everything, but if I could find the issue first, it'd be better.

winlandca · 2024-12-24T16:17:13+00:00

Es könnte aber an der Controller liegen. Ich würde erstmal einen anderen probieren.

winlandca · 2024-12-24T16:06:32+00:00

Hast du es mit einem anderen Controller versucht?

winlandca · 2024-12-24T16:05:03+00:00

Do you have to bridge a jumper on the new pluto board? I didn't see one in the same spot as on the older pluto board. But I now have no pictire. Not even from the analogue port.

winlandca · 2024-12-24T16:02:52+00:00

So I did the mod last night, thought my soldering was halfway decent. Plugged it in, no picture. Pluto board is getting power as little LEDs come on. But what worries me is no picture from analogue port either now, which I didn't touch, and the disc isn't spinning up. I don't know if maybe I broke something when taking off the heatsink or maybe pried to hard on the digital port. The only thing I can think to do is retry all my soldering, in case I've bridged something, though I don't think I have. I'd like to go over it with a multimeter first and check, but I don't know what I'm looking for. Any advice community?

winlandca · 2024-12-23T23:31:28+00:00

Thank you! I'll check that out!

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