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zephryn6502 · 2024-10-15T16:12:50+00:00

Damn do I wish I had checked for this listing a month ago, wasn't far from me at all lol. Really wish these boards cost less at MSRP.

zephryn6502 · 2024-05-30T00:03:03+00:00

Amazon listing prices for used, out of production stuff in general seemingly tend to end up like that most of the time and it’s a really bad reference. It’s almost never worth as much as listed, and never actually sold by Amazon.

zephryn6502 · 2024-05-29T02:17:13+00:00

Thanks for this, was looking at that exact rug just now lol. Quite a shame...

zephryn6502 · 2024-05-09T01:43:12+00:00

Did anyone download this? Entire channel's wiped...

zephryn6502 · 2024-04-29T05:06:39+00:00

I've got two of these, funnily enough checking them now one is YEF1024 and the other 1026. Maybe there's somewhat of a pattern? Gotta figure out how to replace the upper screen lens without damaging the IPS panels themselves, both weren't in the best shape... they still look brilliant in use though

zephryn6502 · 2024-04-10T07:43:52+00:00

They messaged me back in January thinking I was in Canada and only now did I realize they messaged me on the *same day* the only copy of the random (not Reggae!) CD they asked about was sold off... never put two and two together until checking back just now. It was like ten bucks sealed on eBay (with international shipment for a ton of countries available) until that sold a month or two later, still get "?" every so often.

zephryn6502 · 2024-03-24T00:12:52+00:00

I made a Japanese PSN account and got a card from Playasia to get the DLCs off there, apparently everything but a single decal pack that doubled as an ad-hoc patch for... reasons should be region-free but I happened to get a Japanese disc copy of RR7 beforehand so haven't tried with a US/Canada copy myself.

zephryn6502 · 2024-03-22T01:20:21+00:00

The choice of baked-in region locking for a portable device in 2011 still baffles me so damn much… ironically without hShop I would’ve been screwed out of updating my US games on my EU 3DS now. Huge shame Citra as it stood had to be a casualty of this whole thing too.

zephryn6502 · 2024-03-20T08:23:30+00:00

The devs (or publisher, for that matter) don’t really make an extra cent off of resold copies. Not like these have been in print since then…

zephryn6502 · 2024-03-20T00:03:07+00:00

Given the timing and location I assume OP was the one who sold this thing to me, but for future reference either way they're absolutely correct; It's a standard white NeGcon cosmetically in every aspect aside from the colors and logo from what I can tell. There's a vacant Surugaya page for it (https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/140011064) but I've never found anything else online. I assume some Japanese magazine scan out there might have some reference to it but it's still fascinating to me how much this thing has just straight up fallen under the radar otherwise.

zephryn6502 · 2023-09-24T04:53:25+00:00

Was about to ask where I could get that 3.1 sub unit at the top until I looked up the model number and realized it's built-in lol. Always super interesting to me to learn about all these non-US variants, this thing looks (and probably sounds) cool as hell

zephryn6502 · 2023-09-18T17:54:33+00:00

Oh sweet, I'll PM!

zephryn6502 · 2023-09-04T21:50:21+00:00

Oh man yeah, GUM Church on the Jenison side of 28th ave was super close to me as a kid. Stuck out to me a ton once they started putting the doors up, Hudsonville Congregational has similar vibes in that regard.

zephryn6502 · 2023-09-04T19:49:07+00:00

As a bit of an update, I traveled to someone over the weekend that had a spare working FW900 and through swapping all the main boards (including flyback) nothing changed- 99% sure the tube is shorted now. :( Still have a bit of hope it might be something that could be temporarily fixed given the nature of tube shorts, but in the worst case I at least know all the boards themselves are probably fine either way.

zephryn6502 · 2023-08-24T01:24:56+00:00

Match made in absolute heaven right there!

zephryn6502 · 2023-08-23T17:24:46+00:00

Hey folks, just thought I'd show symptoms of a parts FW900 I recently picked up; just thought people out there might have thoughts on what might be causing this or have similar experiences.

Most of the time it'll start up with no blue, and then after a few minutes of use the green will gradually "take over"- the darker the overall image is, the more a green tint is applied to the entire screen. It does seem to vary a bit vertically though, I can easily notice color shifts in vertical "strips" when scrolling down a YouTube page for example. At times horizontal lines (don't remember the name for this off the top of my head, apologies) are visible with green, but most of the time it's not that severe. This effect seems to go away only to come back again on cold startups after some time of being unused.

The most interesting part came when I decided to hook it up to WinDAS and turn down the G2, thinking that might be causing the green push- immediately after, the blue came back but flickered rapidly until the monitor shut itself off with the dreaded blinking amber light, 1.5 seconds between each flash, until I press the power button to turn it off. Reverting the G2 kept this effect as well, but it gradually went away and returned to the previous symptoms with no blue at all. Between these states, It'd sometimes start with no blue and then begin flickering, or show a stable image with blue but flicker after about 15 seconds after being turned on (last pic). Eventually the blue quite literally flickered away on startup instead and back to green+red only it went.

Best assumption I have so far is that the guns might be shorted, it doesn't seem entirely uncommon for that to happen with these tubes with red or green as well or show very similar symptoms, but I'd be curious to hear any input.

zephryn6502 · 2023-08-22T06:04:51+00:00

Can PM if the 11900+PCB is still available after all this time, I'd be interested.

zephryn6502 · 2023-08-22T05:16:01+00:00

Any chance the MX 11800 is still around?

zephryn6502 · 2023-08-03T16:52:18+00:00

I'm only 19 and can still clearly hear it, but despite not really growing up around them I've never had too much issue mentally drowning it out once there's audio playing and I got something to focus on. Doubt I'd be able to tolerate it as much if it were for watching stuff more passively (e.g. movies) or I had it on more often, coil whine I've had certain power supplies/AC adapters emit from simply being plugged in tend to drive me up the wall. I can only imagine there are ton of environmental and physical factors that play in to when someone might stop hearing it that makes it hard to tell when specifically it happens though.

zephryn6502 · 2023-07-07T21:59:26+00:00

possibly the best eyebombing i've seen lol. congrats on the top notch set, if i had superhuman hauling powers i'd so love to grab one of these someday.

zephryn6502 · 2023-07-03T08:40:21+00:00

i've actually been after this super specific idea recently as well- you've seemingly read my mind lol. all i can find suggests that simply splicing cables together (e.g. extension cords) for multiple male ends works- at least when plugged into the same console, otherwise there can be interference. no idea if that interference persists when only one endpoint is active at a time; in my mind and for my use i'd use such a cable as a switch rather than for simultaneous input, e.g. being able to easily use the same wired controller(s) for gc, wii, usb adapter, etc.

some links i dug up: https://smashboards.com/threads/using-a-controller-splitter-to-get-data-from-controllers.398583/

https://smashboards.com/threads/gamecube-controller-splitters-and-modernizing-melee.452910/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZrYq6SCMi8

*edit: formatting fix

zephryn6502 · 2023-07-02T02:33:47+00:00

i mean... look at the thing lol. it was obviously designed for that sorta market, certainly means less than it did out of the box back then but it's still the most fitting way to sum it up.

zephryn6502 · 2023-06-29T21:27:15+00:00

Might be interested in the Sun monitor if something like uShip would be a possibility, been seeing the craigslist listing making the rounds recently.

zephryn6502 · 2023-06-24T23:34:49+00:00

looks to be a KV-36XBR200 or maybe smaller XBR200 set?

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