@“KingTubb”#p48531 woah, the Spirited Away stick is so slick. Amazing!
@“mr-domino”#p48540
@"KingTubb"#p48531 I happen to work with the guy who owns the Arby’s fight stick. He doesn’t even use it!!!
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2019/dec/14/arbys-fight-stick-was-actual-product-sale-one-kind-item-stores-online-shop/
@“mr-domino”#p48541 Is that a dragon?? That's amazing.
I don't knock him for not using it, thing looks super heavy.
And the spirited away case was a gift from my wife, she saw that Ghibli was releasing high-res stills and art for free for some anniversary or something and thought it would look good on a stick. She was right!
@“KingTubb”#p48553 Hitbox stick-less sticks aren‘t “for me”, but I am super glad that they are for you because that looks amazing. I love it. Reminds me of “full bleed” promo art card for trading card games that don’t have borders, etc. I always thought that was a cool way to do graphic design.
@“antillese”#p48607 Yeah homie, play on whatever floats your boat. Honestly, aesthetically, I really like the look of a lever on a fightstick, but I like how easy a all button controller is to slip into a bag and how you can get a really clean uninterrupted image like you were talking about.
The "hit-stick" scott pilgrim one is what I use when I'm playing something that feels better with a stick, like a 2D platformer/metriodvania/or beat-em-up. It's mostly for SoR4 and Hollow knight
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@“KingTubb”#p48650 SoR4
Playing _SoR4_ on a stick is much more fun than I expected it to be.
Edit: a timely tweet on my timeline!
https://twitter.com/7ten/status/1461398651159384068?s=21
@“antillese”#p48672 This is the stuff that dreams are made of.
WS Testarossa looks like a hidden gem of a Link's Awakening clone, how much did you play it? @donrumata
Cardinal Sins looks and sounds like it has amazing graphics in motion.
Makes me think how cool it would have been to have a predecessor to Every Extend on WS
@“treefroggy”#p48799
Not a ton, it‘s a little finicky but it’s interesting and pretty graphically impressive
What’s the most commonly mentioned space for portable gaming? “The bus”
What’s the main complaint about the original GBA? “Too dark”
Explain this then: Here I am playing my unmodded gba on the bus. Look too dark to you?
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@“treefroggy”#p50469 you must be experiencing “the sun”
it's true that the GBA screen was totally visible in certain situations! ditto the NGPC etc- it felt like with every subsequent unlit screen they got more viewing angle coverage with these things. Still though, if it gets a little foggy, it's (usually) time for eyestrain.
@“exodus”#p50472 it was 8pm, just bus lighting
and we're experiencing bay-like weather down south right now. superfog times.
just fyi, not arguing or nothin
hmm, maybe the screen is more visible than I remember!
Today's project: GBA Consolizer! (accompanying twitter thread)
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The kit just recently arrived from [game-tech](https://www.game-tech.us/product/gbaconsolizer-full-case-2/). The donor console was a recent eBay purchase.
First step was removing the donor motherboard and beginning the prep work. Here it is after removing the battery contacts and speaker (I got to play with my Hakko desoldering gun...kinda overkill for this task!).
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Flipping it over, the next task was removing the native power switch and bridging two pads using a bit of wire and a glob of solder. My hot air rework station made this super easy (just doing this with a soldering iron can be a rough process). Also had to bridge some contacts on the volume potentiometer.
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Next was removing the oscillator, which again was really trivial with the hot air gun (the alternative is literally just grabbing and ripping it off, which was too scary for me).
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A tiny resistor (R5) had to be swept off the board, which was not too tough (it was smaller than the tip of my soldering iron). Then, the most technical part: installation of the flex cables directly to the CPU. I haven't done this type of work before, so I was a little nervous, but it ended up not being too tough. Once it is lined up you can tack it down without any additional solder, which keeps it in place for the definitive soldering. Generous flux, just a tiny bit of solder on the iron tip, and lots of patience is key. Here it is with a quarter for scale:
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Next up was prepping the FPGA board that does the consolizing. I attached the SNES controller port and assembled and wired up the little power switch PCB. It was at this point I noticed that I needed to supply an LED, which I did not have handy. Here it is minus the LED next to the switch:
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I put the project on a brief hiatus to run to Micro Center (I really miss Radio Shack!) for an LED (and to make a pit stop for some banh mi):
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LED installed, I proceeded to assemble it. This turned out the be the hardest part, as everything is designed and printed with pretty exacting tolerances. I managed to gradually force the whole thing together and slap on the cute as a button Game Boy styled power switch and, miracle of miracles, it powered on and worked just fine! Here's the final product, with an 8bitdo 2.4 GHz transceiver:
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The image quality is fantastic--having now tried many many different methods of playing GBA on a television (MiSTer and GB Player over HDMI modded GCN are also pretty good), this is definitely my favorite. I now give myself permission to actually maybe finish Mother 3 :)
@“kory”#p50498
That's awesome!! Greay work with the soldering, those tiny little contacts can be hard to manage and get clean.
So I‘ve been heavy into shell swapping and replacing drifty joysticks on my joycons and some for my brother.
I even got brave and did a shell swap on a Switch Lite for ultimate 90’s translucent nostalgia.
Sorry for the big pics.
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@“kory”#p50498 That little gameboy button is so cute
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Running FF7 playstation fan translation in RGB on my JVC CRT at the same time as FF7R on my PC, in my van, all power coming from solar. LEDs set to Mako
I succumbed to my desires this boxing day
@“beets”#p52268 Gotta put gb/gba sp emulator on that!…. for work