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Seeing that Dreamcast is /vr/ I'm putting this here.
So, TMS is making a spiritual successor to Tiny Toons, seeing that it's uses the same plot (expys of Sega consoles get teached by Sega staff like Yu Suzuki (or Ex-Sega staff like Yuji Naka & Naoto Ohshima, both of which now run their own companies) as Tiny Toons (younger expys of the Looney Tunes cast get teached by the real Looney Tunes themselves).
Who do you expect to see on this Sega staff wise, I expect Mega Drive to be trained by Yuji Naka.
I see a lot of posts about malfunctioning games, often times attributed to dirty contacts and hardware. Often times the solution given is to clean the contacts with an alcohol based solution.
YOU SHOULD NEVER CLEAN YOUR CARTRIDGES WITH ALCOHOL
I repair and restore old computer systems, game consoles and accessories a lot. Alcohol may clean the contacts on your cartridges enough for them to work but it corrodes them. The biggest problem is that it's only a temporary fix as it doesn't even clean them that well.
I use Brasso. It's a general use metal polish that won't ruin the circuit board and polish the contacts. You have not truly seen how dirty your games are until you've swabbed them down with a proper precious metal cleaner.
Another cleaner that you can use is Tarn-X which is a pewter cleaner, but it's sulfur bases and smells terrible.
Just take a small dab of either on a q-tip and scrub. For really dirty games take apart the game and polish it with a scrap cloth from an old tee shirt. I've had games that people used to struggle to get to work, and even then barely function without rampant visual artifacts and severe glitches. Use a bit of metal polish and they work like new.
I'm new to the board, but loving it so far. I can already see a lot of you guys prefer collecting vintage hardware rather than emulation, but let's see if you like this idea.
I'm planning on buying a Raspberry Pi to use as an emulator. I have access to a fairly high end 3d printer, so instead of the usual enclosure, it's going to be a miniature reproduction of an NES machine. Each ROM will be loaded onto an SD card which will have its own case that looks like a tiny little cartridge. Of course it will also have the retro NES looking USB controllers.
Alternately, I thought about buying a broken console, taking out the guts, and mounting the Raspberry Pi inside of it with all the games on a single SD card that will stay in the system. I know of a few folks that have built entire arcade cabinets but that seems like a bit too much effort for me.
So, I was at TRU earlier, looking at their clearance aisle. I found this set of car accessories for a shitty kid's tablet, it was priced at $50 but it was on super-low clearance so I was able to get it for like $1.50 I bought it because it had a USB car charger in it, and I needed one of those, plus it had an LCD cleaning cloth, headphone splitter and some other shit.
One of the things inside was a USB power cable for the tablet it was made for. I was about to set it aside when I realized that it looked familiar. It's got the same connector as a power adapter for a Gameboy pocket. And it worked! I can power my Gameboy Pocket over USB!
Is this safe to do? I see on the back of the GB that it is rated at DC3V 0.7W, while on the cable I see printed 300V. Is it really carrying 300V, or does it mean 3.00V?
