Anything and everything about retro and modern console repair.
If you've got a broken gaming console you are trying to fix, come here to talk about it. If you want to flex about a repair, post here. If you or your console's last lover did a non-destructive electronic mod to their console, or have a question about the options available or how to do it, you are welcome to post here.
If you suck at soldering, we still love you, but we might roast you.
If you did an extreme modification such as turning one of the few Nintendo Playstations into a Rubik's Cube, flex elsewhere. If you're trying to FIX a Nintendo Playstation that someone turned into a Rubik's Cube, post away!
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The Open Source Cartridge Reader is a great project for backing up saves (very useful for replacing dying batteries) and dumping roms. It's also great soldering practice. I chose to go the kit route from here since it was only slightly more expensive with the case than source everything yourself (no case kit: $125, with case: $145, source yourself: ~$134).
Please help me understand how you have a photo in thumbnail in retrogaming community but nothing but an Imgur link in this one. I’d really prefer it to look more like retrogaming’s post but I don’t know why there’s a difference. Thanks for the post.
Best guess, the retro gaming on was a single image. For console repair, I added multiple pictures to show some soldering.
Cool. I’m still trying to figure this out and half the time it’s unpredictable.
Any idea how we can have both a thumbnail AND a rich post with soldering pics? (Commenting twice so you’re notified, not my normal practice). Thumbnails are eye catching and drive engagement, but if they come at the cost of fewer pics and a less rich post overall, it seems like something that should be tweaked in lemmy. I really don’t want to use third party hosting sites if it can be avoided — how sweet would it be to have both? I’d like to grow this community, and ideally pass off modding to others when the time comes.
I think the issue will resolve itself once lemmy.world allows for image uploads again. Then you can add images to the body of the post again without a third party site.