Recent content by T2Steve

McWill did a beautiful job on it.

If you are coming here to look at getting better video out of a Game Gear, the answer is the McWill LCD replacement. You can swap out the Light diffuser with LED backlights to get more battery out of a GG, but your picture will still be a blurry mess. The McWill replacement LCD, while costly...

i do still check this lol... yes, that looks about right. you have 323 megs open on the C drive so dont place anything in there. E has about 5 gigs of storage, so if you want you can put an emulator or APPS in there. F is a good place to keep your games, it has 87 gigs free. I'm not sure how...

sorry for not responding sooner. I've been active a lot at XB Scene lately and haven't been on modretro in a while. ok, for starters the reason you are getting a service error with your new hard drive is likely one of two things, either it doesn't have the base files for a stock xbox, or the...

you are more than likely running with an embedded EEPROM. load up an AID disk and there is an option to switch the video mode. Hexen does this as well.. If you are using a 1.0-1.5 xbox, I really really recommend a TSOP flash. future proof your xbox now to prevent longer term frustration in the...

Thought I would let everyone know my insights into cap replacement on a game gear. I did some repair work on two dual ASIC GGs about a week ago. both were extremely quiet, both had no video. typical of the game gear. The lower left on the main board had two caps that are commonly associated...

ran into a forum where the discussion was in re: AtGames and some of their products. It appears that this isn't a SMOAC or something similar. It uses some sort of hardware and emulates the entirety of everything, so I kind of doubt that it can be hacked to have a cart port.

ok gang, lately I've picked up a few game gears for cheap. I picked one up for $5 and replaced a few caps to restore both sound (which is still way to quiet) and picture (which is still way to blurry) I've looked into replacing the GG screen because it is obviously horrible and while it is nice...

Interesting chip. Looks a bit large, but I'm not exactly able to make one smaller so ignore that. How much does that bad boy cost to produce? How does the chameleon work?

ok there are a few things that you can do to mod your xbox. soft mod is the first step obviously. you can soft mod by getting King Roach or any of the other hot swap soft mod packages out there. XS has a bunch of articles on how to do this. Simplified it goes like this: Boot your xbox with the...

XB Scene forums are back up online and all of the old posts appear to have been restored.

have an opportunity to get a (very) limited edition EA sports white xbox with accompanying controller. Want to make sure I don't over pay for it. Currently I'd be trading a blackberry playbook 32 gig, a softmod crystal xbox, and a dual core Pentium PC.. According to what I have read, there was...

Ok first things first scrap the softmod. Get a 1.0 or 1.1 xbox and tsop it, possibly splitting the tsop into two banks if needed. when it comes to psu, yeah pico is probably the most used. It's got to be really strong on the 5v if I recall correctly. I also recommend a sata adapter and hard...

thought I would give an update, I built the EEPROM reader and it worked flawlessly. Pulled the EEPROM.BIN and used it to lock a new drive and now all of my not-dead xbox's are working perfect..

You can format the hard drive without removing the lock/unlock status from it. That goes beyond any files or etc on it. You cannot flash the firmware or a bunch of other things that can remove a lock and keep it in locked status though, not that that has anything to do with anything. So here is...