Stickies

[robm]

You all may have noticed that Beta and I have been doing massive sticky-makins. If you see any portables/links that we have missed, please PM one of us! We'd be glad to get it fixed.

The format of the mega-stickies is as follows:

They are a locked, stickied thread. The first post in the thread contains useful information posts, such as guides, how-tos, articles, etc. The second post contains links to completed projects on ModRetro.

 

[snowpenguin]

Except many of them be empty-ish. SO GET TO POSTIN'! Of course eventually my Clear64 will be complete, I'v eonly fried four N64s so far.

 

[J.D]

Lol, the N64 must fry a lot. I even put my bare NES on the carpet overnight, and it didn't do anything.

Eventually my NESp will be up there some day...

 

[snowpenguin]

Yes, it is pretty fryable compared to other systems, but there's also the :red: factor as well.

 

[ShockSlayer]

Yay, robm!

SS

 

[XCVG]

The N64 seems to fry a lot, but it's a misconception that it's ESD sensitive. It usually gets fried by a bad relocation, bad wiring (usually dumping too much voltage on the 3.3V line), or bits of conductive stuff getting stuck between pins. I've fried one so far and I've been A LOT more careful with this one. That said, I have an extra.

Also, love the stickies, but we should have a stickied general discussion thread for each forum, since the mega sticky is locked.

 

[robm]

ESD does get blamed for a lot of fried electronics, but in reality, it's pretty rare (at least in my experience.) I've been dealing with electronics for over 20 years and have never fried a single piece of hardware from ESD.

I'm not sure it would be necessary to have an entire thread dedicated to the discussion of the stickies; if there's a problem, missing link etc, I would figure a PM to either Beta or myself would be sufficient.

Discuss?

 

[J.D]

How about we rename the thread "Rediscussion: Fried Boards?"

 

[XCVG]

Just noticed something. WIP portables should be in the sticky, even if they have been abandoned. That way we can easily navigate to worklogs buried under months of other threads.

 

[snowpenguin]

Lol@j.d. I might make a thread in the future anyway, since I'm getting three moar n64s.

 

[XCVG]

Searched a bit more, and noticed the computer section has no sticky. Kind of unfair, even the "other" section has one.

Make it fair.

 

[snowpenguin]

I thought they were still working...