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  1. aphirst

    Hardware Copy from one HDD to another using Wii U - Cannot boot from new HDD

    Currently set up with my Wii U is a 2.5" 240GB HDD, the same one I used with my old Wii in the past, formatted for use with the Wii U, connected with a Y-cable, with some games on it. (HDD 1) In my "spare parts bin" I had a 2.5" 320GB HDD, along with another USB-SATA enclosure (complete with its...
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    Hardware Performance and Battery Life of the Wii Remote Plus

    I suppose this is actually two questions. 1. I have a white Wii Remote Plus, which I'm confident is genuine, but which sometimes has bizzare calibration issues for the Motion plus functionality. Specifically, in Skyward Sword it's very common for the harp controls to flail wildly, and for tasks...
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    Hacking Wii Backup Managers in GNU/Linux - WBFS Conversion Issues

    I've just spent the better part of 2 days trying to get Skyward Sword PAL (v1.00 and v1.01) to convert to WBFS to play in wiiflow-lite on my Wii U's vWii. I'm a Linux user, and only have one (underpowered) Windows machine available, so I first attempted using various tools in Linux ("Wii Backup...
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    PS1/2 PS2 Slim - Modchip Diagnosis (PS1 games)

    I've been tinkering with a PS2 I just bought from a guy at Uni. It has a modchip in (a Matr!x Infinity clone, one of the v1.99 ones), and he says it does play both copied PS1 and PS2 games. I've set it up, and I can only get it to play copied PS2 games. Mostly. Every so often it spins up...
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    MP3 player Repair - Creative Zen- UK

    I've had a Creative Zen for several years now (the type with the landscape form-factor, with the buttons on the right and an SD card slot), and as with many of my own electrical devices, a large grain of something has appeared under the transparent panel, on the screen. I've found various...
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    Hacking Unable to FlashMe

    I'm bridging the contacts like this: (| |) into (|-|) I've tried a foil cylinder (with tape round the edges), a tiny flat screwdriver, and two ends of a paper clip on each half of SL-1, and it just won't start flashing... The most it does it randomly turn off, without causing any damage...
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    Repeated Faulty Items on eBay

    I got my current DS Lite from the eBay user xinxin19977188. The first one I got was faulty (after a month or so, the inside of the upper screen mysteriously chipped itself), so I sent it back. To China, mind, so I was ~£13 out of pocket. Fair enough, I thought, since it's still cheaper than...
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    Physics/Mathematics Websites

    Long story short, I'm moving into rented accommodation for Uni this Saturday (the 14th of this month), and (due to the previous tenant failing to give me any information until today) will be without Internet access for, potentially, over a week from then. I have to re-work and hand in an...
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    Gaming Wipeout Pure Download Packs - Slow Initial Loading

    I found an archive containing all the European download packs on the WipeoutZone forums. It's just a collection of folders within the SAVEDATA folder containing the relevant expansion-pack goodness. I extracted it to my MMS, and loaded Wipeout Pure. My question is simple: is it normal that it...
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    Gaming Battery Pack with USB *output*

    Out of sheer curiosity, the idea occurred to me to create a battery pack with USB as an output. The idea being that you plug a standard USB A-male connector (from, say, a USB Fan) into a box with some batteries in. Before I try to make my own, though, I wanted to see if there were any existing...
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    My Wonderful Laptop

    You may have seen that my signature describes a laptop computer. You may remember that it's been there for a little while now. I'm now finally going to tell everyone about it! But first, a little history. I got my first laptop in 2007. Since it was a birthday present, I think it was in July...
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    Gaming Thermal Interface Pads

    I'm sure many of you have taken apart laptops. When one gets to the Processor, Graphics Card, or a few choice Chips/Transistors, one will notice the manufacturer's thermal interface pads which connect the components to the heat-sink plates. I've removed (and, sadly, damaged beyond use) the pads...
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    A-Level Results

    Physics - A - 95.8% Electronics - A - 89.7% Maths - A - 87.7% Chemistry - B - 76.3% Further Maths - B - 75% General Studies - C - 60.2% (All Full A-Levels) FP2 (Further Maths) went strange, 52% UMS (37/75 RAW). Tame and Hickman (Maths teachers) reckon something's gone weird there; so they...
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    Gaming RAM Frequency and FSB

    I'll keep this short. I've spent the last hour trying to understand how having a RAM frequency differing from the CPU frequency affects performance. In the laptop that I am considering buying, the CPU has a 1066MHz FSB, and the RAM is DDR2 800MHz. I am unable to make sense of how this affects...
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    Hacking Minor Cosmetic Damage on Cobalt/Black DS Lite

    I'm sure you're all aware of the construction of a Cobalt/Black DS Lite. On the metallic blue portion of the console, almost bang on the right-corner, there is a small (2-3mm) mark. As such, a small fleck of the metallic coating is no longer present. It's not particularly noticeable, but does...
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    Hacking Decompress Sakura Skin

    Is it possible to edit the bitmap images in a Sakura .skn file if the source images are unavailable? I've attacked a few .skn files to decompress them, but to no avail.
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    Hacking Bomberman 2 on M3DS Real

    Well, it's all in the title and Description. Clean or trimmed, just black screens. Soft-Reset on/off, RTS on/off - no joy.
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    Hacking Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen/Ruby/Sapphire

    No matter what I do, I can't seem to make my Pokemon ROMs (Ripped from my European Cartridges, matching the md5sums of the ROMs available on the Internet) keep the save files. I'll load to PSRAM/NOR, play for a while, save. I'll reset the DS, run the game again (PSRAM loads the game back up...
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    Hacking AKAIO Slot-2 Save Management

    I've got an Acekard 2.1 coming at some point from DealExtreme, and a scenario with the EZ3in1 occurred to me: Say one flashes a 32MB GBA Game to the NOR. One plays the game, and saves it to the 3in1's SRAM. One then reboots the DS, and opts to load an 8MB game into the PSRAM. One plays the...
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