Things you recently bought or got

[ars25]

Ordered The GBA Drop in IPS screen, a TP 4056 USB-C Lithium Battery Charger Module and a LP103450 1900mAh 3.7V Lithium Polymer Battery to usb c mod the GBA
also ordered Kapton tape 30 awg solid core wire and solder wick

 

[dragonblood9999]

My mother, bless her heart, had been dating for a month or so after we resolved everything with my father's passing. Last night, her steady boyfriend dropped that he had found an old Sony Walkman in the barn on his land that he's been working on renovating for himself.

Drops it in my lap, basically, and it's a Sony MiniDisc Walkman, model MZ-E40, in pretty damn good condition. Motherboard's fine, no fried circuits, just a bit of corrosion on the bottom battery terminals bridging the batteries; I had to cannibalize my emergency AA phone charger for the terminal, but it was a sacrifice I was fine to make ('cause those things are like five fucking bucks on AliExpress, no big deal).

Works perfectly, though the audio *on* the MiniDisc leaves me questioning the previous owner's tastes. Who mixes Christian contemporary with Collective Soul or Roxette? I think I need to find a MiniDisc recorder on the cheap if I can, this shit's getting replaced with some Eurobeat, it's so 90s to use.

Have some photos: DENSETSU NO YAMADA TAE for scale.

You should check out Techmoan on youtube. He has a lot of interesting videos on MiniDisc and other media.

In one video he ordered, I think, 80 or so MiniDisc players from Japan.

 

[Joe88]

I guess a "new" grill that I found left on the curb, since my grill was approaching 20 years old and just about roached (one which was also found on the curb)
just needed a bit of work, pounded out the dent best I could on the right shelf panel, fixed the electronic igniter, cleaned out all the grease (looks like it was never cleaned), and gave it a good burn in at 670F for 20mins to burn off whatever was left
burners, flame tamers/flavorizer bars, grates are in good to ok condition, no rust on the grates, tubes and bars have little rust on them, tub is in good condition, one of the flame transfer bars was broken, not really a big deal tbh
I thought the old grill was pretty big but this one was massive in comparison

 

[Lv44ES_Burner]

You should check out Techmoan on youtube. He has a lot of interesting videos on MiniDisc and other media.

In one video he ordered, I think, 80 or so MiniDisc players from Japan.

You say that, and I'm already subscribed to him. And that was the very reason I showed interest in the Walkman.

 

[subcon959]

Was lucky enough to grab one of these in the clearance sale.
No more falling asleep during loading screens.

 

[dragonblood9999]

You say that, and I'm already subscribed to him. And that was the very reason I showed interest in the Walkman.

He has alot of interest videos and when you mentioned the MiniDisc, he was the one I automatically thought of.

 

[wiitendo84]

I'm just going to be honest here. I bought some bootleg Lego sets. 40 for both Poe Dameron orange and black x wing and the smaller mini figure size Ecto 1 with mini figs...Building the Ecto 1 right now and most definitely can tell it's not Lego but I will say the quality is decent. The pieces are fitting together pretty good and I've had to swap out with some of my Lego and they're fitting together snug. I'll post a pic of the smaller Ecto 1 with the official Lego big Ecto 1 to give off the difference in quality.

 

[Chary]

There was a Wii Mini for $10

 

[wiitendo84]

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There was a Wii Mini for $10

Kind of wanted one but at the time you could t hack it. Now I'm really thinking about getting another Wii because mine has crapped out on me.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

A buddy of mine was cleaning out his grandparent's house, and stumbled across an old late 90s era desktop in it, told him I'd pay him $50 for it if it turned on and he claims it did. So I'll probably be picking that up sometime next week if it actually works works.

Seems to have an old 266mhz AMD K6 in it, he says he "thinks" it has 16mb of RAM, 3.2GB HDD that I bet is dead, and a couple expansion cards he can't identify and the pics he sent me are useless so that'll be fun. Some kind of soundcard, video output, and networking thing though.

Be a nice Win95 PC to play with if it all works, been a bit since I've gotten my hands on a nice vintage PC so figured eh why not if it works

Finally picked this up today, turns out it had 32MB of RAM in it so that's nice. Soundcard is garbage though, just a potato Trident 2D accelerator so no fancy Voodoo or anything lol, and a modem, most of which I won't use.

So, gonna shove 256MB of RAM in there, ordered an ATI Radeon 7500 for $25 (cuz fuck Voodoo2's are expensive), and a USB card cuz this thing has no PS/2 ports, uses a DIN connector for keyboard input...but manages to have 2 USB 1.1 headers on the motherboard Still need to test the floppy drive and HDD (although the HDD was detected, surprisingly), but that will have to wait for now.

 

[Hambrew]

A card that earns the recipient credit to use for a subscription service or direct in-game currency for a game about creating games to post online for others to purview and then head back to Adopt Me or somethin idk how else do they have a million players

 

[Shadowfied]

 

[danwellby]

Nine inch nail's add violence and bad witch (alongside SOAD's Mezmerize, Hypnotize that I forgot to photo last time)
and a 3g vita with a 16gb card and case and stuff (Just need to attempt to source a psvsd)
Factory fw on it is 1.61

 

[dragonblood9999]

My GBC and DMG ips kits came today. Just installed the rips v4 kit in one of my DMG gameboys. It's definitely worth the money for one.


The green dmg is a stock gameboy. No mods, other than a internal prosound mod. The dmg in the middle is my back-lit, biverted, internal prosound and sound reactive button LEDS. The blue one is the gameboy with the ips kit in it.

I still have to install my gbc kit but because it's almost 2am and I need to solder I'll do it sometime tomorrow afternoon.

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

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I use the same controller. Way better than Joy cons, eh?

 

[KleinesSinchen]

Finally picked this up today, turns out it had 32MB of RAM in it so that's nice. Soundcard is garbage though, just a potato Trident 2D accelerator so no fancy Voodoo or anything lol, and a modem, most of which I won't use.

So, gonna shove 256MB of RAM in there, ordered an ATI Radeon 7500 for $25 (cuz fuck Voodoo2's are expensive), and a USB card cuz this thing has no PS/2 ports, uses a DIN connector for keyboard input...but manages to have 2 USB 1.1 headers on the motherboard Still need to test the floppy drive and HDD (although the HDD was detected, surprisingly), but that will have to wait for now.

That is so nice! Has the motherboard an AGP connector? You might be able to add USB 2.0 with some cheap PCI card... but USB support in Win95 is buggy (works better with Win98SE + some universal mass storage driver for easy data exchange via flash drives).

I have some computers from that time and really have to power on some of them. Pentium 1 era mainboards only had PCI connectors if I remember that correctly. My K6-2 (450MHz) based computer (which I stupidly gave away about 2003) had AGP graphics.

The HDDs from that time seem surprisingly sturdy. Many of them still work -- which sadly can't be said for MFM hard drives like the ST-225 in the IBM-PC-XT and IBM-PC-AT. The floppy drive should still work.

Have fun with your new old computer!

 

[Jayro]

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I want one of these so badly, but they stupid-asses didn't include motion controls, and that just kills me as a Splatoon and Zelda player. It's literally the only reason I haven't invested in one. Hopefully Hori gets their shit together someday.



The last thing I bought was this new Wi-Fi 6 wireless router. And this may come as a shock to any of you who know me, but... It's running stock firmware, and it's actually good. Blew away my expectations, honestly. I love my DD-WRT custom firmware, but it overly complicates some really basic things, like a USB share. This router is a solid 10/10 performer. I bought it a few months ago, and have yet to need a reboot.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

That is so nice! Has the motherboard an AGP connector? You might be able to add USB 2.0 with some cheap PCI card... but USB support in Win95 is buggy (works better with Win98SE + some universal mass storage driver for easy data exchange via flash drives).

I have some computers from that time and really have to power on some of them. Pentium 1 era mainboards only had PCI connectors if I remember that correctly. My K6-2 (450MHz) based computer (which I stupidly gave away about 2003) had AGP graphics.

The HDDs from that time seem surprisingly sturdy. Many of them still work -- which sadly can't be said for MFM hard drives like the ST-225 in the IBM-PC-XT and IBM-PC-AT. The floppy drive should still work.

Have fun with your new old computer!

It actually has 2 USB 1.1 headers on it (wow so futuristic!!), so don't even need to waste a PCI slot for USB expansion But I just want USB for keyboard/mouse and nothing else, so I'm not too bothered about going 98 or anything. That and I already have a 98 rig anyways, with a K6-2 coincidentally enough I plan on using just FTP to transfer stuff to and from it, so no need for mass storage or anything like that anyways.

No AGP slot though, which is kind of a bummer since AGP cards are so much cheaper than PCI, but eh. The ATI 7500 is waaaay over kill for what I want and is gonna be hella bottlenecked by the K6, but honestly it was one of the cheapest "good" options I can find so I just went with it

As for the HDD, it probably still works but I'll likely change it out anyways for one of my CF adapters just for the longevity of it.

 

[subcon959]

Father's Day gift..

 

[Shadow#1]

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