Bought an adapter to save time, ended up having to tear it down and isolate pins due to shorted pins. Sigh🫠

Yikes.

Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. picoide.com

After some adjustments with the internals, this TV actually produces a great picture👀

coming soon 😉 - picoide.com (image made at homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...)

My snow blower started on the first crank this year. I think I'm ready for Canadian winter😌🤪

Starting DQ2 right away and I now see that the entirety of DQ1 map is just that small chunk in top left👀😂

Spent the whole afternoon retrying the fight. Turns out I did not configure the gears properly. After doing so, the fight was actually quite manageable even 4 levels below the recommendation😆

So it looks like standard pitch for birds is around 1.5 to 2 birds wide🤔

Let’s settle this!👀

Awww…

Bought a new toy that’s “broken” but turns out, it’s just the brightness that’s turned all the way down🙈

Very tough fight! I’m at lease 6 levels under and hand to make sure every step was done correctly, plus hoping for the best from the RNG god😂

I’m VERY under-leveled at this point. But I have to keep pushing on!🤪

Holy crap, this dragon fight was tough at Lv18!🥵

I cannot catch a break!🤪

Huh, so it turns out it's a bunch of hassles to setup up the DOS driver for a Sound Blaster AWE64. Who would have thunk!🤡

When you have your little Windows installer to operate the Windows installer for you🤓😌

Yes. Shouldn’t you say “thank you”?🤡

It’s the season and my chair is zapping my butt again🤡 Since I tore down the setup now I have to rebuild it. 1M ohm resistor to the ground, and now I have to hold my fingers onto the metal tape while standing up line before🤪

So it is true that all these MD deck remotes work on all Sony MD machines! Now I can copy CDs over to MDs with the fancy CD Sync function🤪

I got the updated dpads for the Double D controllers in today. They pass the button test. By that I mean everything works as it should, and you can pish the dpads straight down and not get errant presses. We're fully blacked out now too, which looks pretty cool.

Now let’s see if this one for the DOL-001 works… in a few days🤔

You are selling friggin Voodoo 1s without the jumper cable ffs. They are not made of solid gold!🤡

It’s only been 21 years since I played the first game of this franchise. So much has advanced in my life. It feels almost unreal…🫠

Let’s get rolling!

That’s it for Stellar Blade!🥵

Rolled credits 3 times with Stellar Blade. Now some clean up and I’ll get a plat trophy🤪

Why is the GIF search box prompting password autofill on BlueSky in Chrome? Is this a bug or an attack? @bsky.app

This will be the next after I beat Stellar Blade😌

Browsing eBay and saw a random Pentium 4 PC - yep, I know what’s going on on the inside🤡

I've created a 3D model for the Sony A14/D14 BVM Bezel. If printed it should fit 1:1 with the stock unit. Files can be found here: bitbuilt.net/forums/threa...

Hmm so this monitor is bright and vibrant right after it was turned on, but then slowly the peak brightness drops to a noticeable point. It still runs fine but it's bothering me enough that I want to take it apart and change all of the no-brand brown caps that look like Nichicon

Now back to more burn-in test😅

New cap in and it is now working??👀🥳

funfact; this is still currently our lockscreen it seems ❤️

Finally got some time to play some game while waiting for parts from DigiKey🫠

I've been troubled by how I'm going to catch the trains to and back from the concert at downtown by the end of the month. Turns out they offer $15 daily parking. Unnecessary worries be gone🤪

Question: what is this black component with marking: N 5 J It measures 0.6 ohm both ways, but I suspect it should not.

Took the board out. Found more cracked joints around the transformer. Also some traces across the crack in the board. Touched them all up but no improvement.🫠

Opened up the CRT again. A bunch of voltages are much too low than the design, like 12V, 80V and 150V. -5V is entirely missing. Also found a crack in the board, prolly due to the drop. And a cap that’s not quite happy🤔 Guess I still have a lot of work ahead🫠

Retrotink 4K PRO & CE profiles UPDATE 2025-10-17. This is a great base to update to! With future updates I may add just few small tweaks or new profiles. First watch the video on how to update profiles 👇 Video: youtu.be/YPknWg4OTl8?... Profiles download: drive.google.com/file/d/19i7w...

New toy! And these 32yo caps from the FM Towns are not even bad??👀

There are now gaps in my memories... Like, how did I carry my LG 775FT CRT plus the entire PC setup 300KM away from my hometown to the city I work, and up to the 7th floor, 20 years ago... I have zero recollection at all💀

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan. From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history. Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?... This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

Oldest son forced himself to try this all-time classic in this most appropriate season of the year🤪

And the saga is not over🫠 I’ve been running this monitor these days a few hours per day, just to reveal any hidden issue. And it did not disappoint!🤡 This afternoon the image started vibrating horizontally and the focus is really bad. The brightness also sucks even more.💀

Thanks to @jeffchen.bsky.social for this model

Took a shortcut and bought an AliExpress PicoLoader. Worked first try🫠

Ridley, Kraid, and Mother Brain Life Support slow down! But why? Let's do a performance dive to answer this question and also find out why scrolling seems to lag when Samus is flipping through the air... but in reality does not! Part 2 of Metroid Lag - youtu.be/1oCE-hYT3LY