not too hard really, practicing on smaller and smaller is the key. i started with your standard amazon capacitor resistor kit and some perfboard, then moved to ICs, then to SMDs (surface mount device). The hardest i had to do was a picoboot, which is still pretty challenging. honestly it's pretty easy with flux and a good soldering iron. Buy a cheap amazon one and try it out!

Looks amazing! I have to get one sometime, the screen quality is amazing!

Love no clean liquid flux. Just the no-name stuff, and I clean it with 99 ipa anyway. On an unrelated note, I will always be a Hakko shill. Just the absolute best soldering iron i can imagine- if you can afford it, BUY IT!

Good stuff!

Ok, that’s REALLY cool! I use an everdrive with the original hardware but maybe someone made a romhack. Either way, bosses hitless sounds like a real PITA like you said. Can’t imagine beating Gohma hitless lol

This game gets really tough! 🫡 to anyone that can beat it, with a guide and two people it took nearly 6 hours. Probably my favorite game on the nes, it just feels so grandiose and huge.

bout 3 months and 200 bucks worth of soldering equipment. Loving repairing consoles so far

K-40 isnt fissile AFAIK

Holy jeepers! 12 grand usd for a game! Never grew up around these but they’re the only games I emulate seeing how it’s 400usd for a aes everdrive and 1.2k for a console (in bad condition). The games really are beautiful though. Fatal fury has some of my favorite pixel art to date!

Huge jump between the original and later titles. This game really does feel huge and the dungeons might be better that BoTW. More secrets than later games and a ton of different areas. It feels super good to get acquainted with the map and actually figure out where you’re going without a guide. Combat is pretty good too, although the knockback is somewhat broken with certain enemies (looking at you, gibdo). Planning order of operations is a big one for me too (i.e “first I’ll get the heart piece, then stick up on bombs, then hit dungeon 5”) and makes the game a real challenge. Just use a guide for the later sections of the overworld. Getting to 5 is pretty much impossible without a hint. It’s worth picking back up again if you have the time.

It's a gameboy screen. Not good, but it works.

Well, when you live in huts like cavemen and your population is very spread out, of course you’re going to be less impactful. Shrinking the population WOULD help, no matter how much you scream about eugenics and fascism. Gonna be downvoted for this, but it’s just my opinion at the end of the day. No need to get butthurt, keyboard warriors.

Good stuff, especially sonic triple trouble. Working on a recap now

God I need a Scart modded crt so bad but I'm so scared of breaking the trinitron (I've got the experience but I always second-guess myself and end up ruining it). Anyone have experience with the retroTINK rgb2comp?

Easily New Vegas and Interplay fallouts (excluding tactics ofc). Put an easy 150 into FO4 but New Vegas really isn’t overrated, and 1/2 are amazing with the sheer desolation and creepiness factor. Love those games, probably played NV a dozen times by now

oh yeah, I've got instructions for it, a BA-5 is pretty easy. But I'm terrified of messing it up because it’s the only trinitron in my area that's a reasonable price (300 for a kv-20fs120?!) and I'm a little out of my depth here. But I had no idea about BNC connectors, so thanks on that. Maybe I'll start on my cheapo sharp crt and work my way up. You seem super knowledgeable, and thanks for the help!

My search terms are typically “tube tv” or “old tv” but I live near a major city so most people know what they’re selling. I've done a few gamecube picoboots that are way harder but like I said I might try on my POS sharp tv!

Thanks for the quick and helpful replies, I hope other people learn things from this thread too!

I do know a bit about AES hardware, and there are actually 2 boards in there (pic related)

Sorry if this gets a bit technical, but iirc it uses a huge banks of ROM then a chip to synchronize both boards. Might be entirely wrong though, I can’t find anything on it recently

sorry you hd trouble! if you want to send pics i can try to help but if a hacked memcard works for you thats fine too. with the price of games these days it's hard not to hack your gc/wii lol

Lucky!