ManCloud

As promised last week, I've been messing around with #FlipperMCE and Swiss and got something working that I just didn't want to completely keep to myself 😉 It's a PoC, it's really rough but it boots some games at least 😉 Full writeup here: flippermce.github.io/swiss/

@natalie_thenerd Saleae or „saleae“ 😉 and did you get the 8-bit or 16-bit one? I always wanted the 16-bit LA but… well… I already got like 5 LA here 🙈

Getting a saleae logic analyser changed my life for real

Good news: looks like I might soon release a PoC implemented in #Swiss to start games from #FlipperMCE Please note: this may have bugs and may be suboptimal! It will also not be PR‘d to mainline Swiss, since it doesn‘t meet its quality expectations. Still interested?

@korolloh1 @Civixplorer @jay_kumogata So why compare at all?

@ManCloud89 @Civixplorer @jay_kumogata won’t tell you anything since at this times competition was different, marketing was different, everything was different

🎮 Best-Selling Video Game Consoles of All Time: 1. 🇯🇵 PlayStation 2: 157.7 2. 🇯🇵 Nintendo DS: 154.9 3. 🇯🇵 Switch: 153.9 4. 🇯🇵 Game Boy: 120.4 5. 🇯🇵 PlayStation 4: 118.4 6. 🇯🇵 PlayStation: 102.8 7. 🇯🇵 Wii: 101.6 8. 🇯🇵 PlayStation 5: 90.2 9. 🇯🇵 PlayStation 3: 87.4 10. 🇺🇸 Xbox 360: 85.8 11. 🇯🇵 Game Boy Advance: 81.5 12. 🇯🇵 PSP: 81.1 13. 🇯🇵 Nintendo 3DS: 75.9 14. 🇯🇵 NES: 61.9 15. 🇺🇸 Xbox One: 51.4 16. 🇯🇵 Super Nintendo: 49.1 17. 🇯🇵 Game & Watch: 43.6 18. 🇯🇵 Sega Genesis: 38 19. 🇺🇸 Xbox Series X: 34.3 20. 🇯🇵 Nintendo 64: 32.9 21. 🇺🇸 Atari 2600: 27.6 22. 🇺🇸 Xbox: 24.7 23. 🇯🇵 GameCube: 21.7 24. 🇯🇵 Master System: 20.8 25. 🇯🇵 Switch 2: 16.4 🔎 VGraphs via VGChartz, company reports

@redherring32 There are these foam Packs for shipping that expand on activation. Maybe they are good enough to get some kind of „negative“, where you could then stick the parts to

For reverse engineering I have to strip parts off a board. I like to then reassemble with a new PCB. But I have to keep track of them. In the past I glued a printout to floral foam and stabbed the parts into it. This doesn't work well, does anyone have better suggestions?

@qwertymodo @jeffqchen The ir decoder was there even before it was done by fnirsi I got one very early transistor tester with monochrome Nokia-style display (LCR-T4?) which already had that feature 😂

@jeffqchen That FNIRSI meter is so weird for having a random IR decoder on it for some reason. What will they come up with next, a thermometer with built-in morse code generator?

Recapped the card and it’s still doing the thing with VMTCE in 640x480x16. But maybe it’s a VMTCE problem, since none of the games do that wiggly under that resolution🤔

@seanami Well I plan to port the gbaHD framework for esp32 to the SwancolorHD. We still need to figure out how but that would mean OTA Firmware Updates, button remapping and probably also resolution switch etc.

@ManCloud89 is bluetooth and power hardware features the only new thing or is different software features from v1? QSB are going to make it alot easier than all wires on doing v1

SwancolorHD v2 prototype 1 is ready to go. Now „only“ software is pending 😅

@gamerghosts Thanks 😁 unfortunately I ordered the wrong thickness for the QSB but it’s sufficient for prototype. Next iteration will have some changes but it seems overall working 😁

@ManCloud89 That looks amazing!

@49bit_cat @zwenergy0 Very good! Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to get one this time 😁👌

@ManCloud89 @zwenergy0 If bought on the 10th it will very likely arrive before the 16th. Within Germany we ship via DHL Paket.

We're happy to say that there will be a second batch of nileswan units for sale starting from the 10th of April.

@madietlx You should have a look at Binary code modulation. With just 8 interrupts you can get 256 distinct values whilst for PWM you would need... Exactly... 256 😁 also looks great on the oscilloscope 😁

I'll be honest with you I'm still trying to figure PWM out, to feel it intuitively, and not just accept it I'm still having a hard time accepting that 5v being 50% OFF and 50% ON is exactly the same as having 2.5v It works, my little experiment shows, but it's almost too easy

@VajskiD @fliperama86 None of the points necessary are on any vias... I worked on a similar project years ago... The best solution was: interposer board. Unfortunately

@fliperama86 Won't be long until people are making flexes to grab all the points from scraped vias / easy access points with MCU / components on flex or PCB / 3D printing up some plates to neatly mount a mini HDMI port etc. thanks for open sourcing people are going to love this.

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KiCAD is my favorite video game.

@is_a_person @DUSKdev Fun fact: as long as they don't touch two of them or getting to close to a second one while touching the first, nothing would happen

@DUSKdev That’s why there are so many cartoonish depictions of people parachuting into them accidentally, only to get caught and swiftly electrocuted to death in a comedic manor.

Did anyone else not realize that most power lines are completely uninsulated bare wire? That should have been extremely obvious in hindsight, but I just learned this the other day.

@gamerghosts @PeacefulOutcome I never used the extractors... Just the lid itself 🙈

Easily and safely remove those pesky jumper packs with @PeacefulOutcome s awesome tool! Get your today! Great idea and execution!

@redflagoclock @GmanModz Well... Kind of xD you could take the kicad PCB preview and reroute it 😅 but otherwise: no.

@ManCloud89 @GmanModz Oh that's sick as fuck, were the design files ever published so others can hack on shit?

God I can wait to see the RE'd design files and then whatever modernization needs to be done to make a hilariously small N64 lfggggggg