Bonus Life Stream 02 // Dual N64 Teardown and Full Capacitor Recap
THE RND2 here. Two N64 units on the bench this session — a 1996 NUS-CPU-03 and a later NUS-CPU-09 from around 2000. Both get the full teardown, and unit o…
Bonus Life Stream 1
N64 repair stream — this is where the Bonus Life build starts. A broken Nintendo 64 from eBay with no power and unknown board condition. The goal: rebuild…
What is Bonus Life?
What Is Bonus Life? Ten years ago this summer, I had a heart attack. Cardiac event, technically.. that’s what the doctors call it, and what it means is tha…
Pablo Artigas – Artist interview – 11/19/23
Thirty minutes, no script, no edits — a raw conversation with Pablo Artigas, the producer and DJ behind the trance album The Story of Mu, Parts 1 and 2. Re…
My trance story: What trance means to me, or why EDM is awesome
In 2001, Rob moved from rural Michigan to Los Angeles at 21. Unfamiliar city, unfamiliar people, third-shift work at a youth hostel near LAX. The music tha…
When a NORMAL Christmas Tree just isn’t enough.. you make your OWN BlackLight ornaments!
Over 100 handmade UV reactive ornaments for a blacklight Christmas tree — six weeks of work, a Cricut machine, UV paints, UV reactive vinyl, and UV resin….
Fixing Vanguard – an arcade machine from 1981 that TALKS
Vanguard is one of SNK’s earliest arcade games — originally released in 1981 by Centuri in North America. This cabinet came in needing a new monitor, a ful…
I found Flood Damaged NES Games! Can these Nintendo games be saved?
Water-damaged NES cartridges pulled from a flooded basement — mold on the boards, labels gone, pins corroded. The question isn’t whether they look salvagea…
How MacGyver and The Fonz Literally Saved My Life – A True Story from 1991
Summer 1991. I was 11 years old, on a 500-pound riding mower from 1967. The mower went over a slope, flipped, and I was pinned underneath it — hands burnin…
Can we FIX and preserve this RARE and BANNED N64 accessory?
The Z64 “Mr. Backup” is one of the rarest Nintendo 64 accessories still in the wild — a backup unit that was discontinued and pulled from the market under…