Bonus Life

Two milestones in one session. The BlueRetro internal Bluetooth mod is fully wired, and the RGB mod on the second board — the MAV-NUS — is one signal test…

Five days out from July 3rd. Two projects in one session: cutting the LCD opening in a clear N64 replacement shell, and locking in the LED wiring. Both don…

The ten-year mark. The build is done, the stream is live, and Miguel V and Bryan B are walking away with N64s. This is what the whole series was building t…

Five days out from July 3rd. The build was almost done. This was not a good day. Fifteen minutes, live on Twitch, because the cameras were already on and s…

Shell swaps are not custom. Painting a case is not custom. This is what custom actually means: stripped to bare PCB, rebuilt from the inside out with inter…

Side Quest. The Diamond Rio Volt SP100 — the personal one from 2001 — needed attention. What the Rio Volt Was The Diamond Rio Volt is a portable CD player…

Last session the ribbon wire was pitched too wide for the MAV-NUS pads. This session fixed that. The Right Wire Ordered correctly pitched ribbon wire — abo…

An innocent question about how BlueRetro handles N64 save files turned into two hours under the microscope with a continuity tester and some very thin wire…