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Posted on 09/07/202309/07/2023


FINALY COMING BACK DOWN TO EARTH

The right server moved completely back with a bigger better server also 2 new
websites coming just need time to develop them one about gaming ones about
selling my crafting work. more information. there will be some crossover from
the 2 to hear as well.

going to attempt to fix my switch as it’s been deaf for a few years.

filled my 1tb in my steam deck so I have ordered a 2tb internal will document
this from start to finish.

will do some more on my Retroid 3+

Been playing with enclosure designs for the Jsaux mod case.

been also teaching myself more about 3d designing. as managed to snap my alarm
fob so had an idea will share this and more over the next few months


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SORRY NO POSTS

Life has been getting in the way again and we just moved the server there might
be some glitches. Working on it all atm.


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Posted on 07/03/202317/05/2023


UPGRADING STEAM DECK FROM 512GB TO 1TB

After a week end at home haveing some family time as got a lot going on in the
background including day job. i spotted a post on the steam deck Facebook group
that scan was  doing a western digital m.2 2230 NVMe  1tb unit for £99. and just
like that i have one stitting here next to me on the coutch.


LITS OT BITS YOU WILL NEED

you are going to preform this operation you must have the following.

 * Small Philips screwdriver
 *  pry pick
 * 2230 NVMe 1tb drive 
 * Tweezers
 * NVMe enclosure usb c

Optional item

 * Steam Deck Repair Jig


OPTIONAL PARTS

As I haven’t been using my 3d printers for a while and had some purple petg
going spare and to make my life easier. So I decided to print the Steam Deck
Repair Jig by ryohazuki224 link here.



As my printer isn’t big enough to print in one go I have decided to go with the
2 septate sides so 8hrs later and I have this and am ready to take my deck a
part.




CLOANING YOUR NVME INTERNAL DRIVE

This step is purely optional as in my case I have 500gb of data on my deck and
downloading will be a pain in the arse.  I have decided just to clone my
internal drive to the new 1tb NVMe.

So first up i have to install my new NVMe drive  in to an enclosure I brought
one off amazon cheaply just input it in to the enclosure  and plug it in.

 



Now over to the deck plug in the new drive and then hit the steam button.

got to desktop mode let i boot in to desktop.

now in desktop open up konsole. this can be done by going  steam
menu>system>konsole.



now enter the following. clone command: sudo dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sda
oflag=sync bs=128M status=progress 



now hit enter

This took me  1364s to complete. now to swap it in to a the deck.




OPENING UP THE STEAM DECK

Make sure you have shutdown the deck and removed the memory card.

First up are the 4 shorter screws in the center of the deck place them together.

now the 4 outer screws they are slightly longer again place them somewhere safe.



Now using the pry pick open up the deck carefully. going around the outer edge
of the deck popping it open.



Now the back cover will come away.

you will be greeted with the following.



Peel back silver foil removed screw.



remove two small screws top bottom of metal plate wiggle plate free.



Disconnect the battery cable.



now to remove the drive 



Now to reverse the procedure montage time..




TIME TO REBOOT



powered on all worked  that was well spent 30  mins and we are good to go 1tb on
board all was working then tried to move a game from sd to internal storage
something when bad think i should have played a game for before going bad got a
stuck on steam icon. oh well going to reimage it.


RE IMAGING THE DECK

As i had planed to do this in the first place i had already prepared a image usb
drive with recovery OS on it.

to do this need to go to steams web site and download the recover image. then
using etcher or similar burn image to a usb key with more than 8gb on it.

As i have tried to recover the software now going to format and start over hold
down volume down and power will here chirp. let go boot USB image.  

you will be greeted with 4 icons you want the one saing reimage.

using your finger tap it once and then you will be greeted with proceed button
tap with finger let it do its stuff then next dialog will be reboot press with
finger can now remove usb and plug back in to the mains.

will now reboot using fingers navigate and set it back up.

all working fine not sure what i did wrong. but all fixed.

again worth the £99 sorry no images of this part but you get the idea.


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Posted on 03/01/202305/01/2023


HAPPY NEW YEAR

Right back in the cave after a cold snap Has ground things to a halt for a
month.

new year so time to have a cleanout will be migrating some equipment out of the
cave once working. the custom cr-10 build I am going to finish it and then will
ship it to wales with some more tools as lack being able to create it when I am
away.

so why am I losing a printer well fiber laser will be coming soon so I can start
doing some fun streams still working on setting up and I need to raise the
connection speed to the shed as speeds are still capping out below stream
minimums.

also going to clean out the projects that failed completely as I need to make
some space and add additional extraction for the fiber laser. also going to fire
up my CNC machine again.

will add more in the next week or so.


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Posted on 15/10/202215/10/2022


SET UP OF MY STEAM DECK AND REVIEW

Right, let’s get started as I have confirmation my steam deck is packed and
about to leave the USA to me I am getting myself ready for this end as I am
hoping to get it before i travel to holiday home.





so first up I going to print the steam deck life saver as recommended from a
video I watched on YouTube free to download here by LWC on printables.





Time for  a quick 3+ hr print.



All printed still waiting for a tracking number from steam but on with the
preparation. next up sorting out my roms for a steam deck build.

I am also going to do a separate build that’s bootable on the steam deck this
will be housed on 256 sd card this will have 25 games on each system going to
the best of the best. that will be worked on in the back ground.  More about
this at a later date..

Next i am going print a stand so over to thingiverse. and found a nice stand for
just propping my machine up so this is a 13 hr print wish me luck. can be found
here by ShaunDarkLord

Sliced and ready to print away it goes will check back in a few hrs. works on
flat surfaces I don’t have to Meany as working on my deck on the couch. so don’t
know how much use I will get out of this print.


THE PRE PACKING MY BAG TO GO AWAY

This is the down side to ordering a steam deck. GLS has my deck its meant to be
coming parcel force yay at least i have some control of delivery by the
Wednesday my order now got a GB multi courier this means Evri is delivering my
deck argh no control no warning no way to change delivery dates…

any how let take my mind of thing and pre pack my bag.



Thursday get notification of parcel has been received by Evri. Friday morning
get they got the package. 

11:20 your parcel is out for delivery. Now on a normal Friday this would not be
a problem. But this is not a normal Friday as we are going to our holiday home.
at 3pm the parcel due time is  between 4 and 6 pm eek.

 Wife is on call delaying us till 4 i have my son and have come home waiting for
tumble dryer to finish now 5 packed the car time for a comfort brake  before 3
hr 30 min drive just about to leave the house when the door bell rings its my
package so straight in the boot with my bundle of joy,

 




4HRS LATER TIME TO PLAY OR UPDATE AND DOWNLOAD.

I have arrived in wales and put my son to bed time to play. as I opened the
brown box I am greeted with a happy message to plug the deck in and power on and
so I did I then chose my language time zone and log in all going well sort of
60meg line Vs 600 Meg line in london. lots of updates and time to down load some
games that take around a hour each when 40+ GB So not played a lot but all
updated. have noticed a few silly things with the system. there is no way to
sleep and download. there is a work around using screen dimming and leaving
system on download page. as wont sleep. Note to self Elden rings probably wasn’t
the best bet to down load first.

I also changed the sleep setting from 1 hr to 20 mins no way to change it back
again this will probably change soon in a update.

So time to que all my games from the library leave it over night to download and
install everything . 


THE NEXT AFTERNOON.

We had stuff to do at the house also dug out a i7 pc to upgrade in a future post
as want a power house down in the work shop for streaming. more on that  in a
future blog and how to run ethernet out doors.

its working spent a fun few hours playing games i had downloaded off steam
servers to my deck. so far blown away by the steam os and handling. of the games
system.  will post a video of game play soon just building something capable of
streaming

but wait there’s more i can do that just play new games on time for some old
school retro gaming as this will play pretty much anything.



added my life saver to the case works well  and stops the deck falling out of
the case. defiantly a  must if you have a 3d printer. well until i invest in a
tough case for it.


ADDING EMU DECK

As for some one who loves retro gaming this is a must for me so over to desktop
mode. the first thing your going to need to add in firefox as its not pre
installed so open discovery and serch for it and install it.

I also looked for ProtonUP as this is proton GT a better version installed
proton.

now Firefox installed go to emu deck website and download drag the
emudeck.desktop file to the desktop now go to start menu  search for konsole
open it type passwd set a password now can close the console. 

now double click on emudeck.desktop this will take some time on a slow
connection. i have a 1TB sd card installed and thats were my games are going to
be installed so when prompted click sd and ok

then i selected expert mode and ok then next screen the ok  for the next few
screen as all installed you will then prompted for password  so i enter my
freshly set password and then the install will start. away it goes go make a cup
of tea or coffee as this is going to take a wile. at the end. once its its done
will ask for a retro achievements password free register will record all
achievements so worth doing. and then your done go to your sd card and you will
need to add roms to roms each system has a game folder. will need to install
bios files in the bios folder now this is a gray area and i am only using backed
up roms of games i own. but if your intent on getting games google is your
friend.


A FEW DAYS LATER

I have been busy coping generating artwork set for games i have added i have
approx. 30 working emulators i can add more but have gone with console and
handheld gaming systems and joystick compatible systems.  the reason for this is
then don’t need a keyboard out to play them. still working on getting some of
the emulators to work but again its just a bit of light reading should be able
to solve all issue as such a great community surrounding steam deck. The updates
are also coming out every few day as well so if its not working yet it will be
soon.


VIEWS SO FAR...

Loving steam games loving how well this play most emulated systems there area 
few a that are a little glitchy but the updates are coming think and fast.

This thing is very customisable with plugins as well and have also installed
ducky loader and several plugins to theme the deck and show compatibility with
non native games and vibrancy of the screen as well as a CSS theme builder will
also be adding new start up videos. 

If your a lover of gaming this is the device for you. if you want perfection out
of the box this is nearly there but with some tinkering it come close to being
perfect.


DOCKING YOUR DECK

I have one of the 2 docks I have ordered the first dock is the jsaux as
recommended by a few youtubers and I have also ordered the official dock from
steam this is on its way to me. So why 2 dock well one will be permently fitted
in the man cave so i can get screen shots and film mods in the future the other
one will be my traveling dock. 



well all plugged in and it works great. in game mode screen turns off and my 4k
tv was the interface with external 8bitdo works perfectly. i then switched to
desktop mode this was a little different had 2 screens I decided i only wanted
one so over to settings and display enabled the big screen as main screen and
deactivated the deck screen. i have also plugged in my Logitech wireless k400
keyboard and it all works like a dream. much easier than my travel one. but
that’s for home life and not life on the go. 


PROTECTOR CASE

I have been looking at serval different cases and this seemed the most feasible
for me as will fit in standard case that the deck shipped with so at £23 was a
mid ranged price its very good  nice textured grps and kick stand works well.




WILL BE ADDING MORE

happy so far will report more on this shorty with some videos and screen shots
and things I have learn over the next month.


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Posted on 30/09/202207/10/2022


STEAM DECK 512GB EDITION PLANS

Time to join the revolution as Q3 comes to an end i have decided to join the
que.  As i do love a machine i can tinker with.  have invested in 1tb sd card
for this bad boy and Bluetooth keyboard with track pack. so this post with be
what I’m looking to achieve when i first get it.

Just waiting on shipping should be with me within the week. knowing my luck this
will be out for delivery on the day i am traveling to wales. hopefully can get
it before that or my friendly next door neighbour will take it in for me. thats
worst case senario.


ACCESSORIES

Already got:

Bluetooth keyboard i have gone with a travel one as folds up nice and small and
will fit in my back back on my travels.

1tb SD card A2 so 180 write speed should give me plenty of space for emu deck.

will be paring my 8bitdo SN30 Pro or got a Xbox carbon controller kicking around
for it 

3d printed dock more about that in next post  as pictures been added after the
post release lol

Looking for:

Dock going to look for a dock for the man cave so i can film and have stuff on
the main monitor looking for one with a ethernet connector built in and
eventually with m.2 port as that will come in handy but that will once I have
paid the deck off.

travel bag as the case it comes in might be short lived if I get a protective
case with a stand.

Protective case


EMULATION

Emu deck is where i am going to start my build i am going to start off porting
all the roms of the rick dangerouse  image  i will aslo be adding some backed up
games from my switch and GameCube along with some ps3 and ps2 games as well.  I
then might look at my wii and wii u catalog as well as tempted to try that as
well.


PLAYSTATION 4/5 REMOTE PLAY

its been done so i will be trying this out as well and documenting my journey as
something I would love to be able to do as don’t get enough time with my
PlayStation as anti gamer wife.


STEAM OS

My steam liberty is very small 3 games so i will be increasing this over the
next month or so.  I am looking for recommendations.


EPIC GAME COLLECTION

going to give this mod ago as over lockdown have been adding stuff to my library


OCULUS 2 SUPPORT

apparently its a possible modification so will be looking at this as might be a
fun addition as I don’t have a high end pc. so will be doing some reading on
this too. 


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Posted on 24/09/202229/09/2022


HOW TO MODIFY YOUR GAMECUBE TO THE MAXIMUM

As i have just purchased a second hand GameCube. I have decided i am going to
modify it to the maximum the using the latest mods form 2022 for my 2001 
machine


PICOBOOT MODIFICATION



So first up I have decided to look modifying one using the Raspberry pico
method. There are some options to softmod but they are more costly as can only
get the modified memory cards or action replay discs from the states. there are
other methods but the cost of these are well over £170 i wont be doing this the
methods i have chosen is £14 for a complete Raspberry Pico wires thermal pads
memory card and heat sync. I haven’t accounted for solder and flux as i have
them in abundance the SD2SP2 PRO adapters all from aliexpress. £3,99



So why would you want to do this well there are several reasons.



 1. To preserve your game collection by being able to back them up
 2. Allow you to play homebrew.
 3. Allow you to play games from other regions.
 4. allow you to run DVD-R discs (if you pot tune)





So as I was away relaxing in Florida I was searching eBay for cheap game cubes i
brought 2 one that was modified with Picoboot and one standard box.

why 2 well sniped them both by mistake so will be making them the same and then
shifting one back on eBay as need to rase founds for a fiber laser. please
donate if you like my posts.


WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO TEARDOWN YOU GC

 you will need some special tools to open up a Nintendo product. In this case,
you will need special 4.8 mm tool available of amazon

 

to open up the case you need to remove these 4 security screws from here onwards
they are cross-head screws. see the image below.



you can now separate the shell.

Next up will need to remove the fan mechanism with 2 screws  and unplug the
power cable. as you can see mine is very dirty so out with airgun to blow the
dust away. these are second hand boxes after all all built around the 2000s




you will now need to remove the optical drive board from the base board this is
done by removing the following screws. there is around 15 of them all the same
length so as long as they all go back afterwards wont be a issue. have pictured
below locations.



Put the drive mechanism to one side and time to install the picoboot mod

For the pico boot method, you will need the following.

 * Raspberry pi pico
 * 23 AWG wiring red black blue purple and orange approx 15 cm long lengths of
   each
 * Flux
 * Solder
 * Soldering iron
 * Thermal pads for chips
 * 3D printed bracket
 * Heat shrink

i brought this kit of ali express for a grand total of £14 with all the parts

Lets start to install the mod so back to the main board.

To do this mod you will need to remove the 6 screws holding the heat sync in
place then rock the heat sync carefully as not to damage the board.

if the heat sync is not moving heat the machine up for 15 mins then will come
easily with out damaging DA14 which is common if your not delicate with this.

 



you will now need to solider the wires to the correct place on the lower board.
once this is done you will need to route them to the side of the GameCube. see
below instructions my board is DOL-001 built in 2001




going to start with black jumping over the 2 pin headers.  Next will be the pink
and the red wires, To Finish off will do the blue and the orange wires jobs
done.  Now it add heat shrink and route them through the board now this is done
will add some Kapton tape to help protect the wires  before re installing the
heat sync. montage below



Now to flash the pico you can download the latest firmware here and how to
install instructions as if you have dol-101 is different.

Lets get started on flashing plug usb in to pc and then   Hold down white button
connect via usb drive will mount on pc can let go of white button now. next drag
latest version of the firmware picoboot.uf2 over to the folder  drive will eject
green light will come on your done as simple as that. now disconnect the pico
and solder the corresponding pins. make sure you don’t have too much or too
little wire 

Me being a perfectionist i found this bracket by zedlabz to install the Pico on
my machine. as 2 mm 2 screws and bottom bolts to machine for a nice clean
install



so over to prusa slicer to make it going to take a wapping12 mins To produce




time to reassemble the machine and make sure it boots.

Format your SD card to FAT32 or exFAT. Download the latest Swiss release from
here and grab swiss_rXXXX.dol file, rename it to ipl.dol and copy to the root of
your SD card.  it works nice and simple.


SD2SP2 & SD2SP2 PRO 2022 AND SD MEMORY CARDS

There are 3 current options on market for the GC depending on method of
modifying will be how you if you were using a mod chip you would need dvd media
to boot in to swiss. In the case of the picoboot you wont need the optical drive
unless your booting games off it.

So will need a front end to boot in were as modchip will still mainly read from
the drive and then boot off the sd.  

so your my options are the followng 

SD2SP2 micro sd card reader that hides behind behid the expattion port on the
front of the machine willhave to remove port cover to access it easily.

 

SD2SP2 PRO this is simulare but had an exstention board so it can be accessed
from the side of the game cube (this is the one i am going to use.)

Memory card SD reader in standard and Micro sd verisons

all pictured below.





FORMATTING SD CARD (IMPORTANT)

it has to be fat32 if you want some of the apps to work especialy home brew
cheats saves etc. it gave me a headache for a few days till i did some testing.
i am using a 256GB micro SD in the SD2SP2 card port the system will support
bigger and when the prices drop will put a 1tb drive in there. I know were as
the front loading memory cards can be a bit different. 


CARD STRUCTURE

Download the latest version swiss and then copy the .dol in to root folder you
will need to renamed the to swiss_rXXX.dol to IPL.dol this will allow the system
to boot in to swiss you can also launch other systems by naming them a, b, y and
x .dol not tried this yet good for the homebrewer.

 


USING HOMEBREW SOFTWARE

This is primarily why I built this machine as have a love for old school gaming

So have added the following SNES, NES, N64, Sega master system and Mega drive, 
PC Engine and colecovision. there some others like PSX and scummMV that i will
try come back to later

Key points:

You will need to install emulator.dol for each system in the correct Name
folders

with in each folder you will need a roms folder and saves folder this will then

the SD Card needs to be formatted fat32

So far i have working the following systems.

 * N64
 * Sega master system
 * Sega mega drive
 * SNES
 * NES
 * Gameboy  and Gameboy colour
 * Gameboy advance
 * PC Engine


BACKING UP YOUR GAMES

This is done with very easily using CleanRip insert disc in drive turn GameCube
launch app and follow on screen instructions about 30 mins later you will have a
full back up on the sd card of your disc ready to launch through swiss. 

its not illegal o own back ups of your own games. its is how ever illegal to
download them off the internet. unless the are now public domain for historical
reasons. like a lot of old games are.


POT TUNING FOR BURNT MEDIA

This step will need to be done for all methods methods  if your going to use
burnt media as most GameCube wont allow you to use DVD-r or +.

to do this you will need  need a multimeter set to 2k ohms. 

Deepening on model will depend on what figures you should see GC is on. DOL-001
units are usually set somewhere between 450 – 600Ω while DOL-101 units will be a
bit lower at around 150 – 250Ω so if the disc is not reading try raising it a
bit. and try media again till it boots correctly. as show below.

fist you will need to take the shield off the media drive




just been probing my pot with multimeter and i am getting readings that are very
off I have a DOL-001 unit i think it running a 101 drive as I am read 163 ohms
so in theory I should be seeing between 450 and 600 ohms were as the model
number with DOL-101 should see between 150 and 250 ohms

i know its not a DOL-101 machine as i have digital output.

so i am going to tune it up to 200ohms and see what happens.

Still not reading dvd-r could be my media I’m using does not matter as still
reads original games so will do some experimenting with secondary unit.


ADDING HDMI SUPPORT



there are a few different ways of doing this from cheap to really relay eye
wateringly expensive. the holly grail would be the av out component cable
costing around £200 followed by the eon HDMI output again around the £170 mark
now as i doing this build on a budget I decided go cheap with a £5 cable from
AliExpress this was less than impressive as was a cheap upscale washes out the
screen hard to play with but good to get me started whilst i waited for more
bits to arrieve



 I also invested in a £59.99 GC2HDMI Kaico Gamecube GC HDMI this is a AV plug in
and play just doubled the scan lines this gave me true 521p output. the
difference is incomparable but see below the images from both files. well worth
medium outlay



Cheap cable image below on left hand image kaico on the right much better image.




GAMEBOY CARD CARTRIDGE READER ADDON

these are getting hard to find but as i found on sub £60 without software box or
anything else I thought why not as I am going the full hog on this project i
also invested in a multi game cart for fun. will also invest in a multi card for
GBA as well for fun if it works.

I will be refebing the plastic on this pre modded game cube with retrobrite in
another post just added the game boy addon to see it in action wilse i was
waiting on parts.


But there’s no software with well homebrew will take care of this with GBI
homebrew interface which works like a charm perfect addition for  my game cube. 


BROADBAND ADAPTER

So this was  only used for one game in total but can now be used for uploading
to the game cube remotely thought this might aid with the project well when i
can find one for reasonable money.

i have put this hear to talk about the theory of what it can do till i have my
hands on one think i will be going to some retro games shows.


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NEW LOOK COMING SOON

as the cave has evolved over the last few years its time for a site up date this
will be happening in the not so near future. probably will be doing this over my
holiday and here and there. As you can see the work shop is getting very busy
with bits and tools so will be having another clean up and anything i don’t use
will be getting rid of. to make space for new project. might also be launching a
shop to sell some of my 3d printed designs and custom laser cut stuff to fund
future projects. 

I will also be taking donations for my ramblings as i want  a fiber laser to add
to my collection of tools. any manufactures out there wanting some on to show
the wares i am happy to do so.

More coming soon i prommis.


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BUILDING A RETRO GAMING MACHINE

there are loads of guides to building retro pi machines. but this is a slightly
different build as going to use 1TB SSD image so will be running an SSD drive on
a pi 4 B

So why am I doing this well I was going to put together a retro flag GBI 2 but
as raspberry pi modules are limited supply here in the UK/World Wide I decided
as I had a pi4 B gathering dust I would review a different case that supports
SSD drive.

I have been wanting to build something that I can let my son play with as he is
a little young for the ps5 or the VR headset. I was looking at desktop cases and
then found argon one v2 with USB SSD support.

A little bit of an update will be building a reviewing a GPI 2 in September as
have managed to buy one in Germany and ship it to a hotel I will be staying in
so I can get around being outside the European Union. 2022 issues I hate that we
left not going to get political.

So what you will need to build this

 * Raspberry Pi 4 Modle B.
 * Small micro sd card.
 * 1TB SSD drive.
 * Argon one v2.
 * USB adapter for SSD drive.
 * pihut argon one adapter for SSD 2.5 drive.
 * game controller Xbox pc controller I had kicking around

Burning the image:

Now for the fun bit, I tried this process with the 1TB image and the imager took
around 8hrs it didn’t like it so instead I’m using etcher software to create the
SSD image I have the drive in a quick swap 2.5 enclosure USB C so loaded the
.img file into etcher and hit write

Bear in mind this is going to take a long time to burn at least 3hrs once it’s
done we are ready to build the system.

Didn’t work again argh so after joining rick dangerous discord group and
chatting with him and some of the great users I found 2 issues one I had a bad
drive enclosure not compatible with raspberry pi. 2 the retro flag enclosure I
had originally brought didn’t want to work so I sent it back and off the group
recommendation I brought an argon one v2 and USB drive housing for it off pi
Hut. that turned up surprisingly quick. Rick’s discord link below and his
youtube channel.

https://discord.gg/H3FdEanPmv

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-DyMEeix9cKCilqOkT69ng

I also learnt from rick about the about-to-be-released version of his drive the
[1tb]-Rick.Dangerous.Insanium.Edition.RPi4. Over 60 systems and 8,400 games on
board and growing with user input.

A week later it launched and I downloaded it off Usenet 3hrs 30 with the new
version I then imaged to a SSD drive from an old project that I had kicking
around the workshop. it ready to use. more information can be found on the link
below.

more information about the drive is below:

> Rick Dangerous – Insanium Edition – Raspberry Pi 4 – 1tb Retro Gaming Image



The Physical Build:

this isn’t too complex you will need to put the heat sync tape on the 2 chips
mentioned in the documentation. once they are done place the pi into the
enclosure at this point you will need to plug the sideboard into the audio and
HDMI ports and power then insert the pi into the gpio pins will post some stock
images below. 7 screws and it built



Plugged in the power and turned it on wow Rick’s image is awesome some
screenshots are below and it’s continuing to grow. this is on my 65″ 4kv and
there are a lot of systems from my childhood. I will be having a retro night
soon.

I will be doing a full review of the drive shortly once I get back from holiday
and work commitments

ricks also going to develop a hand-held version for the GPI 2 I will be coming
on the journey shortly with the discord team.


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WHY I HAVE NOT POSTED RECENCELY

sorry, not a lot has been going on have had a bit of a day job work overload
going on and will be going on holiday for some RNR hoping for 9 days off when I
get back more stuff coming up.

see you on the other side of the holidays.


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