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After finding this blog post (http://www.carlansell.co.uk/blog/sav...-fram-upgrade/) I decided to order a few of the chips mentioned to make my own carts hold a save until I die.
Installed this morning with success, no issues at all. Paid £13.17 for two Ramtron FM28V020 from China. Second one is going to be installed in my Gold cart and I might even order some more for my Blue and Yellow carts.
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Originally posted by speedlolita View PostAfter finding this blog post (http://www.carlansell.co.uk/blog/sav...-fram-upgrade/) I decided to order a few of the chips mentioned to make my own carts hold a save until I die.
Installed this morning with success, no issues at all. Paid £13.17 for two Ramtron FM28V020 from China. Second one is going to be installed in my Gold cart and I might even order some more for my Blue and Yellow carts.
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Originally posted by Zaki Matar View PostI am jealous of your soldering skills! So clean!Last edited by speedlolita; 03-06-2018, 18:15.
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And Gold done too. Think you would need the CR2025/CR2032 intact if you wanted RTC stuff to still function, doesn't currently. Gives you a prompt each time you power on to set it again, but given it doesn't remember you can just click through that. Still, the save remains intact and that's what matters.
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Today I bought a NEO GEO AES.
It's a third of the way into June. That means that game shop owners up and down Japan rub their hands in glee, as the population gets their hands on summer bonuses. Suddenly single men, and married man who keep their salary out of their wive's grubby mitts, have hundreds of thousands of yen. In my case, it's just under 900k.
First stop is an X-box One X. Only one shop near me - the Bic Camera chain - is selling these. I got one in my lunch hour.
Next is an AES. I read about these in ACE magazine, and was disbelieving that games were over eighty pounds each. If only they still were. I've seen them in shops here, and read about them on this forum, but never bought one. Why bother? The games I'm interested in have, for the most part, been ported much more cheaply to more recent consoles.
But there's a great feeling to plugging in and playing a machine for the first time, especially a famous retro one. I know the local second-hand shop has three AES consoles - I saw them earlier this week while killing time. So I took an hour of annual leave, hoping to smuggle it home before my wife gets home.
They've still got three. I pick the most expensive of the three (about 1500 yen difference). While I'm getting my change, the cashier tells me, somewhat ominously, that if there are any problems I have a week to return it. I send up a silent prayer that there won't be - returning it without being seen is going to be impossible.
Finally, my wife has gone to bed. I only have one AES game - Thrash Rally, bought a few weeks ago. The AES itself, and it's controller, are astonishingly light. Both it, and the untested Thrash Rally, work perfectly. I'm rubbish at Thrash Rally. In fact, I'm crap at all racing games which don't show the driving line, but I enjoy them.
So, that's the AES? I'm not sure what I'll buy next for it. I fancy the Super Spy, but that might be coming to Switch. Oh well. Perhaps I'll just get the cheapest karts in the shop.
Thanks for indulging this rather drunk blog-like post. But as I said, there is, for me at least, a great satisfaction in trying out a console that I've never played on before. Maybe I'll try to source a Jaguar or a 3DO. Or even a Marty.
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Originally posted by Marius View PostToday I bought a NEO GEO AES.
It's a third of the way into June. That means that game shop owners up and down Japan rub their hands in glee, as the population gets their hands on summer bonuses..
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