Remember when printers wouldn’t even warn you that the ink was out? They would just give you a weird magenta ghost of what you were trying to print.
Built to last
Submitted 2 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I read printers use that ink to print nigh invisible text of the printer serial id for anti forgery, and tracking purposes
thejml@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Excuse me what’s the ominous “71 days” on the Sonic Adventure game cover am I cursed now
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You have 71 days to share this picture with someone else. If you don’t Eggman will crawl out of this meme completely nude and covered in oil.
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s disgusting! Uncalled for! Truly despicable! How could they make me wait an entire 71 days for that?!
crank0271@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You sure know how to make someone not want to share this picture.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can he be played by Danny DeVito in the movie?
datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Porn??
That’s a nude egg I won from my game!
_NetNomad@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
the artist, keith stack, uses to do daily comics leading up to major releases, hiding a countdown in each comic
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sega Dreamcast is not an example of a console that inbound describe as “built to last”. I had two and both of them died in the same way - the optical lens cracked from heat stress and stopped reading disks. There was never any warning it was about to happen, and no way to prevent it as far as I knew.
As unlucky as I was with the Dreamcast, I made up for is by only ever having to buy one Xbox 360. I still own my original console which was never refurbished and never red ringed on me.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They should’ve picked Playstation. Those things are near indestructable.
Persi@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure where this idea comes from, the PlayStation had a bad reputation even when it was new.
The optical drive would often fail and need replacement. There was a whole meme about people using the console upside down to combat this.
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The lasers can also weaken over time leading to issues reading discs. There is a small trim pot that can be adjusted to recalibrate it. You do want to be careful and only make very very small adjustments.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
I still have my original NES and N64 from when they came out. Both still work with zero maintenance. I used the N64 last week.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Most problem those give tend to be turn it on and it says, “hey I’m not so sure you put a game in me, would love to play one for you, though!” Or “I think this might be a game or it might just be a weird blue pattern because the connection is there but only partially”.
At least the NES was like that. You had to know the ritual to put the cartridge in correctly and that ritual changed. I don’t ever remember having a ritual with my N64.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This is why SD card mods are important for optical disc consoles. The OG hardware just isn’t going to last.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
I have 4 of them, 3 with this issue
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Okay, now I know why my Dreamcast keeps asking for the time and date every time I turn it on. Always wondered, but never checked because it worked regardless.
brax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The battery is soldered in, but it’s dead simple to desolder and replace with a proper battery holder so you can easily replace it down the road. Just make sure 6ou remember to use a rechargeable.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, if I ever did that, I’d rather take it to someone who knows what they’re doing. I have little experience soldering and I don’t want to destroy something in my Dreamcast by accident.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
TIL rechargeable CR2032s exist, and also that their output voltage is higher than standard ones and apparently may run the risk of damaging circuits?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Um…are there different models of dreamcast? I changed mine a decade ago. Just popped out. Popped new one in.
Probably gotta do it again if I were to play dreamcast again.
eleijeep@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
But god forbid you unplug a controller while the console is switched on. Better know how to replace that fuse on the controller board!
(If you just bridge it with a wire, I won’t tell anyone).
jose1324@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Huh??
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hi Zoomer! 👋 Believe it or not, those were all real words and some of us can still remember what they mean! Now excuse me, my back hurts and I need to lie down.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Game Boy cartridges not saving games due to dead battery is sad.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do those open easily with tools or am I recalling correctly that they used rivets to fasten them shut?
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To be fair, there are tio many arcade boards from that exact era that have draconian DRM measures where if the CMOS dies, the decryption key is irreversibly lost, and it becomes ewaste
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Exactly right.
It’s not as if companies were being intentionally pro-consumer then any more than they are now, they just seemed that way as they hadn’t figured out how to tighten the screws as much, and especially how to do it cost-effectively in the consumer segment.
sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Is anyone else’s Dreamcast yellow now?
I bought it in the year it was released and it was used quite a bit (euphemism) back then. But I dug it from the closet it was stored in and now is yellow. Remote control and all. All the consoles stored along with it still look the same. All the older ones looking the same as they always were, but Dreamcast decided to have that “we’re fucking old” moment with me. Haven’t tried turned it on out of fear of mortality being the next reminder it has in store for me.
eleijeep@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Let me be the one to introduce you to the rabbit hole that is retr0bright. There are numerous videos on youtube of various different methods of retro-brighting.
The most scientifically thorough treatment of the phenomenon that I’ve seen is this paper: https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Retrobright-Mystery.pdf
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Soak the plastic in hydrogen peroxide and oxy booster stain fighter
For the rest of you ADHD havers who don’t have the patience to get that write up to fit on your phone screen.
sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Wow. This has to be one of the most phenomenal hacks that someone has presented me in a long time.
I had no idea of this.
Thank you very much.
ysjet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just as a quite warning- retrobright will make the plastic of the dreamcast white, but it will also make it more brittle, and it’s not a permanent solution. It WILL yellow again, and repeated applications of retrobright will make it more and more brittle.
sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Oh, thank you for the heads up. I got excited at the prospect of restoring it. I like to restore stuff when I can. Usually is more wood related items. Sad to hear this, but thank you for informing me though.
Maybe I’ll just have it like it is. I’ll call it a “sepia vintage” look as a cool spin to pretend I’m not jealous that others got better and more durable plastic for the same price as me.
Cheers and thanks again.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Mine's still white, but I'd always heard there were different types of plastic used in consoles (and computer cases) back then, some of which would become discolored, and others wouldn't. Might be true, unless anyone in your house has been a smoker in the last 25 years.
sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
No. No smokers. And the console was stored in the original box in a closet. Not in the corner collecting dust. So it must be the plastic it was used somehow. Sad. I always really liked the Dreamcast look. And it is still one of my favorite controllers after so many years.
tempest@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If I recall correctly it’s related to a fire retardant additive that oxidizes
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
My DC is still bright white, but my snes looks like it used to smoke.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
that description is so on point
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My Dreamcast is pretty normal, but good God my NES.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I bought it 20 years ago it was already yellow lol
n3cr0@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Setting the clock on each boot, after the rechargable CMOS battery died, sucks. I speak from experience with Dreamcast consoles. Best you solder in a battery holder and put in a new rechargable coin cell. … or add a diode and put in an ordinary non-rechargable.
lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
Then there’s the og Xbox and it’s clock capacitor. Nothing like grabbing your console out of storage to find out it blew a cap and dissolved some of the traces on the PCB.
Zook3y@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Man, I remember when I used to play the Dreamcast and awesome games like Power Stone 2 and Super Magnetic Neo! The little cartridge inside the controller was awesome too.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
When it came out, Dreamcast legit felt like it was from 5-10 years in the future.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Considering the Dreamcast had such a tiny library, it truly was 5-10 years in the future.
tio_bira@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nothing bad even happened to a Dreamcast… Right ?
pasdechance@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Back in the Nintendo era we picked up a copy of Final Fantasy I when the local rental shop went out of business… The battery in it was 100% dead. So my brother would just leave the Nintendo on.
I don’t think I’ve had a console affected by this though.
Recently I had an Evercade cart die. It was the flash memory that gave up, though. Not the battery.
rozodru@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I remember I had NHL 95 on the Genesis brand new and could never figure out why it would never save my season. Years later I realized “damn battery was dead, why didn’t I just return it?” still played the hell out of the game though.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I did this around 2012 or so when I was working through some of the harder NES titles on cartridge and didn't want to lose my progress at night if I was close. Ninja Gaiden, Contra, Castlevania, Mega Man.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
[deleted]snailboy@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
unzips
wait, is that why your username is an umbrella?
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The CMOS battery of my PSP 3000 died years ago :(
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
If you’re wondering what this is about: The PS4 used to require its internal clock to be correct to play any game, even disc based ones, and the only way to do so is to connect to PSN, meaning that in a distant future when the PSN goes down (or Sony no longer allows PS4s to connect to it) all your games would become useless. And the worst part? They did all of this because of trophies..
Sony has fixed the issue on Update 9.0, but the fact that it was ever at issue, and for what is a totally non-essential feature, is baffling.
Exusia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh? They fixed the cbomb?
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
no way that’s not related to drm lol
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
how would it know if the time wasn’t correct
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If it can’t get an encrypted timestamp signed by a particular private key then it knows it doesn’t know what time it is
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Probably it’s like the Nintendo 3DS, the user facing clock is just an offset to the official internal timer, so when the user changes time, it’s just an aesthetic change and has no effect to time/date game unlock mechanics (mostly lPokemon games). When CMOS dies, internal clock resets to 1970, a clearly invalid date where all the signing certificates are invalid, and the user can’t set internal clock without hacking the console
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
That’s strange, I have a friend with no internet and he used his ps4 for half a decade before ever connecting it to the network.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
My guess would be that it shipped from the factory with a “correct enough” time for the system to not care.
Had it shipped with a dead CMOS battery, the date would have been reset to 1970 or something, then it would complain.