Builds & Mods
DIY retro builds and modifications: flash carts and multicarts, diagnostic cartridges, controller adapters, video and region mods, kits and PCBs built from scratch.
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One cartridge, two consoles, and an LED bright enough to illuminate the workbench. Today I’m building the Pico A10400, a DIY Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 multicart, then giving it a case that looks a bit more finished than a bare circuit board sticking out of the console. If you’re looking for an Atari VCS…
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Two survivors from the house fire hit the bench: a soot-caked Frog Bog cartridge and an Intellivision. I clean them up, then build a Pi Pico multi-cart so the console can run a whole library from an SD card.
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Seven Commodore 64s of unknown condition, one untrusted power supply. I build and calibrate an OpenC64Saver from PCBWay boards, then put every machine through the same test.
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Caverns of Titan wouldn’t start without a Super Game Module, so I built one: 32KB of SRAM, an AY-3-8910A and eleven logic chips, plus a thermal camera fault-find.
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One PCB, one EPROM and one logic chip: building a 32K ColecoVision cartridge for Caverns of Titan, right up to the moment I find out what it actually needs.