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mellott124

@mellott124 • Registered December 14, 2016 • Active 3 days, 17 hours ago
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Feb 26, 2021 • 18:06 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Looking for VB Chassis

I have a top. The red half. Just got to checking now.

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Feb 22, 2021 • 06:15 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash 32 default label set (e-ink screen)

Fantastic!

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Feb 14, 2021 • 19:06 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Sonic Demo

Very cool! Thanks for sharing this.

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Feb 12, 2021 • 19:14 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: homebrew connector strip

Latest iteration. Some tradeoffs, but the mini shroud works much better than I was expecting.

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Feb 09, 2021 • 05:03 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: homebrew connector strip

And now VB donor carts are about $35… seems like the time has come for a new cart connector.

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Jan 30, 2021 • 05:17 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Alternative HyperFlash32 eInk labels

I didn’t think the Virtual Fall ROM was available?

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Jan 25, 2021 • 21:04 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Hi Everyone,

It was really impressive to see what people came up with given the display limitations. It was tough to decide and I know everyone put in a lot of work into these. One did bubble to the top for me.

Congrats to Mirai604 for the WarioLand labels. I’m declaring him the winner of the b/w/r contest. I’m specifically showing the N3 label below, which I liked the most and had a great blend of the colors, game theme, and a strong 3D perspective. I also really enjoyed the VB loading screen aspect. The badge included was also a clever addition. It really feels like it was made for a production b/w/r HF32 cart.

So congrats to Mirari604!

In other news, the eInk manufacturer may have some exciting news on b/w/r labels…
I should hopefully find out this week. I’ll keep it a secret for now. 🙂

Thanks,
Kevin

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Jan 25, 2021 • 06:12 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

OK, he’s the last of the updates for the contest. Nice job everyone! I think everyone showed that yes you can make some good labels given the limitations of a tri-color eInk screen. I’ll post the winner tomorrow. Thanks!

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Jan 23, 2021 • 22:06 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

OK, here are some of the Red Menace labels. I picked the ones I thought looked the best.
The Teleroboxer ones look really clean on the b/w/r display.

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Jan 23, 2021 • 07:40 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: PVB Community Research Project for Anthropology Class

Sure, I’ll do it.

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Jan 23, 2021 • 07:36 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Some more Fwow13 labels. Looking good!

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Jan 23, 2021 • 07:33 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Very nice!

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Jan 20, 2021 • 20:12 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: VB extension cable

I still make them.

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Jan 18, 2021 • 05:56 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: VB mini Raspberry Pi

OK, great. Likely going to pull the trigger on a new 3D printer tomorrow that can do a variety of materials in different colors.

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Jan 16, 2021 • 06:26 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Here’s Mirai604 images converted. They’re all good but nd3 is really good. Love it.

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Jan 14, 2021 • 03:58 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: homebrew connector strip

Here’s that COTS connector in a shell to help position it correctly. It’s working and I’m playing Bound High on one of my 16Mbit PCBs. Next steps are to try to see if I can get it to work with a regular VB case. Some bonding/gluing that needs to be figured out, as well as some revisions on the frame to add a back cover. I could build my own carts right now with this. I may want to spin the PCBs to use the memory that is in place on HF32 to give the case some more thickness over the chip. I’ll keep playing.

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Jan 14, 2021 • 03:52 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Carbon Fiber VB Game Cases

My 3D printed cases are coming out much cleaner now.

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Jan 11, 2021 • 08:29 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Fwow13 labels. The red looks beautiful!

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Jan 11, 2021 • 00:22 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

I guess we could just to make sure the black/white/red are there correctly. It would be those three colors stacked on the far right instead of the 4 shades we had previously.

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Jan 09, 2021 • 23:36 Profile Photo mellott124 • Topic: VB mini Raspberry Pi

Thinking about picking this project back up. 2 versions. Maybe 3.

1) Just a simple Raspberry Pi case that people can use just because its cool. VB mini case. People can buy just the case.

2) A Pi case setup with Retro Pi as a VB console emulator. VB mini case. I assemble it all. I guess really just an assembled setup version of #1.

3) And then a case for console people who want to use a VB motherboard and Virtual Tap. VB mini case. I could ship with assembled or not.

Maybe with those 3 options I can justify doing this project and getting a printer to do so. I also got permission to use the VB mini case on Thingiverse from the original author. That design is more of a clone of the VB than my version. But it has some design work to make it actually work. It’s actually not useable directly from Thingiverse, I learned.