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Hello! I am Hoo and I like to make music. My dad is mad that I'm in my mid twenties without a real job. I make less than a hundred dollars a month and eat his food. It's awesome. I play in bands such as Dog for President, Cookie Meat, The Lovely Robot (RIP), Summer 2000 (Maybe rip?), and currently Enter Star Wolf! Here are the Bandcamp links since they pretty much have everything. Cookie Meat (I play drums!) - https://cookiemeat.bandcamp.com/music The Lovely Robot (I play guitar, sing, and play drums! I don't like this one, but it exists!) - https://thelovelyrobot.bandcamp.com/ Enter Star Wolf! (I do everything!) - https://enterstarwolf.bandcamp.com/ If you don't wanna dig through these to hear what I do, here's a link to my latest release. It's the Enter Star Wolf! EP. It's been described as chiptune pop punk. I basically improvised it in FL Studio and people tell me they enjoy it. I do not understand, but it has dance beats and alt tunings. In two days I am releasing a live album with Summer 2000. I will also be doing music with a band called MIDI Bunny in the future. I'm also writing the Enter Star Wolf! LP and I've been rehearsing with a full band to help me record it and play those songs live at a venue near you. Thank you for reading my shameless self promotion. I gotta make my 20 cents in streaming revenue somehow.

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There was a wall featuring Nintendo's characters, and the main four were on it! I won't post the picture until I can find a higher resolution version, otherwise it's pointing at pixels and going "it's Falco, trust me bro"

I do wonder what their AVS system would have been like. We have a few photos of it running Donkey Kong, was like a home computer. They are in good shape, posed a bit strangely but they're felt and fluff, not much you can do. Falco does look a little silly, lol

So we had a meeting the other week, and I was gifted a PS1 that was in very bad shape. I cleaned it up and replaced a blown power supply but the optical drive currently does not read games, so I am going to have to replace that next.

I appreciate that very much, this was my first forum I considered home back in the day. I think I'm on the discord too, I'll have to visit more.

Now there's a name I remember from back in the day. Most people have moved onto Discord, but there's a few that visit the site now and then. I've been maintaining it and trying to give it a fresh coat of paint, so to speak.

There are actually a few different "versions" of the phat PS2, and it makes a difference in what's in the console. There's a website with information on how to tell them apart. I have a V4 PS2 and I can tell by the serial number as well the fact it has 8 instead of 10 screws holes on the bottom and there is an electrical warning stamped on the underside of the case too.

You want to see something that is hard to come by? Look up the Mad Catz Rock Band 4 legacy adapter sometime. These used to sell for about $30 or $60 when RB4 came out a few years ago, and now they're hard to come by and sell for about $300 to $500. It's crazy. I am glad I got mine when I did. I picked up a non-working PS2 at the convention i volunteered at for $30. It needs a new disc drive, but it came with 5 games, a controller and even has the networking adapter, which is worth $30 by itself. I got it home and played with it a bit. It indeed does not read CDs or DVDs, even after I cleaned the laser lens with isopropyl alcohol. The next step was to attempt to adjust the potentiometers that control the intensity of the laser. With these older systems, adjusting the "pot" on the laser can sometimes help with reading issues but shortens the life of the laser. That did not work either. I have another PS2 that does work and my train of thought was to pull the laser from the working system to measure the values of the pot so I could adjust the other laser to match, but it turns out my working system has a completely different laser in it. Early PS2 models used a KHS-400B laser, those can be replaced with another 400B or upgraded to a 400C which is more reliable, and those were generally used on newer phat PS2s anyway. You cannot replace a 400C laser with a 400B, so I have to replace it with another 400C. My other system uses a KHS-400R, which is a completly different laser and I can't find much information about it. But I can't use that in my 400C system either. Well, you can, but it requires a homebrew program to mess with the EEPROM of the system to update what the system thinks it should have. I'm not dealing with that nonsense. I disassembled and reassembled both systems only to find my previously working system no longer working. The red standby light no longer was there, and it did not turn green when i pushed the standby button. The blue light for ejecting the disc did not work either, but both buttons worked as intended and the system booted. It would not read discs. I don't know what I did. I left it alone for about an hour and then came back to it. I reseated the laser on the rails and made sure the ribbon cable was secured and all the way in, and then made sure the disc tray was aligned properly, as it's a pain to get on and off. When i put everything back together, it magically started working again. standby and eject lights returned and it read a disc. So now i just await the new laser for the other system and hopefully that fixes it.

I know you live in the same state as I do, you should consider taking a trip up here in October to visit RetroGameCon. We've got more then enough CRTs to enjoy!

Oh yeah, I love my set. It's a cheap 2000s model, 14 inches. My only complaints are that the tape player can chew it sometimes (I'll link a video of that happening below) and it struggles with NTSC signals. Glad that Pal60 exists! Is there a better way to send videos over forum? No idea what settings to use. AVI seems to be smaller. Back on topic with CRTs, I can get a shockingly clear image from my Wii, which I'm using to emulate the game. It really does glow, I should turn the blues down but apart from that, I love it. I have never played an RPG that hasn't tried to subvert expectiations, most classic RPG I've played is EarthBound. It's interesting to see the quirks and tropes in a non-ironic sense. Chewy.avi

Hmm... It WAS in there (I use it as my text message ringtone on my phone). I'll dig it up on my HDD and re-upload it. EDIT: