Atomiswave 2 Naomi

For those of you that haven't heard about this fantastic project get yourself over to http://64darksoft.blogspot.co.uk/. In short he is porting every Atomiswave game to Naomi so all us hardware owners can play them on our Naomi setup either via netboot or CF card. There are some real hidden gems on the Atomiswave so get donating and give the nice man all the money you can spare.

Virtual Boy

I wasn't planning on documenting this since it isn't that interesting but things have been very quiet when it comes to 'post worthy' stuff.

I picked up a Virtual Boy that was sold as not working because I wanted the cool rental case that came with it to store my loose system in. I thought it was going to be the usual faulty screen problem but after testing it I found it to be completely dead. I opened it up and one of the caps had exploded and the custom overly complex voltage regulator wasn't outputting 5v. Someone had clearly hooked up the wrong voltage / polarity power supply at some point. The custom voltage regulator was all surface mount parts and again overly complex so I did a google search for '7805 virtual boy' and sure enough it brought up this image.

I followed this schematic and added a small heatsink to the 7805 and the system fired right up. Sorry about the lack of pictures and being a bit vague on this one.

Having some Fon

I recently decided to get a 'Fon Spot' to connect to my home broadband allowing me access to the millions of Fon Spots all over the UK when out and about. Pretty much everyone who has BT Broadband offers a free Wifi Fon Spot whether they know it or not. Anyone with a Fon / BT membership can login and use it free of charge.

Being cheap I had a google to see if there were any other options besides buying the Fon Simpl which is about £35 + postage. I came across this french blog site which has several unofficial Fonbasic firmware files. I just so happened to already own a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 which I used to use for wireless netbooting before making a CF reader. Although it is said to be untested it works great and my Fon account allowed me to login to the neighbors wifi within 20 minutes of signing up. So there you have it a cheaper (or free in my case) option to buying a Fon Simpl.

I have also fixed all the download links yet again.