So, I was looking forward to installing the Kevtris HDMI MOD now that it's finally available. And being the old electronics fiddler that I am, I opted to do it myself as a point of pride, despite remembering what a pain it is to de-solder the CPU/PPU nicely with just a soldering iron and sucking tool.
Well, it seems my pride took a beating - and even more so that poor PPU. While the CPU came out unharmed in any way when bending it out with the usual dull-knife-lever-trick, the PPU fared a lot worse. I seem to have either lost my ways as I've grown old, or just gotten way too impatient. Or possibly both. In any case, I've managed to snap an IC in half for the first time in my life...
Rather than quietly ordering a new console and leaving these things to the expert modders, I instead invite you to laugh at my gross incompetence and the sad slaughter of a working PPU.
...and as a side note I would also like to ask if anyone has a spare 2C02 lying around, either separately, or in an otherwise dead NTSC console? And if so, would you consider sending it over here in an envelope? I'd of course pay postage + whatever you reckon a spare PPU is worth (hopefully a little bit less than a fully working NES itself). And of course promise to take better care of my next patient...
Well, it seems my pride took a beating - and even more so that poor PPU. While the CPU came out unharmed in any way when bending it out with the usual dull-knife-lever-trick, the PPU fared a lot worse. I seem to have either lost my ways as I've grown old, or just gotten way too impatient. Or possibly both. In any case, I've managed to snap an IC in half for the first time in my life...
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Rather than quietly ordering a new console and leaving these things to the expert modders, I instead invite you to laugh at my gross incompetence and the sad slaughter of a working PPU.
...and as a side note I would also like to ask if anyone has a spare 2C02 lying around, either separately, or in an otherwise dead NTSC console? And if so, would you consider sending it over here in an envelope? I'd of course pay postage + whatever you reckon a spare PPU is worth (hopefully a little bit less than a fully working NES itself). And of course promise to take better care of my next patient...