My GameCube reached its final form with the FlippyDrive!

More shots of the install

I was finally able to test the install on the Retro GEM by @pixelfx.co for the GameCube. Overall, very straightforward install. Not very complicated at all.

Thank you @pointerfunction.bsky.social for this xStation mount. It’s brilliant how everything snaps together so nicely!

First time seeing one of these cart readers. A customer sent this in because the PC wasn’t detecting the game. This company went defunct so they couldn’t get support. The board was clearly hand soldered and done very poorly. I’ll rework the board, but the culprit was a bad pin.

It really needed a clean 🤢

A customer dug an original N64 Digital out of their couch and sent it to me to install it for them. Console got a full system recap and a much needed cleaning.

Glad I was able to secure the 30th Anniversary LE DualSense. Also, Best Buy is always my last resort when ordering anything online. They always put the least amount of effort into packaging things.

Also found a suspect via going to the memory bank controller. Patched that up as well.

Customer sent in a copy of Pokémon Crystal for a garbled Nintendo logo on boot. He said that Reddit told him to reflow the ROM and SRAM to fix the issue. Reflowing those chips will not fix that broken trace 😅

You can get the FX-951 pretty cheap on clearance now. Tequipment has it on clearance for $121 for the station only. I already had a spare hand piece.

What’s everyone’s preferred way to remove SMD aluminum electrolytic capacitors? I personally like to use 2 independent soldering stations like tweezers.

Nice. I have one of these launch day bags from EB Games. I also have the temporary tattoos and other launch goodies.