Quote from: NightWolve on 07/15/2024, 03:30 AMQuote from: JoeQuaker on 07/15/2024, 01:01 AMThat is not an actual PC Engine lolOh wow, I think he bought a recent fan PCE motherboard and soldered on the chips from a donor PC Engine. That's probably what's going on, I remember seeing them on sale on Twitter some months ago. Way beyond the scope of most of us I'd say but good luck!
Found it! They're called motherboard reproductions. I suppose the theory is they'll last a lot longer if you can successfully salvage the main donor chips from an original console... Real risky if you ask me but interesting idea.
willsconsolemodifications.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=129
Oh no I was going to say that this was a lost pre release of the PC Engine, but now I have been exposed. I used the files from that post and sent it to PCB Way, paid the cost and they sent over 5 PCB's. I only wanted one but I guess it's time to build more of these. It's quite simple to transfer the parts over involves a chisel tip, Rework Station, Desoldering Gun lots of flux and some drag soldering techniques along with some new parts like the 7805, the old caps. The legs on those IC's aren't small. But i still don't recommend it for the inexperienced person.
I've had over decade of soldering experience and started small practicing on broken DVD Players, to modding the Gameboy, PS2 to now rather crazy mods like this. I really want that guy's upcoming Sega Neptune Motherboard to turn the ugly 32X add on into a Neptune. I would love to build a Sega Neptune console someday. But until then I want to get this PCE working and I would like to know what the value of that diode is, D102 as I would prefer to replace it with a new Diode instead of reusing the old one. It would also be nice to know what FL109 is, it's some type of power inductor, replacing that with a modern equivalent would be preferred, they're built pretty weak, the legs in these break off without much effort.