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Hi, since I have absolutely no time and this stuff is lying around here gathering dust I figured it could be more useful to somebody else. I'm not sure what they're still worth, I just know it cost me a few hundreds of dollars just for shipping (Europe sucks!) since the parts are very hard to get in ...

Well you can set the refresh rate on PAL gamecubes to either 50hz or 60hz so I think it might not be such a problem here. I have no experience with it though.

What part of the RGB mod is giving you trouble? The Retro Duo uses a CXA1645, right? You can share the sync signal with the encoder. ie: pull it off of the input pin on the '1645. Also, the capacitors your using should be 220µ. And if that Zenith screen is the same as a PSOne lcd (which I think it ...

lovablechevy wrote:i was just thinkin about it... why did you even fully discharge the batteries right after fully charging them...?

It wasn't right after fully loading them I think, but I was just trying to see how long it would power the console. Not that it'd be a good indication as there was no screen attached.

that's looking really good! maybe even better than the darth 64

One day I connected the batteries to the protection board and fully charged them for at least 5 hours. Both batteries indicated about 4,2V. I discharged them at night the day I put the new plug on. Before I put it on I disconnected the batteries, when I was done with the plug I soldered the wires ...

did this happen when simply soldering the wires on? like, it wasn't hooked up to the charger yet?
The charger wasn't hooked up. The ends of the wires I was putting on the batteries were already soldered to the protection board. The first battery was fully connected, for about 1 minute. I was busy ...

I've bought them from these links
' thanks for the help. these arent the ones for the ipods are they?

no. they are these batteries , this pcb , and this charger .


I've wired them according to the schema that was provided with the protection circuit. Later I found lovablechevy's diagram, my ...

I wonder what the problem is. I'm very interested in the RGB mod you discussed. If it works, then that makes Retro Duo an all around winner in my opinion - fairly similar cost to SNES mini, RGB, lower power consumption, and smaller size.
Yeah I agree. I'll post when/if I get the RGB mod working ...

i would definitely recommend the R4 DS too

YOU NEED EPIC 80'S POP ROCK!!!
EYE OF THE TIGER-SURVIVOR
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN-EUROPE
THE WAY IT IS-BURUCE HORNSBY

LOL. I was very much agreeing on the first 2 and then bruce hornsby and the range i thought "yeah nice". No, wait, workout-music. Totally fell for it ;D

My recommendations much in ...

I can confirm that the led doesn't turn on after you jump those two pins. Thanks a lot. I couldn't get it to work after lots and lots of trying so I was starting to worry my board is fried already.


Today started of pretty good. I put some caps and resistors on a breakboard and soldered it to the ...

Do you mean horizontay like the other two? If so that doesnt seem to work for me. Looking closely I think I've destroyed a trace, the green top layer comes off a bit near a trace going to the leds. Thanks for the tip, I'll try some more tomorrow.

Ah, that's good. The power plug I put on today is pretty nice too.

I tried desoldering the big power/snes-nes switch block and even though that went pretty well, I couldn't get the plug off. There was also solder on the upper side of the PCB which I absolutely couldn't reach. I carefully dremeled ...

When using the same project box it's hard for it to not look the same. Perfectly fine with me - it's a great box! Just make sure you measure everything multiple times, and then measure it some more so that everything fits.

I recall what you're referring to about the screen's regulators but I ...