I just took an ampèremeter and measured the current that my Retrode draws from the USB port, with and without the 3.3V voltage converter, and also the additional current when cartridges are inserted and idle or busy. Turns out that typical current consumption will be between 20 and 50 mA. The extreme case is a [...]
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The good news: the plug-in adapters look gorgeous. See: The PCB and connector manufacturers really did a great job, I am more than pleased with the quality. Even better, they also work as they should :-) Here are the final specs: Plug-in adapter for A2600 carts Now guess why I’m not particularly keen to do NES and ColecoVision :-) I am currently investigating a case where the Retrode doesn’t seem to work the way it should. In particular, it appears as if under MacOS, write accesses to the Retrode (config file, SRAM) are sometimes ignored and the files are not written correctly. For instance, after saving the config file from a text editor and [...] Got a lot of things done lately! In particular, the GB/GBA/N64 plug-in adapter is now fully working. So what remains to do is, Convince that company to send me a handful GB/GBA connectors after all (they just got a PO from Canon and Panasonic and told me they don’t care about my order any longer. [...] It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I apologise for the sparsity of updates in the recent time. Thing is, I haven’t found much time to work on the Retrode recently; a couple of research projects and a class I am co-teaching this semester are keeping me rather busy. But the little [...] I told you that our first mini-contest was going to be a hard nut, and it certainly took some odd technical thinking to crack it. Amazingly enough, 8 folks found out the solution, which is (drum roll)… |
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