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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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 [...] News from the N64 front: all of my carts are now playing. The whole thing went rather smoothly, took me just a few hours for adapter build and firmware implementation… Unlike other systems, the ROM access scheme of the N64 library appears pretty uniform. So far, no trouble with weird bank switching or [...] Here we see a box of production Retrode mainboards that I just set up and tested. Funny how the green circuit boards and the pink bubble wrap add to the christmasy mood of this shot ;-) According to the person who did the CNC machining, the cases should be delivered on Thursday or Friday, if [...] |
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