NEWS and General Updates
10 May 2013
Working on making an N64 portable with a WiiU style case, which I vacuum formed, details on my forum.
Current stage:
21 March 2013
Project Unity has well over 400k viewings so far, appeared on all major news sites for modding, and been a success. Link to video below.
12 March 2013
Project Unity is finished. Please visit the website to view the video:
www.made-by-bacteria.com/unity.html
12 April 2013
Well, spent a lot of time on my Project Unity system, and it is nearly done. Should have it completed in the next week or two. Made a LOT of progress on the project since the last update here, i’m not keeping this WordPress site going as it’s no longer relevant because of my website, http://www.made-by-bacteria.com . Only keeping this site going as it is free to run and also gets 300-400 hits a day still (thanks guys!).
This system will be shown at the Revival Show in May, where I have been invited by the organisers to be one of the speakers at the event. I am also hoping that the exposure from this project will not only get a lot of interest from the media but hopefully breathe life back into the modding hobby by encouraging a new influx of members to join the forum and take part in the hobby; let’s see if that happens!
5 January 2013
Made a lot of progress on the Unity system. Project is about 80% completed.
http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=308&start=760
3 November 2012
New project video update on Project Unity system:
20 September 2012
I don’t update here much now, done some great progress on my Unity project, got 8 out of the 19 systems working; installed box to hold all other cart systems too.
15 August 2012
Sorry, I don’t update this WordPress site these days much at all, everything is on my forum, all guides and much more besides, and that is updated very often.
Made a home-made 18 x 16 single throw switch, and it works – here is a pic with it on DreamCast.
Please join my forum if you haven’t already and see more about the project there http://www.made-by-bacteria.com
16 June 2012
My YouTube channel got to over 1 million hits today, nice!
Made the drive holder for the DreamCast, and extended the wiring. Should have the DreamCast console ready to install into the Unity system in the next days.
31 May 2012
Not updating here much, however here’s a video you might enjoy – project update!
17 May 2012
Made the Saturn controller section for the Unity system; that’s 3 systems completed so far.
9 May 2012
Sorry, not really keeping going with this WordPress site much these days as it was temporary before getting the (new) forum fully up to speed.
The Unity project is going well, the new and much improved master controller is well underway, and some carts are already made for the Unity system (see forum, http://www.made-by-bacteria.com )
20 February 2012
Working at the moment on NeoGeo board – lots of rewiring!
Will be remaking the master controller on the Unity project, version 3; will be working on that in the coming few weeks.
Doing lots of modding work (see the forum), however not updating this WordPress site much! All reference details from here were put onto new forum, with stacks of more stuff too.
Update – after one heck of a wiring job – it works! A lot more to do yet though.
4 February 2012
Making good progress on the Sega Saturn system. Also making the drive unit extended to push in/pull out from the front of the system. (details on the forum, http://www.made-by-bacteria.com
26 January 2012
Working on my project again, as stated in my forum thread http://made-by-bacteria.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=308 i’m working on the Sega Saturn system now in my Unity project (was formally called Alpha Omega project).
10 January 2012
Not updating on this site much these days as the main focus is my forum. http://www.made-by-bacteria.com
Been working hard on getting together a lot of reference guides for different console systems.
Anyway, updated the dmbjunky N64 portable, video:
Now I can get back to my Alpha Omega system!
20 December 2011
NEW FORUM IS ON-LINE – please join!
17 December 2011
Working hard on getting the new replacement forum in place. Put in a couple of mods, and all the forum sections. That forum will supersede this WordPress site and also the other forum will be closed to new posts when the new forum is running – probably around a month. I’ll still update this WordPress site but all it’s content will be on the new forum; so my main interest. Have a look:
4 December 2011
Video made, the commission is complete!
3 December 2011
Commission complete, tested. Will upload a video over the weekend!
27 November 2011
Been working in the background on this commission – guy on the forum wanted a GoldenEye themed console, 4 player port, with the game cart hard-wired into the console. The case is made (pic taken at night so colours wrong, and also pic taken at an angle, but will do for the moment):
13 November 2011
Finished the N64 portable – video:
Also, fixed another Philips CD-i console:
Updated the N64 commission page and also the Philips CD-i page too, with these videos.
11 November 2011
The N64 portable was complete a couple of days ago, i’ll be making the video on Sunday and uploading it onto YouTube channel.
5 November 2011
This is what TV output looks like on the NTSC N64 portable i’m getting close to finishing:
24 October 2011
Not updated for a bit, oops!
About 85% completed on next N64 portable, when that’s complete and tested, i’ll upload a video on that too!
Someone else is sending me another Philips CD-i 220 console that has issues, graphic issues and also CD drive eject issues, i’ll have a look at that after finishing the N64 commission above. I’m also going to remake the N64 front for dmbjunky’s N64 portable to incorporate a different screen and a few minor improvements. After that, back to the Alpha Omega project, and Alpha Omega Jnr project too.
6 October 2011
Finished the portable SNES!
8.8 amps 7.4v Li-ion cells so around 7 hours playtime between charging, Sony PSone screen, NTSC SNES console (colour scheme of portable in keeping with it).
Buyer wanted push button on/off and the SNES wording under the screen; the decals are removable though if he prefers.
27 September 2011
Making good progress on the SNES protable.
Also, make this video I thought you aspiring modders might be interested in:
26 September 2011
Making good progress on the SNES commission portable!
(older NEWS deleted, to save clutter)
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Also, how did you make the casing of the N64?
Hello,
I have not been on this website for months but i am revisiting it today. I just want to say I really like the Goldeneye N64. I like the casing of it a lot and I
think it is a very good design.
Thanks, I don’t often update this site now, all new guides since end of last year have not gone here but onto my forum.
Hello there,
About the Unity Project – is it another system containing multiple consoles in one? Is it part of the Alpha Omega Project? Or is the Alpha Omega project complete?
The Unity is the old Alpha Omega project; I changed the name to Unity for the reasons mentioned in the videos!
Your so good at portabilizing consoles could you do a how to video like you did with the nintendo portable but with a gamecube plz.
hi there, enjoyed reading this one, very informative. looking forward for new posts from you.. keep up the good work…
Your blog is so informative … ..I just bookmarked you….keep up the good work!!!!
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That actually sucks. All the news I did not read, is now gone.
There was about a month of stuff there, however it was mostly update bits about the N64 portable video project, plus a cat toy I might mod into a house door bell buzzer, details of my next project (before the Multi system) i’ll me doing various mods to a GP2x. Perhaps look here more often NateN34 – updates are here on most days and worth checking out!! lol
A Peltier cooling plate would be a good solution for cooling large, heat producing consoles. But I would be concerned about condensation.
Indeed, overkill for something like the N64 which doesn’t generate much warmth in real terms but Peltier plates would be of great use for cooling chips on the Xbox or DreamCast.
Condensation occurs when warm air meets cold, indeed, however I don’t think this will be an issue if the plates are applied directly onto the chips in question as the coldness of the plate will be warmed instantly by the heat from the chips; I read somewhere that you could cool hot chips down to about room temperature with Peltier plates, in other words, cool.
Downside of Peltier plates is you need a decent heatsink on the reverse side or the underside doesn’t get cold enough, you therefore also need fans to remove the heatsink heat generated.
I tried making a box with a large heatsink on a Peltier plate and running 12v (works 7.4v fine though), didn’t make the box (not a big one) noticably cooler at all, if it were to, it would take an age to cool a volume of air indirectly. I will therefore keep my eyes open at a car boot sale for a mini-fridge – the type that takes a four-pack of cans of beer in it, but not much else – ie a small one; that would be a good way to keep the overall case cool; or I may not bother and just use a couple of large 12 cms computer fans to suck air in and out of my up-coming proper Multi system. So much to plan! I will be documenting the project here fully of course….
Hey Bac,
Cant wait to see that mobo working . Me i have burned my N64 board so restarting from scratch
its ok learning from my mistakes , im perfecting my soldering skills wile i wait for my new N64 to arrive witch is a good thing ,so keep up the good work my friend
Salut A+
This news section would work a lot better if it was a series of blog posts. Then people could search your older news, but in an uncluttered fashion. This setup right now isn’t so great.
It’s hard to see how better to make it look. I don’t want reams and reams of blog posts in the News section clogging things up; once a system is released and “published” then project finished and onto next one and the “News” for that work is out of date. On that basis, the “News” section is really more of a “latest news” section than a longterm section, if that makes sense. Over time, I will have made about a dozen console systems or more into portables; each with their own section in the right tab menu board, so the volumes of tabs will increase, no way around that. If you have a better solution/idea, please PM me for consideration! ;o)