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On average I triple my money but after considering parts cost, shipping and ebay fees's i pretty much double my money on each lot including keeping a few consoles for myself. Ill be sure to post updates next time i work on something of interest.

Hey man you should make a splash screen so people could add your credits right into the beginning of the game!

The handheld project works and all but i consider it a failure. After spending around 70 dollars getting everything to work I found that a Psp offer's a superior emulation experience therefore my handheld has been relegated to my shelf of interesting items . I still fix around 10 - 15 systems a week and like to keep the really interesting ones i get. This is most of my collection so far, The 3ds is actually the only console I bought working. I have repaired a few 3ds console's and I can tell you they are not worth the headache. Gameboy colors and pockets are really easy to work on due to the fact that they dont have many ribbon cables. In one of the lots I found a relatively rare Ags 101, The first backlit gameboy. I work on all kinds of wierd little projects and ill be sure to keep this updated as I go. The best thing about this so far is all the cool wierd stuff i manage to get in these lot's This is an old radio I fixed. I even found some mad science looking stuff! (these are ociliscopes and are really useful when working with ac current.) I work on old tube amplifiers often as well so i have some really cool 1960's tube testers as well If anyone has any questions about any project I have done feel free to ask and i would be happy to help. I have been working on an arduino project to convert an old car i have to digital gauges, Since the arduino works at 5 volts i have been using optoisolators to keep the 12 volt signal wires from frying the system. When this is done it will be hooked to servos to make the dash look stock but be a bit more accurate.

With that broken sega gamegear shell from before i began the process of making a custom handheld. This before and after shows that i replaced the standard buttons with those off an Snes controller as well as the upper shoulder buttons, The lower shoulder buttons are off a playstation one controller. This took about 30 hours of sanding I replaced the standard 3.6 inch screen with a 5 inch backlit lcd. And replaced all the membrane buttons with full tactile switches I then pulled apart a few laptop batteries to scavenge some 18650 cells, wired that to a voltage regulator and charge controller. After wiring all the buttons to the pins on the pi , I spent entirely too long trying to firgure out how to map the gpio to key presses (if anyone wants to try this i can sure help!) once that was figured out i screwed it together and tested it. With this console I could emulate everything up to a N64 and it had pretty good battery life.

With the profit From the sales i bought a few more lots of broken systems and a few raspberry pie's. People started asking if i could make them a custom little emulator box For my first attempt I Chose an old gamecube shell for the housing . Overall it looked ok but i didn't like the power switch. For the next one i used another gamecube shell but made it a bit more subtle. The controller 1 and 4 are now usb and can be used to upload more games or for the controllers. It looked better but i still wasnt 100% happy with it. The customer loved it and soon i had other odd requests. This time i used an old nes shell But wired the power switch to work with the raspberry pi, I replaced the controller ports with usb as before and replaced the game slot with a backlit Nintendo logo. I like the way this one looks.

A few months ago I got the crazy idea to buy broken junk and fix it. It has actually been working out better than i had even hoped. I am making a decent game collection and using the profit to fund some other projects as well. I started by buying a lot of 13 broken sega gamegears for 70 dollars, I spent about 10 dollars in capacitors and managed to repair all but one of them. (I used the shell for another project anyway) Fixing a Gamegear takes about 30 mins if you are decent with a soldering iron. After getting them all working I sold them on ebay and bought a few more lots of broken systems and some replacement shells as well. After reshelling and fixing the broken systems I put custom firmware on the psp's and kept one of each system for myself and sold the rest.

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i changed 2 letters from your post. I figured the other one doesnt count because you said it was cheating... Dealer.

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I forgot to introduce myself, Hi i am Or3o, I fix junk and make stuff, I am not too great at game making but i do enjoy testing stuff out. I mostly work on hardware. I fix and modify videogame consoles among other things.

I was looking through my open tabs super fast, and i clicked on your page and somehow that add caught my eye perfectly, Its good, keep it!

I know this is an old post but it has taught me a ton! I wish i had known how to use the offset years ago!