mistabman

@mistabman.bsky.social

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dad, engineer, bassist, amateur astronomer, retro gamer, cartoon enthusiast, disc golfer, hiker

An orange Sega controller with blue and white buttons
A MiSTer FPGA system showing Dungeon Master for DOS. Open on the screen next to it is a guidebook with a spell cheat sheet.
A bunch of Sega Genesis controller membranes
A custom white Sega controller with purple and green buttons
A custom white Sega Genesis controller with purple and green buttons
A whole newwww woooooorrrld
Bags of electronic components from DigiKey strewn about on a workbench
A workbench with Sega controller parts on it
Tinkering around with SNES membranes
A custom SNS-102 controller
Some SNES controller boards, original and reproductions
A smartpi touch pro 3 setup with a raspberry pi 5 and 7" touchscreen running Plexamp
A very messy workbench indeed. Several SNES controllers in various stages of disassembly and customization are prominently featured along with a messy array of buttons, tools, and other miscellaneous supplies.
A blue and green SNES controller
A blue SNES controller shell
A Sony PVM-14N5U with a digital to analog OTA tuner box hooked up via S-Video showing Olympic downhill skiing
A JDM-001 dual shock 4 controller with an orange and black shell and clear blue buttons
Bottom shimming NES controller pads with conductive tape dots
A custom membrane combination in a Sega Genesis 6 button controller. Red Game Gear pads with height spacers for XYZ. Retro Unit pads for ABC and Start. And the "heavy" Hoskinson Dpad variant that has been bothering me for a while.
A mostly cleaned PCB
Hey, a cheap used T3 GameCube controller. Fixing it up should be fun, easy, and cheap right?
A disassembled 8bitdo M30 controller
8 different SNES dpads
A picture showing Sega Genesis membranes with some silicone glue and conductive contact pads.
Old Skool pads installed in an OEM 6 button Sega controller
Some 3rd party Genesis clone controllers
4 Sega MK-1653 6 button controllers. Each with slightly different internals.
6 button, 3 button, Saturn, and Game Gear membranes strewn about.
This is all starting to look a bit familiar...
A disassembled 6 button Sega controller. This is the smaller MK-1937 variant
Top left: MK-1937 Bottom left: MK-1653 Right: MK-1470
A few disassembled and cleaned Sega controllers. A 3 button and two 6 button models.
An ultrasonic cleaner... Vibin... Get it???
A hacked together, but ultimately successful little Genesis streaming setup
Thunder Force 3
Super Street Fighter 2 on a Sega Genesis
A Sega Genesis MK-1653 controller with a custom membrane combination. Dpad membrane from Hoskinson, ABC and Start from a Retro Unit 3 button set, and XYZ (with spacers) from a Game Gear set.
A six button MK-1653 Genesis controller disassembled
Some old and very crusty Sega Genesis controllers
Get ready!
Some buttons and wires!
24VDC PSU with a timer relay. There's also a 5V relay on the other side since I couldn't find a timer relay that worked off 5V.
Shielded speakers installed in an arcade cabinet
Them wires aren't going to connect!
A pair of 5" magnetically shielded speakers
Tube and chassis installed on the cabinet!
There's a tube TV in my arcade cabinet!
Orange and purple buttons installed on the control panel
A new control panel!
In plywood now
A cardboard template!
A TV tube that has been taken out of its case
Ms. Pac Man!
A freshly painted arcade cabinet
Setting up CRT emudriver