Bacteria's Multi-Console System: Screen+Case+N64 - FINISHED

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:47 am

Thanks Life of Brian, means a lot to me. I was keen to get a decent camera with 640x480 resolution and sound recording, especially for this stage of the project. As you say, it is so much better to see a video with a commentary than still just pics, however of course pics are very handy for project development and step-by-step guides, and take less bandwidth.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:13 pm

Just a small but worthy update: I have set up and paid for a .com address and yearly plan web hosting.

I spent most of today getting on with many of the articles I will be including in the website, although plenty more to come. I am probably about 15% there at the moment; my holiday is over today, back to work tomorrow, so it will be a case of snatching a few hours here and there again! I am going to try my best and get this site up and live in the next 2-3 weeks or so; however this is just my aim, it may be longer or shorter. When it is up, I will be promoting it, and also starting my SNES add-on project for this system.

Neildo_64 · Post by **Neildo_64** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:23 pm

If you want an extra hand with some web design, I could help you out. I mean with graphics or coding, anything web design, just hit me up via PM.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:53 pm

Neildo_64 - Actually, I will be fine, but thanks for the offer. I have my website domain populated on the internet servers now, an e-mail account working and posting articles to the site. SohoLaunch is neat software, easy to use, and it even does FTP without you even know about it, seamlessly! Once I get the pages done, I will have a go and put in a forum or similar for feedback and discussion. About 20% there at the moment.

NixonTech2071 · Post by **NixonTech2071** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:43 pm

Should I sell myself to you so you can slave me? I think your worth it man.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:56 am

WEBSITE IS UP!

Please visit my website and forum: details in my new sig!!

www.modded-by-bacteria.com

You will see my step-by-step guides for this project there, happy reading!

I am new to web site creation and forum creation, so if something doesn't work properly, please PM me (here on BenHeck).

Please visit the forum, register and leave comments!

DK · Post by DK » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:00 pm

You've been Engadgeted

The comments left on the site arn't exactly constructive though

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:50 pm

It isn't too bad at all really, have to bear in mind that engadget seems to like shiny toys and not practical hand-made systems; looking on the feedback on the topic it is filled with irrelevant nonsense, like you get on YouTube - however my site has had over 1500 hits in the last 2 hours or so as a result, and rising - so the ends justified the means! I will also post tomorrow hopefully on YouTube for extra publicity.

Neildo_64 · Post by **Neildo_64** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:37 pm

Looks like your getting TONS of hits bacteria. Nice job.

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:00 pm

It looks very professional, and it's very well done. I do have a question though, why such an ugly color?

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:17 am

Valium wrote:It looks very professional, and it's very well done. I do have a question though, why such an ugly color?

Thanks, pleased you like my site (even though someone here said it looked a bit "early '90s" - in another 50 years, so will I too!!

The colour is best described as lemon cream (the varnish darkened the original colour a bit). I didn't want a dark colour as it looked strange on my MK1 version; silver looks cheap, black is prone to showing all blemishes and prone to finger marks; white looks a bit "iPod" and cheap; so I had to go for cream, especially as this is quite neutral in colour so works fine with the strong colours on the controllers and buttons.

If anyone hasn't been able to see the video on my website, I have it also now on YouTube.

YouTube Video

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:12 am

Looked on my webhost, the 9000 hits have generated 64Gb bandwidth in 3 days!

Good thing I got unlimited bandwidth, or I would have used my monthly allocation in the first 24 hours!!

In Case Construction on this forum, put in a thread for my case within a case

tyromaniac · Post by **tyromaniac** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:23 pm

You could always directly link to say photobucket or imageshack or any other image provider as most people do on these forums including yourself if you want to limit bandwith. But hearing that you have unlimited, I don't see why unless you find one faster than the other.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:40 pm

Indeed, in fact, my provider (HostPapa) is faster than PhotoBucket, by quite a margin by the looks of it: anyway, unless you pay PhotoBucket you have 25Gb bandwidth a month; only a fraction of what I would need! Unlimited is great.

I do wonder why this forum isn't on such a package - Â£5 a month, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited webspace?? Provides the PHPbb forum too.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:06 pm

Just finished playing my system in earnest this evening, one hour straight of Pokemon Puzzle League (great game). System works fine.

BTW - this game doesn't use the joystick very well, you need to play the game with the D-pad!