I have a Dream...

I finally have the Dreamcast. We picked it up from the city on Friday night because we were going anyway. Yes, it doesn't work but hopefully I can work out a way to fix it...
It seems to flick the picture on and off so I think video out is the problem. Might be as simple as a dry solder joint. Further investigation follows...

Tiny Sega product causes much "coochie-cooing"

Look how small it is! My partner found this for me on EBay! A miniature Mega Drive preloaded with Street Fighter 2 and Ghouls and Ghosts! Obviously it is not an official SEGA product but it is very cute! We had a bash the other night and it runs great! It's battery powered by 4 AA's with the option for a 6v input, so in the future I can see this being modded into something portable. Maybe hard-wired into the car?

FUSIONhb news officially moved to...here. Quick Reviews coming soon.

Ok I've done it to see how it goes for a while if it's too hard I'll change it back to how it was.

First thing I need to do is slap all of the currently old news here in this post:

Old News

NEWS 14/9/08. Wii Homebrew is a little bit quiet at the moment, at least as far as I am concerned, being a modchip user. Wiidev has DVD's playing on unmodded Wii's bringing us a step closer to soft-mods, so I will be all-over that when it happens. But for now I have put up a guide on how to restore your NES (the first one). It's in the retro mini-site, restoring consoles section, or here is a quick link.

NEWS 31/8/08. Got some serious bargains this weekend! A whole bunch of old stuff from the paper that included, but not limited to: A Commodore 64, an ATARI 2600, 1x SEGA megadrive I, 2x SEGA megadrive II's, a SEGA 32x, a Sony PSX and over 60 games for Sega Mastersystem and Megadrive, a handful of atari games and of course, countless Commodore floppies. Then, Saturday morning, the garage sales paid off for the first time in ages and I scored a SNES with about 6 games. The collection page hasn't been updated but you can see some photos here. I will update the collection page as I clean the consoles and put them on the shelf.

NEWS 15/8/08. I have successfully dumped Super Smash Bros. Brawl! Using the cIOS249 and homebrew channel, was able to dump the 8.5Gb of DL DVD over wifi. Burned and tested- works like the original! I will be dumping all of my games this way from now on. Check out the guide down below in the Wii Section!
Also, in [retro] news, a guide to restoring your old consoles is up!

NEWS 29-7-08. Hey, welcome to Fusion homebrew! Have a look around and learn a bit about the homebrew scene! At the moment, I only have Nintendo stuff up but hopefully in the near future I will get hold of things like an Xbox and a Dreamcast, to start getting some more categories up here. Here's the latest in my Wii homebrew discoveries: Hacked Firmware. If you are Aussie and want to get into the DS homebrew scene, or just play pirated games from an SD card (don't forget to buy games from time to time too) on your DS, read the DS section link down below and then have a look at this.
Scroll down and check out the retro section and look for the mods down the bottom, I have just done my first retro mod and am very proud of myself.

Ok now that is done, keep watching this spot for FUSION homebrew and retro news!

I'm thinking of adding a "quick reviews for Wii and DS" section to the site where you can get a quick idea of what a game is like without having to read a long-winded review. Something like this format.

• 1 Star = Don't waste a DVD/Megabytes on this game.
• 2 Stars = This game is worth stealing.
• 3 Stars = This game is worth buying.

Maybe I will decide to go with 5 stars to give more range, I'll keep thinking about it.

SEGA Dreamcast: YAY! Aww... fail

About 3 nights ago, my partner found on Ebay, a Hello Kitty Japanese SEGA Dreamcast limited edition for $100 or something. Noticing that the seller was in a city near us, my partner asked him if he had any other Dreamcast products for sale. She knows what consoles I need for my collection. He said he had a broken (but possibly fixable) dreamcast for $15 and a 3rd party controller for $5. We took him up on the offer.

So after tee-ing up with him to meet at his place of work on Saturday to exchange the cash and the console. He emailed us this morning saying that he was off work sick and had arranged with another staff member to make the exchange.

So, off we went, 50km to the city and went straight to this workplace only to be informed that the stand-in had gone home sick aswell! Bummer! We were going to find an internet cafe to contact the guy again but just came home instead. But before we did, we stopped in at Cash Converters and I was pleased to find a Dreamcast controller, a couple of GameGear games, a N64 rumble pack and Gameboy adaptor. So it wasn't a total failure...

So, when we got back we emailed him again and advised him to perhaps post the items as we were pissed off that we drove up there for nothing.

First post and introduction

Just putting down the first post. I have been thinking about getting a blog going for some time now, due to the fact that uploading to a server every time I have a new thought can become tedious.
So the plan for this blog is to put my thoughts and ideas down for me to look at and to see what other people think.
I am a video game enthusiast, so naturally alot of my thoughts will come to that but some other topics I hope to be covering are:

Linux, mainly ubuntu and possibly mythTV in the future.
Technology.

My main website that is full of how to's regarding Wii and DS homebrew and also has my retro video game collection is at fusion.homedns.org. So think of this as the complimentary blog. I am thinking of stopping the news section that is on the front page and pointing it to this blog but I don't want my readers (not a huge group) to be checking two different sites, waiting for the latest. Perhaps some sort of mailing list?

Anyway I think that is it for the intro. Bye!