Since I am either soft in the head or soft in the heart, I asked Ewan if he wanted a mod chip for his Gamecube. How hard could it be? He readily agreed (what else would he have said?) and I set about the task of finding out the optimum chip to buy which involves a heap of internet research and then the outlay of cash money to secure the goods. Did I tell you I bloody love shopping on the internet? Give me a credit card and a computer and I'll have the bailiffs 'round in 72 hours to start recuperating the accumulated debts!!
Eventually we settled on the Viper GC Extreme. Easy enough to install I suppose, if you aren't too bothered putting a soldering iron to a printed circuit board with no recourse when you fuck it up!
Here are some of the instructions...
The total instructions are limited to three pages like that with pics and very little text. The adage about a picture and some words did not apply in this case. What do you do when yours doesn't look like the picture Miss?
The upshot is that the machine functions perfectly snd now reads games burnt onto normal size DVDs thanks to the mod chip and a new cover / case-modification (which also had to be purchased) and Ewan has expanded his game library to record levels. Oh and I took another step down the parallel paths of blindness and baldness due to the combination of very close work and stress. I don't know why I volunteer for this sort of thing.
Stay tuned for the story of how I pulled Patrick's PS2 apart to install his modchip...it ain't gonna be pretty. I won't be able to blog it until the psychiatric counselling is finished, but here is a sneak preview.
8 comments:
How would you act out your urges without three sons?
Acting out urges is what I've got a wife for. The children are to look after me when I'm dribling into my incontinence pants in my twilight years.
That's why I'm keeping 'em sweet now ;-)
" What do you do when yours doesn't look like the picture Miss?"
Funny funny stuff.
Oh, and Stella lets you do all that on her table? Not in my house!!!!!
Nothing for ages and then two posts in quick succession?
That looks like so much fun, the picture with all the bits everywhere. I love to take things apart, but I am not so good at the putting back together again.
Oh my. That post made my head hurt. And that's saying something ;-)
I bet you'll still be sexy in your incontinence pants!
Antipo, maybe we can get one oversized pair to share during our dotage.
*gulps, thinking that maybe this time she went a little too far*
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