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Holy shit, I managed to install the #Hispeedido #HDMI thingmabob for the #Nintendo64 and IT'S BLOODY WORKING! :-) It was a bit of a nightmare soldering it to what I believe is the GPU and I wasn't sure what to expect. Where the graphics of the NES and SNES would probably be crystal sharp since it's mostly 2D, the Nintendo 64 was the early days of 3D on the console, and textures and effects are honestly not that sharp.

While the HDMI board probably offers a little more sharpness, it offers much richer colors and no color bleeding. It also offers convenience - no need for a TV that has a #SCART port or an #upscaler device. I do have several of the latter ones though, and worth noting is that the #OSSC device probably won't help you, since it doesn't like the N64's composite video signal.

Sound is included in the #HDMI signal, and so far it's pretty awesome! :-) What should I play first?

#Hispeedido #retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #gbc

... An hour and a small pile of plastic clippings and filings later, I managed to fit the screen in the original top part of the case.

They weren't lying! The screen is a bit bigger on the front, but required a lot more room on the back. You have to remove everything but a 2mm edge underneath the bezel of the screen, to which it adheres with some heavy duty double sided tape.

From what I hear, the screen is actually surplus from the old #Blackberry handheld devices. For this to work in the GBC, they need a controller board, which is fixed with dreaded #kapton tape. There is plenty of room for this though, and it seems like an electrically safe sandwich of hackish goodness.

Fully assembled, I turned the unit on and everything just works! Here it is, with a brightness of 2 out of 4. I turned it down to 1 afterwards, and that's fine too.

Not sure how much I'll be using it, but installing the mod was a lot of fun and very satisfying.