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While reading the Pyra threads about 6 buttons, I decided I would see if I could mod my Pandora to have 6 buttons.  I figured I would test if the 6 buttons would really be too close to be useable so I programmed my Arduino Leonardo as a USB joystick and wired up 6 buttons as close as I could get...

On the headsets I have tested, the center button shorts mic to ground.  The other two buttons connect mic through a resistor to ground.

I would be OK with an iCP2 without the nubs.  I don't use the nubs that often on my Pandora anyway.  Just having the dpad and gaming buttons would be enough for most of the games I would be playing.  I payed a hell of a lot more than $87, but I saw it as an investment.  I understood I was taking...

So I decided to just make a board anyway.  I based the layout as much on MWeston's design as I could since he obviously knows what he is doing.  The only photos I could find of it are from Skeezix's unboxing of his.  I have not tried to use it yet but I will sometime in the next couple of days.

I decided I was going to build myself one of the original breakout boards for the Pandora and thought I would ask any of the original devs who got one of them if there was any kind of instructions that came with the board?  I want to make sure I understand what each of the jumpers do before I...

I bought an SD adapter from eBay and was meaning to try ripping a game to it but I forgot until I read this post.  I just tried ripping Re-Volt and it only took 35 minutes with a program called DC SD Ripper.  From what I read online it is way faster than ripping the disc from Dreamshell.  Plus I...

I would be interested in knowing how many people have actually confused the game buttons with the keyboard keys.  I have not ever mixed the two so I didn't see a reason to change the labels but maybe there actually is a lot of people who have confused them.

In case you haven't seen it, this is the pinout of the LCD cable according to the Pandora Hackers Manual:

I have heard that using prepaid cell phones makes you a bigger target to tracking since the bad people use prepaid phones, so if that were true, wouldn't it also be plausible to think that people who turn on a cell radio for short periods would get looked at more closely?

Just in case anyone wants to make their own skin, here are the files I used.  I don't really have any experience doing these so I was just kind of making it up as I went along.  Anyone is free to make any improvements if you can see how to do it better. If you want to make a skin, I can have it...

With a solid color like on mine stretching it would work very well.  The problem comes if there are graphics on the top piece.  Stretching something with graphics will just distort the image so I tried to figure out how to do it without stretching.  I was thinking about just covering the flat...

Yeah if the top was not a printed picture, I could just stretch the vinyl and it would fit perfectly.  I tried a few other layouts but because the top is rounded in 3 directions, I could not make it fit very good.  Although because the roundness of the led section makes it so that couldn't be...

OK so I got the Atari 2600 skin done.  There are a few things that could be changed.  The holes for the keyboard keys are still not quite right but they're close enough for me.  On the graphics, I should have made the border around the screen and number keys a little thicker and maybe a bid more...

The only reason I had them use the green was so it was easier to see where the template needed to be adjusted.  As you can see in the photo, that is just an empty shell (plus a signed non-booting board) I used for fitting the skin.  Hopefully the Atari skin will be here in the next couple of...

I got the first test of a full skin for my Pandora.  I had them do it out of a color that was very different from the silver so I could see how it all fit.  This vinyl is way thinner than the silver carbon fiber vinyl I used first so I had to cut out the keyboard section.  I will try to make the...

I am going to try making a template for most of the Pandora.  The problem is since it has rounded edges there will have to be seams.  I could have them wrap it by stretching the vinyl to have no seams but then it would be pretty hard to print any kind of graphics.  I don't think I would want a...

I made a quick template and had the dealership cut out a test skin.  It needs a little refinement but it turned out pretty good.

If someone made a template to be used, people could create Pandora skins.  My brother works at a car dealership which has a vinyl printer/cutter.  I don't know how much a single skin would cost but I don't think it would be too much.

I noticed on both the Everdrive64 NTSC-US and NTSC-J pages, the description says "plug it into your European PAL console."

Have any of you heard of Chip Quik?  It is an SMD removal alloy that works pretty well.  I messed up my  EXT port a while ago and removed it with the Chip Quik.  It was extremely easy.  I bought one of the broken PCBs so I could get a working EXT port and swapped them.  I just tried removing one...