neurotix

I made a tiny EHW logo that I thought I'd share. I thought maybe other people would want to use it as an av, or use it on other sites.

Here it is:

tinyehw.zip

Yeah I have not washed mine yet. We're lazy so we usually don't sort our laundry and do it the right way by separating whites from colors

I'm a little wary of washing these shirts and especially together (I got the plain white one with the simple logo, and the gray and red folding@home) because I'm afraid of making the white shirt all red if the ink leaks off the folding shirt. Any issues with color bleed when you washed them, Enterprise?

Warning: long post and massive image dump incoming

Here's my detailed documentation of building and modding the Royal Kludge RK100. My comments will be below each image.

Parts used:

Royal Kludge RK100

XVX retro PBT keycaps

ThreeBulls blue O-Rings

Kailh Pro Light Green switches

So this is what we're starting with. The RK100 in the Classic color scheme with ABS keycaps and RK blue switches (yes they make their own switches and you can get them on AliExpress)

Sorry this one is sideways. I can't find it in my phone to fix it. Anyway, taking keycaps off and yeet them into a bag.

Keycaps all pulled.

The new keycaps. I am used to buying sets that cost twice as much and are PBT with dye sub characters or whatever. Those usually come in trays, already pre sorted to put on. So these will have to be sorted.

O-rings.

Switches direct from Kailh.

Switches almost out.

Here's the board. We could just put our new switches and keycaps on, but no, this is EHW so we won't just do that. We want to clip and lube stabilizers, and we're going to crack it open and check the inside out.

The stabilizer for Enter. I was able to just pull them off the top plate very easily and didn't need to remove screws or detach the PCB. Turns out, it's already lubed and it's not like a Cherry stab so there's no prongs to clip. These really should be replaced by Cherry stabs. Maybe in the future.

The board opened up. Look at this one layer of chintzy, cheap, thin foam. That won't do much to dampen noise or add weight.

Underneath the foam. Battery and pcb for the USB ports. I use it wired so if the battery fails, no problem for me (though I'll have to remove it and replace it with a weight).

Thin crafter's foam used for art. We used the existing foam as a template and drew areas to be cut out with a razor.

It works and fits! Hurrah!

I put the black foam over the crafter's foam.

Starting to populate the board with switches. Also, I had to press down *really* hard on the top plate because of the added foam to get the screws back into it.

Done. Even though they call them Pro Light Green they're a forest green. *Shrug*

Sorry, didn't get any intermediate shots. Keycaps and o-rings on. My fiancee helped here with organizing the keycaps and putting them on. Big thanks as it made getting the keycaps and o-rings on go much faster.

Done.

As for my thoughts on it: it was a fun project. However, I am unhappy with the board, particularly the switches. I suppose the light green doesn't mean a color, the light part may actually refer to the sound of the switch. They feel nice to type on but are pretty quiet compared to all the box clicky switches. I think these would be good if you wanted to use clicky switches in an office or something. These feel pretty good and have good spring tension, they actuate at 45g. However the click bar must be super thin.

The keycaps and look though, I love it. Definitely keeping the rest of the keycaps and if I want to I can make it more green in the future.

Overall not bad for $126. Maybe in the future I'll change the switches to Box Heavy Pale Blue.

Finally, a demonstration video.

I hope you enjoyed my post and documentation of building this board. Thanks for reading.

~neuro

Yeah that's what damric said.

That was me. The 4oz option is 100% polyester. The 6oz option is ?. Flux's tee is one that was available sometime last year but got removed because the printing quality didn't live up to Enterprises standards.

As far as the 6oz option it might be a cotton/polyester blend.

@ENTERPRISE should really add this information to the description of the shirts so people know what they're getting. Perhaps he can clarify what the 6oz option is before you buy one.

On 15/02/2024 at 12:12, Sir Beregond said:

I'm not a fan of that material for shirts personally.

So, it turns out when you order there is a drop down box allowing you to pick what weight shirt you want. The choices are 4oz (what I got that's thin) and 6oz (which should be more like a Gildan or Fruit of the Loom tee).

Just thought I'd give you a heads-up if you didn't already know that you can probably order a shirt and make sure it's 6oz and it should be like a normal tee.

17 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

Ah thanks for the edit. I just went ham with everything. I noticed you have quantities listed and even types like fat / slim. I need to check my 360 count because it is intense.

 

I should have 3 regular white 360s. One of which is the launch edition the silver disk drive, one Arcade version, one standard retail one sent by MS (RMA) and I have the silver, Halo Reach slim limited edition. So a total of 4 360s today lol and I RRoD at least 3 360. I feel I fast tracked Bill Gates’ retirement XD

 

Teal Gameboy Color. Ice Blue N64. Glacier GBA. Black Gamecube. White Wii. Silver / standard DS. Black DS Lite. Cosmo black 3DS. European SNES Classic.

I also have a teal GBC. Most of my handhelds were plain black ones, my GBA SP silver was scratched to hell, so I put decals from decalgirl.com that my wife found on most of them.

I had a photo of all my handhelds but can't find it on my phone. If you're interested in seeing them with the skins let me know and I'll haul them out and take photos.

Thanks for your reply @Slaughtahouse and your list. Definitely different from my preferences, it's great to see what different people rate as their top 5.

I will surely add you to the club. Welcome. Will be adding you right now. EDIT: added. Had to exclude a few consoles that aren't retro.

Club has been made official per @ENTERPRISEs blessing!

@damric I didn't even know there was a choice, my wife ordered them, but she looked and the ones I have are 4oz.

11 minutes ago, Cerberus said:

woo! t-shirt!

They're really nice. You'll love them. The printing quality is outstanding.

Seems I won a 1 year premium bronze account but I'm lifetime Premium Platinum.

Oh well. I was hoping for a keyboard, especially the Tofu Jr. but I'll deal.

Thank you guys so much and the sponsors for providing prizes.

@damric@firedfly@Avacado thank you all.

Thanks to Corsair and be quiet! as well.

Yeah checking this out too but since I'm doing a custom build soon, if I do decide I want one I'll have to wait a few months then ask

Thanks.

EDIT: sticker shock. Yeah for those prices I'd rather get a Realforce. Still pretty neat though.

Feel free to post retro game music in this club too.

Was very close for 7th place for me. cellarnoise2 was right about to pass me and take 7th, but failed. As usual, Flux passed me too, but it was still close.

So are we getting postbits for this? What about postbits for last month's 7 day inter forum competition?

So, top 5 games for me.

1. Final Fantasy 4 aka Final Fantasy II back in the day when it was on SNES. This game has amazing music, unforgettable characters and a great story about redemption. You travel three different worlds more or less. I can clear my copy of this game and get to the final save point with the final dungeon at 100% in under 10 hours. I have probably cleared it and it's remakes around 100 times. Maybe more.

2. Final Fantasy (NES). It has a paper thin plot and zero character development. There's a little bit of story but generally it's go grind and clear the four elemental dungeons. This one is difficult and more like the PC games Wizardry and The Bards Tale or Might and Magic. Just not first person. That means it is about dungeon treks and resource management i.e. saving magic and using healing items wisely to progress. It is non-linear and after you clear the Earth Fiend dungeon, if you know what you're doing you can do the fire, air and water dungeons and beat the fiends in any order you wish.

3. Tyrian aka Tyrian 2000 (DOS). It is fully open source now and has been ported to the PSP and Vita and probably phones and tons of other devices. What this game is, is essentially the best vertical shoot em up ever created. You don't die in one hit. You basically take on stages, collect currency in the form of coins (killing enemies adds to it too) and use the money to buy upgrades like whole new ships. You also have a shield and generator to upgrade, and weapons you have front, rear which can be toggled to fire sideways or forward for most weapons, and sidekicks which have limited ammo and are fired with the right mouse button. (You play using the mouse to move your ship and left button is fire, right one is sidekicks). Sidekicks are usually stuff like missiles you can fire that recharge slowly. Also, this game has tons of hidden secrets like secret levels filled with money, "secret" keywords you can type to activate certain cheats or modes, and more. It is also 2 player and I think the second player uses the arrow keys and enter to shoot. You can link your ships together too by flying close to each other and you'll have a very powerful weapon while you do. The game also has fantastic music and pretty good SVGA sprite graphics. I strongly recommend getting Dosbox and a copy of this (it's free).

4. Super Mario Bros 3. It's the best Mario ever created. I remember I went to a friend's house and they had rented The Wizard with Fred Savage and when they showed Mario 3 at the end I was just enamored and had to have it. I believe I got it Xmas 1990 and before I was introduced to JRPGs. I played the hell out of it. I still play it now, stayed up til 4AM playing and then beating the game with my little sister. This is still one of the best selling games of all time- at least 20 million copies sold.

5. Xenogears. Just go read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia. This game is crazy and quite difficult for a newcomer to it, I would not suggest playing it because it has too many faults, but this was getting into some real Freudian and Jungian psychology, Jewish Kabbalah, Vatican and corruption, aliens, drug abuse, PTSD and multiple personalities, nanotechnology, etc. It was protested by the Catholic Church before release and almost wasn't released here. It was pretty deep for a 14 year old to be playing and is highly cerebral where you would want to cross-reference concepts in it like Animus and Anima, etc. Oh and the music is fantastic, done by Yasunori Mitsuda who did Chrono Triggers soundtrack.

Whew that was a lot. Honorable mentions are:

Chrono Trigger

FF6

FF9

Virtual On: Cyber troopers (arcade)

Super Mario World

Streets of Rage 2

UT2004

Raiden II (arcade)

Phantasy Star Online

Phantasy Star 2

Phantasy Star 4

..and quite a few others I'm drawing a blank on.

Also, check the OP. I have immediately made it more welcoming to PC gamers and collectors.

If I'm not mistaken, SF Rush 2049 is not just on N64 but I think Dreamcast as well where it's pretty much an arcade perfect port graphically+ Stunt Mode and all the other features of the N64 release.

Also, Super Mario All-Stars has a variant cartridge called Super Mario All-Stars + World that has the games from All Stars+ Super Mario World on the same cartridge. I think this was only available as a pack in cartridge but I'm not sure, I do know it came out later in the lifespan of the SNES because of how much ROM it requires.

I will also go through the OP and make it more friendly and welcoming to those engaged in retro computing. Probably on Monday.

Sorry again for ny posts indicating otherwise about retro PCs or stressing consoles. I promise to not make such remarks in the future.

3 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

 

 

The above quote is all that I saw so far this morning (in the post from Labrat).  I didn't see the rest of your edit and post above his comment (I should've scrolled up).  I'm just going off what you said bro.  If you want it to be consoles only, we can absolutely discuss our retro PC's elsewhere.  If you want us included, that's great too, we'll stay right here.  No harm, no foul.   

Yes PLEASE continue and discuss PCs in this club, post pictures of rare hardware, post pictures of rigs, give me specs of rigs to add to your club membership, and I'll maybe learn some stuff in the process. The LAST thing I want is for the club to split. I am currently trying to get E to approve this club as official so I can add that to the thread title.

I am sorry for the confusion I caused in editing that post.

Also it's not like I don't remember all the generations of hardware myself, I just don't have any room for old hardware.

I can tell you one thing: I suck at it but I*love* UT2004 and especially Onslaught mode.

You are more than welcome to add and discuss retro pcs here, and I've tried to be accommodating. However, if you want your own club, feel free to make one. I wish you both the best, and again, I really feel like I've been nice and open toward retro PCs, offering to add lists and such. I just can't add much to the discussion myself.

Unfortunately the user base here is small. Bear in mind, this is a continuation of my club on OCN which had 40+ members discussing retro gaming consoles. Clearly not happening here.

Pretty cool but as I made clear in the OP, this is primarily a retro console gaming club, and multiple members have multiple consoles and handhelds. A few of us share a mutual love of the old Final Fantasy games, as well.

Did you want to be added with the specs of that rig listed? I'm literally walking in the dark with what it even is. If you list all your retro PCs and components separated by commas, I can add you and a list of your hardware to the club.

EDIT: I just can't give you any good discussion on retro PCs and I don't have any. pioneerisloud certainly can though and you guys can feel free to take over this thread and talk about retro hw and games. Because some activity is better than none.