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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 05/09/2026

Received my Nileswan yesterday, a flashcart for the WonderSwan. This means I can finally play this panda variant of Gunpey.

Green WonderSwan with Tare Panda no Gunpey’s title screen showing, with a cute panda rolling.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 14/08/2026

The pad went with the solder, but after a little bit of grinding and a patch wire, reads great from my Retrode.

Screenshot of Golvellius running in an emulator.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 14/08/2026

I think I figured out why my copy of Golvellius didn’t work.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 12/08/2026

I realised that I never posted the answer to this. It was a Grandstand Pong clone!

Photo of the retro games machine section of a thrift store, showing an LCD screen with Road Rash II running, 2 pong clones below it, a C64C, a CGL M5 and a Megadrive with aforementioned Road Rash II cartridge.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 27/07/2026

That’s what I call this shelf 😁

Black floating shelf on a white wall with SIGIL 1 and 2 boxes next to a Duke Nukem 3D big box (and some DVD sized PC and PlayStation offshoots)

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 21/07/2026

Friend sends in a photo of a C64 in a thrift shop, and all I'm interested in is what looks like a wedge computer in the corner of the picture. Anyone know what this could be?

The edge of an unidentified 1980s or 1990s computer.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 20/07/2026

Took me 3 times seeing this post to dig what Orange Wednesdays were out of the back of my brain.

Screenshot of the slightly dense producer in the Orange Wednesdays adverts.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 29/06/2026

Did you know you could import IKEA furniture into Sweet Home 3D?

3D model of an IKEA FLEKKE day bed, inside a virtual room

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 14/06/2026

Saw this beautiful thing yesterday at a flea market.

Photo of an Amstrad SM104 audio system, with a vertical vinyl player at the top, 2 tape decks at the bottom, all in 1989’s brushed metal and smoky plastic

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 12/06/2026

It is. And stop with the whataboutism.

Wikipedia article screenshot with the paragraph title Water scarcity

Despite its high annual rainfall, Taiwan is only able to use 20% of it as water resource, making it in the 18th place under the United Nations global ranking in terms of being water resource poor region.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 27/05/2026

I think I need to calibrate my 3D printer.

3D printed part with loads of stringing and misaligned layers.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 22/05/2026

If anyone knows what this part is for though, it came loose while removing the drive assembly, and I can’t find where it lives.

Unknown part of a Denon DCD-620 CD player

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 22/05/2026

After boiling the belt, while waiting for a replacement, the tray sprang back to life. Play-back works, tested using the headphones socket. The headphones volume pot needs cleaning though.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 20/05/2026

Moulinex advert for that coffee maker. Notice the tagline: « Moulinex libère la femme », “Moulinex frees women”

Moulinex advert for a range of coffee machines

Les nouvelles cafetières électriques Moulinex:
encore plus belles et plus rapides...
...mais pas plus chères.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 20/05/2026

The soldering on the LED also held on through wishful thinking. The wiring on both legs just broke off. Soldering iron out again.

2 disconnected wires floating around outside an LED wrapped in insulation, inside a coffee machine

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 20/05/2026

The original (or maybe one replaced?) cable was damaged on the outside, but it was cooked inside, with the coating having turned hard and brittle.

Partially exposed wires on the inside of a coffee machine, with coating debris at the bottom.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 20/05/2026

Moulinex filter coffee machine mains cable swap.

Moulinex red and metal styled coffee machine

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 16/05/2026

Spicy pillow battery out of a Lenovo Miix Windows tablet. Love the easy to read maintenance manual and the easy to disassemble tablet.

Page out of the Lenovo maintenance manual for a tablet that shows out to remove the LCD

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 01/05/2026

Do I start a new game or just load my 10-year old save like nothing happened?

Load game screen from X-Com for XBox 360, saves all date back from 2015.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 21/04/2026

Nobody was saying it was illegal, but that it was amoral. Just say that you know and you don’t care rather than inventing reasons why you’re right in supporting a dictatorship.

Excerpt from a Time Extension article that reads:

"Boycotting a games system due to its parent company's connections to a disliked regime is simplistic, and imposes a 'tyranny of virtue' on others who wish to enjoy a perfectly legal product," says video game historian and Time Extension contributor John Szczepaniak.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 06/04/2026

I thought it was going to be this type of British slating.

Dictionary screenshot of slate:
2. (chiefly UK) To criticize or critique (an author or a work) harshly; to castigate.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:criticize
The play was slated by the critics.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 26/03/2026

Going through my Pocket (RIP) saves of Twitter (RIP) pages and found this important announcement from @32mbit.bsky.social

Screenshot of a tweet by @32mbit.bsky.social showing the cover for the Sega Genesis “Garfield Caught in the Act" game which has Garfield pressing his face from the inside of a CRT TV. The caption reads “Garfield is watching you masturbate.”

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 26/03/2026

Which vintage Mac do you think would be the most comfortable?

Mac-shaped pillow
https://throwboy.com/collections/pillows/products/1984-pillow

iMac shaped pillow
https://throwboy.com/collections/pillows/products/1998

PowerMac shaped pillow
https://throwboy.com/collections/pillows/products/2003-pillow

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 08/03/2026

Modelled the front panels as well.

3D Render of an IKEA Alex drawer (large)

3D Render of an IKEA Alex drawer (small)

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 08/03/2026

One day, I'll be able to reassemble the drawers out of my IKEA Alex, in the meanwhile, I modelled them so I could modify them.

3D render of IKEA Alex large drawer standing on end, viewed from the bottom

3D render of IKEA Alex small drawer standing on end, viewed from the top

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 07/03/2026

Destroyer of vintage electronics, shop display.

Varta battery shop display in bright blue. No batteries and no pegs are installed.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 23/02/2026

"No modelling" combining of two separate models into an effective solution to my battery testing problem.

4 21700 battery holders next to each other, with short wires coming out of the bottom, on top of a cutting mat.

Bottom part of a battery adapter, with red and black wires at each end, on top of a cutting mat.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 21/02/2026

The Dyson batteries I opened up a couple of months ago were 21700 which I couldn’t test (too long), so I adapted somebody’s 3D print to get them working.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 21/02/2026

This week I did some “battery chucking” from dead Dyson batteries, including one from the recycling bin at my supermarket’s checkout. 7 working 18650 cells that tested at around 2200 mAh.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 14/02/2026

Sorted out the touch sensor!

Black Neo Geo Pocket console with a colour display in the "Pocket Menu".

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 14/02/2026

But I also found what the VCDs looked like, and it's glorious.

2 tin boxes containing Sega Retro games on VCD with Chinese markings like "SEGA certified" and "428 great Chinese games".

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 07/02/2026

Did some slicer hackery (the license didn't allow me to upload a new model), to use a button cell instead of external power for this simple USB cable tester case. Very useful to find power only cables.

DT3 USB cable tester 3D-printed case, with test LEDs glowing as the plugged in cable is tested.

DT3 USB cable tester 3D-printed case, with a button cell soldered in, and without a lid.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 01/02/2026

A cheap restoration, one of my dad’s backup multimeter with broken probes. Spent 1.75€ on probes from AliExpress and gave it all a clean. I’m glad I managed to reuse the grommet, saved me from having to design a new one and a painful TPU print.

Dirty multimeter with electrical tape on the probes, on a cutting mat, with new tied probes to the left of it.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 28/12/2025

Nothing like diagnosing faults in kitchen appliances when visiting family. This Espresso machine uses a standard CM6821 heater block which you can get for around 30€ new. You can get a working coffee machine, same model, for 20€ second-hand. I think it will be kept for parts rather than repaired.

Photo of an Espresso machine’s innards, with a solid metal heater block in the middle with flexible water pipes and electric cables going to it.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 19/12/2025

Their take on Thatcher’s Techbase getting removed from the Doom remasters mods list by Bethesda.

Excerpt from article:
Creator Jim Purvis recently took to Twitter to share the news the game had been banned. I suppose a world where you can use the Trident Launcher nuclear deterrent and destroy respawning Tories might appeal to some of the country's voters, but no matter how you look at this game, it's Anti-Thatcher and certainly not a mod that Bethesda can allow to stay no matter their political leaning.
As soon as politics and gaming mix, things start to get a little tetchy. Gaming for me is like Switzerland, and when I sit down to game, I want to leave politics at the door.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 19/12/2025

And RetroDodo are Tory cowards, and definitely not journalists.

Excerpt from article:
We also want to make you aware (as journalists) that ModRetro does have somewhat of an affiliation with Anduril, so if you're against military actions or political involvement in some form, it's probably not best buying a handheld made of attack drone metal...
If you don't care, then by all means, snag one of the craziest handhelds we've seen all year.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 18/12/2025

Q: What do you call Ceefax in French? A:

Photo of a Sandwiches and Kebab place in Grenoble called “Le Syfax”

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 01/12/2025

Just finished a Neo Geo Pocket IPS screen mod after finding a boxed console for parts. The touch sensor to change the palette colours doesn't work, but it's still so much better than a non-working screen, or a non-backlit one.

Neo Geo Pocket console with a backlit screen with the original damaged screen and polarising film above it, on a bordeaux coloured felt cloth.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 23/11/2025

Feels like a set up for a @consolewars.bsky.social episode. *raises Super Nintendo cartridge* “- And I played it on the Super Nintendo. - That’s it! Are we doing this?”

Dan Bulich with a guitar in his hands saying: “That’s it! Are we doing this?”

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 22/11/2025

Pas de alt, ça tient pas, désolé.

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 21/11/2025

For reference, from the Tooltrace . AI website

3D model of a Gridfinity bin with a hole for a camera blower

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Bastien Nocera @hadess.net · 21/11/2025

I bought a camera blower to remove dust when modding handhelds and wanted to make a Gridfinity bin for it. It fits in a 2x5, but with plenty of wasted space on either side. Any ideas what I should make room for? Maybe space for a small lint-free cloth? #gridfinity

A black camera air blower with a white tip, on white background.

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