GX460 & GXOR B.S. thread

[Roody]

Update to my warning light saga

Pulled the center console, radio, and Hamilton unit out over the last few days (working in very broken blasts). Everything on the Hamilton unit is plugged in nice and tight. Radio too. Didn't get a chance to put anything else back in, hopefully tomorrow night or Father's Day if I get some time to work on things.

 

[r2m]

Update to my warning light saga

Pulled the center console, radio, and Hamilton unit out over the last few days (working in very broken blasts). Everything on the Hamilton unit is plugged in nice and tight. Radio too. Didn't get a chance to put anything else back in, hopefully tomorrow night or Father's Day if I get some time to work on things.

I know this may be a stupid questions, but, assuming you're testing everything before re-install?

 

[Roody]

I know this may be a stupid questions, but, assuming you're testing everything before re-install?

Testing what/how?

 

[r2m]

Testing what/how?

Thought you were trying to trace down your warning light, so if you were pulling out your head unit, trying to track down the source of the code, for me, having everything pulled from the console, I'd but trying to get that code to come up. Maybe unplugging/plugging along the way isolating components to see if it has anything to do with the console.
Or...
Were you pulling apart your console for another reason?

 

[Roody]

Thought you were trying to trace down your warning light, so if you were pulling out your head unit, trying to track down the source of the code, for me, having everything pulled from the console, I'd but trying to get that code to come up. Maybe unplugging/plugging along the way isolating components to see if it has anything to do with the console.
Or...
Were you pulling apart your console for another reason?

Yes, to chase down the warning lights. Wanted to verify everything was properly connected, then reassemble and put some miles on it to see if anything of the warnings come back.

 

[Hiluxforever]

Yes, to chase down the warning lights. Wanted to verify everything was properly connected, then reassemble and put some miles on it to see if anything of the warnings come back.

Yea as a former smart hands tech this could easily be one of those things that just touching all the connectors fix. Something not quite fully inserted can cause issues. Its not always reproducable.

 

[Roody]

Yea as a former smart hands tech this could easily be one of those things that just touching all the connectors fix. Something not quite fully inserted can cause issues. Its not always reproducable.

Lessons I also learned playing an N64 as a kid, haha

 

[Rednexus]

Lessons I also learned playing an N64 as a kid, haha

I think my N64 must be sitting in a box somewhere. Maybe in my parent's basement? Or maybe it's long gone? If it still exists, it would be fun to fire it up and play some Zelda like it's 1999 again!

 

[Roody]

I think my N64 must be sitting in a box somewhere. Maybe in my parent's basement? Or maybe it's long gone? If it still exists, it would be fun to fire it up and play some Zelda like it's 1999 again!

Mine is in the attic... some day I will break it out (and struggle to find a way to connect it to a modern TV) and show my daughters how we lived in the 1990s haha

 

[Hiluxforever]

Mine is in the attic... some day I will break it out (and struggle to find a way to connect it to a modern TV) and show my daughters how we lived in the 1990s haha

Should have a composite video out otherwise you can use an rf modulator and coax

 

[Rednexus]

Mine is in the attic... some day I will break it out (and struggle to find a way to connect it to a modern TV) and show my daughters how we lived in the 1990s haha

I think I'm a few years older than you, but I recall saving up months and months of allowance around 1995/1996 or so to buy Donkey Kong Country for the SNES. It was $60 in 1995 money, or $134 in 2026 money! Same thing for Doom and Doom II on the PC....$60+ for a box full of floppy disks .

To be honest I lost interest in video games when I turned 16 and started driving. Played a bit in college in the aughts, but other than that I rarely pick up a controller. Some nostalgic games would be quite fun though.

 

[r2m]

Only video, actually, PC game (because I've never had a console type TV game) I've ever kept up with and followed was MechWarrior by Activision back in 1989.
Got into that game around when it first came out. Never did the board game, only the PC version. Purchased the whole series and followed it till it ended in 2005. Then it was revived by Piranha in 2019 as MechWarrior 5, as both an online and stand-alone. Bought it as soon as it came out. Love that game with a joystick and throttle. I used to be, but any good at playing online against others, but don't play enough to keep from being killed immediately every time I spawn.
Every couple years I'll pull out the controllers and fire up the game and play for a couple of weeks to a month, kill my share of Mech's then I'm done and good for another year or so without it.
It has quite a following now.

 

[Green4Gulf]

Golden Eye 007.

 

[Rednexus]

Golden Eye 007.

I had forgotten about that one! I'm sure there are more sitting in that box (if it still exists ) that I've also forgotten about.

 

[Acrad]

I think I still have my old original Atari 2600 and TI-99/4A stuffed in some box somewhere

 

[Cold Iron]

In 90 as we were getting ready to deploy to Desert Shield\Storm a large electronic store in the Tidewater area went out of business and cleared things out at 80%. I managed to snag a large TV and a NES system. I put it in the Engineering Log room on the Aircraft carrier USS America.

Daddy what did you do during the war? Well ran half the Engineering main spaces, played fire marshal every 6 days, stood Engineering Officer of the Watch. And played Super Mario but mainly Duck Hunt. I tried more than once to shoot that damn dog when he laughed at me when I missed a duck.

After the war took it home and my sons took to it like a duck to water. And all the usual games. They were pretty young at the time but as they got older moved to the first person shooter games. When the 3DFX video card came out it was expensive putting them in 3 boxes.

But before that stage at least in my mind I can still see

I was in Japan when Space Invaders first came out and spent a lot of yen playing it must have been 78. It hit the States about a month after I got back Stateside so I had a head start over everyone else. Didn't take long for most to catch up to me and I was back on the Foosball table more times than not.

 

[r2m]

In 90 as we were getting ready to deploy to Desert Shield\Storm a large electronic store in the Tidewater area went out of business and cleared things out at 80%. I managed to snag a large TV and a NES system. I put it in the Engineering Log room on the Aircraft carrier USS America.

Daddy what did you do during the war? Well ran half the Engineering main spaces, played fire marshal every 6 days, stood Engineering Officer of the Watch. And played Super Mario but mainly Duck Hunt. I tried more than once to shoot that damn dog when he laughed at me when I missed a duck.

After the war took it home and my sons took to it like a duck to water. And all the usual games. They were pretty young at the time but as they got older moved to the first person shooter games. When the 3DFX video card came out it was expensive putting them in 3 boxes.

But before that stage at least in my mind I can still see

I was in Japan when Space Invaders first came out and spent a lot of yen playing it must have been 78. It hit the States about a month after I got back Stateside so I had a head start over everyone else. Didn't take long for most to catch up to me and I was back on the Foosball table more times than not.

Great story! Before any type of home e-games, and Pong (you kids out there will have to look this one up...) was just just coming out in arcades in those huge stand up boxes, I was into pinball for a while, or at least till my quarters lasted.

Boy... The white rabbit has really taken this thread down a bunny hole.
What was the original topic again???

 

[Cold Iron]

Great story! Before any type of home e-games, and Pong (you kids out there will have to look this one up...) was just just coming out in arcades in those huge stand up boxes, I was into pinball for a while, or at least till my quarters lasted.

Boy... The white rabbit has really taken this thread down a bunny hole.
What was the original topic again???

It is supposed to be a maze of rabbit holes so no TILT. Working as designed.

The OP topic is the B.S. and shoot the s*** thread. AKA the Engineer's Junk Drawer in some places.

Leaving in a few to go shoot sporting clays with some retired friends. No white rabbits, probably a couple pink ones and of course orange and black, but will be some rabid rabbits on the course. Including one that the bunnies hit a half folded trampoline on the way out and take some really wicked bounces in the air. Or not, each one is different and unpredictable. Always a good time no matter what score I end up with.

 

[r2m]

It is supposed to be a maze of rabbit holes so no TILT. Working as designed.

The OP topic is the B.S. and shoot the s*** thread. AKA the Engineer's Junk Drawer in some places.

Leaving in a few to go shoot sporting clays with some retired friends. No white rabbits, probably a couple pink ones and of course orange and black, but will be some rabid rabbits on the course. Including one that the bunnies hit a half folded trampoline on the way out and take some really wicked bounces in the air. Or not, each one is different and unpredictable. Always a good time no matter what score I end up with.

Boy, haven't shot clays, since.... I think the last time was on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton with some friends from church quite a few years ago.
Enjoy your selves! Remember to remove all the pellets before cooking those clay pigeons, don't wanna chip a tooth!

 

[Acrad]