Has anyone got their resistorfixed PowerPak..

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:31 pm

Hey, got my PowerPak. Surprisingly enough, no fix. Got to test it with my top-loader so far, where I could see many sprite glitches. I'm sure not sending it back, though.

Bought a few resistors today, so I'll probably attempt to perform the fix later tonight. I do not know much (nothing!) about resistors, but the ones I bought had brown-black-brown stripes, which I verified to mean 100 ohms, but I do not know what the 4th, golden stripe is exactly. Can anyone tell me if those will work fine? Thanks!

coinheaven · Post by **coinheaven** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:39 pm

got back my fixed power pak today, works great!

slick0 · Post by **slick0** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:36 pm

tokumaru: think of it this way:

brown=1, black=0, brown=multiple of 10, gold=5% tolerance (meaning it can be a 95 ohm resistor, and they'll sell it as 100 ohm)

you got the right ones! have fun doing the fix

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:03 pm

slick0 wrote:you got the right ones! have fun doing the fix

Thanks a lot! If I'm going to bust my PowerPak open and try my luck, I'd better at least have the right resistors! I've done soldering for devcarts and such before, so I guess I'll be OK. =)

Sorry for getting a bit off-topic here! =)

srgilbert · Post by **srgilbert** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:28 pm

srgilbert wrote:Looks like mine has been hung up at BB's post office since 7/2, I didn't think about him being on vacation! Hope he can get it before they ship it back to me, $8 one way was bad enough!

Looks like he recieved mine yesterday, that's a relief!

scooby105 · Post by **scooby105** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:15 pm

mine came back in the mail yesterday. the fix worked great and looks nice too.

oRBIT2002 · Post by **oRBIT2002** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:53 am

Still waiting for mine..

Hey bunnyboy! I really love your work, the PowerPak and your other stuff is really cool stuff and is probably better than sex for us NES-nerds(?)

However, I do have a wish!
How about start replying e-mail/pm's? I guess it would be nice for people to know status of their shipments etc. Or even better, send out an e-mail when shipping the PowerPak, or the resistorfixed PowerPak. It won't take more than a few seconds. I don't even know if you have got my PowerPak for fixing (I can't trace packages outside Sweden sadly) as I sent a few weeks back and you don't answer my pm's. Perhaps you've got a good reason but it's kind of frustrating to be a customer when you don't get any feedback for your questions.

bunnyboy · Post by **bunnyboy** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:35 am

Thats the hard question when theres only one person, answering emails means time not building products

I now spend approx 1 hour per day replying and adding status replies would make that around 2 hours a day. Yes I get too many emails, and most of it is already in the FAQ! Need to outsource to India call center....

EVERY package leaving here gets a confirmation number and an email sent to the buyer. The PayPal and USPS emails are sent automatically, and gives all the status (order received, order shipped) without me having to spend time on it. Whether people actually receive those emails is a different question

I don't usually answer PMs just because the website/browser can't seem to keep me logged in. Most likely to get a fast answer is AIM or IRC and I try not to give copy/paste answers there.

oRBIT2002 · Post by **oRBIT2002** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:28 am

bunnyboy wrote:Thats the hard question when theres only one person, answering emails means time not building products I now spend approx 1 hour per day replying and adding status replies would make that around 2 hours a day. Yes I get too many emails, and most of it is already in the FAQ! Need to outsource to India call center....

EVERY package leaving here gets a confirmation number and an email sent to the buyer. The PayPal and USPS emails are sent automatically, and gives all the status (order received, order shipped) without me having to spend time on it. Whether people actually receive those emails is a different question

I don't usually answer PMs just because the website/browser can't seem to keep me logged in. Most likely to get a fast answer is AIM or IRC and I try not to give copy/paste answers there.

Wow an answer.

I didn't get an e-mail the first time I got the package. I'm just curious if you've got my PowerPak for resistorfixing or If I should start to worry...? It's really crap since I can't track packages outside Sweden.

dvdmth · Post by **dvdmth** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:11 am

bunnyboy wrote:I don't usually answer PMs just because the website/browser can't seem to keep me logged in.

Odd... I never had that problem, even when writing up a complex reply. Of course, I do have it set up to log me in automatically on this computer - maybe that makes a difference?

srgilbert · Post by **srgilbert** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:19 pm

Hooray! I got my fixed Powerpak today (Saturday)! Thanks for the quick turn time Bunnyboy, I really appreciate it! He got it in the mail on Monday 7/09, fixed it, and I got it back just five days later from CA to Michigan. And it's working great now as far I've been able to test, thanks again!

(See, we customers aren't all an unruly bunch, we just expect everything to be perfect all the time, every time!)

oRBIT2002 · Post by **oRBIT2002** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:51 am

This is insane! Still haven't got mine!

marvelus10 · Post by **marvelus10** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:23 pm

Yeah I havnt received my resistor set yet either.

oRBIT2002 · Post by **oRBIT2002** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:02 am

Got my resistorfixed PowerPak back today! And now games works alot better but the glitches are still there.
I guess the resistorfix removed like 75% of the glitches but they're still quite visible in games that uses many sprites at once (I think I see this pattern anyway).
Games that still has very visible glitches are SMB2 & 3 for example (PAL-versions).

teaguecl · Post by **teaguecl** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:17 pm

Has anyone received a resistor fixed powerpak in the last month? I sent my unit to Bunny via USPS on July 2nd, and delivery confirmation says it arrived on July 4th. I haven't heard anything since, coming up on six weeks waiting. I don't mind waiting, just curious if I'm the only one having a slow response or if it's just a normal backup.