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november 2025
Creating a Direct ScummVM Launcher for Full Throttle on Nintendo Switch

I’ve been replaying Full Throttle, one of the classic ’90s point-and-click adventures. The game runs well through ScummVM on Nintendo Switch, but launching it through the Homebrew Menu each time becomes tedious:Album → Homebrew Menu → ScummVM → select game. I wanted a quicker, cleaner workflow — ideally a forwarder that appears directly on the Switch home screen [read more]

november 2025
Modifying “Reset Parental Controls” for Nintendo Switch (to remove the PIN)

Used Nintendo Switch systems often come with a parental-control PIN still enabled. There are homebrew utilities that reveal this PIN, but compatibility varies between firmware versions and older builds don’t always behave as expected. This post documents how I recompiled Reset Parental Controls, why the prebuilt binary didn’t work for me, and how I extended the [read more]

maart 2022
GameCube repair and modding

Update; Please if you want to mod your GameCube use PicoBoot by webhdx. It is cheaper and safer than the old method I used. So I bought this broken console mainly because I have all the Nintendo consoles except the GameCube and this one looked like I couldn’t possibly damage it any further. It did [read more]

augustus 2021
MegaMOD update

I wrote an update for my Mega Drive modchip. I was a little annoyed by the different colors to show what region was set. The reason of a switchless mod is to stay as close to the original as possible, so the LED should be red!I changed it so it will only show the setting [read more]

maart 2021
Nintendo 64 RGB MOD

For some reason, Nintendo decided it was not necessary to provide an RGB output on the Nintendo 64, the only way to connect it was through RF, Composite, and S-video. Luckily there are a couple of modding options including HDMI. [read more]

februari 2021
Running Multiple Minecraft Servers

A question I get asked from time to time is how I run multiple instances of the Minecraft Bedrock server. It is quite easy once you know what tools to use. [read more]