/vr/ - Retro Games

If you plug an AC adapter with greatly insufgicient amperage into a video game system, if it works at all you'll get heinous rolling black bars and buzzing audio.

I recently found out that the Linksys WRT routers I use came with power supplies that are inadequate, especially for custom firmware so my cast off Linksys power supplies are being repurposed as dedicated power supplies for my Famiclones.

They have nicely sized tips and are 12v 850mA which is just about perfect for amply powering solid state (non-CD) retro consoles. The only problem is their positive tip polarity, which I fix just by cutting their wires and splicing them back together in reverse. They have twin wires not double so it's super easy.