After letting the batteries "settle" after the Nomad was off for a while, the reading rose to 7.65V haha. My multimeter doesn't do testing under load, so I'm sure that would fall off immediately if I turned it back on.
I would assume, based on how other consoles from this era work, that the input voltage is fed through a regulator that outputs 5V. The input range is anything from like 8V all the way up to 11V or more. The power brick I have for this is 10V, but 9V works fine with it, so I assume the battery pack feeds through the same regulator. I wonder if it's possible to mod it with modern parts so it can take more like 7-8V and work fine with 2× 3.7V cells in series.
Update: the minimum voltage the Nomad remains functional at is roughly 7.4V. This seems conveniently like 2× 3.7V Li-Ion cells, but unfortunately that's the nominal voltage. As soon as they start discharging, the Nomad would probably die. The nominal voltage of the battery pack is 9V, and 7.4V is what my multimeter read when the Nomad shut off from low battery.
Does anyone here have a PDP Riffmaster controller for Xbox and is able to check something for me when plugging it into a Linux computer? You'll need to compile some code for the program to check it, and afaik the code only works on Linux right now.
Boost for visibility please.
The dial is labeled "bright" but it definitely does not adjust the light. It adjusts the angle (along the pitch axis) of the viewing cone. I don't really know how it works.
This might be a joke playing on the ghosting on the Nintendo Switch 2, but like...the Nomad's screen is possibly the worst color LCD on any device I've ever used. I have no idea how I played games on this when I was a kid. It straight up has a dial for adjusting the alignment of the viewing angle. It's baffling and I've never seen that on any other device.
Damn...people weren't kidding about that ghosting.
Can't believe they renamed Coq to Rocq
Pokémon Stadium is old enough to rent a car
Want to upset a millennial? Tell them that Super Smash Bros Melee is old enough to drink
