What are you using to display the image? It sounds like your tv is treating it as interlaced video and trying to deinterlace it. Even though it's not interlaced.

Hold sw1 and sw2 while powering on. Let it go to CD player menu. Then release once it is loaded.

8bitmods is also selling a fake pico. Unfortunately most people sell fake ones because the price is lower and that's what everyone looks at. Doing things the right way is expensive and it becomes a hard sell when people don't understand why one thing is better than another. Most of the time people j...

The only real pico is made by minibox. Those dragoncity pico are fake clones and cause all kinds of issues. The power supply is blamed because that exact power supply has already been proven to cause issues. Removing it and replacing it with an OEM supply fixed the issues for the other people. If yo...

I can tell you right now it will never be moved. Even USB gd-rom moved from rear port to internal.

See the changelog on the most recent firmware or the FAQ post.

The most recent firmware from a week ago included soft reset. It's in the changelog.

Don't put in the hard drive screws? They aren't mandatory. Or just pop the board off the plastic feet. Or don't take the backing paper off.

Mode doesn't have anything to do with the video of your console. The issue is likely a setting in your framemeister. I have used the DC with mode on the framemeister with no issues.

Enable fastboot, soft reset, and boot to mode menu. Then hold abc+start while in game to reboot.