I make a metaphor for anyone to use in either daily life(hint: it exposes Rationalwiki(speaking of this, we can't talk about SJWs here besides their way of thinking) people belief sets(we're also not talking about (actual) Religious beliefs here) and their views of the world): "you have better chance to survive staring contest against Darkseid Omega beams, Successfully pet the Tyranid, defeats Ground or Rock Pokemons as a Pikachu, flawlessly win boss battle against FF8!Omega Weapon, survive Left 4 Dead's Zombie Apocalypse as Bubble Boy, and so on than to convince them that their beliefs has any holes as anyone else's"
This guy is one of the few people who makes lists like this and actually delivers well researched and interesting content rather then resorting to clickbait. Good on you Larry.
Guess you missed the thumbnail for this video. I was actually coming to see what problems the system has when it comes to rottening away. Your analyzis of this video is therefor utter garbage. Its clickbait and i got taken for a ride!
Snap And Clap And Tap Are you actually saying that the thumbnail was chosen by accident? You are implying a staggering level of incompetence on the part of the video creator. OR it was an unpleasant manipulation of SNES owners by use of clickbait. It's one or the other.
Maybe for private use, but my driving instructor actually used a CD-i for the theory lessions, together with a barcode scanner to jump between different parts using a big poster with barcodes and images on it if needed.
Oh yeah, it is really interesting to hear about the ways the CD-i was used for professional things like that and shops, even long after it had been discontinued as a games console
6:40 That actually explains why AVGN had difficulties reviewing the CD-i in his show. He mentions in the beginning that he had to purchase three before he found one that works.
@@Tornado1994 If the Wikipedia page for it is anything to go by, the reason his wasn't working was probably because the CD was slightly scratched or smudged. They have more space than an ordinary CD but the genius way they did that was just to cut most of the error correction measures.
@@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780 From what I've read part of the problem with the jaguar cd is that you aren't supposed to press the cds into the cd spindle and the cd spindle doesn't work if it's pressed down.... Which makes me think quite a few work that people think are busted Either way it's a shitty design
Unfortunately nothing lasts forever. But this is why emulation is great and important, preservation of games especially when the original hardware is all but long gone and non-functioning of course. I'm glad for it because of that. Only will become more and more important and valuable. This is just one reason.
Yes but I mean more hardware than something like SEGA Channel hahaha. I know you only said that because its the logo for the avatar I am using... but yeah that would apply for this too.
The sad thing is that OG Xbox is still unemulated, the consoles are dying pretty fast (compared to the simpler PS2 and GameCube). About 50% of the game are playable on the Xbox 3760, but, alas, even those are being discontinued.
More difficult, how it is with the more recent the system and hardware is, more complex and such. Emulation takes time as it is of course in general to improve, but even longer for ones like that. Just how it is though, I say at least it works as well as it does for as much as it does at this point. The massive amount of arcade games and DOS as well alone is a great thing preserved to consider. I agree though, it is a shame.
You've never played a Neo Geo. The arcade machines were designed to use cartridges so you could switch out the games occasionally, which weighed about 5 lbs. When they decided to make a home console, they literally just took the arcade machine and put it in a smaller case.
Might couldve called them game devices in the title but yeah calling them consoles does make me more excited to click. Still I click on all new Larry uploads :p
@@anonsyndro544 one of those what? People who actually care about the preservation of games that you're never going to see in your life anyway? When was the last time you owned a legitimate copy of little samson? Or how about a golden cartridge of Nintendo championship? "One of those"...puh.
But "RIP in peace" is a joke... Anyway I'm off to enter my personal PIN number for identification into the automatic ATM machine for some cash money notes.
ZefVolk Alden a suicide battery a battery that backs up some dram which contains decryption routines in the for of keys or tables used to read back encrypted eproms were games data is stored. Used in arcade games to protect against bootlegs. Quite successful too it was years till most of these were cracked.
Good way to enforce obsolescence too. Don't wana buy that new machine because your old ones still bring people in? Oops, battery died, and now its bricked.
I've never heard of it on the Phillips CD-I, but Capcom's CPS 1 & 2 arcade hardware was infamous for committing suicide. For the life of me, I can't understand how anyone thought that was a good idea. If you're a long time arcade goer, you've probably seen at least one CPS game (such as Street Fighter 2) with seriously glitched out graphics. This wasn't a glitch. It meant the "suicide battery" needed to be replaced.
@@craftergamer9058 Emulators and roms are different. Sharing emulators is legal. As of roms... Come on, for every website Nintendo take down 10 more appear, this is a war Nintendo will likely never win.
You think that's bad? Look at urban exploration videos to see just how many great buildings and, quite often, stuff in those buildings, are left to waste away. You'd be shocked how much is left behind. It's really quite sad.
Good thing you aren't a computer collector, possibly the worst hobby one could ever get into. There are so many things that make the hobby the most depressing thing ever I don't even know where to begin. You've got the millions of hardware and software getting destroyed each year, the complex circuits that are extremely hard to troubleshoot, the large surface mount integrated circuits that only professional experts can replace, that is if they can even find the unobtainium part, when an old hard drive dies you know it's never gonna live again (impossible to repair, maybe unless you invest thousands of dollars), floppy disks that get naturally erased, successfully wiping games, programs and drivers that have never been preserved from existence, batteries that leak and eat the boards away, extinct software rendering hardware useless, extinct hardware rendering software useless, ROMs loosing their data making the hardware useless, *nobody* cares about dumping the contents of custom PAL and GALs due to the extremely difficult and complicated process involved, and more. Of course all of these could also apply to old video games, but the difference is that video games have a huge following, while literally no one gives a fuck about old PCs. No one cares about dumping the BIOS of an Olivetti M380-40 computer or replicating its proprietary memory controller unit, heck no one even *knows* what an Olivetti M380-40 is. I wouldn't be surprised if in 25-30 years no old PCs will still be functional except for maybe a few common and popular ones. Maybe. There is also history getting intentionally destroyed, just look at the massive damage stupid wars and ISIS have done to beautiful archaeological sites of huge significance in Syria and Iraq.
It really is.. especially since i'm all about historical preservation and am quite fond of old consoles and all their little individual quirks.(i will be VERY sad the day my dreamcast no longer hellishly shrieks to life)
Doesn't the OG XBOX need the clock battery thing taken out so that it doesn't leak and break the console? I haven't got any probs, so might not be an eventuality.
***** I probably heard it on a console overview video, Koralik or Metal Jesus maybe. I just really remember the leaking onto parts inside was the fault and it's a straight forward removal.
Every model from 1.0 to 1.5 has a bad clock capacitor, yes. It's easy to take out though; just open up the system and wiggle it off. You can solder in a CR2302 terminal if you care enough to do so but the system will run just fine without any time keeper.
The original Xbox also had some power supply QC problems. May not be strictly speaking rotting away, but some makes tend to fail sooner than others (the "Tuscany" ones seem to be problematic, at least in my experience, and the "Delta" ones seem to be better.) At any rate, thankfully they are easy to replace. The Sega 32X also had some QC problems, with the ribbon cables/connections inside eventually cracking from thermal and physical stress. (Again technically may not be rotting away.) More than half of them I find in the wild are DOA unfortunately.
Eh. At least you can respray them with the temp spray stuff used for car rims to change the color without damaging the rim when you are tired with it and want to remove it. Not exactly the same exact feel but it does the job and you can play with different colors!
Or better yet, why didn't Sega at least put a heatsink on the chips? Those don't take long to create. Just copy the size of the chip's die on to a chunk of aluminum and give it fins and a way to attach to the chip. There. Done.
Don't know about that but mineral oil is a thing that works so that might be a possibility. People use it to cool off motherboards by having them completely submerged, they're fairly cool and don't conduct electricity so that's a possible option.
Plus if you spill any of it, then it becomes nightmare of a mess. I do side work from time to time doing computer/electronics repair out of the workshop in my back yard, and I once had a friend of the family who's a lawyer, and wanted a custom computer for his office as a show piece come to me, and I suggested a mineral oil build inside of a fish tank with a tropical theme, and this was during the AMD Athalon II X4 days, so it was a simple build of putting the parts in the tank, then taking it too his office, setting it up on his desk, and filling it with the 20 gallons of mineral oil. then plugging everything in. All was good, and gravy till the about a month later his wife stumbles into his office drunk as all hell in the middle of the night because she was too embarrassed to go home, and his office was closer to the bar she had been at, and so the long and short is she knocks the fish tank filled with the 20 gallons of mineral oil over, gets it all over the carpet, ruins the entire build, ending up costing him not only new computer build, but a new desk, carpet, chairs, bookcase, etc.. because it was all such a mess for Service Master to come in, and try to clean up. So that's the story of my first, last, and only mineral oil PC build.
@@Larry At the time people were going on about "multimedia" as being a thing in itself, that people would surely want in their homes. Your own encyclopaedia, but with horrible grainy video and skipping! Much better than those bulky paper encyclopaedias you also didn't buy! Companies thought we'd buy anything with a CD-ROM drive in it. Because CD could hold way more data than anything at the time, it was seen as revolutionary. It sort-of was, but that doesn't mean people want to own one. It has to have an actual use, but nobody could think of one, so they just built the stuff anyway and decided people could figure out a use once they'd bought them. And they were eye-wateringly expensive! And horribly underpowered, enough for the crappest video you could imagine. Unless you bought an MPEG add-on that cost another shitload and allowed 320x200 low-quality MPEG-1 video. One or two films came out on MPEG disc. I had a James Bond one and the picture wasn't bad (though spread over 2 discs) but it wasn't great either. Better than VHS but not significantly so. So yup. CDs with essentially infinite storage. But video without the horribly expensive MPEG add-on was limited to quarter-screen, Sega Mega-CD style, think Night Trap. Grainy terrible picture. Not enough CPU power or RAM for 3D or impressive 2D. An Atari ST or Amiga would have better games, and many more of them, for a lot less money. Apart from games, what else is there? What have people ever bought a box like that for? You couldn't watch films on it. So what is there, "edutainment"?! 5 minutes thought ought to have informed them that the thing would have no demand. Outside of perhaps museums. Too expensive and limited for schools, and they'd be better off getting a PC with a CD-ROM drive. Actually museums would be no good either, having a custom CD made in those days cost tens of thousands. The case was, somebody realised you could put computer data on a CD, so companies started making devices even with no aim in mind. Years before computers were powerful enough to do anything with them. The 3D0 might have been a start, although it was just a bit too early and underpowered, and didn't have the weight of Sony to force it to succeed regardless. CD-i though deserved to fail, and couldn't have done anything but. It was a box of nothing with a CD drive attached.
A year late reply, but I just want to straighten out the missfacts. The Gameboy display is the usual Liquid Crystal Display as in any other LCD screen, therefore the display doesnt have "ink" in it, but actual liquid crystals which change their alignment whenever electricity is fed to it. Therefore depending on the amount of current fed, they have varying modes of translucency, letting through light(white pixel) or blocking/absorbing light(darker pixel). The "rotting" Larry is talking about seems like bit of scaremongering. The examples of "ink" puddling or creating spots sounds more like the consoles having been mishandled and gotten physical impacts that have damaged the screen.
@@wryyyy "sounds more like the consoles having been mishandled and gotten physical impacts that have damaged the screen." yeah, no. That particular Gameboy at 2:38 belongs to me (Larry pulled the pic off Google Images, which indexed it from my post on NintendoAge years back). I've practically babied that thing and the screen just started to rot out of nowhere, thus me posting "wtf is this shit". It's actually gotten worse since then, with the rotting spreading to cover about 1/4 the entire screen. Funny thing is, it's not the crystals themselves going bad as you can still see them working underneath the blotches when you fiddle around with the viewing angle. From what I can tell, it's something in between the multiple layers of the LCD sandwich. Most of the ones at 2:26 aren't actually rot, those are from the solder joints of the LCD's ribbon cable going to shit over time. Easy fix, but a 90% near inevitable one unfortunately.
LCD rot is a known thing, particularly in the earliest LCDs, though who knows if they've improved it in more modern ones? Collectors of early digital watches can be plagued by it. It is possible to have custom LCDs made. For a watch-type display it doesn't even have to be very expensive. Something higher-res though it likely to cost more. I can't tell you how much exactly, though there are factories out there who will do it for you, for a minimum order and maybe some tooling money. I'm sure whatever freaky shit Nintendo put in the yellow / green LCD of the Gameboy (were they trying to get some sort of colour range in? Earlier LCDs had managed black, as well as blue, on silver), could be found again, and used with LCD glass patterned using modern techniques, to recreate it. Might even be possible to create longer-lived LCD screens. There was no incentive for Nintendo to do so, back then.
And I thought Nintendo products were practically indestructible. Hell, I saw that Gameboy that survived a bombing raid in person. And here I learn they're being brought down by mold of all things.
I thought this too until the shoulder buttons on my original 3DS decided to stop working, and then the rubber padding on the the Circle Pad decided to disintegrate
@@otaking3582 I'm having the same issues on my 3DS. I was hoping it wasn't a common problem. All my favorite games make heavy use of the shoulder buttons!
Actually, the first YTP was of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, and that’s not even counting the fact that every game on the CD-I that was used for YTPs are bootlegs.
It's not that emulation is a bad thing, it's the fact that the industry doesn't officially endorse it when quite clearly it should. But I've felt for a long time the games industry doesn't revere its own heritage to anywhere near the extent that it should.
It's true, you will rarely see top ten lists of genres of any kind mention things past a certain generation of systems. Gaming journalism is a fucking joke, and you just straight up won't see coverage of most games past the first month, and most classics only get the birthday article now and then.
V339 The industry only care about heritage as far as using an existing name to market the newest lump of crap. Any more than that might hinder their ability to sell annual copy pastes or utterly blasphemous barely connected 'reboots'
emulation makes my computer fucking slow, hell, my wifi is actually pretty great, I prefer consoles. Though its probably me but my computer can handle old arcade games through early Gamecube game graphics, any higher will slow my computer so much.
V339 do people think emulation is a bad thing? I thought there were people that just adamantly prefer the original console or are against piracy (mostly the latter) but I don't think I've met anyone that doesn't like emulation itself...
About the Model 1, couldn't you just add heatsinks and fans to the board? It doesn't matter if the chips are proprietary, there are many generic heatsinks that can be added to almost any microchip.
Depends on the chip. This happens mostly because the heating up and cooling down cycle causes cracks on the solder joints (specially to lead free solder). Reflow can help, but in old hardware, the chances of killing the chips is really high For example sega hikaru was at its time, an extremely powerful arcade board. But now is rare finding a working board. And if you find a working one. They tend to die during shipping
Speaking of failing Gameboy lcd screens, it is likely due to breakdown of the liquid crystals or organic components in the polarizing filters (can't fix the liquid cystal problem, but replacing polarizing filters isn't too hard). And if all else fails I found a site not too long ago where a guy is selling modern, high contrast lcd replacements for the dmg and pockets for a little over $40.
bennvenn.myshopify.com/products/dmg-3-backlit-lcd-kit Unfortunately looks like they are sold out at the moment but it's a good idea to keep an eye on it if you are interested.
Thanks for the tip, I'll keep an eye waiting for stock. I have 4 Game Boy Pockets, and all of them have the rotting symptoms on the LCD. I really love this console, and it's a shame to have a limited edition one with the screen wasted.
Yeah I know the pain, I got a Gameboy light for real cheap but the lcd looked like it was baked in an oven. Luckily it uses the same lcd as the pocket so I bought a broken pocket just for the lcd and removed the rear reflective layer and now the light looks and works like it was brand new.
Well, my Gameboy Color's still good. I played Pokémon Red on it about a month or so ago, and there was no visual trouble. Is the Color just a different beast or was I just lucky in that regard?
Here's a bonus one for ya! Some game cartridge casings, especially those from the 90s, are made from a type of metallic plastic that decays and becomes increasingly brittle with time. Majora's Mask is probably the most famous one to suffer from this. I've seen pictures of MM cartridges that just straight-up cracked open like eggs.
For the record, it doesn't hit every game cartridge, or even every metallic one. For instance, Ocarina of Time doesn't seem to be susceptible, since it was painted gold rather than made of gold plastic. The determiner seems to be these swirly lines in the plastic, which show that it wasn't mixed quite properly. The easy way to fix it is to pop the cartridge open, take out the innards, and put them in another cartridge casing (search "Majora's Mask broken cartridge imgur" for a good example of it).
darkrage6 Hardly. The damage here is superficial. The game still works. CD's are fsr more vulnerable. Already the number of unreadable playstation 1 disks is quite substantial, to say nothing of the drive mechanism in the device itself. The number of faulty n64 cartridges (as in the game no longer works, not superficial issues with the case) would be tiny compared to the number of unreadable ps1 disks. Cartridges are the more durable option. People have salvaged atari 2600 cartridges that were buried in landfill, crushed with a steamroller, and covered with cement. Though the plastic casing was in horrible condition, quite a few of the games themselves still worked. For longterm preservation, a maskrom based cartridge is vastly superior to a CD...
Sionyn Jones Not particularly. maskrom has a fairly long lifespan. Nothing lasts forever, but the theoretical life of a CD is 100 years, and in practice that's overly optimistic. What you're probably thinking of is modern flash rom, like in solid state hard drives, or SD cards or USB sticks, which has a projected lifespan of just 10-15 years. This is all relative anyway. Mechanical magnetic hard disks are only rated for 5 years, though many last longer. Magnetic floppy disks are rated for about 20 years, though many fail earlier than that. Audio tape and VHS cassettes are rated for 30 years, though being analogue, degredation is gradual, not sudden, like with digital media. The celuloid film movies were filmed on degrades very quickly unless stored very carefully, and anything older than about 50 years is very vulnerable indeed. Maskrom is pretty sturdy by comparison to most of these. CD's have a long theoretical lifespan, of 100 years, but practical experience says this is quite optimistic unless you are extremely careful with them. (and ink based CD-R media is much worse, and I've personally seen them degrade completely in less than 2 years. So watch it if you archived anything on a CD-R) In fact the only thing we are reasonably confident has a long, reliable lifespan (if handled carefully) is paper tape with holes punched in it, which barely stores any data at all, and was obsolete by the 1970's... Digital media is vulnerable media.
"Disc Rot" is mostly scaremongering and isn't nearly as much of a problem as is popularly believed. I'll give you the Dreamcast laser, but those can at least be replaced. It's not easy to do, but they can be replaced.
This si the scariest and saddest video you've ever made. I don't want my consoles to disappear on me one day. :< If I can't play NES when I'm 65, I'm gonna be very sad.
That's exactly it... they will still exist as emulations, but playing them on the original hardware with the original controllers just makes them so much better. I'd hate to see that not be available for some people in the future, everyone deserves to experience the origins of home video gaming.
Everything about the Gizmondo is such a great story, far more interesting than anything you could ever play on it. It's such a glorious train wreck there was talk of making a movie about it. I kinda hope it happens. I am glad it exists for that alone.
Yep, I was fully expecting the Microvision to be on the list. Mind you, it was the only one I actually knew about before watching the video. The Philips CDi spot of incompetence sounds like one of the Microsoft Surface tablets running Windows 8, which was impossible to take apart without breaking anything. The guy responsible for the teardown said something along the lines of Apple's devices are hard to repair out of malice, while the tablet in question was impossible to take apart because Microsoft was incompetent.
Phew, the Mega Drive and Game Gear weren't on this list. I'll breathe a sigh of relief (until you do a follow-up and tell me I'm screwed ;) ). Great video as always. :D
On the other side of that console race however, the yellowing plastic SNES consoles (not all of them have this problem) have began to crack, well only the plastic shell. One day the shells will basically wilt, and someone's gonna make a crap ton of money making new shells.
@@starsiegeplayer that the exact thing i thought when he mentioned overheating chips there are adhesive heatsinks now for things like Raspberry PI's and i believe also mini fans to go with them, that should do the job for those arcade machines
@@DragoSmash Yup yup. Years ago my 3DFX Voodoo2 cards began to overheat and crash. 3DFX sold them without heat sinks and the chips and memory ran really hot, and heat and heat tolerance only get worse as chips age. Bought a simple set of adhesive heatsinks and it made a world of difference.
Hmm true optical based systems like the Sega CD, turbo grafx CD etc have motors, belts, lenses etc that will go out but at leas they can be replaced over time.
Well, depending on where you live, finding these games can also be a pain. As an example, the gamecube (which is not that old) has very difficult to find games. In most second hand retail stores, I only find 10-20 games. Same scenario in online market places. I could still spend a shit load of money to import them but then I come across the region lock nonsense. The whole NTSC-PAL locked consoles. So the best options for me are either getting a first model of the Wii (backwards compatible), mod it and starting dumping games into a flash drive or hard drive. Or I can use emulation which is also very good and saves me the trouble. Older consoles aren't even worth discussing, finding them here is like finding dinosaur bones. You just won't, besides the PS1 because it sold a lot.
I have Sonic06 on ps3 and it works fine to me. I'm talking about how Mighty No. 9 apparently bricked WiiU and when a Phoenix Games killed Caddicarus's PS1... THAT kind of damage.
It's reassuring that most of these issues can be fixed relatively easily. And in the case of the Gizmondo's rubber casing, that could also be reproduced via 3D scanning and printing.
Even more sad news, ps1 owners now have to worry about disk rot, old cds (the format the ps1 used to read games) are now reaching the end of their shelf life and it's hitting hard, i lost my original copy of crash bandicoot and resident evil to disk rot and the worst part, you can't stop it from happening
Disc rot is barely effecting the PS1 right now, especially compared to Sega games. CD, Saturn, and especially Dreamcast games are getting hit like a fucking nuke by disc rot.
I already began to save up some PS1 consoles for spare parts and found some games for my collection. Next thing to do is to find out how can I save up some game discs, that have couple bad scratches.
PS1 has very shoddy quality, not only were the CD ROM masters poorly made with thin one layers, but even worse, the PS1 itself has a CD drive that literally falls apart through time.
Did you think to include the Atari 5200 which partially bombed because of how quickly oxidation builds up in the contacts of the controller, even shortly after launch? This was supposedly one of the factors that contributed to the Video Game Crash of '83 despite it being a perfect storm that consisted of many other factors as well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xdVkoN4gAqs.html
Glad to be back man. I always look forward to watching your things and was confused when this video popped up on the youtube suggestions page and I hadn't seen it. Hopefully, other people will find their way back here.
Yeah, I'm wishing I treated mine better. Parents bought it, I really enjoyed it, but I never put anything on the finish that as you should know, can be scratched by basically nothing. I wish I put a skin or a case or something on at least the system, but the gamepad probably also needed a screen protector :/
@@KnakuanaRka the capacitors were shit so if you bought one nowadays and the screen is messed up or not working. The most likely problem is that the capacitors have died and need replacing There actually is a guy that replaces thes caps and does other repairs. he is retro hacks
I was worried the gamecube was gonna be on here. Though mine is still tickety-boo, I've heard *tons* of people say that the disk-reading laser has an insanely short life expectancy, so while the console is still otherwise functional, you can't play games on it unless you somehow replace the laser.
Bacxaber, tons of people? I've never seen it happening, and I've seen some seriously beat up cubes too. However it can happen if you mod it to play regular sized DVDs, since those are much bigger and heavier.
Bruno Novello I wouldn't worry about it. GC uses (mini)DVDs which are less likely to rot than CDs. As long as you keep good care of your discs of course.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Gamecube was like the second most unreliable piece of trash console ever made. Geez they suck fucking hard. I heard the reason they break is each time you insert a disc, and each time you push the center of the spindle to eject it (the "official" method of doing it by the way) it wears out the whole assembly and knocks it out of alignment. I'm pretty sure they aren't *the* most unreliable console ever made though because while I never had one I heard the original Xbox 360s were like actually the worst things ever.
VideoTape, Where did you hear that, since I have a hard time believing it. In my experience, the GameCube is a very durable console, more so than the PS2 and original XBox even. The 360 had a lot of stupid design choices making it more likely to fail. My launch model still works fine though.
The SEGA Model 1 arcade boards, Microvision and original GameBoy are significant enough to be preserved. The other machines on this list are just rare junk that didn't sell well.
Well to be fair, the way people realize these things have serious heating problems is AFTER they cook themselves to death. Too late to add fans then. Those that haven't failed, have already suffered about a decade or 2 of heating damage, so its just a matter of time.
@@Bladethird Gluing heat sinks onto chips in retro consoles is actually not an uncommon thing... For example, It's a really big and major thing for Commodore 64 owners to do these days. They put heat sinks on about half the chips to stop them from cooking themselves. While we're at it, C64s also have the "cheap poorly designed power supply of death" issue aswell. Your machine's dead when the PSU goes bad and decides to put 9.2 volts over the 5 volt rail.
@@Bladethird Yeah. Sadly, retro computers/PCs and their fandom is much more niche and not well known. There's a lot of good tricks they've learned that should really be spread to the wider retro community. They've gotten quite adept at repairing motherboards after serious damage due to the rarity and value of these things. Such talented reverse engineering on the fly, you really have to see it to believe it. On another subject to look out for, old computers like the original Macintosh have batteries in them that can leak and corrode half the motherboard, it's really messy and horrible to deal with, but they manage.
Any CD based consoles like the PS1 PS2, Gamecube, Wii, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, 3DO, Philips CDI, etc. that have failing lasers. 386 or 486 PCs with the leaking NiCad batteries late 80s early 90s macintoshes with leaky SMD capacitors the original Xbox with a leaky clock capacitor Commodore 64s with the failing PLA chips PS3 having the YLOD and XBOX 360 having the RROD
At least a capacitor or battery can be replaced, preferably before it does damage. Laser's a far more involved process, but doable. That said, ya might as well try to find some kind of SD card or hard drive mod for those systems, because even if you can fix the disc drive, your discs are gonna suffer scratches and issues with the materials the data is actually stored directly onto failing.
Glad we have emulators so that the games can still be played even when the hardware dies, but with the popular and well loved ones it's great that people are making thing to help fix them or keep them working. With the SEGA model 1 I you could add a heatsink and a fan to the processors so the the board runs cool
nuk3townusa Safeway was a grocery store in the UK too. Might have been the same company - probably was. Either way, a rival chain called Morrisons bought them out, and all the Safeways were rebranded. So there haven't been any Safeways in the UK for quite a while now - must have been over 10 years ago.
I knew you would point out the PSU. lol. All GX owners should replace the psu with a quality one or use the Amstrad plus monitors. and Hey, that's me with Larry there.... cause I'm ya resident Amstrad loony.
oh man, so I guess I should probably learn how to get into that battery on my CDI. Thanks Larry! I didn't know about this little problem, so it's good people like you that put it in the spotlight.
"Nothing lasts forever" The sudden moment when you realize one day Larry will pass away and you pray he is raising a Jr. Guru Larry to carry on the torch of exposing video game industry shenanigans.
Never heard of moisture causing rot in gameboy screens, but most of the photos you showed of the bad screens had the missing vertical lines caused by the screen's ribbon cable developing a cold solder joint (the lines are soldered directly to the board for some silly reason). Reflowing them fixes the problem.
This video is exactly why you *always* have to do your research and take good care of everything you buy. Every old console is inevitably going to need to be repaired, hell, I recently had to resolder the video port on my Mega Drive and my ColecoVision needs a new power switch.
ASMRWhisperLight. I remember going through a bargin bin and see 3 rich snots come in and got 3 systems and 3 copies of all the games out at the time. I am still enjoying my 2 dollar Star Lancer game today (pc).
