Fixing eBay Junk - Sega CD Model 1 - Part 1 Fixing Drive Belt 

that thing on the side of the cd player, you call a lock mechanism, is actually there to route the cable that goes from the front of the genesis to the back of the cd player out of the way of the cd tray

Per page 3 of the owners manual archive.org/details/sega-cd-users-manual/page/n3 the mysterious "lock" device is actually the "Headphone Cord Catch" to neatly route your headphone or speaker cable down and out of the way. As an aside the Internet Archive is a great place to get the old manuals for these legacy devices and really helps when trying to unravel these little mysteries. Great job as always man KUTGW!

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Hi! I just wanted to say that I love your vids! They actually encouraged me to try and fix some old controllers that were broken and left in my wardrobe for a longer time! Nothing was wrong with them tho! it turned out that the soft cleaning did a job ! It was so satisfying to see them working! When I was a little girl I thought it was impossible to fix them, but here I am, using my childhood controlers again! THANK YOU! Keep uploading your vids, I LOVE watching them! I hope you have a great day!

That side slider is to hold the stereo cable that runs from the Genesis 3.25" headphone jack to the back of the CD unit.

23:51 Wait, they give you a fireball candy with every sale? I'm sold.

Hey! I love your videos man, keep up the amazing work!

Nearly 1am and now I've got to watch this. Its not like I have to get up early 😂

i hope you're fixing the drive belt on the sega cd in order to hone your drive belt skills for that twin famicom

Thx a lot! Few days ago my Sega Mega CD 1 didn't start anymore. I try to repair it.

Seeing you assemble the full tower of power setup(with the model 1 jank) makes me kinda glad I wasn't a sega kid. No shade at any sega kids, but I am not about the 3 power cords for 1 console life.

Luke at Console5 is a legend... Atomic Fireballs are my favorite which helps. :)

I could not get my the try on my Sega CD, I did what you said, turned that wheel with the teeth on it and when I tried to slide the try back it would disengage with the gears so I tried leaving the try extended and let the Sega CD close it but that just made it get stuck open. If I push the tray back in and turn on the power it would get stuck and cause the Sega CD to lock up and not allow me to get to the system settings or memory management. I originally had a problem of the try keep ejecting and staying out even if I had a cartridge in the Genesis so it would not even bring up the Sega CD Screen since having a cartridge in the Genesis just loads the game on the cartridge and by passes the Sega CD.

You can boil the drive belt you took off the system to restore the elasticity. Makes it snap back to the original size.

A fully setup Genesis/Sega CD/32X is a monstrosity, but god damn if Sega didn't make it work. Too bad most of the games for the Sega CD and the 32X were trash. I got a Model 2 Genesis, Model 2 Sega CD, 32X, Game Gear (plus one crap game), all the cables, three controllers (a classic Sega branded 3-button, two wireless six button controllers that didn't really work) for $45 from a local thrift store some years back. Pretty decent deal. Everything worked great, the Sega CD worked like the day it was made.

Entertaining yes, I already know how to but there's always more than one method to do it. Thanks for being here.

Who knew you needed a graduate degree to hook one of these things up? Seriously, how complicated could they make it?

Good job ! But it seems difficult if you dont know what to do. Id certainly broke something trying to do it myself. Thanks for another vid !

1:49 that is for the mixing cable to put in to make it not be in the way of the disc drive when it's opening Also my self wouldn't save games on the battery since sega have a cartridge that saves the games and is required for one of the games to beat it but I probably think you knew that already

This is more useful than going to uni

What if I went from the Genesis 3.5mm stereo port directly to the back of the TV?

Could you do a vid on how to replace dreamcast clock battery please? I'm ordering one and it has that problem so it would be really helpful. Thanks.

Hi Retrorepairs, thanks for all. Have you a link to buy the square belt please? i have an another problem ==> the cd drawer opens and closes by itself, have you ever seen and fixes this problem? thanks

I have a model 2 sega cd but I always like the design of the model 1 sega cd more.

My cd tray keeps opening and never reaches a point where it reads the CD inside. Does this replacement fix this issue?

Hello, I have a question and I would like to see if you can help me !!! I recently bought a Japanese mega cd model 1 and after repairing the disc tray, I connected it to an American sega genesis and it turned on with the Japanese bios but when I put a music cd it did not read it so I would like to know if it is because my sega genesis It is American and it is incompatible by the region ??? or if that does not matter to read music cd I would like you to pass me the calibration levels for that model to calibrate the laser please

I love video like this 😃

I've installed all the parts as required but I'm unsure where to install the gumball. Any ideas?

i got one from vintage stock the genesis works like a champ but the cd wont even power on ... i can fix it but not for the price that i pay. going back to the store tomorrow.

Could I send you a non-working model 1 Sega Genesis to repair?

Sorry I am asking a question on a 4 year old video but why are you getting the TMSS screen on your "high definition graphics" Genesis? I thought those models were "non TMSS"

I hear your dog walking in the background :) Can we see him/her someday?

I have 5 of Sega CD model 1. The tray don't stay closed or others have laser angle prob or etc. How much to fix them? Please reply please help 😥

I always put some grease on gears

cool beans

Man, that Model 1 Genesis is _very_ dusty.

You have to turn up the Genesis Sound!!

:-) great

Starting the teardown >> 14:27

This video helped me order parts I need for my two model one sega CDs. Now to wait for my orders.

First To like this video and comment!

Ironically I’m about to get an American sega cd despite me being in europe

What belt did you use? Looking for a part #

Need mixing cable.

Sony do make piss poor cd drives and lasers, the ps1 and ps2 lasers would die pretty fast.

Couldnt they make it work using less cables? Fuck, why cant the 32X go through the cartridge slot directly instead of have a patch cable?

You never showed a 32X game playing after proper hook up.

Free gumball 😂😂

Do you hang your camera from a string? Why is it ALWAYS swaying?

Sega really made a mistake by making all these add-ons, instead, sega should have used the money to make games that could compete with Nintendo.

that shaky ass box

needs moar dog please

Ah, yes, NOW I remember why Sega doesn't make consoles anymore.

Junk?

Your dog has long nails

Inputs and outputs on the rears 😏

Get rid of the static analog piercing noise next episode

I love your videos, but some are too long. You should make shorter versions where you just say what are you doing, show a few seconds and make more cuts. Try taking examples from other restoration videos like for instance 8-bit guys videos

so complex and unwieldy

You have a nice American/canadian accent. The rest are absolutely terrible.

Sonic CD is trash. Sonic & Knuckles is far edgier