Getting Started With console REPAIRS/MODS - RETRO GAMING ARTS 

Great video!!! I had a Pikachu N64 that wasnt working last week. Opened it up and dust bunnies were everywhere. I just sprayed it out and it worked good as new. :)

Some of the happiest memories from my childhood were playing Harvest Moon on GameCube with my brother. I ended up with a hard drug addiction and sold all of my games and consoles. Harvest Moon and the Gamecube were hard to get rid of. It's been years and I'm clean now, and I finally felt like it was time to get another. I played for two days before it broke. (Won't power on) I feel like the universe is saying, "Oh nah, dude. You gotta EAAAARN it." I WILL fix this god**** GameCube. My inner child demands it. This video makes it seem very possible and I'm grateful for the encouragement.

My reasons for fixing devices are mainly to make it last as long as it can, 2nd I hate being wasteful and throwing stuff away, 3rd plain and simple it's nice and fun to look at circuitboard it's almost like a city, 4th helping I just love to help paid or not it's just a nice feeling of being helpful. Basically repairing has so many benefits and joy to it.

The main reason I want to get into modding is because my old Wii is sitting in my closet and I want to transform it into an emulation box so I can install GB, GCN, N64, and other retro game collections onto the system.

You were talking about people being helpful in the repair/modding community....you are absolutely correct. Usually in the forums I visit, the youtube channels I sub to, 95% of the time I get numerous responses with suggestions. There are always the trolls in any community, but usually the good guys outnumber them 10-1 or more. You are one of the best at information sharing/being helpful etc... Truly a great channel...Thanks for being a great member of a great community!

this is the sweetest, most welcoming, kind, and non-gatekeepey video ever. so encouraging and like safe. i adore you.

You are not only giving advice about fixing electronics, but also advice about life improvement.

Ive always wanted to learn to fix stuff. But never knew where or how to start. Thank you. This has hyped me up to learn more beyond this point.

My biggest part that gave me the courage to tackle my own smaller problems with retro games is from a channel retrorepairs he said pick up a cheap broken game, console, or anything try to fix it if it doesn’t work no harm done it was already broken.

I just found your channel. You are a man after my own heart! Love the content and your humble perspective. Inspiring!

Love the video intro. Recently something in me sparked my excitement for reliving my childhood memories with my Ps1 and 2 and the n64. I bought a refurbished n64 set up just to get playing. Then I thought jeez I wonder what goes into refurbishing consoles and dude it fired me up to watch all kinds of repair videos. And because I am a automotive tech for a living I am always working with electrical and electronics and software. I have feel in love with that kind of work and I have been trying to learn EEPROM work for automotive ECUs it’s very difficult to remove chips and having to solder jumper wires because just like all new electronics the are smaller and compact. So I figured I love retro consoles and they aren’t as compact as the new stuff try practicing on a $60 console vs a $1200 ECU

Subbed!! Love your philosophy man 👍you seem like a cool dude

You got a good vibe my man, subbed

Thank you so much for your positivity , I can't wait to gain more knowledge from you?

been fixing console for years and year after year i learn more and more from guys like you , much love THANK YOU!!! you got my sub

Liking the philosophy and perspective! Looking forward to starting my console mod/repair journey

Awesome channel been looking for one like this for a while now

Such a lovely video 😊

Loved this video and the overall energy. Keep it up 👍🏿

I’ve only watched for 5 minutes, and I love the way you think bro! Kinda why I’d like to get into this stuff myself!

You know, i was thinking about starting messing around with my old consoles and you’re so inspirational that I’m actually going to do it

Bro’s eyebrows on fleek. I like this dude positive vibes af. Good shit bro you got my support

Excellent retro game perspective/philosophy and great channel. Subscribed!

The best revision of the Annie quote should be: Anything I can do we can do better.

Obviously this is a pretty old video but the passion and love u have for what u do and for the newcomer is palpable. I’ve always tinkered, repaired and now have gotten a bit into modding. I’ve been trying to share that with my nephew, so I’ve been thinking about teaching myself the next step: soldering. We share a love of gaming and I’ve been thinking about getting either an NES or a Genesis to restore with him, so he can experience an older console first hand. Thank u for giving me some confidence in this endeavor. I will definitely be checking out the rest of ur channel

Awesome video and channel dude!

Thank you for making this video my friend, I've been thinking about trying to get into this. Game repair stuff. Very insightful and inspirational. But I honestly thought you were going to having a video of you actually doing the work and showing your work vs talking about it. Lol 😂 other than that. Great video straight up.

New sub....loved your outlook... You know how many times I got in trouble growing up for opening things up just to see the insides and how they worked. At the same time you know how many things I fixed that didn't need to get repurchased..

I want to say thanks. You get it.

This man is rocking that unibrow 😎👍

"Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)" is a show tune composed by Irving Berlin for the 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun 🙂 I subscribed. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Looking forward to learning from you 🙂

Great mindset... It's called acts of kindness.... My 14 year old son is learning this concept..

"anything you can do i can do better" Annie Get Your Gun, super close😂😂

Liked and Subscribed. Thanks bro! I am looking to change careers and am seriously considering this avenue.

Love this, and I wish I could learn, but I have already broken a few, a PS2 and a 3DS XL. Nearly ruined a Dreamcast not realizing it had a less common fan with a cooling plate, nearly tore the board apart trying to get that off. My biggest issue is just ribbons. They break so easy and not always obvious where they go. Just too scary for me, but I have to learn. There are no professionals in my area that do retro repairs.

Whoah man, great vid! I really appreciated your (candidness?) and obvious enthusiasm in seeing others receive new knowledge. This vid spoke to me in a deeper level more than just console repair, which first lured me in... 👍👍 Edit: And hey, I'm looking to buy a non-working Gameboy Advance to diagnose and repair it to full working order as part of finding a new hobby in console and/or electronics repair. That being my venture, can you tell me what tools I would need for disassembly of an Advance and other consoles that I may need? Like, did you buy a toolkit when you first started out, or did you buy your tools individually? I appreciate it!

Hello. Thank you for this video. I was wondering how you would go about diagnosing bad connections on a board and on chips? What sort of tools would be needed?

Got a question when you are fixing consoles when you're taking the screws out should you put them in a bag label and tape it to the part that you took out any question how come the the ribbon cables on the switch they're so hard to put back

Hello! Great video. I've been into gaming for 24 years and just up until now I've started fixing and modding consoles. I really enjoy doing it. I am at the stage where I want to start to reball the ps3 cpu/gpu. I can't afford a huge bga machine. Can you recommend a smaller station to reball that is fairly affordable? A brand name and some possible videos that you learned with? I would really appreciate it. I am a HUGE ps fan. I love fixing, hacking and modding all the consoles. I hope that I can take my expertise to the next level. Also, do you have any advice on how to "marry" different ps3 bluray drives to different units? Do I need to downgrade to 3.55 and enter "service mode" or is there another way? Thanks!! Your videos are awesome. I am an official subscriber. Hope to see more!!

thems some bendy shelves you got back there

I want to start with consolmodding. My question ist what kind of soldering iron is good. I have some for wood but people told me that they will be to hot. Thx for the video. It was very nice

What materials do you need to get started or equipment

Good video. I have a sega genesis and an Xbox 360 that I need to work on. Think that would be an awesome opportunity to get some education!

I’ve been doing console repairs for years now, but I’d like to extend my knowledge base further by actually getting involved in a community that does these things. Are there any discord servers or forums anyone recommends I can get involved with?

I am so dead set on making sure that these consoles dont go extinct or dead for decades to come, that I am making a business out of it. This just ensured that Im gonna do this. Thanks.

I have my old Turbo Grafx 16 system and would like to work on it. What do I need to know? Where to look first? Then fix it.

Looking to mod chip original ps1 and maybe do the Aladdin chip on my 1.6 og xbox. Also change a battery out on my gamecube. What type of flux do you recommend using?

So how do I learn about all that stuff mentioned, grounds, resistors, voltage? When I was young I took a Sega Genesis apart that had been sitting in the rain, and cleaned it with alcohol and Q-tips and it worked. I have been wanting to get more into this as an adult as a way of keeping these things alive and not lost to time, but I don't know anything about all that stuff. I just don't want to fool with something plug it in and burn down my place. Where should I start with learning the motherboard or all that other stuff? Should I learn more about electricity itself?

Does any one have any suggestions for a step down converter for Japanese consoles that use 100 volt 80 wats for America it's 120 volta

Ok so I have a Wii that shows no signal when I plug in tried numerous cords and TV's . I've disassembled but to the eye everything looks good except the drive has some kind of hard black flux covering a bunch of small prongs on two of the chips on the drive any one have any ideas?

I want to start a repair shop because its fun to repair things and I don't like to be bossed around. Fixing is fun and few things are fun.

Does having a tech/electronics degree help so you know what all the parts do?

I just bought a almost perfect condition sega but when I got it, it came with a garbage 3rd party ac and a couple of the controller port pins are missing... I'm interested in soldering but nervous about doing any work on it.

What are some jobs out there that might be able to give me a little experience on repairing/modding game consoles?

I've got a ds lite that I wanted to start working on as my first project with LEDs buttons. Do you know where I could find LEDs for sale and would you say glueing them to the back of the button is a good idea? Also I'm loving these videos, the soldering series explained alot of my questions 😊

I really do have the curiosity of what actually is inside or what is happening inside and i have a habit of opening broken stuff and salvaging stuff and then suddenly i got into repairing electronics but i dont have the knowledge yet

Hello, I have very poor vision (I am legally blind) and I was wondering if you know of any tips/aid for poor vision.

I have a question. We had a bit of a back and forth a while back about installing a modbo 5 in a PS2 and how difficult it is to do. Well, I installed it, cleaned it and got the dust out, and replaced the fuse which had gone bad. As far as I know I installed it correctly and the solder is holding pretty well. The console powers on, disc tray opens and closes with no problems, disc spins and all that, however I'm not getting any audio or video signal from the console. That's also after trying several different power cords and A/V cables. I'm thinking that it may be a botched install. Do you have any tips that may help? I've checked a few forums and haven't found much that's helped out so far. Any help would be appreciated!

The quote is from the Irving Berlin song from _Annie Get Your Gun_ (a play about Annie Oakley); _Annie_ is a play about Little Orphan Annie (which is very different).

Does anyone know of any test carts for Sega genesis & NES ?

I'm apparently two years late with this comment, but "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" is from "Annie Get Your Gun," so it's a completely different Annie. Also, thanks for a good video on how to get started!

I want to learn about circuitry and fixing older stuff, I actually ordered an original Gameboy that doesn't turn on in hopes of fixing. Idk why I love electronics and taking them apart and fixing them. The Gameboy will be the first one Ill try to do myself, my dad usually do this stuff for be like he's gonna solder a new speaker into my Gameboy Color bc it burnt out.

I’m at the point where I am taking stuff apart lol. Modding is next.

What about blurry screen on a fc3

But how did you learn about how consoles or phones work? I can’t find a video that explains the very basics.. don’t even know what cpu means

how to i get to fix my xbox 360 with a redlight

Hi so I always wanted to get into console modding and now I'm trying to get into college. So I would like to know wich career would be the best to start getting into the modding community. any advice is welcome thank you.

I'm still curious about the inner works of my consoles old & new. How could I mod my wii🤓🤓🤓🤓...????

This sounds odd but I want to start fixing gba or gbc because there such beautiful devices

I've always wanted to take look on the inside but been scared

Hiya mate, any capacitors holding voltage in them to be wary of?

I get the why I just don't get the how I always found the concept if console self repair fascinating but I do not have a major in electric/computer engineering let alone a clue of how these electronic parts work The most work I've ever done on electronic repairs is changing a fuse of a power outlet or reattaching a disconnected wire inside a heater But console repair? I just don't know where to start understanding these chip functionalities or the pathways of the motherboard or proper soldering How many books do I have to read to fully understand how electricity works?

It would be cool if there was a class people could pay for just focusing on console repair, soldering for joysticks, etc.

I wish i was that confident but just couldnt take my old consoles apart

Hey, so yeah I grabbed this faulty Xbox 360-e and am looking to fix up the hdmi as when the hdmi is plugged in the light flashes red but otherwise is green troubleshooting says check with av but the e model only has a HDMI output I have some limited soldering experience and have been snooping around here and on RU-vid on info about fixing and rghing it (Snapped some photos when I was repasting the box if anyone wants to see the guts) imgur.com/a/WkdnLg0#1xfww2z so I was wondering what I would need to do in terms of troubleshooting this baby and getting it rghed whilst I'm in there ideally with a clear replacement shell and DVD drive as my end goal so you can see everything im not sure what parts id need i think its a corona v1 but im not 100% any help would be appreciated :D Thanks a lot oh yeah how is this in terms of business viability I would love to do this as a send-in repairs business or something similar ive go limited mobility but stuff like this even when I was a kid id get into trouble for taking stuff apart to look inside

Where could i ask for help on repairs for consoles 🤧

Here’s one better. Anything you can do you can teach me to do better.

2:00 avocation

Yo we should be friends, message me I want in on whatever you got going on bro

ant that from a song

its from anything goes, not annie xD

Is this a troll video? 😂

Hello, I have very poor vision (I am legally blind) and I was wondering if you know of any tips/aid for poor vision.