A few years ago I repented to God then begged for help, "I was until then an Atheist." I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed.", and what I felt from Jesus when I held him was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of Love every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life, forever. I've had other experiences since, "Several witnessed", one was seeing a bright orb of light pass across my face in the dark, hours before a major surgery the second I gave up in my heart. Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they Love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you Love them. Always have hope, I believe that prayer, following God's laws & Love is the answer, and through that, Truly becoming humble, merciful, welcoming, giving, gentle, respectful and forgiving, To All.
I have one of these, it was worth every penny. Perfect bedside emulation system, does up to Dreamcast games (almost) perfectly. Great job on this one, Stez! For $50 approx. you scored well.
Yea... been saying "Solid" when I try to repair things. What got me curious is at 12:24 it shows a wonky zero resistor touching 2 pads at the same time.
Keep the videos coming, especially those deep dive troubleshooting ones as frustrating as they can be. I’m a beginner in the field and have learned more from your videos than school and my job. You’re doing awesome👍🏻
Hi Steve, love the channel. In the video you said you were going to hold the HDMI port to the board with pliers. You didn't need to do it, but I have a suggestions if you ever do need to use that option. If you have one take an alligator clip and add some heat shrink to the teeth. It will hold the part down without damaging anything.
Judging by the lack of solder it's a safe bet it started to glitch out and someone decided to start hamfisting the HDMI cord until it finally snapped what little connection it had to the board. Good call and good repair!
Quality craftsmanship _does_ exist in China, but it comes down to the individual taking pride in their work, as culturally it's shortcuts and facades that's rewarded. By the point of mass-production that something like this represents, forget it. If it's not contract work for a foreign company that's doing their own QC, it's pure dice-roll, with not the best odds.
I was talking to my screen the whole time, as if you could hear me...but I was saying not to put the wire underneath like a trace. That, and the big dollop of solder mask you put under there lifts the HDMI port up and doesn't allow the pins to sit flush with the board. It's so much easier to put the port on the board first, THEN run a bodge wire on top. Of course I'm commenting before I've watched the whole video 😆 So now I get to find out what happens in the exiting conclusion! Love your stuff. I know how difficult this stuff is, although I haven't done nearly as much tiny SMD stuff as you have.
Your videos are so relatable due to the very familiar oversights. Your reaction to finding that loose trace causing the 'Jeffs' is comic genius. PS if you're stuck for a grip, add an elastic band to some pliers.
Hey Steve, great video as usual. This little thingy runs EmuELEC I think (a Linux Dist.) - it's likely why it takes some time to boot. Patience indeed :). Stay awesome!
A few years ago I repented to God then begged for help, "I was until then an Atheist." I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed.", and what I felt from Jesus when I held him was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of Love every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life, forever. I've had other experiences since, "Several witnessed", one was seeing a bright orb of light pass across my face in the dark, hours before a major surgery the second I gave up in my heart. Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they Love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you Love them. Always have hope, I believe that prayer, following God's laws & Love is the answer, and through that, Truly becoming humble, merciful, welcoming, giving, gentle, respectful and forgiving, To All.
I absolutely love watching your videos and how calm you are when you do things and when you took it apart and noticed the part stuck to the back of it, you just looked with a "sigh" look and still carried on fixing it. I think "Stupid" at the end for that game was definitely appropriate :D
Is it just me, or do portions of the sample music on the rap sound like the old 'Protect and survive' public information films? Awesome video as always Steve. Keep up the good work.
Good fix, having just replaced a micro USB port on a free Bluetooth speaker, I really hate these tiny connectors, especially as not having a hot air system or microscope. I used a Dremel to make a tiny bit for my soldering iron, but still struggled with solder bridges, but got there in the end 😂
A friend of mine showed me a trick which has sorta revolutionized how I do port replacements. Basically what you can do is get a tiny drill (I payed like 5£ for 10 of them - mine are 0.5mm) and use a small dremel/drilling machine to drill a tiny hole in the edger of the "mounting feet" or whatever the correct English translation is. The put a hard piece of steel wire the same thickness as the drill trough the holes when it's mounted on the board. When it's soldered the small piece of wire now keeps everything secured - even if someone rips fairly hard at the port. Have yet to see a port which has been fitted in this way fail.
@12:24 when you turn the board there is a 0 Ohm resistor crocked over what looks like a spot for a transistor. I that from factory because it doesn't look like it flew there from the heat gun (The solder is to "solid"). If it is factory it just looks super weird
It's always so misleading looking at the microscope footage - "that looks like an easy fix" I need to remember that tiny surface mount soldering board you put together and remind myself that I'd never be able to do this without throwing the first four out of the window.
I still never understand why Steve rebuilds the units before testing. The bench mat isn't going to be conductive and the electronics are mostly low voltage items.
Great video, what kind of songs were in the video? The last 2 sounded like 1980s techno music! My mom has the same console, but the problem we have is a lot of the games aren't saving.
I bought one of those consoles a while back- very cheap feeling. Worked fine though although the UI is a pigs breakfast and the controller set up even worse. Gave it to my brother in law and he takes it on holiday with him. So there’s that.
Steve, I will try again to ask you. Can you please share the links for where you bought the flux, solder, solder wick, jump wires and the aluminum tape you are using. Please add the wire thickness and tape width. Thank you.
Always get a kick out of your videos Steve. Now I'm always going to be saying "Time to check for Jeffs.... Bridges". I have a feeling that will be a recurring joke.
I've now got an appreciation of how fiddly a repair with those tiny wires is, my C64 has a damaged trace between ram chips and I tried a tiny wire fix at the weekend. Ended up running a bodge wire lol but I probably wouldn't have tried at all without watching videos like yours. C64 is running fine now! Nice
"Has that left the Factory like that? Surely not". Yep, it did leave the Factory like that. I got a PS3 Controller in XBOX Style (10€ Class), that didn't work. Cause: USB Port not soldered well.
