Sega GENESIS / Mega Drive II | Black Screen of DEATH! & Bad Audio! 

I was literally yelling at my computer screen for almost a minute straight: "YOU REFLOWED TWO PINS TOGETHER" lol.

Hi, if you get yourself a cheapish air compressor with a narrow air gun attachment they're invaluable when dealing with electronics. They blow away all the dust/ grime and detruis really easily. It gives you a nice clean area before starting any repair. Definitely worth the investment as cleaning the internals of any console/ computer is done in seconds. Love you vids by the way.

99% Alcohol, microscope reflowing and metal detection... What's not to like? Good job man.

Just recently discovered your channel. I'm loving the content. Your videos are very informative and you're funny with your voiceovers and singing. I did see in you video that you bridged the soldering and said out loud (to myself) that's going to cause an issue lol. Keep up the great content. Still working through your catalog but already subscribed and looking at Patreon

The quality of your videos are excellent, the channel deserves so much more.

After spending the last 15 years only playing the Megadrive on emulators, it shocked me how much slower the real system runs when I bought one last year. I always thought it was a bit of an urban myth that the US version was so much faster but things like sonic are markedly different.

Like I said earlier in other videos, you make it look simple, but you diagnosed the problem very very fast and accurately, and to do that you have to know what you're doing. Nice fix, Captain Bodge! I might have ordered a microscope just like yours. Guess who was my inspiration?... 😁😁😁

Good video Steve, been waiting all week for it, going on RU-vid between classes every day to see if you(or mymatevince) have uploaded anything fun/educational to watch since spending 15 hours on campus some days just suck and I definitely need that break between just to relax and watch these fixes, but I also understand that editing these videos can be an entire project itself and take time too and also that life gets busy, just keep focusing on givingus the same great contentyou usually do and don't worry about rushing for the video. Also I wanted to mention/thank you for having the wii-mote repair video I saw it a while back and I did end up with some broken wii motes and your video made fault finding some of them pretty quick, no way would I have found that fuse 1 on my own to test; I still have a few broken wii motes though that I can't figure out what's wrong with them so I'm gonna give 2 of them a reflow when I get a minute of free time, and there's another wii-mote (with motion plus) that had a smd capacitor explode and it caused a good bit of corrosion damage so that one's gonna be a fun fix, gonna have even more fun finding a replacement smd capacitor for it, but I suppose I can always steal one from the other two wii motes if I can't get them working; I'll probably give you an update as a comment in a future video when I eventually get it done, but for now I think it's gonna be a while since I ran out of space and have no deskspace for my new hot air reflow station

The stop motion was really fun to see. I love the genesis (mega drive). Great video.

Awesome! The speck of stuff has gone! Great repair too BTW.

Nice simple fix. Congrats Steve.

Thank you so much, this helped me fix my own issues with my own Sega Genesis model 1 🤣 All I had to do was clean the back side of the board!

Is that castle of illusion? Great job as always Steve! I really do look forward to your vids coming out mate. Great job on the consoles and the videos in general! #goals!

That must be so satisfying when you get it working. I just got one and it's doing the Same thing so you've helped me on my journey to hopefully fix it. When you did that clean to the board at the end was that just the isopropal alcohol again?

my bet is someone tried to mod it (thats why some of the solder looked reflowed) and shorted it in the process. they don't always have to be hard fixes to be good vids 🙂

excellent video! Decidedly far above average! God bless you and yours!

Great job and Better magic trick with the invisible hand moving the towel..💕💕💕

Nice work. How can I have missed this video?! I´m always looking for "megadrive black screen" "genesis black screen", etc etc. I was utterly excited when I saw you had the copyright message and then a black screen, as that is my exact symptom in my Model 1. Too bad (for me) yours just worked after that reset. I´ll keep an eye on the channel. PS: wow, that was an easily triggerable ocd

Good to see this Mega Drive II fix there Steve very interesting repair and good to see its now working -nice 1 mate 👍

you might consider your videos mediorcre but I find them to be fun and I have learned some things from ya while you yourself were learning! Although there have been a few videos where I knew what the issue was before you did, but that's a bit rare, or maybe you were playing it up for the camera.

That mega games music takes me back

Play so much on this console Sonic and Robocop. Nice fix!

When I first seen this this brother Steve! I thought' oh! here we go again CPU Swap time. You could have done the speed/region mods why you was in there 👍🏻

LOLOL...I do find myself blowing my phone screen every now and again. Thanks for the edutainment!

1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth

You are the man! Would love to see some really challenging work! Videos 1 hour+.

great video can i ask what microscope you use many thanks

Your new found friendship with Dave means the world to me.

nice video and congrats on the fix i wish i do it next. i have a q what psu and av cable did you use on mega drive and where did you get it ? and can you get a Japanese og xbox and convert its psu from 100v to 220-240v or do you have any idea how to do it ?

Nice to see Dave in his Supervisory role Steve.

I love seeing mega drives live to play another day

Another great video. Thanks

Another enjoyable video.glad u saved another one from going in the bin

Nice video Steve. This was an easy one :)

I have a Sega model one that had a black screen. I simply cleaned it and the games themselves and it works just fine now. Clean your consoles/games people. It’s usually that simple.

Got to love the simple fixes :D

Im from Argentina and got a clone last week, it had terrible difficulty to boot up cartidges until it definitely stopped, and now went into black screen of death... im gonna try the reflux thing on the cartidge slot pins. Got nothing to lose rn

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Finally I had time to watch your great videos! Great Fix!

Hey bro ! Thanks for the video ! I have same issue to my sega MD console that sometimes it works sometimes not ! It is always show the sega words at the beginning then turned full black screen ! Any idea how to fix it !?

I don't have any isopropyl alcohol, would methylated spirits work the same for cleaning?

I'd been wondering about the rest of the bottle quietly evaporating while you used the cap,

Wow this is amazing! In my case each time I touch the video cord (Heprkin HDTV Cable ) where it connects to my Sega Genesis 2, the colors on the screen get screwed, or I get the black screen or no sound. Could that be the actual connector port on sega genesis?

Cor blimey mate if people with OCD could see my workshop thay would pull there eyes out for sure :-) . thanks.

I've got 2 I'm hoping to fix soon. I really hope it's the cartridge reader because I'm not hot with a soldering iron (yet).

Please state what microscope set up you have, it's fantastic

What if I have pic but no sound? Is it a cap or a resister some where I need to check? Maybe the connection in back?

I remember opening a Mega Drive 2 a few years ago and found that there was a spider's web inside it. A spider was living in it at some point and it still worked.

It’s weird not seeing Dave in his epoxy bubble

OMG you are a master ❤

Wow externally it seems as new without any scratches.

I just found my mega drive 2 and original leads and controller in mums attic will it work I found out soon ??

have you considered getting a hobbyist air compressor and like an airbrush or something? when I want to quickly and fairly deeply clean electronics I use my airbrush and it blasts everything except THE most stubborn junk away. Just getting into your vids they are great.

What do you use for connecting to a TV without composite?

Hello, I wanted to ask you the name of your test monitor? I always see a fantastic picture on your old consoles. What resolution does it support? Greetings from Germany ;)

Hi watched this , got 2 Sega mega drives I’ve set 1 up works good , but the other one plays black and white picture only …and only changed console No wires . Any clues please

Nice one 👍

Just bought sega 2 and not working 4k tv bought adapter for the yellow and red plug still not working any other tips you could help me with to get working

i know this vid is a year old but i think putting this here is the only place to make you catch it and understand what im talking about lol.... to clean a cart slot here is the most effective method... get an old cartridge junk one pull the board out of it and use some 2 micron lapping film wrap around the cartridge pins soak in 99% iso and put in and out repeatedly .. bingo the 10000 grit of the lapping films knocks off the corrosion and does not affect the slot pins! .. keep up the good work!

This fix was hard to find. Good job! Now you can play Mickey Mouse!

Nice fix Steve, but you have got to start listening to me when I am shouting at the screen "THERE'S A SHORT"

I have the same issue on a Genesis mk-1631, any tips (no game in the slot)

That dirty board needed a bath in an ultrasonic cleaner.

Your funny dude you do make me giggle peace bro

Nice one. I like working on these Megadrives, really easy to take apart and there's no ribbon cables! Can you tell me the model no. of the monitor you're using for testing please?

I have the same issue with my N64. I wonder if this will fix it.....?

congrats mega drive uncle

8:20 this might leave your room a funny smell

I loves a bit of Streets of Rage I do.

5:06 there is a bridge on bottom row

Hey. I have a question. I tried to do a 50/60hz mod like 10 years ago on a snes console. I was inexperienced and screwed it up. I bridged 3 pins and then in my panic (mega idiot) turned it on and of course it didn't work. I tried to desperately remove the solder but made it slightly worse (might have bent a pin a little bit), I didn't have the right equipement and only did some soldering before my attempt (not sure why I thought this was a good idea lol). Could I still save my SNES or is it a goner? I would've linked a pic, but youtube really doesn't like linking. It is on S-PPU2 chip, pin 30-28.

why is there a wire making a bridge in this megadrive ? strange, but i still have my problem with mine, anyway

Is that liquid you put at 5:00 heating soldering wire or what is called that ?

Oooh! A Mark 2 has bad audio, well ....we all know that. Easy to knack up the video out port & the Mark 2 hasn't got the audio chip that is in the Mark 1, it's a more crappier cheaper chip, my least favorite Mega Drive is the Mark 2!😅

Just like my grandpa, his cold joints need a bit of a soldering 😂

5:05 😅That short.

2/3 of issues is caused by internal video encoder, just install a RGB bypass, this solve the issue

at 5:05 you seem to have soldered 2 of them together!

It's weird seeing Dave outside his resin home.

You should know all you needed to do was blow on the cartridge slot, always worked lol

I just realized that the system is called Mega Drive outside of the US.... Hearing it called Mega Drive instead of Sega Genesis feels strange to me.

Can you clean a board in dipping it in IPA and let it dry.

If you stroke it on the upper left side & say i love you! It will regenerate and start working again, i have been in the business field to long not to know!

Well done! After all that hard work you deserve a big bag of pork scratchings and a pint of cloudy scrumpy.

You should have “almost” removed the crud from your microscope! It would have made me feel very satisfied

My OCD is this…. Dave was looking a little pesky today. Maybe spruce him up a bit for the next video? Take him out for a beer maybe? Other than that…. I’m glad Billy is happy now….

Call it Jeff. Jeff Bridges.

Before Dave ended up like Han Solo

Easy peasy :)

I used to own this awesome game console... But when I was 13 years old, I made a HUGE mistake: I sold it :(

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You would of saved way more time if you'd just blown in the cartridge..

Gooby pls

Maybe invest in an air compressor. Or at least a can of compressed air

Why not just buy a cleaning cartridge

"stupid piece of metal"

You don't clean with ipa, it is for flushing the cleaning fluid out. Ipa is good for sterilisation not cleaning

And the stupid game???

The problem is you in the wrong region...lol.

Shave that beard off, no real reason, or have an isopropyl beverage n coke