Somebody's Been in This SNES MINI Before...

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I bought this Super Nintendo Classic Mini off of eBay. It was sold as no power and no display.
What horrors lurk inside? And will I be able to FIX it?
Hope you enjoy!
Steve
PS. I'm not an expert in repairs at all. I do this for fun, and it may not be the best or safest way to go about repairing broken stuff. I'm pretty good at melting plastic though. Please don't copy me - I'm an idiot.
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@samwilliamson4715 2 года назад

I appreciate that you still posted this even though it was dead and un repairable - not only is it a good diagnostic lesson but also answers my question about wondering what happens on your channel when you can't fix something - as you could just as easily not uploaded the video. Thanks for sharing 👍

@3lpid3 2 года назад

**SPOILER ALERT** 🤣

@mediatour8898 2 года назад

I thought he didn't post non-fixes, glad to see he does. He should post them all, maybe on a second channel if he thinks it's not worthy content.

@ElcarlosgamE 2 года назад

@@mediatour8898 StezStix Broke 😂 will be good name for this 2nd channel

@SmokeyLove-vt4xd Месяц назад

@@3lpid3 This is a 2 year old comment, and I was literally going to come to say that. Why did it have to be at the top looool

@TheCod3r 2 года назад

Steve I can't believe you laughed at my port replacement. I thought I did a good job 😭

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

😂😂 mate, I've never seen anything like this one. I reckon someone was using a MIG welder on it! 😁

@evelynrodriguez9221 2 года назад

I didn't laugh 😅😂 😂

@lepterfirefall 2 года назад

That's masterful welding...I mean soldering! Better than what I could do though....🤔

@MuscarV2 2 года назад

That you thought you did a good job only makes this worse. This is like cooking something to charcoal and being proud of it thinking you did great. Sorry but this isn't just lack of knowledge and skill, it's pure idiocy.

@TheCod3r 2 года назад

@@MuscarV2 wow you need to send your sense of humour to Stez so he can fix it for you. You're broken dude

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

Haha, that was a good lump of solder on the port. The backstory would be interesting on this one, at least they gave it a go 👍

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

👍 Thanks Vince, you're dead right. I shouldn't laugh really... I was just as bad when I started out! 😁

@narc1408 2 года назад

@@StezStixFix looks stickwelded :)

@a_googIeuser 2 года назад

Yeah m8!

@L3ttuc3 2 года назад

@@StezStixFix That may be the most generous lie I've ever seen told. 😂

@jamiegallagherDOinfo 2 года назад

yeah but they loose any good grace for then going on to sell it on ebay and pretend they don't know whats wrong with it, if i ever buy any faulty stuff on ebay (which i dont really because ebay is full of junk "faulty, maybe easy fix" horrifically botched items), but if i did i always have a quick look at their feedback and see if they have bought any "repair" parts previously, if so you know its either dead because another experienced repairer tried and failed, or 100% dead because some clutz screwed it up way worse than it was already and are now trying to play dumb and pass the turd onto someone else

@JoeyDoesTech 2 года назад

I've seen/done a couple bad port replacements myself, but this... THIS is amazing. Well done on the fault finding bud 😊👌

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Thanks mate, I don't think I've seen one as bad as this! Looks like it was attacked by a welding machine! 😁

@Anthony-qt8wv Год назад

@@StezStixFix Does anyone know what the 2 smd inductors are to the left of the K fuse? I need to replace those. Thanks!

@markharrisllb 2 года назад

I never thought one of your videos would make me feel better about my soldering.

@ches74 2 года назад

Love your work. That was toast but for what it's worth K is a 0.8A fuse so not advisable to replace with a 3. I'd just connect after the fuse and use a current limited bench power supply.

@Tronicsfix 2 года назад

Was that a Colin Furze fake hand at the beginning?

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

😁 Well spotted Steve!

@welshtony1 2 года назад

haha was just about to say it's the Colin Furze hand, you beat me to it haha

@Arjay82 2 года назад

I think this is the first youtube channel I've seen where someone actually uses properly tinned wire when soldering.

@wizdude 2 года назад

You are cruel! 😂

@StephanieLaerkeAndersen 2 года назад

My brother (also a Stephen) is enjoying watching these videos because he used to work for Pace Micro Technology in Shipley in Bradford. My brother perfected and invented many PCB repair techniques in the mid to late 90s, and he loves to see the bad stuff that people attempt.

@bathy85 2 года назад

@JackhammerSiesta 2 года назад

Lived in Shipley when I first moved to Yorkshire, some nice places round there.

@StephanieLaerkeAndersen 2 года назад

@@JackhammerSiesta Yeah, some quite nice places, but Bradford itself is pretty terrible now. I lived there for a few years. So did my brother. I was born in Denmark, but now I live in California in Norfolk!

@ZonicMirage 2 года назад

Oh, that poor thing. At least you gave it a good attempt. The shell still otherwise appears in good shape. Could transfer the innards of a working one with trashed plastic and make a good one out of two. Either that, or use it as a Retro Pie case.

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Thanks Zonic, I'm eyeing up both those options. I think I might go for the Pi option... think it will look pretty smart! 🤩

@ZonicMirage 2 года назад

@@StezStixFix Yes, that's definitely your best bet. Especially considering even a trashed functional unit would be ridiculously expensive for the purpose.

@Gimmi091984 2 года назад

I love your videos, I can't stop giggeling from time to time. You are such an entertaining and kind person, I really enjoy watching you!

@JimNichols 2 года назад

The hand........... Is the hallmark of your channel a fairly decent repair guy that does his own thing and is absolutely insane while doing it... Bravo I love it. Thanks for the time and energy that you put into the compilation, edit and UL of each one of these pearls of Monty Python esque humor gems.

@hardtymz2517 2 года назад

The music used is Tori Amos - Happy Workers (Kevin’s Spliff Mix)

@logothaironsides2942 6 месяцев назад

Cant win every time. Im always amazed at how much can be salvaged from what initially LOOKS like game over.

@starcrashr 2 года назад

1:00 You've missed a great opportunity for a "de-feet-ing" pun.

@WayneCatlin 2 года назад

I did not understand any of this, but found it ridiculously entertaining!!

@OneHundredEnvelopes 8 месяцев назад

Steve! Thank you so much! Not only for the great videos, but for leaving links to the backing music. You are about the only youtuber i watch who does that. Kudos

@MattSmith18125 2 года назад

Why do I enjoy watching you fix video games? I can't explain it. It's absurd. But thanks, love it.

@CTCTraining1 2 года назад

Poor Steve! A valiant effort. Don’t be downhearted, not everything is fixable otherwise there would be no donor devices!

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Thanks Chris, very true! I'm hoping I can do something else with the case, so all is not lost 👍

@gregyotz777 Год назад

@@StezStixFix stick a PI in it and turn it into a MAME game.

@chris-pike 2 года назад

Good to see you attempt to fix this Snes mini there Steve 👍🏻

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Thanks Chris! 👍

@jody19027 2 года назад

My eyes can’t take it anymore! I’ve done some bad ones before but this one takes the cake!

@krowley1986 14 дней назад

Enjoying your videos just found your channel as I have done extensive work in electronics myself. Just wanted to suggest that the pads on the TP4056 board you tried to use for power are input. The B+ and B- are for battery but the direct 5v out are the Out+ and Out- directly beside the B+ and B- just a little hint. Great work though loving it.

@JT-il3fe 2 года назад

Looks like Ray Charles and Hellen Keller had a soldering competition.

@lepterfirefall 2 года назад

My SNES mini has a loose USB socket. It works but you have to wiggle the cable. I wish I could solder. What a skill.

@Null_Experis 2 года назад

That K is indeed a fuse, and it why whoever botched that repair didn't burn his home down. Thank it for doing a good job, and give it a proper sending off.

@DavidJones-vh5py 2 года назад

Your facial expressions are priceless 🤣 keeps me watching and watching and also learning a thing or two or what not to do

@DRChupacabrah 2 года назад

wow, I don't do any kind of electronics repair or anything but I can still tell that is really gnarly

@johnwayne7843 2 года назад

What an efford.... Mad respect

@tsuyunobradley4439 2 года назад

The reason the switch acts like that is because it very likely holds a sleep line to ground on the CPU. It is a modern ARM CPU, and it never truly shuts down with connected power, it just goes to sleep mode.

@jonskitch8082 Год назад

That port replacement messed the entire board! Poor Steve.😢

@IceNein763 2 года назад

My guess is that somebody tried to remove that by intentionally making a solder bridge so that the heat from an iron would flow to all the legs so that they could pull it out at once. Kind of a neat trick if you don't have a heat gun, it works, but this must have been his first try at the technique. Once the part is out you can just wick off all the extra solder on the board.

@LarixusSnydes 2 года назад

Nice one, didn't know that yet, but then again I do have a hot air station.

@ryankl1984 2 года назад

I would wick as I go, that way you dont melt the board and waste time.

@groundcontrol6876 2 года назад

Nahh just looks like a power surge screwed the unit up. They didn't have as good protection back then and even nowadays your electronics can still get fried from bad mains power. My town's been having voltage drops for years now, but I've seen other places that have the opposite and seen completely fried fridges where the plastic on the outlet melted and is black with soot.

@rebel4466 2 года назад

@@groundcontrol6876 "Back then"? That's a SNES mini from 2017. No mains power on there. Clint is pretty much correct on this one.

@groundcontrol6876 2 года назад

@@rebel4466 Ahh didn’t know this thing was recent. I only ever had a PS1 and went on from there. Thanks for the info. 🤙🏽

@EpicureMammon 2 года назад

It was such a mess that I thought someone had just slathered clear silicone glue on the port to keep it from wobbling or something. Wow.

@joehair4220 2 года назад

idk why i watch this but ur show is def. better than most. please adapt play a few games or soemthing just to add dynamic. either wayy cool job yo

@stevehoare7087 Год назад

Don't you just love it when they've tried to solder with a oxy acetylene torch... 😂

@KisoX 2 года назад

I have seen some similar soldering work on a ps4 controller stick. And the owner wondered why it didnt work :D Thankfully that didnt burn the whole thing.

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Thanks KusoX! It amazes me that people try stuff like this without practicing first! I guess it looks easy until you try. I'm pretty sure my first few goes would've come out very similar to this one! 😁

@Arsonist42 2 года назад

clean your iron tip before attempting a joint. use the damp sponge.

@neatt3815 Год назад

Original owner probably had a friend that "could do it for cheaper" 😂

@Dukefazon Месяц назад

0:06 - You've got some pretty hands!

@callumthomas653 2 года назад

They've fitted that socket with a flux core and squints by looks

@dean_c 2 года назад

The hand at 11 seconds in 🤣

@UkdangermanRepairs 2 года назад

What a great channel and a wonderful personality. Great videos, keep up the good work mate 😁👍

@duncanpaton7344 2 года назад

Loving the fake hand, I’m late to the party on your videos, but I’m binge watching, keep up the good work

@shawnbyrd4646 5 месяцев назад

That damn hand scared the hell outta me😂

@electron0002 2 года назад

Time to put a raspberry pi in side the casing

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Great idea, I think that would be awesome! 👍

@hotlavatube 2 года назад

Oof, I'm reminded of Adrian's D.B. when he went to repair a board which looked like someone had used a propane torch to remove a chip and ended up scorching and warping the board.

@hardtymz2517 2 года назад

No biggie, it’s only a $15 console on the interwebs all day everyday! Buy in bulk to throw at an annoying neighbor when they’re being too loud.

@MegaX50 2 года назад

That port looked like the soldering equivalent of "Spray and Pray".

@joeperrin3217 2 года назад

Amazing what John Virgo can do.

@IanTheWoodchuck 2 года назад

I have to wonder if they tried to fix it, shorted all the terminals with the botch job, and then tried to hook it up to a "quick charge" usb wall wart that somehow misinterpreted the short as a signal to ramp up the juice and nuked the port. We may never know!

@Momanic Год назад

I predicted that the console would've been fried when I saw the corrosion near the micro-usb port

@Pulverrostmannen 2 года назад

Wow that solder job was amazing lol. it almost looks like this device got hit by lightning or something. And then someone wrecked it completely

@X-Gen-001 2 года назад

Someone went out of their way to ruin that pcb 😂 Nice effort though mate. You're more skilled than I that's for sure.

@callumthomas653 2 года назад

Someone tripped house with that job 😂

@MugiwarasNakama 2 года назад

Turned from a diagnosis to an autopsy.... oof.

@foundatlantis 2 года назад

the fake hand LOL

@JustinEmlay 2 года назад

When they plugged that in and it went KLABLAMO! Just imagine what shorts do your body.

@joedarkness808 2 года назад

I would be so tempted just to cut the plug off just to avoid further damage to the board .. good job in avoiding the tracks lifting on the pcb

@imtrashbmx8834 2 года назад

I can show you a couple of my starter solder jobs that you would indeed get a good chuckle or two from xD

@rogerramjet6429 Год назад

4:30 looks like someone put a plug in for better grip, then tried desoldering and the pins got stuck to the inserted plug then were pulled out while still hot on the PCB. Signs of someone not using the correct equipment.

@jb-dt8gz 2 года назад

nice work from a hobbyist

@Wenlocktvdx 2 года назад

That’s one messed up device. My NES was got at but only to the tune of a cut track. Someone cut IRQ and added a wire to rejoin it, didn’t realise they’d cut the next track. All it need was another wire, clean the 72 pin socket at both ends and it was all good.

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Yeah, this one was a mess! Glad you got the NES working, excellent stuff! 👍

@evolity_ 2 года назад

REALLY? nobody noticed the FAKE HAND :D but keep it up, Steve, you're my favourite! :P

@patdarko3063 2 года назад

Kid : Dad can we take it to someone to fix? Dad : We can fix it at home......

@tsbeech 2 года назад

Great video Steve!

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Thanks Travis! 👍

@jerkizum2793 2 года назад

Learned a lot from you so far. Keep it up man

@stevensonkfbeaversof4383 2 года назад

Hi Steve, I think it would be really cool if you made a handheld snes controller with a built in screen, I’ve seen it done and think you’d be great at doing one. You’re really funny and clever

@randysmith7094 2 года назад

Even if the board was ok, it probably would NOT power on with just a 5v and ground jumper wire. I tried that with a Playstation classic and it does not work. The board is looking for resistance on pin 4 of the micro USB power port. I think 470 ohms to ground, not sure...

@Rainbow__cookie 2 года назад

its like a otg

@jensrogerkristoffersen5472 6 месяцев назад

LOL someone got a BIG soldering iron for Xmas.

@gregyotz777 Год назад

I saw several SMT paste ball shorts in your video of this board. If you look closely at the AXP chip legs, you can see small leftover solder from the surface reflow on this board. I've seen this on two others I have repaired as well. Might not be your only problem but usually this will be wide spread on the PCB.

@geovani60624 2 года назад

man that's some good fuse, it managed to fry the whole board before opening true nintendo engineering

@riccardop7395 Год назад

You had me already at the moment you used that fake hand

@tonyperez6573 2 года назад

Omg, the assasin soldering iron was there hahaha.

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

😂 definitely!

@Sul1s0 2 года назад

Defooting with holy handgrenades 😲

@johnwalters3429 2 года назад

The fake hand was a nice touch.

@michaelknowles1651 2 года назад

Wow, that was a sight.

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

😁 certainly was! I was not prepared for this one!

@djmulder 2 года назад

"How did they get a hole there"... well.... my xbox (original first one) looked worse than that hole... Since then I'm very insecure over my soldering :P

@joesshows6793 2 года назад

Wow! That is wild

@shona-sof 2 года назад

At least the unit will look nice on a shelf! I've been trying to find a working UK or Japan style SNES classic.

@Notpoop906 2 года назад

yeah looks like they had trouble getting it off and just gave up. basically impossible to remove a surface mount connector like that with the supports and stuff without using some kind of solder sucker / hot air station

@SixtyDoesStuff 2 года назад

Say it again, love your humor. That little hand.

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

😁 thanks Sixty!

@Furball2k 2 года назад

I've never looked at a board and winced like it was an open wound... until today haha

@kikihobbyrepair 2 года назад

Nice video Steve.

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Thanks Kiki!

@quarteratom 9 месяцев назад

Isn't that what soldering is? You add solder to the connector until it stays on, and it should work?

@PhillRobinson 2 года назад

Keep the case it looked OK

@TerryLawrence001 Год назад

Nagasaki !! I don't know what's wrong. My blow torch was set on low!

@cyberjism 2 года назад

the worst solder job i have seen was where a local 'modder' dropped of an xbox 360 saying it wouldn't boot. he had managed to flow enough solder through the top side of the board until it touched the chasse underneath in an attempt to attach wires to some of the through holes. after i finished with the repair and undid his sad jtag attempt he was a happy camper. wasn't the last time he paid me to undo his handywork either.

@colinboneham7387 2 года назад

Looks like someone took a blow torch to that socket, I’ve seen some states in the passed but this takes the pi55

@falloutguy8878 2 года назад

Loving your videos and more so loving your piss taking on a pretty good effort on my port replacement keep up the great work you do dude plus make sure you have a great day but more importantly keep safe dude as I love you and your quick responses to DIY disaster your one funny guy keep it up? Oh my wife wet herself when she saw the bomb blast 🤣

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

😂 thanks DR! It was a decent effort! 😁 hopefully I can reuse the shell and other bits for something else, so all is not lost on this one! 👍

@_MJ07_ 2 года назад

I really enjoyed that, great video! Subbed.

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Thanks MJR, much appreciated! 👍

@nigelwilliams4800 2 года назад

Just a top tip red and black wire to long,should tin them first easier to solder..

@mallatratt36 2 года назад

Think someone tried a welder on that

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

😁 yeah, I think you might be right!

@slyfoxkgar 2 года назад

That port looks perfectly soldered when you first looked at it.. nothing wrong at all.. nothing.. 11 out of 10 job there. lol

@nathandivino 2 года назад

Just found your channel and I'm loveing your content :)

@relaxxxrrr 2 года назад

Yeah, there's clearly a trace going to pin 4 (power cable sense?). This was not going to turn as it was wired.

@anderssorenson9998 2 года назад

Finally someone who is a worse solderer than me, it honestly looks like they used their feet.

@KB1UIF Год назад

Steve, I think you were testing that switch wrong. You should have been testing vertically in the direction of the movement, not horizontally. Horizontally you were testing the common polls of the switch, not switch action.