This SEGA Saturn Gets tired very quickly and shuts off. Lets give it new life. 

True 😂!

I threw them in the bin already, and I will use the TME package for epoxy mixing ;) .. but the chinesium ones are really easy to spot with naked eye. They really look ugly.

Yep. Barcelos! Obrigado!

@@_RETROFIX_ Boa sorte com o canal. Este tipo de vídeos é sempre bom para a comunidade que gosta de manter as suas coisas como eu👍

True! But regarding Saturn's around here, I haven't found a single one with problems with caps.

@@_RETROFIX_ you don’t necessarily see it until it is gone fore some time. This does not show like the capacitor plague with bulging or bursting caps on the top. They slowly seeps electrolyte at the bottom beneath the cap that gets absorbed into the pcb over time. It is most commonly recognized if you unsolder a cap and get a rancid fishy smell when you heat the solder around the area. The leakage starts very small and gets bigger over time. Thing is, that you may not have seen it yet, but as age goes up the closer you get to get until you see it. A recap in time is much easier done than one too late where you have to clean up and repair the mess after it at least. I recommend you read on the topic. There is a lot of forums for bad caps and a lot of listed caps, brands and models that tends to leak in old gear too. I had REALLY bad luck with caps during my life. All my life. I never trust them. Unless most Rubycon lol

I've repaired lots of stuff due to bad caps. And usually nichicon. I know the right thing to do is to change them prior to problems. I just don't change them everywhere . usually I do that on a probability or known problems basis.

I really dont know. Have you measured the power supply voltages when it does that? You might have corrupted memory or more complex problems.

Yeah! An all-in-one console would have been awesome!

​@@_RETROFIX_ considering the Neptune never came out

This board was already expensive to produce with just the Saturn hardware. Adding in backwards compatibility hardware would have pushed the price into the stratosphere, instead of just through the roof.

PT

Thank you for your suggestions. This is not an educational channel and i´m just a basic idiot doing some fixes for entertainment. This kind of fault is known and there is no measurement that can be made to prevent-it or diagnose-it. It just stops working suddently, and it happens that the transistor is the known culprit. So I shotgun replace it and it solved the problem in many consoles. I just wanted to share some details about the procedure and showcase a very good condition sega saturn. Disassembly and reassembly videos of consoles can be found elsewere in youtube.