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Post by Sarge on Jun 20, 2018 10:05:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I tend to not want to drop stacks of cash on retro stuff, too. I subsisted almost entirely on pawn shops and thrift stores growing up. Sadly, I missed out on a lot of the NES purge, having nearly no money to my name at the time. The deals I had to pass up still makes me sad!
I did drop the cash on a Duo, of course, but I'd been eyeballing one for so long that I decided that, well, I only live once. Plus, it's a system that will sell for at least as much as I paid for it, unlike buying a brand new game, which most times will crater in value and never recover.
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Post by anayo on Feb 17, 2019 11:30:45 GMT -5
I think the time is coming for me to replace the capacitors in my Sega Genesis soon. The picture has grown noticeably dim. I'm not looking forward to it because in a recent video from the Youtube channel "HRG plus", the host mentioned that he paid a guy who runs his own business called Mobius Technologies $60 to recap his Genesis and $100 for his model 1 Sega CD. He said there were about 20 capacitors in the Genesis alone. So it looks like I'll either have to decide to pony up or learn to do it myself. I have a lot of spare 8 and 16 bit systems, too (an average of 3 of each.)
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Post by Sarge on Feb 26, 2019 15:29:25 GMT -5
anayo: Yeah, unfortunately, recapping systems can be pretty time-consuming, and that's even with the right equipment. I know why they charge so much, honestly. I bet a Model 1 Sega CD is a bit of a pain to work on, too. Is your Genesis a Model 1 or 2? I haven't looked at the internals of the Model 2, although I might bust into one of my spares to do an audio mod on it one day.
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Post by anayo on Feb 26, 2019 20:28:07 GMT -5
anayo : Yeah, unfortunately, recapping systems can be pretty time-consuming, and that's even with the right equipment. I know why they charge so much, honestly. I bet a Model 1 Sega CD is a bit of a pain to work on, too. Is your Genesis a Model 1 or 2? I haven't looked at the internals of the Model 2, although I might bust into one of my spares to do an audio mod on it one day. I have all three models of Genesis, but played the model 2 for all of 2018 (probably because it was the model I had as a boy). My Sega CD is a model 2.
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Post by Sarge on Feb 27, 2019 12:20:34 GMT -5
Cool. I have a lot of Genesis consoles (something like three Model 1 and I think a couple of Model 2s, although I might have given one of those away). I've never actually seen a Model 1 Sega CD in real life; mine are both Model 2s. They are more dependable from everything I've read.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 30, 2021 19:04:22 GMT -5
Bringing this topic back: I just resoldered the power jack in my PS1. No idea if it will help, but the system randomly resets, and it doesn't seem to be related to read errors, although it certainly could be. It didn't look like the solder was cracked, but heck, reflow that joker and add more solder. I'm running it through some demos of Colony Wars, the game that triggered the reset last time. I've also had it happen with Tales of Destiny II. And I happen to know those discs are pristine. But then again, my old Gameshark disc acted really sketchy (blue bottom disc), and I don't remember how that one used to behave back in the day.
Anyway, it bums me out that these systems are dying. I wish this was a model that was compatible with an ODE - I'd consider getting an XStation. Although if the MiSTer core ends up awesome, I might just skip right over it. Sure looks like Mr. Peip is making crazy progress - he's got the MPEG decoder working now.
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 30, 2021 19:59:12 GMT -5
Dang.
It does feel like we're kind of in code yellow with the 5th/6th gens at this point. Counting the first "family PS2" we all got to use, I'm on my third PS2 now and second slim. I even just noticed while playing DQ8 this month, when I'd go to turn the system off if I put just a tad too much pressure on the top towards the back right corner, the game would quickly throw a disc error warning up. I recall there being some kind of band/sensor back there in that spot near the corner. But it seems a little extra sensitive. I've already had strange mint-esque looking PS2 games not running on this slim which seems to be in great shape for the most part. It's starting to feel like a "gamble" now from game to game thesedays, if they'll run nicely or not, with both the disc and hardware potentially being the culprit.
Duckstation rocks and thankfully 6th gen emulation seems to be in great shape. I do kind of wonder going forward, if I'll buy much more for these generations. More and more lately I tend to think "guess I should just emulate it to be safe".
I'm all about game saves preservation too. I got one of those third party huge PS2 memory cards recently to backup everything again. But I'd love to get all this stuff transferred to my PC someday.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 30, 2021 20:23:47 GMT -5
Disc-based systems are absolutely the most susceptible. Moving parts, lasers that burn out... just so much that can go wrong. Solid-state systems will fail, sure, but it's generally power supplies and capacitors, and those can be replaced relatively easily. Thankfully we're seeing ODE solutions to keep systems that would otherwise be worthless going strong. I'm tempted to dig around for a pre-modded XStation PSX, just because I don't have the needed systems on-hand. I've had my PSX running for quite a while, and no random restarts that I've caught. I also swapped to the original power cord, so either might have been the issue... or it could still be problematic. You just never know with these sorts of problems. You can bring some PS2 systems back if it's just the laser. I've replaced them before, and it's not too hard to do. Sometimes the lid sensors get goofy, too. I've got several that I've had to fix, either by taping them down or wedging something in to replace the broken plastic that's supposed to depress the sensor. I still need to go into my 3DO and recap it. That's a painstaking process, though. Audio has crapped out in it. And I don't think emulation on that system is quite top-tier like PlayStation.
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Post by Ex on Oct 30, 2021 20:27:18 GMT -5
I've been playing the same PS2 Slim since 2007, still works great thus far thankfully. Hopefully it'll stay that way. The only thing weird it does is the green power light eventually goes off while it's running. Don't know what's up with that. I do have loads of spare parts for PS2 Slims though, just in case. Also have a brand new PS2 Slim in the closet, 'cause of course I do.
I've got a mint condition PlayStation in the closet too. No idea if it has a parallel port or not. It was bought around '98 or '99. I'd have to move a whole lot of stuff out of the way to inspect it to find out.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 30, 2021 20:29:58 GMT -5
Mine was relatively mint. It still looks good, and read discs really well when I put it up. I would not at all be surprised if the power connector was the issue, though. I used to take it back and forth from here back home when we were building, so it got hooked and unhooked many, many times. EDIT: Well, it's been running for hours, and I played through a couple of Colony Wars missions and beat the first mission in Syphon Filter. That may have been the problem. I don't use it much, but I still don't like it when my systems fail.
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