So you already know (or should) that old consoles have capacitors that will pop and leak board ruining acid if left unattended.You already already know that some games like Earthbound are affected in the same way.But I've never heard of anyone recapping controllers. I can't recall any particular controller I've opened having capacitors, but maybe some do?I remembered I have a huge bin of original controllers I swapped out for modern wireless ones (because my dog got scared and fucked everything up during a stormy game session once), do these need any real attention?Side Subject, anyone else get pissed off and completely write a "retro game store" off if they've never heard of recapping?
>>12538971>anyone else get pissed off and completely write a "retro game store" off if they've never heard of recapping?Most of the time it isnt even necessary, people who habitually recap all electronics "just in case" are the real retards. The recap crowd are often not even technical people, they dont even own an LCR meter nor an oscilliscope to actually diagnose problems caused by failing caps. They see it as "an oil change for your old console to make it better because caps are filled with magic!". They often do these half-assed amateur soldering jobs with lifted pads and fucked up traces which do more harm than "slightly less than perfect" caps in the first place.Recap elitists are among the lowest tier of the retro gaming community. >but whut if it leaks one day?>muh investment!>reddit will make fun of me for not recapping!
>>12539432fpbpAll you need to do is check for bulging caps. No bulge, no replacement. Simple as.
>>12538971>I can't recall any particular controller I've opened having capacitors, but maybe some do?I'm not as clued up on electronics as I should be, so please excuse my ignorance for this question. But don't capacitors store a charge to be discharged later, essentially holding some kind of state as on or off? If that is right, then I can't really think of a reason why a retro controller would want to hold any sort of state and therefore why they would need a capacitor.
>>12539565There are some programmable pads.
>>12539432>don't even own an oscilliscopeyeah ok this happened to me. I had a model 1 Sega CD that was like pretty much entirely fucked and I sent it off to this dude that hits all the Arcade Cabs in Brooklyn to repair it. He got all the way through it up to getting it to actually read discs and then made me wait so long on the repair (cuz he didnt own an oscilliscope) that I called it quits.At least it boots and everything now, I just need to replace the laser or tune it myself at some point but I don't actually ever intend to use it sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooI'm glad it's not leaking acid that'll ruin it forever now
>>12539641Why do you write like a retard?
Oh yay, the anti-recap autist is here>>12539432>LCR meter nor an oscilliscopeA decent one of either of those is not going to be cheap, $300-500 at best unless you get garbage-tier ones that are mostly placebos. It's not something someone who isn't already experienced and skilled in electronics work is likely to have lying around. Especially LCR meters. Those $30 trash ones you can find on Amazon and Aliexpress might as well be listed under the toys section. But yes, I don't recap my consoles just for the hell of it, I do it when there are problems that could be related to caps or I can literally see bursted caps.Too bad your entire post reads like it was written by the kind of person who would refuse to replace a broken spark plug in their engine because then it would not be "authentic".
>>12538971>I've never heard of anyone recapping controllersMostly smd components in those. Heat and power cycles are what kill electrolytic caps.
>>12539756Picrel lcr testers from aliexpress are actually pretty good.
>>12538971>mod the console adding heatsinks and fans to cool the capacitors.>capacitors will last 45 to 50 years if properly done.Is that so hard to do or too retarded to do that.
>>12540008Like I said, they are basically toys. The latest models even have a common complaint of it constantly reporting the wrong pins for transistors.
>>12539756Is anti-recap autist tranny smith or someone else?
>>12540051Perfectly fine for a hobbyist.
>>12539742hi glorp
>>12538971i had to recap a 1chip SNES because it had garbled sound. fixed it right up.
>>12539565what you're describing sounds more like memorywhat they are usually used for is little bufferslike something is suddenly drawing a lot of power affecting other parts in the circuit, a capacitor can release its stored reservoir to compensate for it and keep the circuit stablekinda how grid energy storage is supposed to do for a national grid
>>12538971Failing caps is a meme like dick rot. The only exception is the original Xbox clock capacitor.
>>12539432Not /vr/ related, but I recently recapped an old PSU that wasn't working, and now it works.I don't own an LCR meter or an oscilloscope, but all the electrolytic caps had the wrong capacitance when measured out of circuit with a multi-meter.
>>12538971The only things you should recap are known bad capacitors. Either visually or functionally faulty ones, or capacitor types/manufacturers known to be commonly faulty.There is no point recapping something like an Original Xbox power supply or a Genesis Model 1 as they're known to use good components, and if it just straight up doesn't work at all then you'll need to do actual diagnosis instead of throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.But recapping something like an Amiga 1200 or any PC motherboard from the early 2000's even if they still function makes perfect sense as they're known to use components that will fail eventually.
>>12542105>But recapping something like an Amiga 1200 or any PC motherboard from the early 2000's even if they still function makes perfect sense as they're known to use components that will fail eventually.every component of pretty much anything will fail at some point.
>>12542148IIRC in the early to mid 2000s there was a huge issue of faulty capacitors being produced, which ended up in many devices.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
