How often do you guys need to do upkeep on your games and such?Pic isn't mind but I recently bought some gameboy games that need new batteries and was curious about how others go about this kind of thing.
>>12604120The only game I ever had to repair was a copy of Pokemon Gold a friend give for free because it was "broken", of course it meant he couldn't save the game.Nowadays I just emulate.
>>12604120You need to use more flux. I can tell from the picture.Like so much you think you are using too much. That is the appropriate amount.If you dont, you will get cold solder joint cracks and the battery will die early and saves may randomly be lost.
>>12604120The only console I've ever really had "to fix" was my OG Xbox to remove the clock capacitor and upgrade the HDD, etc. I've got a few N64 carts but they all still seem to work with no battery problems, etc.
>>12604120i went to play some genesis this week and realized my console was now emitting some weird humming noise shit in the audio channels. turns out the capacitor in the power brick eventually goes bad. was an ez fix, but god damn maintenance sucks
>>12604120I've been neglecting a bunch of repair projects I should get on with, almost all of them involve failing power supplies in consoles. I also thought about doing new batteries in, but these days I really only use flash carts to play.>>12604662>AI nigger didn't even bother reading the OP before generating his post
>>12605528You mean the deep statement that a pic isn't mind?Very philosphical.
>>12604120Changing batteries is easy. And the one time I had a Game Boy game that didn’t boot, the contacts just needed a good cleaning.Meanwhile, I’ve been neglecting some console repairs and mods: a Game Gear that stopped working after a recap, two SNES that started malfunctioning after a botched SuperCIC mod, a Mega Drive 2 clone that won’t display a proper image and some bad lasers on disc drives.I’m also tempted to mod my PAL TurboGrafx to 60Hz, but I’m afraid I might fuck it up.
>>12606636double check polarity of all the caps. I just do one cap at a time so stuff like this doesn't happen.
>>12604662Soldering noobs need to use more flux when they solder for sure.Once you get to amateur level, you need to learn to cool it on the flux. True pros know just the perfect amount, and it's somewhere between the noob who doesn't use any and the noob who uses too much
