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palmer6strings:
I'm again, throwing another dead game in my box of dead stuff.

I've tried to find ways to repurpose dead gaming stuff but have come to where I've got a lot of no working shit.

Anybody else (besides maybe Wiggy :P) have this problem without much of a solution?

What do you do with dead stuff?
wiggy:
You know me :P

Just fixed a PAL and U.S. SNES yesterday actually. U.S. SNES had a bad cart port, so I grabbed one from a beyond busted MoBo and swapped it. The PAL SNES blew a cap right off the MoBo. Found a replacement, Retrobright treatment to the shell, BAM!  Good as new :)

But I do still have box after box of busted consoles that haven't been touched in years :-\
segamer:
I'm pretty good at fixing systems. 
bender3455:
I try to fix them too.  Games also.  I'll get down with rewiring a bad game if traces are damaged. 
palmer6strings:

--- Quote from: wiggy on May 04, 2016, 08:31:40 PM ---You know me :P

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All too well bro lol.


--- Quote from: wiggy on May 04, 2016, 08:31:40 PM ---
Just fixed a PAL and U.S. SNES yesterday actually. U.S. SNES had a bad cart port, so I grabbed one from a beyond busted MoBo and swapped it. The PAL SNES blew a cap right off the MoBo. Found a replacement, Retrobright treatment to the shell, BAM!  Good as new :)

But I do still have box after box of busted consoles that haven't been touched in years :-\

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--- Quote from: segamer on May 04, 2016, 09:14:35 PM ---I'm pretty good at fixing systems. 

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--- Quote from: bender3455 on May 04, 2016, 09:26:50 PM ---I try to fix them too.  Games also.  I'll get down with rewiring a bad game if traces are damaged. 

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Ya, I fix most stuff that is fixable also. I guess I should have worded it as: What do you do with stuff that's NOT repairable.

I've got a small box of games that look like they should work. Clean, and no phsical damage. I'm guessing the chips just shot the shit.

I figured I would use the shells to customize other games, or save them in case I run across a working game with a nasty label faded/torn shell.

Kinda like my PS1 clocktower game. It wouldn't boot into the main game no matter how much I buffed and cleaned it. Tried it on 5 different PS1's. Finally I just turned it into a clock and hung it on my wall...
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