/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10464407
The boards are solid, I've never had one with a bad PSU either though I hear certain lots with certain PSUs can be a problem. All CD drives will fail sooner or later unless they're built like a tank, and the only console with a proper optical drive built for longevity are certain models of the CDi.

Everything else, without any exceptions whatsoever, used a flimsy plastic thin light mechanism where the only actual metal is perhaps a bit of rail for the optical sled, and the central spindle.

Only the high-end CDi's of all consoles will endure forever. They use the famous and indestructible, solid brass and steel, magnetic levitation Philips CDM mechanisms.