/vr/ - Retro Games

Stupid burgers don't know how to take care of their electronics, so it's probably a combination of poor manufacturing and neglect.

>>4142796
Me and a cousin both receive the first model for Christmas 1996, a year later his console had problem reading games meanwhile my console was perfectly fine, he had to use your pic related for games to read, around 2001 his mom sold it to buy a PS2, before that happen i remember that they have to change the laser at least two times, meanwhile my PS was still kicking like new until 2005 when it stopped reading and had to change the laser.
So yea maybe you are unlucky.

>>4142796
I don't know, my 1001 ps1 still works (I did a drive swap so that discs would work better) But a used Saturn I bought half a year ago stopped working months ago

>>4142824
I'm not a burger and my PS1 was a japanese model, one of the earliest ones.

>>4142796
Tell me about it. I lost count of how many times my PSX had to be repaired, it only stopped when I started playing less after I got a PS2, which by the way only failed once. My other consoles never ever had problems, even the ones that are older than the PSX.

>>4142796
N64 is an entirely solid state machine so it should be durable as fuck.

As for Saturn, this was $399 for a mid-90s consumer electronic. Sega didn't fuck around with build quality for it. Back then they manufacture that shit on mainland China.

>>4142796
N64 is an entirely solid state machine so it should be durable as fuck.

As for Saturn, this was $399 for a mid-90s consumer electronic. Sega didn't fuck around with build quality for it. Back then they didn't manufacture that shit on mainland China.

>>4142853
>Back then they manufacture that shit on mainland China.
Is this supposed to be good or bad?

Early PS1s did have some issues with the way heat affected the drive mechanism and it exacerbated them if people played with them sitting on carpet, blankets or anything not a hard flat surface since most of the vents are on the bottom.

It did usually remedy both of these problems to flip 'em because the drive mechanism was no longer resting unevenly on slightly melted feet and it also let them breathe better plus replacement drop in whole drive assemblies have always been relatively cheap

>>4142845
>one of the earliest ones
Found your problem. The first produced models were infamous because of how quickly they became unplayable. It's kind of comparable to how early NES and Xbox 360 consoles broke compared to other consoles of its generation.
Just get another one if you feel like it, they should still be easy to find.

>>4142796
all those early CD consoles are pretty finicky, but the PS1 is especially picky

Plastic railing heat death.

>>4142796
Yes, like the iphone its build to break, like every product for teh dumb casuals

>>4142897
>>4142894
So I got a PSOne to replace my PSX, latest model laser should last pretty long right? Nope, playing backups the laser died in only a year.

>>4143184
Use better media in future dummy.

>>4142824
>>>/reddit/

>>4143291
Yeah time to find another boogeyman. That's not remotely reddit.

>>>/v/

>>4142796
The launch PS1 would warp the laser, like mine

>>4144371
>warp the laser
lel

>>4143184
I remember there were issues with chipped psx, for once there were no voltage limiters so when laser couldnt read something it would increase voltage to the laser itself with time causing lens to become misty.
I think it was the case with all playstation consoles.

Apart from that psx, ps2, ps3 and undoubtedly ps4 are very shortlived consoles.
They just drop like flies.

With N64 I can understand because carts/no moving parts.
But with Saturn... how did they do it? These things are durable as fuck.
Or maybe Sony got me used to short-lived products.

>>4142796
Sony has moved the laser to the right in the latter model.
It solves this problem.

I had a ps2 that I left running for an entire summer. I later sold it to a friend who already had two different ps2s die on him. He still plays it.

>>4147057
Are Saturn lasers good?
To be honest most laser based consoles make me not want to buy them
I know sony ones are shitty, as most of my friends playstation are dead by now, even their xbox, I wonder about stuff like dreamcast and some addons ones

>>4142796
Did you chip it?

>>4147057
the first thing that wore out on my PSX and PS2 was the motor that moves the laser in the CD drive

>>4142796
My old N64 started overheating and resetting all the time, I had to put something under it to increase the air flow.
I also had to change the laser on my game cube, but my old PS1 works just fine.

I guess it just depends.

I've owned two Saturns in my life. The disk reader of the first one died around 2007, got a replacement since

both suffered from the same issue though, after a while the battery save feature just stopped working. Even if I put in a fresh battery and don't use it for a while, like a month later, I'll turn it on and be greeted by the date/time screen.

It's not really a problem, I have a memory cart, just a minor annoyance at best.

>>4147412
Never heard of anyone having that kind of issue.... N64 resetting due to overheat? Weird.

>>4147418
Yeah the Saturn's internal memory dying is a common "issue", which isn't really an issue, just something normal, batteries die. That's why you can easily change them without even needing to open the console case.

>>4147457
It happened a few years ago. Some googling led me to this forum post:
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/124745/why-does-my-nintendo-64-randomly-reset
If you scroll down a bit, you'll see the image I posted. A guy just solved the problem by putting some supports under it.
That's the same thing I did and it fixed the issue.

>>4143184
Fuck dude just use an emulator at this point LMAO

>>4142796
Just happened to me yesterday.
Tested my Saturn, purred like a kitten.
Tested my modchipped ps1, doesn't read shit anymore.

>>4142824
>>>/int/v4/
>>>/int/brit/
>>>/int/balt/

>>4147057
Sega used a high-end cd drive, don't remember which brand it was, but the difference probably come from here.

>>4143184
>playing backups
If you're going to play Playstation games without buying the original discs you might as well use something like PSIO or a PS2 with a hard drive instead of resorting to CD-Rs.

>>4147665
why

>>4147665
You can only play PlayStation games from a PS2's hard drive using POPS emulation which is shit.

PSIO has incomplete compatibility and is both expensive and all but impossible to get hold of.

You're really better off buying a (good revision) PlayStation or full-on emulating.