/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6938728
>I believe there was a wiki for this once
It's still in the sticky.
http://www.gametechwiki.com/w/index.php/Main_Page
Anyhow, I recently removed the clock capacitor from my Xbox, but after putting it back together and plugging it in it seems it's suffering from trace rot. I don't have half the shit required to fix it so I guess that Xbox shall remain fucked for a while.

>>6938762
My bad. I stopped looking at the sticky after 1) the catalog became normal page and 2) those retards updated it to make /vr/ a designated /v/ shitting street. Thank you for helping my blind retard ass however.

>>6938785
Just deal with the fact 6th Gen is retro. Don't be one of those fags that ruins it for everyone in an attempt to prove that the board is being ruined for everyone.

>>6938728
I'm working on a repair for people who reddit on 4chan. It looks a lot like a shotgun.

Repairing the DS Lite is hell.

>>6938835
I fucking hate every nintendo portable with a hinge, any time that I have to go near that hinge. It's nightmarish. I'm at the point that unless there's no other option, I will just buy a new unit and treat the other one as parts.

What's a good quality drop-in speaker replacement for the GBC? My childhood one isn't working. I have a GBC with a good speaker, but I'd rather get a new one and have two working ones than doing a transfer.

>>6939782
There's a secret to removing the hinges, wanna know it?

>>6938835
>Repairing the DS Lite is easy as hell.
ftfyz

>>6939808
>he didn't mod his GB for BT
What are you? A grownup who doesn't wear those stupid ear things 24/7?

>>6938728
What is the best modchip for the PlayStation?

I'm trying to replace a contrast knob in my Sega Game Gear. That's literally the only part in my entire system that's borked. All I need is some good solder wick and some flux and I can get the original one out no sweat but I can't do that because I don't have either.

>>6940309
Then go buy it, fool

>>6940408
I don't really feeeeeel like it.

>>6938785
Don't sweat it, we all make mistakes

>>6939813
sure, tell me about it

>>6939808
I replaced mine with the speaker from a busted GB Pocket. They're basically the same. Can't say much as for non-OEM parts though.

Besides replacing my joycon stick (very easy, just waiting for it to arrive in the mail)

I have to figure out what's wrong with my ds lite. when you turn it on it immediately shuts off. I don't know what the issue is yet, nor if it's fixable, but I haven't done any research yet either so

>>6940778
Slot a philips head driver into the + shape of the hinge, rotate and it'll pop right out

Anybody know about xbox FTP? I've got an xbox with unleashX installed, hooked up to my router via wall power ethernet (TPLink AV500 series since my xbox and router are in separate rooms). I've tested the exact same setup with a wii and it's working fine (I'm actually updating my GC loader coverart collection with it now).

I've configured my info as below.

Xbox:
IP 192.168.0.64
Static IP
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.0.100
DNS 1 0.0.0.0
DNS 2 0.0.0.0

I don't know why, but even with all that and the port number, and my PC connected to the same router, I can't connect. Just constantly get connection failure in FileZilla. Also, I can't ping the console, so I assume I'm doing something wrong with the setup, I'm just clueless on how things work with this stuff.

I got my hands on a OG XBOX(first time owner) it seems to have a modchip with a On/Off switch, with the switch off the console restarts three times and that's it. Modchip turned off and I get the XBOX boot up screen and Error 16. What are my options bros?

>>6942135
The first thing you do is fucking google it.
>Error 16 has to do with not finding the menu setting with which you can set the clock of the hdd. This happens to a lot of people that erase their hdd (original/upgraded) or MS dashboard files and after that they don't immediatly install the hdd but leave the xbox without power longer than 5 hours.
https://forums.afterdawn.com/threads/xbox-error-codes-explained-go-here-first.373255/

Sounds like maybe a midwit installed the chip and carelessly fucked around with the software on the HD and left it unbootable. I'm gonna guess you're probably going to have to find a normal HD image and use a PC to write a clean image. Leave the chip turned on until you can get the drive password, etc. etc. The chip probably has to be off if the drive isn't locked.
Or you could find a good Xbox and move the chip to it. If done right they're solderless, or nearly so. (some want a wire to see the power button)

>>6942310
>The chip probably has to be ON if the drive isn't locked.
oops

>>6940797
Not retro, but I'll bite
If one of the screens is not attached or is broken the DS will behave exactly like that.
There are probably other issues that can cause that behavior, but that's the most common, especially with the top screen, since its ribbon cable can be easily damaged by just opening the console

>>6939813
>>6940137
Anon, you better deliver, you bitch-made fuccboi.

>>6938785
The absolute state of boomer USA

Pardon my intrusion, but I need to fix my "PS1 on PS3" machine!

What can be wrong with HDMI in Slims?
It can see when cable connected and offers to use it, but there's only black screen with no sound.
I tried to reflow pins and changed HDMI IC from Ali. Nothing changed.

Should I try another chip from Ali or problem can be somewhere else?

>>6940309
Why do you need to remove it?
Splatter some IPA on it and twist. It will clear gunk out of the way and clear itself.

>>6942587
Either you've typed this in a way that makes no sense or I'm assuming correctly that you don't know you can hold the power button down for like 10 seconds to switch to hdmi output.

>>6941006
FTP on Xbox require name and pass, just use Xbox or xbox in both fields lol

>>6940309
USE D E O X I D E on any knob thats crackling and shit

>>6942605
>why don’t we take the gunk
>and just push it somewhere else!

>>6942609
No, anon, I already know all about video-reset and "deep-colour" trick.
At first signal from HDMI was glitching by flashing and cutting off random parts of picture, until with time it become just a black screen permanently.

>>6942619
Yes, and can be done many times.
It'll be a while before a new gunk will settle on contacts.

>>6942612
I think the problem is my xbox is not connecting to the network at all. I probably need to fix my settings.

>>6942730
>DNS
Your DNS should be the same as Gateway.
And better not to change anything and just leave everything on automatic.
Just check what IP your router given to console and use this. Also, don't forget about Name/Pass.

>>6942825
yep, I fucked up with my static settings. Switched to auto and it's all good. I'm glad that devices exist which resolve my network retardation, but sometimes I wish I wasn't so network retarded.

>>6943365
That's like a 5mins of trial and error.

>>6942367
see: >>6940824

got 3 SNes consoles all with black screen, picked them up for 10 dollars total.

1 unit APU revision, had a faulty CPU, fixed.

2 unit RGB revision, had a faulty CIC chip, yes, the fucking CIC chip was bad. Replaced every single fucking chip on the board, and the very last attempt, the hail mary was the CIC chip and it worked. Never heard of dead CIC chips on Snes.

3 unit GPM revision, swapped every single fucking chip on the board, still dead, screen with orange-red horizontal lines and a buzzing sound, that one goes to the graveyard. At least i fixed 2.

Now i have a Nes that shows vertical white lines, its not the games, its not the cart connector, it s not the PSU. Need to get some brand new 7805s and 2200uf caps to test.

Is it enough to replace only the big cap on the Nes power module? or should i replace every single cap?

>>6944037
It's impressive you got them fixed. Did you replace the faulty CPU or was it an issue that could be addressed with no new parts? I'm seeing more and more dead super nintendos lately and it's really a damn shame. That console isn't as common as it seems like it would be and so many of them are just dead now.

On Sega Genesis model 1, is there any reason why composite output wouldn't work when the RF output does? I have a model 2 as well, but this model 1 was my first real console. I'd kinda like to get it working again. Also, where the flip do you source specialty chips from? Ebay for parts or repair only consoles?

>>6944287
>why composite output wouldn't work when the RF output does
Maybe bad solder joints on the motherboard? I once found a model 2 where half the solder joints to the connectors were bad, including the power connector. (manufacturing defect) I had to re-melt all of them. So it's probably a good idea to make sure your connectors aren't bad first.
>parts
Yep, the big chips with Sega part numbers on them are custom. But on Genesis, a lot of parts are standard, the 68000, the Z80, the RAM, the YM2612. I guess it's basically just the VDP and decoder logic that are custom.

>>6944287
If you got yours used..some people open up their genesis to lift a pin on the VDP to try and reduce the jailbars. This has the sideffect of disabling the composite output

My gamecube controller started drifting. It'll fix it if I replace the stick box?

>>6944573
You need a donor from another gamecube controller.

>>6944573
Don't replace it with chink parts, better just clean what you already have with IPA. You need to bend back potentiometers and clean inside them.
Chink parts will be just bad, donors will be in the same conditions.
You need to clean, not replace.

>>6942310
>>6942314
I managed to eventually repair it, a complete shit show of a procedure but I did it.

>>6944037
What's the next step with your repaired SNESes? Flipping them on eBay

>>6944631
>>6942605
>IPA?

India Pale Ale?

>>6944819
A fucking alcohol, you ape.

I found this PAL megadrive in the trash. With a 3rd party pad and a 3-1 cart collection.

Turning it on I just get flashing white lines. How would I go about repairing this?

>>6944925
Please note that it was missing the power cable but I've been using an NES one and apparently it should be compatible as it's 9v

>>6944928
>>6944925

>>6944925
>>6944928
>>6944930
It's a model 1 in case you can't tell

My Xbox recently started to having trouble with powering on, not it doesn't power on at all, I looked inside and saw something which I'm not compleltly sure was there before.

>>6945009
There was also these caps, are they still okay?

I got a modchipped PS2 on facebok marketplace, came with a matrix 1.99 (a clone of the 1.93) and it works just fine with burned CDs and DVDs as long as they're PS2 games, but it won't read any of the PS1 games i throw at it, is there a way to fix this myself? I bought this thing to hook up to the PVM i have at work and go through my PS1 backlog when there's nothing to do.

>>6945009
>>6945013
That looks pretty bad, let me guess early OG Xbox model? I have noticed that the 1.6 comes with way more nishicon caps

>>6945086
No, 2004 Euro model

>>6945091
Guess it is down to pure lottery

>>6944925
First step, check the 7805.

>>6944928
Are you sure you should be using a PAL NES adapter on MD model? I do know you can use MD1 adapter on SuperFamicom but not PAL.NES& SNES adapter on SuperFamicom. SFC and MD1 both want AC 9v centre negative

>>6944925
Why does one of the CPU pins look fucked? (upper right corner of the big chip)
>>6944928
>I've been using an NES one
I know the US NES takes 9VAC, I fucking hope you aren't using that.
>>6945105
Yes, make sure it's putting out 5V, making sure you have good power is one of the first things to try before asking anyone else. It's just a fucking meter that you should already have.

>>6945045
>won't read any of the PS1 games
could be the laser, have you tried a CD cleaner disc?
remember that CD vs DVD uses a different laser most of the time.

>>6945134
You're right, I didn't even notice that pin. I'll make note for the power supply.

>>6944819
Isopropyl. AKA basic rubbing alcohol you can pick up any pharmacy or supermarket

>>6945135
So yeah, I just looked it up, pin 6 is AS (Address Strobe), kind of important for anything to work. It doesn't stop the VDP from spewing whatever random shit is in its RAM, so maaaaybe that might be your problem.

>>6943392
I am not a clever man

>>6944829
>>6944819
I knew what it was and I still made the same mistake. Never seen someone refer to isopropyl as IPA before. Was pretty funny.

>>6945826
Thanks, I'll get the right power cable and try to fix that pin

repairs aren't worth it 90% of the time, they're only worth on something rare or extremely expensive
i had to laugh at some anon recommending another anon to replace the laser in a ps2 instead of just going and buying a mint used one for barely anything

>>6942587
less trouble/effort to just buy another used ps3 and swap the HDD

>>6945103
So what's wrong with it?

>>6945872
Thank you for enlighting us on how dumb we are compared, oh smart one

My PS2 Fatty has a slow eject tray. Worth fixing, or no?

>>6945872
Just consoome product and get excited for next products.

>>6945994
No, no, little Billy: you *are* next product. Stop thinking small-time, you little shit.

>>6945872
>in a ps2 instead of just going and buying a mint used one for barely anything
>Instead of just going and buying a memory card with freemcboot
there ficxed

>>6945981
Are you seriously asking anyone that question with caps looking like this?
>>6945013

>>6946130
Well I thought the first pic (weird white stuff near on the power board) looks more serious than those caps since the caps aren't leaking

>>6946143
The white stuff is glue to damp the vibration from the inductors and transformers. The caps in the second picture already leaked.

>>6946143
>>6946159
Yeah, that white stuff is just silicone. But I can see that it's either covered with dust or capacitor vomit, it should be just white.

>>6946143
Honestly if I was you, I would just clean up that motherboard with compressed air and alcohol. Remove all capacitors except maybe if you got some marked Nishicon and just recap everything else, get those Chang trash capacitors out of there.

So here is my situation, my DS lite did not want to turn on any more last week even after charging it and keeping the cable charged. Is there a service I can ship it to so it can get a diagnostic to see what's wrong? As for my sp, nothing is wrong with it but I am looking at these kits that can increase the brightness since mine is an AGS 001, the same thing is there a service that could do this for me?

>>6945880
I'm pretty sure it doesn't work like that and I don't want to search for another 3.41-console.

>>6945045
If you're 100% sure that it reads CDs properly, like if it can read an audio CD everytime at the first try with no issues, then I don't think the problem is with the laser unit.
You could do a 5min research and learn how to adjust the laser's potentiometer that deals with reading CDs, but again I don't think that's the issue: I can't see why it would be able to read some CDs and not others.
I'd try to deactivate the modchip through its menu and play an original ps1 game, to see if the issue is a malfunction of the chip.
>>6945872
This might shock you, but what if I find it fun and rewarding?

>>6945993
Belt inside drive is worn out.
I don't know where you can find replacement, but there's a lot of guides for OG Xbox with the same problem. Try to trace where those people get their belts and get the same one for PS2.

How do I get into repairing consoles?

>>6946697
Watch a lot of repair vids on youtube and fuck around with cheap shit, stuff like refurbishing and repairing a faulty gameboy and adding a bivert and backlight mod
I have not done it, but I really want to
If you're not a complete fuck up in terms of manual skills and hand dexterity, you can do it

I want to learn how to soldering and i hear that replacing old cartridges batteries is a good way to start but i don't know how common are save batteries on nes or gb games, can someone say how common they are?

>>6946992
Buy one of those diy kit Chang digital clocks they are good for solder training

>>6946516
Replace the battery. Takes less than a minute.

>>6944274
hard to know if it was something other than a faulty CPU, but before sapping chips i always clean te boards carefully, replace all caps and resolder the cart connector, none of that fixed the APU 1, until i swapped the CPU then it booted first try.

The RGB board i replaced every chip on the front side of the board (cpu, swram, 2 vram, 2 ppus) plus both sound chips and still black screen, replaced the cic chip and the reset chip, and it worked first try, then out of curiosity put back the original reset chip and it still worked, then i put back the original cic chip and black screen, swapped it with the one from the donor board and it worked.

>>6944816
Honestly i think ill keep them i have 4 now, a 1 chip 03, 1 APU, 1 RGB and 1 GPM. I think Snes consoles are either getting more sought after or more difficult to find, Ive seen a bunch Nes going for about $40/50 jon my local Fbook craigslist and they sit thre for weeks, but i havent seen many Snes lately.

Every post is a repost

>>6948495

Looking for og Xbox advice. I'd like to accomplish two things: 1) remove that bad capacitor if it's not too late, and (2) make a backup of the HDD

Do I need to do 2 before 1 in case of complications during the capacitor fix? Could it kill my HDD? Is this a recommended guide? http://myoriginalxbox.weebly.com/capacitor-removal.html

>>6948842
First thing you should do is run an app to dump your HD lock code and write that fucker down. I mean in the worst case you could desolder the EEPROM chip and dump it (I've done that once) but losing that code is the only thing that can hurt the HD. The cap is nowhere near the HD.
Anyhow a few days isn't going to matter, and if you don't trust yourself with a soldering iron you could probably even remove the cap by gently wiggling it back and forth to break the leads.
Back up your saves of course, but the rest of the drive should be fine unless you fuck up a soft mod. And the contents are pretty standard, you can get them from elsewhere.

>>6948975
Fucking up a soft modded hdd is pretty much no problem these days, XBHDM Rebuild with a USB SATA Adapter solves everything, the only truly vital thing is as you say the drive EEPROM.
Everyone should make sure to get those 8-10gb Seagates pieces of shit out of there and those awful chang capacitors.

Also for anyone wanting to rebuild their HDD with XBOX HDM23 just a couple of tips
1 Place the EEPROM in the same location as the xboxhd.bat
2. Plug in the USB adapter with the drive and format the disc, after doing that you have to delete the volume leave the space unallocated this is key otherwise XBOXHDM23 does nothing
3 Start the software with admin privileges. Rebuild the drive when it is done doing so be sure to LOCK the drive and check if it really did so
4 Next time you start the XBOX with the HDD you should get the softmod screen

>>6946992
NES and GB use either CR2025 or CR2032 iirc and getting tabbed batteries to make soldering them easy is not a challenge at all at least in the US. GBA uses a different smaller size slightly harder to work with but still not a challenge.

>>6949181
While I am here rambling on, has anyone noticed how there is no standardization of capacitor quality on the OG XBOX?
I have had everything from 1.1-1.6 and the amount of quality capacitors and where they are soldered is nothing but a lottery. Sometimes half the board are Nishicons sometimes you get about 2 of them. Recently I even encountered a Sanyo cap on a console that had never been opened.
I am in Europe btw, is it the same for the US?

I have a CRT pending repair. It's arcing, assuming the chassis but not entirely sure so need to get a look in action.
Are there any particular safety precautions for this? Also, if I need to fully remove the chassis is there any way to stop tubes from building charge? I might have to have it out for a few weeks due to time. I was thinking to get a busted flyback, cut the wire and ground the anode to the frame/ear if that would work?

>>6949206
Those were the years of the International Capacitor Plague, when some chinks thought they stole the formula for Nichicon or one of the other good brands, and made a bunch of counterfeit capacitors, but they got the formula wrong, and caps in FUCKING EVERYTHING started dying a few years later.
The clock cap on the xbox is special though, it's an early supercap, and is shitty all on its own.

>>6942320
I'm pretty sure it is the ribbon cable, which to my knowledge isn't worth the fix