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Anonymous Wed Jan 29 20:43:48 2020 No.6167145 [Reply] [Original]

My Dad threw out my Dreamcast when I went to college. Of course by then the laser was failing and it shut it self off from overheating every 5 minutes.

Is it true that that by the time they start doing that, they're unsalvagable and should just be thrown out anyway, even with gdemus?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 29 20:49:51 2020 No.6167160 >>6167145 >dying laser no biggie, just gdemu >overheating that’s more serious, at that point just get another Dreamcast and keep the old one for parts

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 29 20:59:25 2020 No.6167173 >>6167145 Vast majority of heat generated should be from the power supply. If mine overheated I'd replace it. Still, 5 minutes? That's either a shitload of dust/grime or an actual electrical fault.

>>	Best Boy Wed Jan 29 21:03:00 2020 No.6167181 >>6167160 That probably wasn't why it was resetting. They get corrosion on these bigass pins that iirc the mainboard plugs directly into the power supply with and that causes intermittent resets or freezes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 29 21:04:36 2020 No.6167183 >>6167160 >>6167173 It was sitting idle for quite a few periods so I guess it was dust buildup. Still, coulda sold it not working on eBay for like 30 bucks

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 29 21:05:39 2020 No.6167185 >>6167181 That an easy fix?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 29 21:05:56 2020 No.6167187 >>6167181 Sometimes what would happen is the battery would leak all over the internals and cause electrical gremlins and shortages.

>>	Best Boy Wed Jan 29 21:08:57 2020 No.6167196 >>6167185 Yeah you just clean the pins >>6167187 Dreamcasts just have button cell batteries. I've never seen one catastrophically leak

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 30 02:03:15 2020 No.6167739 >>6167145 Chinks make Dreamcast power replacement boards, how good they are I dunno-

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 30 16:40:35 2020 No.6168730 >>6167145 I bought a replacement gdrom on ebay works just fine, for the heating problem you could just get a pico psu, real easy mod just take the power supply out no soldering required. Dreamcast are faulty but easy to fix and have cheap parts

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 30 17:59:21 2020 No.6168853 File: 687 KB, 1024x670, 1521141713815.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6167145 He tried to save you. >Finally my son is going to put old video games behind him, and have sex. Why didn't you listen?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 03:42:23 2020 No.6169929 My tv doesnt accept the vga signal. Whats a good transcoder to hdmi?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 11:46:32 2020 No.6170510 >>6169929 Behar bros gekko vga box

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