Vince's Ebay Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)

Diggsy said:
Looking good! Can’t believe how many different consoles and handhelds you either own or have worked on!

Don’t think I’ve got any treasures lurking around…although I have a box of DS bits in the garage and I did find an Adman Grandstand 2600 lying in my mum’s loft, along with a tatty box! No idea if it works, but I’m sure that thing must be ancient
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I think right now I have almost 40 consoles :cry: Some collections are bigger than others, pretty much all of them are modded in some way or another. Apart from my saturn.... and my n64
 
Diggsy said:
40 consoles, my goodness! :eek::cry:
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I counted the ones I currently have in my office, excluding my for sale consoles or stuff im working on for others, the current console list looks something like this... pretty much all of these were bought as faulty or had some sort of issue and all bar the ps3 are now working and ready to use, total count about 34 consoles, I haven't included some little handhelds I also have on the shelf in boxes:

Nintendo Consoles

Gameboy DMG - IPS, Atomic Purple
Gameboy Pocket - IPS, Clear Blue
Gameboy Color - Q5 IPS, Lipo, UV Shell
Gameboy Advance - Laminated IPS, smoked shell, clicky shoulders, clicky buttons, led mods
Gameboy Advance - Laminated IPS, UV Shell
Gameboy Advance SP - AGS 001 Front lit - Stock
DSi - Stock
DSiXL - Stock
3DSXL - Modded with Pokemon XY Shell.
Switch Lite - Pokemon special
Switch OLED - Modded - Instinct v6, Pokemon Special
Snes - Stock
N64 - CIB Goldeney Edition, Extra Pad - Pads both restored
Pokemon Pocket Mini

Sega Consoles

Game Gear - Modded - Shell, IPS, Lipo's etc.
Nomad - In the queue to be modded. will be getting DFO and IPS mods
Master System Mk2 - Composite mods
MegaDrive 1 - CIB
Saturn - CIB
MegaDrive Mini - Modded using my Super Storage mod. CIB.

Sony Consoles

PSP - Stock - Mint condition.
Vita - Modded - Lots of repair work on original port, complete reshell, new battery etc.
PS1 - xStation Mod
PS2 Slim - Stock CIB.
PS3 - 60GB BC Model - Currently in parts for some repairs
PS4 - White Non Pro Model.
PS1 Mini - Stock - Thinking about modding it but havent ever used it.

Others

Atari Lynx MK1 - Modded BennVenn IPS.
Wonder Swan - IPS
Swan Color - Stock
Neo Geo Pocket Colour - IPS Modded
XBOX 360 - Want to do a nand sandwich on this but havent found the time.
XBOX One - Just sitting in a corner unloved.
Steam Deck
 
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Diggsy said:
That’s an awesome haul right there! Brings back some very fond memories of old Nintendo consoles and hours wasted playing Mario Kart :D
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Should hopefully be getting some more for me next week :D probably a ton to sell but im excited as there is another saturn and i noticed a copy of panzer dragoon up in there... If I can get that :D there is a CIB NES, CIB dreamcast... so many consoles I kinda need to play with :D Ive somehow become a bit of a game snob as well - I have some titles in here that fetch what I consider silly money for a game :cry:

In my head mario kart has basically never changed but i played some snes mario kart and yea its changed a fair bit since its inception :)
 
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So last night I broke my iron before managing to actually do what I was I was planning on doing. Ive now had to buy a new iron to fix my iron :cry: - Down side is im sitting here twiddling my thumbs today with no idea what to do with myself :cry:
 
Vince said:
So last night I broke my iron before managing to actually do what I was I was planning on doing. Ive now had to buy a new iron to fix my iron :cry: - Down side is im sitting here twiddling my thumbs today with no idea what to do with myself :cry:
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Awh man…plus side is you get a new toy to fix your other toys :D

Minus side is you can even prepare a guide for us not so talented folk, as your iron is broken :cry:
 
New iron turned up, was 30 quid dirt cheap from amazon, wasn't expecting much but it came with a couple of t12 tips compatible with my current iron, some 60/40 rosin core, tweezers, solder sucker etc so even if it was bad as long as I could fix mine it was golden... really impressed with it to be honest. I've fixed my iron but I'm just going to use this instead.



30 quid for a t12 iron that works as well as this, forget the generally bad amazon reviews, this is pretty good, at first glance and first use it might even work better than my old iron, especially standby etc seems to just work better, my old one hated coming out of standby and you had to manually do it, this one it just works.... seems astonishing value to me.

After I fixed my station I thought why not quickly see what the solder is like, Recapped a quick sound board and it's not as nice as my current stuff but perfectly serviceable and even flows quite nicely:

 
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That looks good for £30! With your expertise I’d pull it apart and check the internals just to be sure all is as it should be. Some cheap irons can be a bloody death trap the way they’re built! That one doesn’t look dodgy, but you can never tell what lurks beneath the cover…
 
Spent the last hour or more wrapping ebay items... Basically all my stuff just sold today... dunno why people insist on all buying on the same day... animals.
 
Got bored again, started working on my ps3. We are doing all the tokins and possibly an rsx swap later on but I'll need to buy some bigger toys to do that so we shall start with the tokins... only started prepping the board and got the first one done:

Best way I think is to pull back the mask on the ground plane like this and you can fit perfectly 6x 470uf's per tokin. Takes a bit more time in prep but this imo looks better than having them at an angle.



1 done and 7 more to go!!
 
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I don't know how i missed this thread, but its awesome! Nice work Vince. I like to dabble in the old mods/repairs once in a while (which lately just seems like i'm constantly re-capping old motherboards!)

That Iron looks interesting. I may take a punt on it. I also need to replace the belt on my Twin Famicom. At some point i want to do the NESRGB kit mod, but its been years since i looked into it. Need to find someone who sells the kit in the UK.
 
cee-S-dee said:
I don't know how i missed this thread, but its awesome! Nice work Vince. I like to dabble in the old mods/repairs once in a while (which lately just seems like i'm constantly re-capping old motherboards!)

That Iron looks interesting. I may take a punt on it. I also need to replace the belt on my Twin Famicom. At some point i want to do the NESRGB kit mod, but its been years since i looked into it. Need to find someone who sells the kit in the UK.
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I keep it hidden in here out of the way of the riff raff.... Early on in the thread I was going to move it to GD but I decided against it :)

The iron is good man, at least so far... I did fix up a few GG boards over lunch and its perfect, works a lot better than my previous t12 clone in terms of standby etc... so far so good!
 
So this is a bit rough, somebody sent me one of those new navi based xbox machines with a really mangled hdmi port, I was thinking swap the port and we will be all good. No such luck, new port and it beeps on beeps off. The port should have 5v on pin 18, not this one, nada... and back from that it has some transistors that produce 5v for the port and seem to be fed by 3.3v. Anyway long story short, The ESD chip is blown and transistor that feeds the circuit was also blown. I took the transistor off of a donor so thats good but we dont have a donor ESD chip, not wanting to stump up £50 on a chip for a board that's had work before (It's got a ripped trace on the esd from previous work) And I cant be sure it will actually work anyway I decided to bypass the ESD circuit, at least for now and see if it still beeps on and beeps off - This is the ESD bypass, not my best work but i also wasn't working from a great base :cry:



Anyway after all that put the console back together, same old story beep on, beep off, but at least we have the right voltages around the circuit :D Anyway did a bit more digging and booted the console without it's ssd and what do you know, it stays on. Doesnt show anything on screen but doesnt beep on and beep off. I decided to then plug the nvme into my wifes machine and what do you know...



So it's SSD is also shot! On these the efi is on the ssd! Like a macbook if the ssd dies you are done, such a stupid design. Luckily I can still see its partitions so hopefully I can pull all the data off of it and onto a new drive. Owner is sending me a replacement drive for it from another donor console so ill let you know how we get on.
 
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