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

Everybody likes a 3DS right? My one had that dodgey charge port so today I spent just a little time having a look given I ordered a port a while back. what I found was interesting, I stripped the console down whipped off the old port and straight away noticed they are different. Old 3ds has a surface mount design whereas the new 3ds has a through board design on the pins. Rather than order a new port and wait I tried my luck... I sanded down the edges of the port as the new one is a bit larger, bent all the legs roughly where they should be and winged it!



Nasty old port and yes im forever burning the lights on my scope :D ...



New 3DS port bodged onto the old 3ds!



Slapped it back together real quick and it works perfectly! I did clean up and make better joints than in this pic but forgot to photo it! That will do for now although I do feel like I should probably buy the right port for it, I probably owe it that much :cry:
 
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Alpherah said:
You really should start a pc thread -‘this ones been amazing ^^

Would love to get into this kind of thing but wouldn’t know where to start
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I have been kinda going back and forth on this. On the one hand it would be awesome to have the both and have all kinds of cool repairs in their respective places, on the other hand will I be able to commit a decent amount of time to both threads and the repairs that I can keep the other thread moving and semi interesting? I might get a couple of repairs under the belt on the PC side and see if I can actually repair a GPU or Motherboard for example before I open the thread and embarrass myself :D - I am fairly sure I can for example fix a dead board or GPU but haven't committed the time to prove that I can. I think this is going to be a watch this space. Ill update if I do any PC repairs in here but perhaps not share all the photos etc and save a few for a new thread.
 
Vince said:
I dont get it... why? whats the point, just make a device that plays a dvd. I mean it has a dvd drive so why not?
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If you're producing millions of consoles why pay the DVD license cost if the buyer does not use that feature. It's the same with the the new Xbox's but instead of a dongle the license gets activated over the internet the first time you watch a movie. If you have an internet outage and have not activated the license previously you literally can't watch a Blu-Ray.
 
DIABLO said:
If you're producing millions of consoles why pay the DVD license cost if the buyer does not use that feature. It's the same with the the new Xbox's but instead of a dongle the license gets activated over the internet the first time you watch a movie. If you have an internet outage and have not activated the license previously you literally can't watch a Blu-Ray.
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With the cash they make over the life of a console you would think they would just bundle it in and be done with it. I'm pretty sure my ps1 could play dvds back in the day without any of that nonsense. Either way I'm learning new stuff every day.

For what its worth the xbox now works but the laser is properly noisy and load times very slow. I will order a cheapo laser replacement from china to keep this within sensible money so it can be revived and sent to a new home. Bought splinter cell for a whole £1 from CEX this morning :cry:
 
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Vince said:
With the cash they make over the life of a console you would think they would just bundle it in and be done with it. I'm pretty sure my ps1 could play dvds back in the day without any of that nonsense. Either way I'm learning new stuff every day.

For what its worth the xbox now works but the laser is properly noisy and load times very slow. I will order a cheapo laser replacement from china to keep this within sensible money so it can be revived and sent to a new home. Bought splinter cell for a whole £1 from CEX this morning :cry:
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Sony were one of the creators of the DVD format so it cost them nothing to bundle the functionality in. The same with the Blu-Ray which Sony exclusively created.
 
DIABLO said:
Sony were one of the creators of the DVD format so it cost them nothing to bundle the functionality in. The same with the Blu-Ray which Sony exclusively created.
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Ahh makes sense Microsoft don't want to give money to the competition I didn't even think about it to be honest... Just thought it was a bit of a cheek. Getting old and expect things to just work.
 
@Vince

Is it a co-incidence, or are you the chap also called Vince who has a youtube chanel with repairs mostly of game consoles and the like?

Only skim read thread, so sorry if its already been asked....
 
Adam_151 said:
@Vince

Is it a co-incidence, or are you the chap also called Vince who has a youtube chanel with repairs mostly of game consoles and the like?

Only skim read thread, so sorry if its already been asked....
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Coincidence, we are different Vinces. I don't have a youtube channel that repairs stuff but I am a Vince that also repairs stuff! I did have a look though as was curious, the other Vince is a switch killer :cry:
 
I am not sure how many of these I have already shared but some of the recent pickups that we will be working on :)



Still waiting on parts for:

OG xBox
Master System

Decided to list the DMG Gameboy as honestly I feel I would only like one that isn't fully working to mod etc so this one is too good for me and is now on the bay and already at £36 with 6 days remaining. I also have a load of switch parts listed to scrape back some of the cash for the one I gave away :)

Probably most looking forward to the PSP as just feel they are seriously underrated little machines. If I'm lucky there may be the charger for it in all those wires! Time will tell.
 
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I've noticed I can get full replacement PSP shells on Taobao here for about 25 quid. My 1000 is a bit tired now but I'll never sell this one as it's just got so many good titles on it.
Thinking of changing it from the scratched up black original, to a white shell. IPS kits available, but I've never found the PSP screen to be bad, even the original model.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
I've noticed I can get full replacement PSP shells on Taobao here for about 25 quid. My 1000 is a bit tired now but I'll never sell this one as it's just got so many good titles on it.
Thinking of changing it from the scratched up black original, to a white shell. IPS kits available, but I've never found the PSP screen to be bad, even the original model.
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Yea they seem to be pretty cheap, if you wanted you could just replace the face plate and that costs about £10 or so I think. My current one is a 1003 and I am the same as you the screen is perfectly good, I really don't think it needs an IPS really.
 
I will have a little look at the shield again and see but I'll have to shift a few more things as my office has just filled up with stuff again...

First up is the little psp. It's a 1004 and it's in really nice condition, it didn't have a battery but I happen to already have a spare.



Not a scratch on this thing its in much nicer condition than mine...

Ps2 stuff...



New on left, mine on the right... at first I thought it worked but then realised the charge port doesn't work








It reads games fine, everything is nice. I'll think I'll sell my 1003 and keep this 1004.

Now what I didn't notice is that 2 of the psp games are French. And about 5 of the ps2 games are French. PSP console is set to English

Add psp to the list of waiting for parts.
 
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Small update - Couple of sales this morning. Another switch sold for £135 overnight and we also made £15.99 back on a working switch lite daughter board so we are scraping back the smaller amounts on the excess parts which is good. Think today ill fire up the PS2 and see what she does.

Will be updating the spreadsheet later today / tomorrow or perhaps next week once some of the other kit sells at auction. So far so good though we are certainly operating in good profit.
 
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