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

Had a bit of a result the other day, managed to pick up a Pace soldering station, with a load of attachments, the only thing i dont have is the hot air attatchement. I remember buying a similar one for work in a previous job, and it wasnt cheap!

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Now i need to find stuff to fix lol. Would be nice to add a scope and sig gen to the kit, but i dont really have the space, or the skills yet to use them properly.
 
Tinders said:
Had a bit of a result the other day, managed to pick up a Pace soldering station, with a load of attachments, the only thing i dont have is the hot air attatchement. I remember buying a similar one for work in a previous job, and it wasnt cheap!

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rTE096B.jpg


Now i need to find stuff to fix lol. Would be nice to add a scope and sig gen to the kit, but i dont really have the space, or the skills yet to use them properly.
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think i have a 1650 gpu no power around somewhere
 
Armadillo said:
I thought you couldn't get the stuff for retrobright in the uk anymore? I looked into it as my snes is yellow and just saw people complaining you can't get the hydrogen peroxide in a high enough concentration for it to work properly :(. I never looked into it any further after that.
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I think the last time I tried retro brighting I used 12% cream from Amazon and it worked, I left it over 2 days with uv lights on.
The brand was Truzone Cream Peroxide.
 
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Vidar said:
Hey Vince have you ever changed/upgraded the switches on a logitech mouse? Wanting to do it to mine as I'm getting the double click issue but I don't have the knowledge, skills or tools.
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Lets do it :) sounds like fun! - pm me.. :)
 
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Chaos said:
I think the last time I tried retro brighting I used 12% cream from Amazon and it worked, I left it over 2 days with uv lights on.
The brand was Truzone Cream Peroxide.
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yea I use a cream peroxide. 12% 40 vol - Generally leave it about a day under my uv flood. give it a good touch up every4 to 8 hours or so.
 
I did get myself some more things from Japan to fix. :)



Might have already modded all these to english translations..



I also fixed the swan and have ordered in some random stuff for the pocket screens.. let's see if I can restore them.. it won't be easy as it's both front and rear polarising filters so we shall see, first one is stripped down and I'm waiting on parts :)

I am not sure ive posted this before but battle spirit, grab a 10k resistor and run a jumper just like this...



And boom you got yourself an english copy.
 
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Vince said:
I did get myself some more things from Japan to fix. :)



Might have already modded all these to english translations..



I also fixed the swan and have ordered in some random stuff for the pocket screens.. let's see if I can restore them.. it won't be easy as it's both front and rear polarising filters so we shall see, first one is stripped down and I'm waiting on parts :)

I am not sure ive posted this before but battle spirit, grab a 10k resistor and run a jumper just like this...



And boom you got yourself an english copy.
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Amazing to think such a relatively easy fix sorts the translation!
 
Chaos said:
I think the last time I tried retro brighting I used 12% cream from Amazon and it worked, I left it over 2 days with uv lights on.
The brand was Truzone Cream Peroxide.
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[Death] said:
12% pure is fine, easy to find on google in uk :)
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Vince said:
yea I use a cream peroxide. 12% 40 vol - Generally leave it about a day under my uv flood. give it a good touch up every4 to 8 hours or so.
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Thanks.

Will get some uv leds and get on that when I have time.
 
Platinum Pete said:
Just read through several pages of this thread and some seriously cool stuff you are fixing there, inspiring to read. Sorry if it's been asked before, but are you doing this as a business or a hobby?
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I do it as a hobby in my spare time :) I just get the urge and away I go prodding stuff with the soldering iron :) I do have a ton of thread updates but work has been keeping me very busy - I'll update the thread at some point over the next few days! Got a really interesting cart build im working on! Im trying to work out if I can build a copy of the rarest most valuable swan game but am waiting for tons of parts from Japan and China to test out my theories :D
 
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Meet the full swan bootleg / translated cart collection! All technically on original PCB's apart from 2 games here but the collection is slowly growing! I have about half ish of whats available to us in terms of translations! FF2 and GunpeyEX missing from the image! I have a CIB copy of FF2 coming so that will end up full CIB but translated. :)



BTW some really great little games on this console! Im sort of addicted to klonoa moonlight museum and Mr Driller! Great little games Klonoa is a must play to be honest and a superb little platform game! Happy with the collection so far! Some are a lot harder than others to make... Still fighting my copy of tetris for example as although the rom only needs 1kbit of eeprom, normal rom and mapper I cant seem to get it to save to eeprom for love nor money so perhaps some more work to do on that one! It's tetris though so its awesome and I will get the eeprom working at some point. Normal rom size on the pcb is 2048b and I kinda expected it to work with my new rom chips but yea, it doesnt and the pinout for the rom chip is the same so I must be missing something
 
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