Finally got around to getting a clean system installed onto the LC 475 I picked up a few weeks back. I’ve taken some video of the install process, and although the hard drive sounds like it is going to shatter, … Continue reading
Category: Repairs
Sega Mega Drive Model 1 Repair Yellow / Green Flickering
Replaced the Sony video chip and it works like it was new. Broke it in with some Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid … Continue reading
Sega Mega Drive 32X Repair – No Display, No Sound
No life from your Sega Mega Drive 32X? It might just need a bit of TLC. Clean it up using a little bit … Continue reading
Sega Mega Drive 32X Bad Video
Picked up three 32X units off the internet that were sold as-is. Found that three of them all work … Continue reading
Sega Saturn Rolling Horizontal Lines – Discovery
Two Sega Saturns, two identical games, two power supplies that show rolling horizontal lines. The best solutions always seem to come about from accidents.
I was testing my Japanese Saturn on my 240V -120V transformer last night, that project … Continue reading
Acquisitions Inbound
Picked up a Sega Mega-CD video tape advertisement. Brand new and sealed. Look forward to opening it up, smelling that 90s air and uploading the video to YouTube. Stay tuned for that. I’ll need to upload the Saturn demo VHS … Continue reading
Hibernation Mode – Activated
It’s pretty cold here at the moment and I am in the process of moving house, so things have slowed down a significantly. I am currently looking into purchasing an old PC from my youth. When I was a child … Continue reading
Sony CXA1145P DIP-24 RGB Encoder
I was going to just sell this one for scrap. I did some more tests and found that the video flicker I had found when testing happens on a cold boot only. After running for thirty minutes or so… no … Continue reading
Sega Saturn Sophia Dev Kit – Internal View
She’s a bit dirty, I’ll give her the best clean ever and make her shine like new! Sadly non-functional due to a complete … Continue reading
Amstrad Sega Mega PC 486 CPU Upgrade Failure
First up we have some test desoldering of a RAM chip off a RAM chip board to see if this would even work … Continue reading
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