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How to Test & Rejuvenate a Sony Trinitron CRT
Poor colour and white balance persist on a rebuilt Sony PVM 20M2MDU Trinitron, so the channel tests the tube with a B&K Precision 467 analyser and then rejuvenates it.
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Poor colour and white balance persist on a rebuilt Sony PVM 20M2MDU Trinitron, so the channel tests the tube with a B&K Precision 467 analyser and then rejuvenates it.
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Is an old, dead ATX power supply worth the time to repair? Tony359 puts one on the bench to find out what has failed and whether it can be saved.
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About a week of fault finding goes into an IBM PC 5150 motherboard pulled from e-waste, and the maker admits to almost giving up along the way.
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Out comes the oscilloscope for a dead Commodore 1541 disk drive, a short board model with an Alps mechanism, which the maker sets out to fix.
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The channel puts a Vectrex on the bench, updating its capacitors and chasing down a short, with other repairs along the way.
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Corrosion has killed a Neo Geo arcade board, by the maker's account, and 74XX Arcade Repair sets out to bring it back with tools and board knowledge.
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Power supply faults in a Commodore SX-64 are the last hurdle in part three, after which the machine is put back together.
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Several bad parts turn up in a 1976 Sony Trinitron KV1215 that has no power and no high voltage. The maker uses a Fnirsi 2C53T oscilloscope and traces what caused the failure.
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Corrosion and odd behaviour once it boots are the problems on this Amiga 500+, a donated machine the channel works through after getting it running.
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An MSI BX Master board is tested for Tualatin processor support, but corrosion on the board has to be dealt with first.
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A broken pad on a Tualatin Celeron 1200 took the core connection with it, so the maker cuts down into the substrate to reach it and rebuild the link.
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A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade board is on the bench at 74XX Arcade Repair, and the maker says the job ended with a real burn.
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The Amiga 3000's Flicker Fixer circuitry was damaged by a leaking NiCd battery, and this finale sets out how the maker plans to repair it, citing a linked article.
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Seven Commodore 64s of unknown condition are put to the test, after the maker builds and calibrates an OpenC64Saver to guard them against a failed 5V supply.
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RGB input is added to a Sony KV-27FV310 NTSC Trinitron to lift its picture quality, and the maker lists the soldering irons used.
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The Commodore SX-64's built-in CRT and its keyboard are tackled in part two of The Retro Collective's Trash to Treasure restoration series, with part three still to come.
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What is inside an Apple II+ that sat in a leaking shed for at least thirty years? Adrian Black opens it up, looks over the cards and tries to get it running.
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Found in the same shed as the recent Apple II+, a broken USI Pi4 amber monitor is the next job, and the maker sets about getting it working.
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A C64 ASSY 250407 showing random colours at startup is worked through by Jan Beta, who checks the voltages, a suspect power switch and the VIC-II in turn.
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After a ribbon cable was shifted with the power on, a Game Boy DMG lost its left D-pad and B button, and a CPU taken from a Super Game Boy replaces it.
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Why would a motherboard die whenever a sound card is plugged in? Tony359 goes after the fault on an Aztech card, and the job involves microsoldering.
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Atari Video Music is checked outward from its power supply. Timestamps run through voltage checks, signs of life, finding composite video and then adding a composite output.
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Fault finding on both an Amiga 3000 and its CRT monitor grows into a tangle of checks in part three of the series.
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Why does a Sony BVM 1311 monitor flash? The channel suspects a bad tube at first, but notes something smells fishy, and goes on to check the tube and other components.
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Neutralising and washing away battery leakage from the Amiga 3000T board and its expansion cards is the job in part 2 of a restoration series, with timestamps for each stage.
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Part 1 of a two part series follows an Australian Amiga 3000 that arrives for a small job and turns into a long repair of corrosion and electrolytic damage.
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A mystery Nintendo Vs arcade board leaves 74XX Arcade Repair blanking, a pun the maker promises will make sense after watching.
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An Amiga 500 with original Varta battery damage gets a new CIA, ROM work, a resistor removed and an LS157N mouse controller chip, followed by a deep clean and repainted metal.
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An Apple Monitor II with a high-pitched whine and a collapsed vertical picture is repaired in a step-by-step video from Retro Hack Shack.
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Calibrating a PlayStation 2 laser with PMAP over a USB to TTL cable is the centrepiece here, after the maker diagnoses a drive that no longer reads discs and cleans parts.
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Three PlayStation 2 power supplies are repaired, plus one more unit revisited from an earlier job, using a multimeter, desoldering tools and a capacitor discharging tool.
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Black screens, corrupt graphics and games that refuse to load on a Super Nintendo can point to a faulty CPU or PPU, and the maker sets out tips for diagnosing it.
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A Punch-Out arcade board puts up a fight as 74XX Arcade Repair works on it, and the maker links the tools used as affiliate links.
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Dan investigates a Japanese Sega Saturn that will not power up, leaves the CD drive still, and shows only faint signs of life, working through the faults found.
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Getting an UnMouse working has to come before judging it. Branchus Creations links a plus and minus power supply module, and the Pico ATX unit that failed along the way.
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A broken mini HDMI socket on an UltraHDMI HW2 board gets replaced using a hot plate and flux, with the part and tools listed under the video.
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An intermittent fault on a CompuAdd SCAT386SX motherboard takes a long diagnosis, one of the hardest the maker has dealt with. The C&T chipset datasheet is linked.
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After Hurricane Helene flooded a collection in Asheville, the first stage of cleanup surface-cleans mouldy retro computers and CRTs, leaving internal cleaning and testing for later parts.
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Neo Geo MV4 no boot repair begins here, with board cleaning, soldering a surface mount RAM chip and fault finding, plus talk of the custom chips, boot process and test methods.
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What is inside two bags of mystery Macintosh hardware, and can any of it be restored? Branchus Creations opens Bag A and Bag B in turn to find out.
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Sony Trinitron KV-G14B1 gets an RGB input modification, with the maker working from schematics and showing how to adjust the RGB and sync voltages so the set is not overdriven.
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A composite video signal is read on an oscilloscope, with the maker explaining blanking periods, colour burst phase and scope triggering, then tracking a bad signal on a Mega Drive 2 video adapter.
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This Slot 1 board from EMPAC and Creative, with SoundBlaster Live audio built in, will not POST. Severed traces are suspected after it came out of a scrapyard.
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Replacing sockets, reset and enable circuit chips and removing a shorted trace brings a Midway Galaga board back, using a Fluke 1090A to chase reset, ROM and RAM faults.
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Bits und Bolts finds that many secondhand Voodoo cards have chip legs lifted from their pads, then sets out to resolder every leg on a card fitted with faster memory.
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Overcurrent damage to a Nintendo Punch-Out arcade board is narrowed to the audio amplifier circuit and an LA324 chip, with repairs to battery leakage damage as well.
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The Retro Channel works through battery damage on a Commodore 386SX-16 board, covering disassembly, cleaning and trace restoration, with the board described as needing minor repairs.
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A GeForce 2 MX owned since 2001 stopped giving any picture, and chip removal practice later made the damage worse. Bits und Bolts tries to fix it twenty years on.
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A dead Panasonic FS-A1F MSX2 comes back to life as the maker checks V9938 outputs, clock signals and RGB and sync, then replaces the main board capacitors and the hybrid audio and video chip.
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The power supply of a Processor Technology SOL-20 is restored by replacing only the original parts that need it, including reforming bulk capacitors, in the first part of a museum series.
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Moving the CPU and RAM from an original Game Boy Advance board onto a Funnyplaying replacement motherboard is the job here. The maker rates it as advanced soldering work.
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The badly rusted mains power supply of a Commodore PET 4032 is restored and its large filter capacitor is reformed, in an episode that follows a first look and disassembly.
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Sharp's PC-7000, a lunchbox-style MS-DOS portable from 1985, is cleaned up, tested and then put to use by LGR.
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Noel's Retro Lab fixes a monochrome Amstrad CRT monitor and sets out working practices for a kind of set the maker describes as dangerous.
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Endless faults, in the maker's words, turn up on an uncommon ASK ATX55C Socket 7 board that Tony359 sets out to revive, starting with jumper setup and a first power up.
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The Gateway Astro all-in-one desktop from 1999 is repaired and tested, then set up to run Windows 98, in a video that also notes its Rugrats and Blue's Clues bundles.
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An Amptron PM-9600 Socket 7 board with the TX Two chipset is worked through from jumper setup and first power up to troubleshooting its voltage supply.
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Sony KV-32XBR45 Trinitron servicing starts with a look inside the set, then moves to cleaning, discharging the tube and testing, using a 240p test suite for the display.
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A CinemaTronics vector monitor comes in for repair in the first of three parts, with a high voltage probe and an oscilloscope among the kit listed.
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Previous owner modifications turn up as the maker investigates and strips down a 1978 Sharp MZ-80K, noting each change before restoring the motherboard in part 1.
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Why would an Oric Atmos show an "impossible" RAM failure? Noel's Retro Lab expects a fairly routine repair and ends up hunting for where the fault really lies.
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A Goldstar consumer tube goes into the 25 inch WG K7000 monitor of a CPS2 cabinet, and because that tube is dim the maker then tries rejuvenating it.
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Without a microprocessor, this 1976 Wang 2200F mini-computer runs on 113 discrete TTL chips. Episode 1 gives an overview, then takes the machine apart to look at its digital and analogue cards.
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A 1977 Sony Trinitron KV1541 colour set, a remote control model, goes through diagnosis and repair on the shango066 bench.
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Case, built-in monitor and microelectronics all get attention as the maker restores a 1977 Commodore PET 2001, one of the earliest home microcomputers, in part 1 of a series.
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Sony's 1976 KV-9200, a small early Trinitron, is worn out and broken, and the maker says it needed some repair before it would run again.
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A faulty 486 motherboard, later identified by the maker as a PCChips M921, is troubleshot by Tony359 with advice from the Vogons forum, and a reference page is linked.
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The Atari Lynx II gets new capacitors and a BennVenn LCD in place of its original screen, with a hot air station and microscope among the tools listed.
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An Amstrad CPC464 and its MP1 module go on the bench with a buzz, no power, a broken keyboard and a faulty cassette, to find out whether they can be saved.
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Why does an Amstrad CPC 464 show a garbled screen? Noel's first suspect, the CRT controller, turns out to be wrong, and the hunt moves through power, the gate array, ROM, Z80 and RAM.
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Rebuilding a Commodore 64 power supply means removing the potting, rewiring around a modern 5V module, testing, and tracing the machine's wires, with alternatives to rebuilding discussed.
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A torn funnyplaying GBA IPS kit ribbon has two repair routes, scraping back the solder mask to reach the traces or soldering onto the components instead.
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A BBC Micro is refurbished and detailed back towards factory condition in part two of a series, which also reaches the machine's Ashtray and finds problems in its power supply.
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A non-working IBM 5154 EGA monitor is bought to see if it can be saved from the recyclers, and the maker tests capacitors, replaces transistors and chases a grounding fault.
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An Electrohome G07 arcade monitor chassis gets a clean-up and a recap from Classic Arcade Repairs, who link the oscilloscope and desoldering tool they use.
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Blue smoke from failed Rifa X2 suppression capacitors is the starting point for servicing a BBC Micro power supply, with the smoothing capacitors replaced using a Retro Clinic kit.
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Modern Vintage Gamer looks at PS1Digital, a direct-from-motherboard HDMI mod for the original PlayStation, and says there are points to be aware of first.
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Can a tired, dim picture tube be brought back? Adrian tries rejuvenation on the CRT from a Macintosh Classic II, in part 4.5 of the Macintosh Repairathon series.
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Classic Arcade Repairs tests the AC power supply of a 1980 Midway Pac-Man, the part of the cabinet that powers the game board.
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Atari Lynx Model 2 consoles often fail to turn on, and here the power stage is rebuilt with a Digital Delights kit, replacing a MOSFET, diode, two transistors and a resistor.
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Crystals can be tested in circuit with an oscilloscope, and this C128 repair traces a missing clock to a dead one. The maker says the go/no-go test is done with the machine powered off.
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Old power supplies can fail and damage a Commodore 64, according to the maker, who builds a replacement and discusses what goes wrong in the originals and which voltages the machine uses.
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Can a GBA SP hold more charge? The maker builds a replacement lithium pack, aiming to lift capacity from 550mAh to about 900mAh.
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Colour fringing on a Sony PVM 1353MD is dealt with by positioning the deflection yoke and turning the adjustment rings on the tube neck.
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Three original Xbox consoles get repairs, from capacitor removal and new belts to a mended controller cable, with a warning against prising the case open with a screwdriver.
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A resistive dummy load built from power resistors or car light bulbs lets a vintage computer power supply be tested. The video also works through choosing values and a reference sheet.
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An IBM PS/2 P70 386 luggable that does nothing at all gets a teardown and some fixes from the maker, who says more work is still to come.
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What is wrong with a totally dead Vectrex bought as junk on eBay? The maker diagnoses the fault, after warning that the CRT can hold a deadly charge even when switched off.
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A Commodore 64 mainboard (assembly 250407) powers up to a black screen, and the maker troubleshoots it, with links on PLA chips and on how the maker removes chips.
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Ten Neo Geo MVS boards from a friend are being repaired, and the first three come up here with Z80, watchdog and SFIX faults on MV1A boards.
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How is screen tilt corrected on a CRT TV or monitor? The maker explains the deflection yoke in detail, then goes over adjustments and demonstrates some repairs and corrections.
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Surface-mount electrolytic capacitors that have leaked are replaced on a Macintosh Classic II motherboard, with guides to recapping other Macs linked.
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The 8-Bit Guy modifies a consumer CRT television so that it takes an RGB input, working inside the set itself.
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Part two of an RGB input mod for a consumer CRT television continues the work on the set, with a forum thread linked under the video for the mod itself.
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Restoring an Apple IIc monitor reaches its second part. The case is retrobrited, then the monochrome monitor gets a full tune up and alignment.
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Mac84 restores an original 1998 Bondi Blue iMac G3 to factory condition for its twentieth birthday, with a look back at the machine, a few games and a speed test.
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The Macintosh Classic II board gets solid polymer capacitors in a follow-up to the earlier repair, and the maker regrets assuming tantalum parts for the 47uF positions could not be found.
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After a Macintosh Classic II turned unreliable, Tech Tangents opens the case and cleans leaked electrolytic fluid off the board, calling it a stopgap until the capacitors are replaced.
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The 8-Bit Guy restores an IBM PCjr to its original condition and also repairs a monitor that was damaged while being shipped, with a guest channel linked.
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Can two broken Laser XT compact computers make one working machine? The 8-Bit Guy tries to combine them, alongside a complete restoration of the result.
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A Commodore PET from the late 1970s gets its keyboard repaired, its screen brightened and its case cleaned by The 8-Bit Guy, who goes through each job in turn.
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Solder bridges, the blobs that can wreck a video mod, get their own removal method as a PixelFX N64Digital kit is fitted to a Nintendo 64.
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A free 19 inch Dell M992 CRT monitor, built by Samsung in 2002, arrives filthy and beaten up, and Adrian's Digital Basement sets about tuning it up.
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Can a Game Boy Advance run on a television over HDMI? Voultar fits the GBA Consolizer kit, which turns the handheld into a console with an HDMI output.
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Resets in the middle of a game on a Sega Dreamcast are traced to the power supply socket, whose pins are cleaned after the supply is lifted out of the console.
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Voultar sets out how to fit their own video driver board to a SNES 1CHIP console for a cleaner picture, and adds a ghosting fix of their own design.
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A PC Engine that does not work is probed with a meter until the break in the board turns up, and the video then restores the plastic housing.
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NESRGB, a kit by Tim Worthington, goes into an AV Famicom for RGB video. Most of the time goes on lifting the PPU, which the maker says people find hard.
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Voultar strips down a Japanese PC Engine Duo that has never been serviced, and spends most of the time on cleaning leaked electrolytic fluid off the board.