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Stop Replacing NES 72-Pin Connectors - Refurbish & Revive Your Original!
A NES that blinks or will not load games gets its original 72-pin connector cleaned and refurbished rather than swapped for a replacement.
Audience
Some experience
You know the basics and want to go deeper.
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Acorn RISC PC 600 battery damage repairs
What has a leaking battery done to an Acorn RISC PC 600? TheRetroChannel works through the damage it has left and sets about repairing it.
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5 Ways To Remove Surface-Mount Capacitors | One Is The Best!
Five ways to remove surface-mount electrolytic capacitors from ageing consoles are compared, before they can leak corrosive fluid onto the board.
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How To Replace a Gameboy Cartridge Battery
How do you replace a Game Boy cartridge battery? The maker solders in a fresh CR2025 cell, using flux, a 3.8mm bit, tweezers and isopropyl alcohol for tidying the joints.
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Damaged PCB Trace Repair Tutorial
Damaged tracks on a circuit board can be bridged to restore continuity. The maker lists the tools needed and sets out one commonly used technique for the repair.
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Atari 2600 X2 – Let's repair two Atari 2600s and do a composite video mod.
A Light Six and a 4-switch Woody Atari 2600 are cleaned and tested, with an RF fix on the Light Six and a composite video mod to finish.
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Sony PlayStation Faulty Laser Repair (And voltage adjustment)
A PlayStation with a dead laser gets its pickup repaired in a short GadgetUK video that also covers a voltage adjustment.
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How to fix yellowed plastics on old computers!
Yellowed case plastic on old computers is the problem the 8-Bit Guy takes on, after reading about retr0bright results elsewhere and deciding to try the method and report back.
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I Bought a BOXED Atari 2600. The Picture Was a Disaster.
A boxed early UK Atari 2600 Light Sixer, distributed by Ingersoll, arrives with a picture the maker calls a disaster, and the work sets out to put it right.
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I Gave Atari’s Biggest Failure the Upgrades It Deserves
A filthy, neglected Atari Jaguar gets a full restoration and modern upgrades, and the maker then looks at newer accessories made for the console.
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Amiga 1200 from where Forrest Gump lives.
Amiga 1200 recap, floppy repair, ROM swap and hard drive build all happen on one untouched machine. The maker also builds a disk image in WinUAE and cleans a floppy drive.
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An Ebay Amiga 600, Single malt Scotch and FOOD!
An Amiga 600 from eBay is repaired and recapped, and a socketed crystal leads to the discovery of a damaged wire.
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A NewJoisey Amiga 1200 and FNIRSI LCR ESD Tweezers
A leaking Amiga 1200 gets new capacitors, and the maker also tries out a pair of FNIRSI LCR meter tweezers for measuring components.
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Restoring the Nintendo Console That Nintendo Didn’t Make
Sharp built its own version of the Famicom in 1986, combining two pieces of Nintendo hardware in one unit, and a broken Twin Famicom is taken apart and restored.
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Amiga Tower of Power - A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?
Was there more to the Amiga 1200 than first seemed? The maker repairs one and builds it into a tower case to find out.
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This Dead Game Boy Was Hiding a Nasty Surprise…
Dead vertical lines on the LCD and corroded battery terminals are among the faults on a Game Boy DMG that arrived dead, before a recap, reflow and shell restoration.
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Scam or Steal? Paid $119 for 2 "Untested" Sega Game Gears
What is wrong with two untested Game Gears bought as a job lot? The maker strips both down, finding earlier repairs, corrosion and flux residue on one and a much cleaner second console.
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Using the Greaseweazle as a powerful disk drive diagnostic tool
Failing floppy drives are routine on retro computers, and the Greaseweazle running GW-DIAG is used to test them, including a Panasonic JU-475 and a Shugart SA-400.
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Restoring One of the Most Expensive Gaming PCs of the 80’s and 90’s
Sharp's X68000 was one of the most expensive gaming computers of the 80s and 90s, the maker says, and one is restored and modified with modern upgrades.
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LCD Replacement for Sharp PC-1251 (Also, Dock Repairs)
Sharp PC-1251 pocket computers are prone to dead LCDs, and Tech Tangents swaps in a new panel. The video also goes through repairs to the machine's dock.
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Restoring a TRASHED Game Boy DMG (Play It Loud) | Complete Restoration & Repair
Restoring a Play It Loud Game Boy DMG takes in repairs to the LCD, headphone jack and power switch, then a retrobrite, an LCD reflow and recaps, from Retro ER.
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Impossible Repair of a Completely Corroded Game Boy (Full LCD & Power Switch Teardown) | Restoration
Heavy rust on a Game Boy DMG leads to repairs on the power switch and link port, a recap of the CPU board, an LCD swap and a test for horizontal lines.
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Restoring a Junk Game Boy with $3 AliExpress Chips. Power, LCD screen and Audio Fix.
Multimeter checks, treatment of battery leakage and a full recap are followed by chip swaps, including the IR3R40 audio amplifier, on a Game Boy DMG that began with no power, sound or picture.
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Amiga 3000T Restoration Part 7: Repairing the Audio Issues
Part seven of an Amiga 3000T restoration goes after the audio filter fault. Earlier parts cover teardown, battery corrosion removal, board repairs, and recapping.
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Fixing up the classic 1999 Hewlett-Packard Pavilion PC
What is broken or missing inside a 1999 HP Pavilion 6535? LGR opens the 466MHz Celeron desktop and works through what needs repair and cleaning.
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One More Commodore 1531 Datasette Repair
Another Commodore 1531 Datasette turns up and needs mending, alongside a faulty 1531 adapter plug. Timestamps split the adapter repair from the Datasette refurbishment.
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Funnyplaying RetroPixel IPS LAMINATED Q5 LCD Kit for original Game Boy (DMG)
An original Game Boy (DMG) gets Funnyplaying's RetroPixel laminated Q5 IPS screen kit, with the seller's own picture-based install tutorial linked.
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1982 Atari Millipede Arcade PCB Reburbish/Repair 3-9-2026
Classic Arcade Repairs refurbishes and repairs a 1982 Atari Millipede arcade PCB, one more board from a channel with a large back catalogue of arcade circuit board repairs.
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Scrap Sega Game Gear Recap: Why Is It Still Dead? (Part 1)
Still dead after someone else recapped it, this scrap Game Gear (dual ASIC VA0 board) is stripped, cleaned of leftover electrolyte and recapped again, though part 1 ends unresolved.
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I Restored & Upgraded The Handheld No One Is Talking About
A forgotten WonderSwan handheld from the early 2000s is restored and fitted with a screen mod by The Retro Future, and the maker links the screen used.
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I Saved & Upgraded a Pokémon Blue Chewed by a Dog
A dog has chewed a Pokémon Blue cartridge, and The Retro Future sets out to save it and make it better than before, with an outside helper credited.
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Apple 400k Single Sided Floppy Drive Refresh
An Apple 400K single sided floppy drive, taken from the Lisa 2/5 under restoration on Adrian's main channel, gets a refresh of its own, with a Sony drive service manual linked.
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Mega Drive / Genesis Open Heart mod V1.0.1
TheRetroChannel fits version 1.0.1 of the Open Heart board into a Mega Drive, and the video opens with the parts needed and a Pico.
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This Master System II Mod Fixes What SEGA Got Wrong in 1990
A Master System II gets a complete RGB video upgrade and a power mod, with the maker walking through the full process of each.
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Fixing an Original Xbox DVD Drive Stuck Disk Tray (Samsung SDG-605B)
An original Xbox has a stuck DVD tray on its Samsung SDG-605B drive, and the maker's repair stretches beyond thirty minutes of video.
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Super Nintendo/Super Famicom Controller Refurb
Jan Beta refurbishes two Super Famicom controllers, fits replacement silicone pads and compares the regional variants. A separate video on retrobrighting is linked.
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Dreamcast Not Dead! Just Dirty | Local Score Repair
A Dreamcast sold as non-working turns out to run, just loud and filthy, so the maker deep cleans it, lubricates it and restores it.
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Preventative Maintenance: Recapping My Sega 32X + video noise fix
Sega 32X capacitors are replaced as preventative maintenance and to deal with video noise, with a Console5 capacitor set, solder braid and heat-resistant tape.
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I Tried to Repair this GameCube… Here's What Happened...
GameCube disc read failure leads to a capacitor swap and long troubleshooting on the drive, ending with an optical drive emulator fitted after the repair stalls.
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Disgusting Bug INFESTED PS2 - Let's Clean It!
A PlayStation 2 packed with dead roaches arrived part cleaned, and the maker works through the rest to find out whether cleaning is enough.
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A1200 Repairs / Upgrade / Timing Fix & More - Part 1
Why does an Amiga 1200 board misbehave on its floppy interface? Part 1 of a series looks at one strange fault, with capacitors, an FPU socket and a timing fix left for the next part.
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Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 with SoftMPU and Roland MT-32 emulation.
Several Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 ISA sound cards get repair attempts and are then tested with MPU-401 and Roland MT-32 emulation through SoftMPU.
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Paperboy Arcade PCB Repair - Lines Through the Sprites!
Why do lines run through the sprites on a Paperboy arcade board? 74XX Arcade Repair tracks down the fault behind the streaks in the graphics.
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PlayStation 2 Not Reading Discs? Here's a Cheap and Easy Laser Fix!
PlayStation 2 disc read errors are tackled on two consoles by cleaning the lens on the laser, which the maker says was all these units needed.
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EXTREME Dumpster-Dive Xbox Find - Restored(ish)
An Xbox bought online with a story of a dumpster rescue will not power up, so the maker sets out to see if a thorough clean is all it needs.
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This is so COOL! Using DiagROM to fix a dead Amiga 500. What an Amazing Tool!
DiagROM is used to find the fault in an Amiga 500 so badly broken that Amiga Test Kit will not run, with serial output and cable notes linked.
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EXTREME Flood Damaged Game Boy Colors - Restored(ish)
Flood water has got into a batch of Game Boy Colors, and Restorish sets out to bring them back, with a result the maker only calls restored(ish).
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Megadrive Controller Blob Chip Fix?!?
A third-party Mega Drive controller worked perfectly for around four years, then went completely dead, and GadgetUK looks into why.
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Broken ZX Spectrum Restored, Repaired, Modded & Upgraded!
Do all the capacitors in a ZX Spectrum need replacing? The maker also asks whether a membrane keyboard can be repaired, why the machine runs hot and how to connect it to a flat-screen TV.
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Pole Position II Arcade PCB Repair - Won't Boot!
A Pole Position II arcade board refuses to boot, and the maker works through the fault hunt as a follow-along repair.
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EXTREME Flood Damaged SEGA GENESIS CD - Restored(ish)
Can a Sega CD that has been through a flood be brought back? Restorish takes on a Genesis CD unit with extreme flood damage.
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Amiga tank mouse repair and calibration
An Amiga tank mouse goes from faulty to calibrated, with the Amiga test kit, new RM-065 trimpots and fresh dome switches, all linked by the maker.
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Rescuing this RARE Blue Game Boy
Yellowed blue plastic on a dead European Play It Loud Game Boy is the starting point, and the maker tries to restore as much of the handheld as possible.
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Repairing a Very Slow FIC 486-VC-HD Motherboard
Why does a FIC 486-VC-HD motherboard refuse to boot? A dead RTC module is the cause, and vswitchzero replaces it before examining a caching problem that hurts memory latency on many 486 boards.
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NES HDMI no-cut mod - LumaCode for the Nintendo Entertainment System
NES owners wanting a digital picture can follow a route that needs no board cuts, using LumaCode with RGBtoHDMI. Links include PPUDigitizer firmware and games that rely on colour emphasis.
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EXTREME Rust Damaged Special Edition Xbox - Restored(ish)
Rust has wrecked a special edition Xbox, and Restorish sets out to restore as much of it as possible, with 99% isopropyl alcohol among the products listed.
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Can We Rescue a Fire Damaged Game Cartridge from 1982? I don't know... #retrogaming #nostalgia #80s
Soot and heat have fused a ColecoVision Carnival cartridge after a house fire. The shell is opened, the board freed and the pitted contacts cleaned using isopropyl, and a printed replacement shell is planned.
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Restoring a 1997 Gateway PC! Windows 95 Pentium 2 Desktop
Gateway 2000 G6-233M from 1997 has a Pentium II MMX 233MHz inside, and the maker opens it up to find what is broken or missing before cleaning and repairing it.
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What is This GUNK - GameCube Controller Deep Clean
What is the gunk inside this GameCube controller? After a spill left the buttons sticky and the thumbstick gummy, the maker strips it completely for a deep clean.
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Scrapyard find: AMD Athlon and a Jetway 771AS motherboard
Bulging capacitors on a Jetway 771AS Slot A motherboard are swapped out, and the Athlon that came fitted to it is tested afterwards.
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We Found a Rare Nintendo M82 Kiosk System Covered in ***** | Trash to Treasure Part 1
Heavy grime covers a Nintendo M82 kiosk unit that nearly ended up as scrap, and part one of the restoration starts bringing it back.
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Test and try: Macintosh Centris 610 (with a "sassy" recap)
Is a 1993 Macintosh Centris 610 still working? Adrian Black opens the pizza box case, recaps and cleans the board, then gives the machine a test run.
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Can I Fix This DESTROYED Pokémon Red ?!
Dog chewing has wrecked a Pokemon Red Game Boy cartridge, and TronicsFix examines the damage to see whether it can be made to work again.
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Restoring an extremely rare, Belgian DAI PC (Part 1)
A Belgian DAI Personal Computer, a late 1970s 8-bit machine later used by TV stations for early digital graphics, is the subject of the first part of this restoration series.
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Let's fix a dead VARTA ravaged 486 motherboard
A 486 motherboard damaged by a leaking NiCd Varta battery is the patient, and Adrian Black tries to bring it back. An earlier video where it first appeared is linked.
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Sony PS1 optical drive laser repairs
A very unhappy PlayStation is the subject as TheRetroChannel turns to its laser assembly. The SCPH-9000 service manual is linked, and an earlier part covers the first faults.
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Fix common issue of 3dfx Voodoo 3 (black screen)
A Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card with a black screen is revived by Bits und Bolts, who says it may be a very common fault on old video cards.
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Williams Joust Controller PCB Repair Pat1 of 2
Williams Joust controller interface board has faulty player 2 controls, and the video goes through fault-finding steps plus the soldering and desoldering used for the repair, as part 1 of 2.
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The Bear-A-Byte PC: Pentium III Teddy Bear Computer
LGR spots a dirty Pentium III PC built into an IKEA teddy bear on Craigslist, then strips it down, cleans it and rebuilds it.
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When a battery leaks, does the motherboard make a sound?
Four old boards from a junk box, a 286, two 386DX and a 486DX with an overdrive CPU, are powered up to see which still work, with battery leaks in mind.
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Restoring and Upgrading a Gigabyte GA-586ATV Socket 7 Motherboard!
Failing capacitors get replaced on a Gigabyte GA-586ATV Socket 7 motherboard, and a replacement RTC module is sorted out, after a planned upgrade grows into a bigger job.
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Simple $7 Product Makes Installing the Pluto GC HDMI Mod Easier
Macho Nacho Productions sets Helder's flex ribbon cable for the Pluto IIx GCVideo kit against plug and play options such as the Carby, asking whether an internal GameCube HDMI mod is still worth fitting.
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Troubleshooting and Repairing a 3Dfx Voodoo 2!
Diamond Monster 3D II, an 8MB Voodoo 2 card, is diagnosed with debugging tools including 3dfx environment variables before the soldering iron comes out for a repair attempt.
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This C64 Mod Makes a Fantastic Tool for Testing Chips
A ZIF 64 diagnostic tool is built from spare Commodore 64 parts, then used to test some old Commodore chips for faults.
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VBIOS Bit Rot? Saving a Pair of Matrox AGP Cards
Two dead Matrox G100 and G200 AGP cards are troubleshot for vBIOS degradation, which the maker links to high failure rates in these series.
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Repairathon 2022: Trying to repair a Super Socket 7 mainboard.
Necroware continues a repairathon with an MSI MS-5169 Super Socket 7 board made for AMD K6-2 and K6-3 CPUs, aiming to bring it back to life.
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Repairathon 2022: A resurrection of the legendary Asus P2B
Asus P2B, a Slot 1 mainboard for Pentium II and Pentium III processors, gets a repair attempt as one episode of Necroware's 2022 repairathon series.
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Repairing the Legendary 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500!
A 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500, bought untested and as-is, has a long list of problems, and the maker sets out to restore it.
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Tutorial: Retr0Brite VAPOR | New BEST Way To Restore Yellowed Plastic In 2022!?!
A vapour form of retrobrite is put forward as a new way to restore yellowed console plastic, credited to Simon Lock, and the maker goes over how it compares with the older ways.
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Repairing the Number Nine Imagine 128 Series II video card
Number Nine's Imagine 128 Series II video card arrived defective, so the maker looks at its unusual hardware layout and attempts to get it working again.
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286 motherboard repair - VARTA battery leaked
A 12MHz 286 motherboard with 1MB of RAM has damage from a leaking Varta battery, and Adrian's Digital Basement sets out the repair of the board.
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Restoring Arcade Joystick for My Original PlayStation - Retro Console Restoration
A 1990s Asciiware arcade joystick for the original PlayStation sticks at times and has gone yellow. It also carries extra switches that simulate repeated button presses.
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Repairing The Legendary Gravis Ultrasound
A Gravis Ultrasound sound card bought broken gets a repair attempt from vswitchzero, who chose a faulty card over paying for a working one.
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Can I Fix This Broken Dragon 32?
Video and display faults on a Dragon 32 are repaired before it is upgraded to 64K of RAM, with a link to the memory mod used.
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COMMODORE 64 repair video - Part 1
A Commodore 64 bought locally in an unknown state is the subject of part one, with the maker asking whether it will work at all.
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Let's revive a 486 Soyo SY-025R mainboard with a sneaky secret
Someone else's earlier repair attempt complicates this Soyo SY-025R 486 mainboard, and Necroware explains why they dislike taking on boards that have already been worked on.
Publication or museum
Apple IIe (1983) Trash to Treasure | 'The Most Personal Computer' | Part 1
An Apple IIe that needs repair gets its first look in part one of a restoration, with background on the machine ahead of the repair.
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Restoring Arcade Controller for My Nintendo SNES - Console Restoration
The Asciiware Super Advance arcade controller for the SNES has dead buttons and switches and a little yellowing. The restoration begins with taking it apart, which needs only a standard Phillips screwdriver.
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Let's repair an old 286 mainboard Jaton JAM-2301-V1
Necroware takes on a donated 286 mainboard, the Jaton JAM-2301-V1, which the channel calls rare and more than three decades old, and tries to repair it.
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Let's repair one of the best 486 mainboard - Octek Hippo 15
Octek Hippo 15, a 486 mainboard built on the UMC8881 and UMC8886 chipset, gets a repair attempt, with documentation for the board linked.
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EASY TV-OUT IPS KIT FOR THE DMG! | RIPS V5 IPS
Retro Renew looks at an IPS kit, the RIPS V5, for the original Game Boy DMG. It adds a backlit screen and a video output for an external monitor.
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Reforming capacitors the easiest way, tutorial
The maker says reforming low-voltage, high-capacitance capacitors needs only a bench power supply, and the video opens with some theory on how reforming works.
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Black Screen VIC-20 Repair (And Start Sequence Exploration)
A VIC-20 with a black screen is the starting point, and Noel's Retro Lab works through wrong assumptions before rechecking them and exploring the machine's start sequence.
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I Restored This Yellowed Joystick and Play New Games with it - Retro Gaming Restoration
Why does a yellowed QuickShot Python 5 joystick drift to the right? The maker opens it, desolders the wires to part the pieces and sets about restoring it.
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Shuttle HOT-591P Super Socket 7 Motherboard - Test/Repair/Upgrade
Will a Shuttle HOT-591P Super Socket 7 board bought as spares or repairs work? The maker tests it, then tries a Pentium 90 in it.
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Let's repair a mystical issue with an old 386 mainboard
A strange fault appears on a 386SX board once used in an overclocking video, and Necroware investigates to find the cause.
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Tandy 102 Turmoil Pt.1 - Battery corrosion repair, hidden damage, LCD corruption fix
Why did a Tandy 102 stop working after storage? Hidden battery corrosion damage is tracked down until it boots, and an LCD corruption problem comes next.
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Launch Day Nintendo Restoration - Part 1!
Launch day NES restoration begins here with a breakdown, cleaning, parts pulled from a donor console, reassembly and a test, all in part one.
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Can the Sun Help This Amiga 500?
Can sunlight or liquid hydrogen peroxide bring back a yellowed Amiga 500 case? The video tries both, then swaps the internal floppy drive for a Gotek with an external OLED screen.
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Attempting to Fix a Black Screen Model 1 Sega Mega Drive
Black screen at switch on is all this Model 1 Mega Drive offers, so the maker takes the console apart to look for the reason and attempt a repair.
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Casio VX-4 Repair 2 - Extreme PCB repair of battery leak damage. Can we save this Pokécon?
A second Casio VX-4 Pokécon has a keyboard circuit board badly eaten by leaked battery residue, and the video works through a Pace Cir-Kit repair and a new battery contact spring.
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Ultimate RTC module replacement for Dallas DS1287, Benchmarq BQ3287, BQ4287 etc.
Dead real-time clock modules such as the Dallas DS1287 are the target of the nwX287, a drop-in replacement the maker presents for that chip and for the BQ3287, BQ4287 and ODN12C887.
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This SNES Game is Worth Around $400 IF I Can Fix It!
Several approaches are tried on a SNES cartridge with a badly damaged circuit board, sold on after someone else tried and failed to repair it. A linked article covers cartridge cleaning.
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RGR - 10 Minute Tips - XBOX Motherboard Acid Cleanup - #10minutetips
Corrosive damage on an original Xbox motherboard is cleaned up in one of RGR's ten minute tips, a short video with a single cleaning section after the intro.
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The truth about Retr0brite – busting myths with science…
Hey Birt sets the many Retr0Brite claims against research and science, aiming to separate myth from fact for anyone facing a yellowed plastic computer case.
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Atari 65XE restoration - summary of previous repairs and my retrobright method
An Atari 65XE finishes a run of repairs with a clean-up and a retrobright, and the video recaps the earlier parts along the way.
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I Found A 1987 PC Clone! Will it work?
A 1987 PC XT clone with a RAM problem goes on the bench, and the maker makes a new BIOS ROM from the Super PC/XT Turbo BIOS and tests it.
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HDMI For The Commodore 64 --OR-- Add HDMI To Your Vintage Computers! Part 6
Commodore 64 HDMI output comes from a component board by C0pperdragon feeding an RGBtoHDMI adaptor, after the maker rules out composite and compares other options.
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Disgusting Commodore 64 Restoration. Will It Work? (Part 1)
Will a badly weathered Commodore 64 work again? Part 1 opens it up, inspects and washes it, then moves on to the keyboard, retrobright treatment, springs and chip testing.
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Commodore 64 troubleshooting part 1 the basics - multimeters and alcohol
Armed with a multimeter, a toothbrush and alcohol, TheRetroChannel compares a healthy Commodore 64 board with a sick one and applies the same checks. It is part one of three.
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Retro Game Consoles Found in The DUMP! Let's Try to Fix Them.
A PlayStation and a Sega Genesis found at a city dump reach TronicsFix, one refusing to play a game and the other not starting at all.
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Commodore Amiga A1200 Controller Port Repair / FDD Service / ExpMem Error
An Amiga 1200 owned by William has one joystick direction not working, so GadgetUK164 repairs the controller port, services the floppy drive and cleans an expansion card.
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Can I Fix This Untested Acorn Electron? - Retro Repair
An untested Acorn Electron bought as spares or repair turns up keyboard problems and instability as it warms, and Retro Tech Repair works through them by trial and error.
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Commodore 64 Repair - Psychedelic Colors
Why does a bread-bin Commodore 64 flash psychedelic characters? The repair goes through a colour RAM swap, a PLA replacement and a sticking shift lock key, then a round of tests.
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I Restored This Destroyed Gameboy Advance SP - Retro Nintendo Console Restoration
Snapped in two, refusing to charge and carrying a damaged screen cable, a Game Boy Advance SP gets a replacement screen and a repair.
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Diagnosing and Repairing a Non-Booting Gameboy Color
Diagnosing a non-booting Game Boy Color comes down to one damaged via here, repaired with a length of wire while the maker talks through the steps.
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Fixing Someone Else's Gameboy Color Repair Attempt - Polarizing Filter, Capacitor and Trace Repair
A Game Boy Color that someone else failed to repair is redone, with corrosion cleared, a capacitor and battery terminal replaced, a broken trace mended and the polarising filter swapped.
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This NES Is Worth $200 - But It's Broken - Top Loader Repair + Mod
Can a NES-101 top loader that refuses to take a game be brought back? TronicsFix sets out to repair it, with an AV mod for better picture and sound planned once it works.
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Recapping a Faulty Sega Game Gear
Sega Game Gear with no screen and no sound is recapped in a livestream, where an ESR meter tests the original capacitors before the whole set is replaced for a customer.
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Another Way of getting Audio out of the BBC Micro Model B
The maker reuses the RF output socket on a BBC Micro Model B as a line out for recording its sound, which avoids drilling the case, unlike an earlier jack fitting.
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Colecovision Console Lot - Tear-down and Repair Part 1
A lot of Colecovision consoles is torn down and repaired over a series, and this first part opens them up and makes a start on their faults.
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Gameboy Capacitor Replace Quick Guide
Game Boy capacitor replacement is walked through with several ways to take the old parts off and two ways to fit new ones, plus advice to practise on scrapped boards first.
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Extreme Competition Pro Joystick Repair
Jan Beta sets out to rebuild two Competition Pro joysticks smashed into pieces, gluing the case parts, fitting new micro switches and working on the electronics.
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Amiga HDMI with a Raspberry Pi! (RGBtoHDMI)
Jan Beta tries a new method of getting pixel-exact HDMI from an OCS Amiga, using a Raspberry Pi running RGBtoHDMI with an adapter board, and links a follow-up on newer software features.
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1980 Midway Pac-man : How to replace the sound amp
How is the sound amplifier on a 1980 Midway Pac-Man board replaced? Classic Arcade Repairs takes out the old amplifier and fits a new one.
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Game Boy Color Q5 IPS OSD LCD Kit
A Q5 IPS backlit screen kit with an on screen display goes into a Game Boy Color, billed as larger than the stock screen.
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This N64 Zelda Game was LIQUID DAMAGED - Let's Try to Save it!
A liquid damaged Ocarina of Time cartridge for the Nintendo 64, sent in by a viewer, looks fine outside, and TronicsFix opens it to try to bring it back.
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Overvoltage Repair and Prevention on an Amstrad CPC 6128
Noel diagnoses an Amstrad CPC 6128 that had 12V fed into its 5V connector, finds mostly RAM chips failed, then fits a P6KE 6.8A diode to guard against a repeat.
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Acid Test!! Chemicals for cleaning up after leaking alkaline batteries.
The video compares several chemicals for cleaning a board after alkaline batteries have leaked, and explains why the electrolyte is corrosive.
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I Restored This Yellowed Junk Nintendo 64 - Retro N64 Console Restoration
No picture, a case yellowed from clear blue and white to green and yellow, and signs of liquid damage greet the maker on this Nintendo 64.
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Refurbishing a Nintendo Entertainment System - Part 1
A NES with a blinking red light and a grey or white screen gets a cart slot replacement and fresh electrolytic capacitors, once the RF and power housing is freed from the board.
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The WORST Game Gear Corrosion Ever
How bad can battery terminal corrosion get on a Game Gear? This one came from an online listing that showed damage, and the maker asks viewers for ideas on cleaning it.
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Fixing a mouse button: Genius GM-6
BitsUndBolts attempts to bring back a dead button on an old Genius GM-6 mouse, and links a pin-out diagram of the model.
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Commodore 1351 Mouse Repair
The Commodore 1351 mouse for the C64 and C128 is worked through in stages: taking it apart, checking the mechanics, cleaning the LEDs and sensors, then testing the cable.
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TRS-80 Coco 1 Repair and Mod - #SepTandy 2020
Never-opened since new, a TRS-80 Color Computer gets a keyboard repair, a composite video output mod, a motherboard recap and a clean, with chapters for each job.
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Resistance is futile Rejuvenating vintage computer keyboard key contacts
Amiga 500 keys that no longer register are the starting point for a method of reviving key contacts with too high a resistance. The video reports what failed and what worked.
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Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Repair - Bringing it Back to Life
Several faults turn up in a Commodore 1541 disk drive, and the repair includes mistakes along the way, with DeoxIT D5 and Tri-Flow lubricant among the products the maker mentions.
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Restoration of Extremely Yellow Broken Sega Saturn
A yellowed Sega Saturn that no longer reads discs is restored and repaired, with a link to the maker's own retrobriting tutorial for the plastic.
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Atari 800XL Restoration - Trash to Treasure Part 2
Part two of an Atari 800XL restoration moves to the outside of the machine, a full cosmetic job that brings out gloves and peroxide.
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I Restored and Upgraded This $2 Junk Original Gameboy - Console Restoration & Repair
Backlight and bivert chip modifications go into an original DMG-01 Game Boy bought as junk, which the maker restores and repairs first, then the colours are inverted back to normal.
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ZX-81 architecture overview and repair, mod and upgrade plan
The Sinclair ZX-81 gets an architecture overview and a tour of its board, then a repair, and the maker talks through plans for extensive modifications and upgrades.
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Commodore 64 Case Repair and Full Keyboard Service ⌨
A brittle Commodore 64 case that no longer holds screws is fixed with a case saver kit, before the keyboard is stripped, cleaned and serviced.
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Sony PlayStation 2 Restoration
After years of early 2000s dust, a fat PlayStation 2 is stripped down. Its DVD drive is cleaned, lubricated and fixed, case parts get a bath and a controller is cleaned.
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Giving the GameBoy Advance SP a headphone jack 17 years later
Fitting a headphone jack to a Game Boy Advance SP, a model that came without one, follows a method from another channel, and the maker admits there may be neater ways.
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Turbografx-16 - Part 1 - Repairing bad controller plug - Fixing Ebay Junk
A TurboGrafx-16 gives no response from its controller, and the maker traces the fault to a faulty controller plug before getting the console working again.
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Troubleshooting Vintage Computers #1 - Evaluation
Troubleshooting vintage computers starts with an evaluation of the basic subsystems a machine needs to work. The findings then point to a direction for further tests in this first part of a series.
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I Restored This $5 Ebay Junk Gameboy Advance. It Used to be Blue – Retro Console Repair
A Game Boy Advance sold as junk does not work and has turned deep yellow from its original see-through Glacier blue. Odd Tinkering sets out to restore it.
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Amiga 500 Restoration and Retrobrighting
Noel restores a Commodore Amiga 500, cleaning the case and keys, retrobrighting with hydrogen peroxide, and removing rust from the RF shields before painting them with zinc spray.
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Restoring the Original Xbox - Retro Console Restoration & Repair
The original Xbox in this restoration has a stuck disc drive and a clock that loses the date when unplugged, plus years of dust to clear out.
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Repairing broken traces on a circuit board
Branchus Creations says broken traces are common on vintage computers where corrosion has set in, and gives tips for making strong, long-lasting repairs to them.
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Restoring the original PlayStation (PS1) - Vintage Console restoration & repair
A PlayStation 1 that started having issues and was then stored in a shed collecting dirt and dust is cleaned up and repaired by Odd Tinkering.
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Repairing damaged or lifted pads on a circuit board
Removing a component can tear or lift the pads beneath it. Branchus Creations goes through tips for rebuilding damaged or missing pads so the repair holds.
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Installing the Funnyplaying SPIPS GBA SP IPS Screen in a GBA SP (AGS-001)
The Funnyplaying IPS kit made for the GBA SP (AGS-001) goes into an SP. The maker says there is one version of this kit, based on the v2 GBA kit.
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Repairing a Commodore Amiga A501 Memory Expansion battery leak. Removal, clean up and games testing!
Mark Fixes Stuff takes the leaking battery out of an A501 memory expansion for the Amiga 500, treats the alkaline leakage with vinegar, cleans the board, then checks SysInfo and tries cover disc demos.
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Tutorial: Cleaning, lubricating and fixing an Apple 800k 3.5" floppy drive
An Apple 800k 3.5 inch floppy drive, a Sony MFD-51W-03, is stripped down and cleaned after years of gumming up, then its eject mechanism is put right, in a long tutorial.
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Colecovision (PAL, EU version) - Retro Gaming Console Repair
Retro Tech Repair sets out to repair the monochrome fault on a PAL Colecovision, the EU version of the console, which gives only black and white output.
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BlindEye's GBA SP USB C Charging Port Mod
A USB C charging port goes into a Game Boy Advance SP, with the maker working out the order for soldering the anchor points and via, plus a reshaped bezel.
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Gameboy Color Power Switch and Corrosion Repair
Cleaning the battery terminals and the power switch revives a yellow Game Boy Color that would not start, make sound or show a picture, according to the maker.
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2x Gameboy Advance eBay Easy Repair! 'Dead Board' and 'Flickering Screen'
Two Game Boy Advance consoles bought as faulty are opened up, one with a flickering screen and one with corrosion spread across the board, which the maker says stopped it booting.
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Surprise C64 Donation & Repair
Jan Beta opens up a Commodore 64 donated unseen, finds a SwinSID nano fitted inside and carries out repair work. A pictorial guide to C64 faults is linked.
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1981 Nintendo Donkey Kong Arcade PCB Repair
A 1981 Nintendo Donkey Kong arcade board is repaired by Classic Arcade Repairs, and the maker links the oscilloscope and high voltage probe the channel uses.
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Can we fix Sinclair Spectrum +3 design flaws? Drive fix plus Better Sound & Video!
Three faults on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3 get attention, namely a dead disk drive, a poor RGB SCART picture and clipped audio, with resistors R42 and R43 swapped for the sound.
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Sega CD Refurbish - Sega CD Won't Turn On - Fixing eBay Junk
Why will a Sega CD not turn on? The maker refurbishes one with a new power fuse, save battery, capacitors and drive belt, and repairs a few other faults too.
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N64 Game Won't Boot - Trace Repair - Mario Party 2 - Fixing eBay Junk
Why does a Mario Party 2 N64 cartridge give no sign of life, not even a blank screen? The maker finds a bad trace, repairs it and cleans up the board.
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Game Gear - No Power - Fixing eBay Junk
Old batteries left inside a Game Gear have corroded its terminals, and the console will not power up. The maker opens it, cleans the damage and gets it working.
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Atari 7800 AV Composite Mod inside the RF Modulator - Fixing eBay Junk
An Atari 7800 with fuzzy graphics gets a composite AV mod fitted inside its RF modulator case, which avoids drilling new holes in the console.
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I Bought 9 BROKEN POKEMON Gameboy Games - Let's Try to Fix Them!
TronicsFix takes on nine Pokemon Game Boy games that have board faults, corrosion and one earlier repair that went wrong, trying to get each one loading again.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Colecovision Super Action Controller - Broken Buttons
The ColecoVision Super Action Controller has unreliable trigger buttons, and the maker shows how to open it up and fix them.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Sega CD Model 1 - Part 1 Fixing Drive Belt
The first of about three parts on a Sega CD Model 1 sets the unit up, tests it and then replaces the drive belt.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Sega CD Model 1 - Part 2 Replacing Save Battery
The save battery in a Sega CD Model 1 is replaced in part 2 of a three-part series, a job the maker says needs soldering.
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Trash 80 to Treasure | TRS-80 Restoration | Ep3.
Episode three of RMC's Trash 80 to Treasure series carries on the TRS-80 restoration, picking up the work from the earlier parts of the series.
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Tearing Down & Cleaning a PC Engine Controller - PI-PD6 Core Grafx Gamepad
A grubby NEC CoreGrafx PI-PD6 gamepad loses its five cross-head screws, then the buttons, rubbers and carbon pads are washed in soapy water, without alcohol, before contact cleaner goes on.
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Apple IIc Repair, Cleaning and Retrobright
An Apple IIc is cleaned, whitened with Retrobright and given a keyboard repair, using a 12% hydrogen peroxide solution and replacement rubber feet.
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0x0029.1 - HP86 New 3D Printed Key Stems: Disassembly and Design
New 3D printed key stems are designed for an HP 86 keyboard. The maker strips the machine down and explains the stem design, with files and board photos linked.
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N64 Controller Pak Battery Replacement
Why has an N64 Controller Pak stopped holding saved games? The video goes through changing its battery, and the maker adds a notice that the work is done at the viewer's own risk.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Dreamcast Restoration - Part 1 - Smoke Damaged Sega Dreamcast
Smoke damage and stains cover the Dreamcast in part 1 of this restoration, which the maker warns runs long because of the amount of work involved.
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0x0010.2 - Resurrecting The 98 Machine
A Windows 98 machine has stopped working, and the maker links it to a capacitor missing from a card, weighing a weak solder joint against damage from earlier handling.
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GBS-8220 - Fixing Noise (Amiga to VGA)
Picture noise from a GBS-8220 upscaler is the problem the maker sets out to cure, continuing from an earlier review of the board with an Amiga.
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New Retrobrite Technique for Indoors | Sous Vide and other methods to reverse yellow plastic
RMC tries ways of retrobriting yellowed plastic indoors, without sunshine, including a sous vide heater and a 1000 watt full-spectrum grow light, among other methods.
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Adventures in Retrobrite - New techniques for restoring yellowed plastic!
Several newer ways of whitening old, yellowed plastic are tried by The 8-Bit Guy, each aimed at bringing back the original colour.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Game Boy Cartridge Battery Replacement
Replacing the save battery in a Game Boy cartridge takes a CR2025 with tabs, and the maker says the same job suits NES, SNES, Sega and some N64 games.
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Fixing eBay Junk - How To Fix Dead Dreamcast Controller Ports
Dead controller ports on a Sega Dreamcast are the fault, and the maker's remedy is a single 1/4 watt 10 ohm resistor soldered into the console.
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5 Nintendo Famicom Repairs - Part 1 (SRAM - Black Screen)
Two of five Famicoms under repair come first, one with an SRAM fault and one with a power switch problem, alongside a composite AV mod and controller clean-up.
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Get Your Old NES Games Working Again - Tutorial - How to Clean NES Games
Most NES games that will not start only need cleaning, according to this video, which opens a cartridge and works through getting it going again.
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Cleaning and fixing a C64C Keyboard
Crusty, unresponsive keys on a Commodore 64C keyboard are tackled by cleaning the keyboard and the contacts of the keys that failed, after an earlier repair of the machine.
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Apple IIc Restoration and video jack repair
The Apple IIc in this episode from the 8-Bit Guy is cleaned up and has its video jack repaired, following on from a computer hunting episode on Rob's channel.
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Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP Restoration
A Game Boy Advance SP in poor shape gets a replacement battery, a new case and a fresh top screen protector, while the motherboard is cleaned of dust and liquid damage.
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Sega Game Gear Modern LCD Replacement (Not Composite) From McWill
Fitting a 3.5 inch McWill LCD into a Game Gear replaces its original screen. The maker says the mod also offers VGA out, which this video does not show.
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C64 Keyboard restoration. Revive key response
Why do some Commodore 64 keys stay dead after an isopropyl clean? The maker argues that over-cleaning the rubber pad and contacts does harm, and adds a further step to revive them.
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Atari ST VGA (Upscaling) via GBS-8220 (Cheap)
The maker's route to a clean colour VGA picture from an Atari ST uses a GBS-8220 scaler board, with a plastic enclosure for the board linked.
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Game Cart Won't Save? Replace Sega Megadrive Genesis cartridge battery easy 2020
Shining Force on a Mega Drive cartridge no longer keeps saves, so the maker opens it, desolders the dead battery, fits a new one and checks the joints with a multimeter.
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Secrets To Fixing Faulty Game Boy Games!
Dead Game Boy cartridges are the subject here, with the techniques the maker has shared with game shops and a lesson on replacing the failed save batteries.
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Sega Dreamcast Teardown + VGA Mod + Battery Replacement + LED Mod + Common Faults
Dreamcast common faults come up as the maker takes one apart and rebuilds it, with a VGA socket, a blue LED, a battery replacement and a fix for it powering off.
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Sinclair ZX 48k 128k Spectrum Repair: How to fix a 48k/128k Spectrum Keyboard Membrane Replacement
A Spectrum Plus with dead keys gets a new keyboard membrane. The video opens the case, lifts out the metal shield and the old three-layer membrane, and finds a damaged ribbon cable.
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Amiga HD floppy drive repair - Chinon FB-357A
Intermittent disk-in-drive detection on a Chinon FB-357A floppy drive from an Amiga 4000 is repaired in this video, while head cleaning with alcohol was done off camera.
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How to clean a 5 1/4" diskette
A diskette that has sat in an attic or basement tends to grow something, the maker says, and the video sets out a way of cleaning a 5.25 inch one.
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NES Game Battery Replacement and Cleaning
NES save battery replacement is the job here, along with cleaning the cartridge contacts. The channel also mentions cells with solder tabs for anyone who prefers to solder the battery in.
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How to Clean/Repair Nintendo N64 Games
How do you clean and repair N64 game cartridges? Retro Video Game Repair goes through the job in a guide from a channel whose shop sells a cartridge cleaning kit.
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How to Clean/Repair NES Games
NES game cartridges are opened, cleaned and repaired in a guide from Retro Video Game Repair, whose shop also sells a game cleaning kit.
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How to Repair Nintendo NES System
Retro Video Game Repair swaps the 72 pin cartridge connector in an NES system for a new one, the part sold in the channel's NES repair kit.
