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As someone with a hot air station and a bunch of electronics experience, all I see is gold.
Gamers when they see this: 😨
People with electronics experience when they see this: 🤑
With the exception of the wii u, pretty much all of my consoles were ones that I bought as "defective". Most of the time a good clean was all that was needed. Sometimes I had to replace one part or the other. The worst was a 3DS XL with a broken hinge that needed a full teardown just to remove that one plastic part.
Poor thing...
Uh, trigger warning? jfc
Not as bad as finding a "No Memory Card Detected" message.
Need a save card too. No blocks is worrying.
Everyone has that one friend who’s boot up screen looked like a dense metropolis.
I had a ps2 demo disc with some games like Star Wars Battlefront on it. I played it and I enjoyed it. Then the unspeakable happened.......
My memory card was wiped. I received a warning weeks later that the demo disc has a bug that deletes memory cards when you play it. Like wtf is that about? I was playing a game and got pretty far but it erased my file. I don't even remember what game it was.
Anyway that is my spooky memory card story.
Ooooof
Mine was the ps1 start-up sound that ran on too long
And I had to wait it out a bit... because every once in a bluemoon, it would manage to push through
Yeah just watch the orange diamond Sony logo and hope
Doo dooooo, hahhhhhhhhhhh........
If you flipped it over and ran it upside down it would work for some reason.
This kind of troubleshooting is what leads to the practices of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Had an old workplace where everyone knew that the servers needed blood to function. You would reach into the cabinet, make your fix with absolutely no trouble and take your hands out to find a huge gash in your hand that you should have felt when you received it. No pain, just bleeding.
At a location, their servers wouldn’t work unless there was candy on top of the server rack and at least one stuffed animal in the room. I was jealous of their technomancy.
I had this but with my 3d printer. I stared into the chassis for a good 2 minutes looking for the varnish or lubricant that had dyed my hand red. Then I realised!
First its flipping upside down then it's gluing boxes of chicken bones to the side of radars then for the emperor
Disk cleaners saved and killed so many of my games. Having a grimy, fingered little brother is always fun.
Having a grimy, fingered little brother is always fun.
That's a disturbing place for a comma 🤨🫣
Auto correct fingered my brother. Nooooooo
Another thing auto-correct needs to pay for.
I'm on a quest to have it colloquially called auto-assume.
Having a grimy, fingered little brother is always fun.
Look, he may be grimy, but kink shaming isn't cool. He can be fingered whenever he feels like it.
Is your brother named Freddy perhaps?
I used to have the game boy Zelda game, my little brother decided it would be funny to stuff it full of play doh. :(
If you've got a bad disk drive, don't assume it's worthless - the homebrew scene has made incredible strides recently, and now you can play your backups from an internal solid state drive, or even from your memory card! There's also SD adapters for memory cards, giving pretty much unlimited space. I haven't used my disk drive in years.
I mainly got used games as a kid so I saw this screen far too much...
Also probably why I ran into a bunch of glitches, my earliest memories of playing racing games involved a lot of driving "off the map" before a new area loaded in. which sometimes it wouldn't and just crash after a while. >.>
I got that once. Called tech support and they recommended putting a vacuum hose against the cooling fan for about a minute. Did that, and everything started working again!
Ah, the days of the scratched disk running your day.