I paid £8 for this PAC MAN thing | Can I FIX It?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This My Arcade Pac Man handheld game was sold as dead, with no power. It's powered by either USB C or AA batteries.
Let's test them both and try and work out what the problem is!
Hope you enjoy!
Steve
PS. I'm not an expert in repairs at all. I do this for fun, and it may not be the best or safest way to go about repairing broken stuff. I'm pretty good at melting plastic though. Please don't copy me - I'm an idiot.
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Yessss. "Ghost Town"
The Specials
Hell, yes
Gotta love the SKA editions!
Oh wait, they're all good but when ever there is SKA it's Yessss! ❤
You sure that wasn't a cover band ? didn't sound right to me
@@dccelly1615Too much fighting on the dance floor.
@@andymouse It was Steve.
Watching these vids must be teaching me something. I saw that hole in the J3 transistor straight away.
It's nice to have a easily visible confirmation of the fault. Thanks for sharing.
Anyone else shouting ‘J3Y’, ‘J3Y’!!!!!! And ‘YESSSS!’ when Steve asked, ‘do I have any one those?’ I’ve watched sooooo many of these it’s like the different components have become minor characters! 😂
Yeah, I said J3Y too, seems to be a very common component to fail.
Hell yeah I was thinking j3y Steve you have plenty of them 😅
I was 91% sure it said "Jelly" actually.
It was really demoralizing to find out I was wrong, and I'm going to quit my position as a high power stock exchange analyst, because I've lost my mojo, or my juju or my jelly babies, or something.
Has anyone seen a bag of jelly babies on the NYSE floor? I Sharpied my name on the bag: Ralph
I'm hungry.
Yeap. Also mumbling Y1, S8050, 2N5551, just put a 1 amp npn transistor there, you had this before! 😂
started screaming YOU HAVE LOADS OF THOSE!!! a fan base that knows the spare part stock is something Steve could only dream of
thx for the video steve i changed succesfully my switch pro sticks today took me 3 hours but it was so gratefull when i saw it working
It's so funny when Steve plays into his own lore and expresses surprise when testing before putting everything back together.
Because you never know that that is the only fault. Just because you fix one thing there might be other things wrong that stop it from working as well
WELCOME BACK! Hope you had an awesome time! Love the song at the end, as soon as you said '... ghost' I thought 'ohh I wonder if he's going to...' then the song came in right on cue :)
😂 I'm far too predictable these days 😅
@@StezStixFix I just knew you was going to say that! (LOL).
That little thing had a pretty nice screen actually. Nice fix!
I can see Steve ordering more Y1s in a near future.
Why?
@@theantithesis1 One.
You always say, "It can't be as easy as that! Surely!" right after finishing a bunch of proffesional level detective work and fix-em-up. I'm always thinking in response, "I'd never be able to figure that out!" Haha!
This is a far cry from the Grandstand Pac-Man game I had when I was little. It's amazing how much technology has advanced and how cheap it is now.
Those two 512 (5.1k ohm) resistors @4:48 are on CC1 and CC2 pins on the USB Type-C connection, a quick and dirty way to pull 5V at up to 3A from a charger.
the way you say continuity always makes me chuckle 😅
I've been going through all your videos again, one enjoyable marathon, especially with the lyrical masterpieces
So glad it worked after assembly first try! You did not have to reopen it this time. Those Y1/J3Y thingies seem to fail quite often, or are they designed to be the point of failure to protect the rest of the devices…
How sad am I ? Sitting with a beer getting excited as Steve saves the day once again 🤣🤣🤣
Wow oh wow, 97 days since any plastic has been melted, can you make it to 100? Good job 🤙🏼🇦🇺
Joe from Australia 🤙🏼🇦🇺
That was a lot of fun. Well done. 💕
Great! Now all you have to do is solder a couple more buttons on, and put an actually good game on! Fab! You might get Street Fighter 2 if you turn the screen around.
"seamless"..."pretend you didn't see that"... :-D Do more of this please
Perhaps these J3Y & Y1's should be the first things to look for - other than the screen not being connected, that is? As it (the J3Y/Y1) seems to be a common thing that fails?
Aw ended on just about the best 2 tone song ever... they actually shot the video in my neck of south London and I can annoy people by pointing out various streets etc AND actor Gary Oldman's Deptford road where he grew up...
I just repaired the same game except mine had a broken tactile switch for the volume. Nice repair.
I actually enjoyed Ghost town from StezMadness 👌
Stez Specials! Madness is not quite right my friend 👊
Scrambles to search for "The Specials - Ghost Town" sings along like a crazy mf on Sunday morning...oh man, thank you so much for the walk down memory lane...
You are my favorite youtuber. Hands down favorite. Just needed to say that.
Is there a market for tool repairs at all? I'd like to see how they get repaired by comparison :)
That was a great fix, thank you for making this video
The hole in the xistor was where the "magic smoke" escaped.. which is why it didn't work and needed to be replaced
Well done Steve I was saying J3Y lol nice fix looks a good cheap game 😊
the shoutout music kinda reminds me of sonic adventure 2 with knuckles levels.
Love your vids. You must put a lot of time and effort into the rap stuff. When watching it always ,make me wonder is Badgersquash a drink or an unfortunate accident :) Keep up the great work.
Excellent rendition of ghost town I live there
You're a funny guy Steve, never change :D
Really annoying thing with SMD is j3 might be a transistor with one manufacturer but a zener with another manufacturer and try finding out the manufacturer is nearly impossible
This is arcade Pac-Man with the vertical screen. They also do a version with NES Pac-Man and a horizontal screen and A/B buttons.
Thanks for posting that; I noticed myself the boot looked like the original arcade board test sequence and wondered if it was indeed an emulated version using the original ROMs. I’ll have to see what other games My Arcade do too. Regards
Enjoyed the fix and the Special(s) Ghost Town
You have definitely, definitely had to replace those J3Ys before. And more than once lol. Seems like a very common faulty part.
The end song was very similar to Fun Boy Three-the lunatics have taken over the asylum, lol. Great video as always!
The Specials - Ghost Town. I have that record from back in the day.
Who remembers Super Mario Track Gate?!!? I do!
Started watching your videos last week, hooked, What flux do you use?
Might be worth getting some of those J3Y’s… looks like they go pop a lot
WHOOP WHOOP! Welcome back!
Thanks Kip!
Eezy Peezy Lemon Squeezy! Nicely Done!
Nice tan! 😊
Weird that so many of these same components seem to fail... if only they would make it a bit better, so such a small component wouldn't be the end of so many devices.
haahha nice vid m8... 3:30 when you clip on the bench leads sounds like the noise from the Wii & WiiU lol
Brilliant. I do love your content. And I too have a love/hate relationship with the stupid ghosts lol.
The moment steve said 6v comin in Now. A stupid ad came in.
Awesome job like always! Love the faces you make :DD
Really enjoy watching your fails and success, but the rap,music for patrons are a nightmare. Appreciate the skip message though 😅. Keep up the great work 👍
Of all the songs to choose from....why not "Pac-man Fever"?
Another billiant vid ❤
Loving the tan, Steve 👨🏿🦳
even without the screen connected, surely it would still turn on?
How did the transistor get a hole in it?
Cracking fix Steve 👍
you can tell when its summer in the UK all the pasty faces get brown lol
well done ol’ chap!! 🍻
Continuity 🤠👨🌾!
At what temperature do you blow the air to solder directly ?
Nice one Steve! 👍👍👍
Looking abit tanned there steve
Apologies if answered before but what’s your background? And do you sell the items you fix or keep them?
My wife who knows nothing of electronics enjoys your video's.
does she have a boyfriend?
@@fendularatsq2317 YES
*Videos.
It pretends to be the real arcade version but then the red ghost goes to the wrong corner!
There's nothing like a hole to show where the smoke came out.
Someone needs to make a tool to put the smoke back in.
Every time you say Sigma Four in your song, I think you say Sigmund Freud lol.
Nice
Hey Steve, you look like you lost weight and got some color. I guess the UK has finally warmed up. Great job as usual!
@@CoruscationsOfIneptitude I have family in Glasgow. Great Fish & Chips there.
Or you missed the bit where he said he was jet-lagged as he'd been away somewhere hot!
@@paulsengupta971when did he say that?
@@Eric_G65 1:06 to 1:33
Brilhante
I said "get in there!" after y1 went in😂
"Pretend you didn't see that..." Ok np!
Y1 component fails and not another I'll never understand. 😃
U rule ! Hell yeah
Seamless 😂
Is it just me? I see the video is uploaded 2 hours ago, and i see comments from 3 days ago? WTF 😂
Patreon members get to watch them earlier ;)
But why did it die tough?
Bands Don't Play No More.......
❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍
singing - "There Are NO TREES in Batteries"
The owner definitely plugged into a higher voltage USB-C. That's how I killed my wireless microphones.
With so many different USB-C voltages available, you'd think that device makers would make sure to limit the amount of power than can come in from the USB-C port.
Crunchy munchy chew chew 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Does anyone else think of Father Ted when they hear The Specials - Ghost Town? 🤣
no
No, but I do think of them where I hear My Lovely Horse.
Are those whiskers on all the solder? You better go over all your joints with leaded solder because you are going to have more failures on that device. When this whole unleaded solder BS started they were experimenting with different alloys. There was a major hard drive provider that put out lots and lots of drives of a particularly popular model that all failures tu these. Tin whiskers. No bueno. Just give it the flux/lead treatment you are proficient at and you should be good to go. It was a whole thing . If someone brought you one of those drives you knew exactly what it was brought in for.
Which drive model in particular would that have been? Google was none too helpful.
@@PileOfEmptyTapes They were Western Digital drives. Not really localized to any particular size though at that time 500GB was very popular. I think it was 250, 320, 500, 750, 1000 drives maybe or maybe not quite that big. Now I'm thinking about was that during the crossover time from PATA to SATA too because if so their were a bunch of smaller drives too. I'm mainly remembering 500s. That was many device repairs ago do the exact model escapes me. Maybe I'll look in my stacks and see if I held onto any of the furry little bastards. I prefer Seagate drives but I try to hold onto drives that are less common and use the ones that were in every computer for the magnet harvesting and the ones with bad heads and filters with pieces of media in them. The corrosion is obvious if you got one of those it really didn't take all that long. Drives with a year or two on them, sometimes less.
Tanned
😀
Anyone else see the little bit of Y on that thing?
Please fix useful
Why, why you fail Y1? ;)
WELL ACKCHOOOALLY, YOU SHOULDNT MIX BATTERY BRANDS
Lots of hum on the mic.
😊like 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Too much dancing on the fight floor.
I recognize an arcade dump when I see one. That clearly is a dump from the arcade board, the boot up gives it away.😆
l .paid. £8. For. This. Pacman. Thing. CAN. l. Fix. it
I stopped watching these because of the out of focus shots. I see nothing has changed.
Well, I guess there are plenty channels with all-in-focus shots and slick transistions. But do they rap the names of their Patreons in every video? DO THEY??
@@brumd watching Joey Does Tech right now, and I pleased to say he doesn't.
Well you Munched your way through that fix. It was so quick we can all Pac up and go home. Quite a-Maze-ing how simple the fix was in the end. Pill-ar of the repair community right here. Just Ghosting your way through that fix (ok, I'm done now.)
😂 and I thought my jokes were bad 😅
@@StezStixFixyou may have just lost that title 🤣
Pizza cake...? (Because of Pac-Man's origins and shape, etc?). Don't 'Blinky' or you might miss it...? LOL. Just a few more for you...?
Beauty! Another "Y1" bites the dust! 😅
😂
you are an inspiration...i bought a Lidl soldering iron and a blue silicon mat... tried melting plastic but the lidl soldering iron broke....but you saved me £800 on a new washing machine....did i fix the circuit board? no....i just turned it off...and turned it on....job done. inspired.
I was shouting "there's a hole in that there!", "a hole - right thereeee", "Over more - a hole!!". Then he flips the board over and I'm screaming "back to the other side - a hooooole!".
It's part of the entertainment value and the reason why he is nominated for the Oscar!