The disc drive is more than just a common issue, it's pretty much every unit the plastic in the drive is extremely brittle and has broken. If you get one that's ever seen any use you're likely replacing the plastic rails of the disc drive.
Japanese "Junk" means more along the lines of "as is, untested" than any indication of cosmetic condition. I've read my fair share of sellers saying "i don't know how to use this thing, so selling as junk"
The 3.5 inch drive on the Sharp twin Famicom is for the Disk System games such as Legend of Zelda and the main reason it probably doesnt work is because the rubber band that operates the disk reading function is broken
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises I can tell you that at least most floppy drives still work as long as you replace the belts. Can't say that about the lasers in most consoles. PS1 is barely holding out, but gamecube already failed twice.
is not a Floppy Drive its a Quick Disk Drive. Even though the Quick Disks that Nintendo used for this look like floppy disks on the first look, they work completely differently than a floppy disk. While a floppy disc works with sectors and individual files can be accessed directly, a quick disk is more of a data cassette drive that uses a disc instead of a tape. These drives are also a horror to calibrate when the rubber drive belt needs to be replaced
Judging by the physical size of the drive, I think there might also be a good chance of just replacing the drive entirely, with a random old floppy drive from a beige-box PC. Uh... if your idea of a belt replacement doesn't work. 'Cause I wouldn't want to ruin the factory appearance of the machine.
@@Dee_Just_Dee The disk system used a proprietary disk so trying to replace it with another floppy drive wouldn't work. It'd physically fit but a standard floppy drive wouldn't be able to read the disks themselves.
@@XxMiNeCaRtPhOeNixXnot as mainstream, but I'd say especially for arcades and marketing/showtime presentations. Two areas where they excel over everyone else imo
@@NicotineRosbergnot who you were replying to but I'd also say "was". I'm basing my opinion on the fact that Japan in the 80s- early 90s was THE worldwide leader in tech and electronics. They were the ones at the forefront of innovation and quality and nobody even came close. Arguably the US was their closest competitor but they were still a whole decade ahead of them. All that stands in stark contrast to today. They no longer are the de facto tech leaders of the world. Even a country like South Korea has leapfrogged them in every possible way. Just ask anyone living in Japan today. They'll tell you that the country is practically living in the early 2000s. Mobile/smartphone banking and payment is practically nonexistent among other things.
That Japanese SNES and the PS1 are both giving me nostalgia. The Japanese SNES is the one that I'm more familiar with than the US models since it was the one given to us by my uncle who used to worked in Japan.
On the Sharp Twin Famicom: it's not a 3,5" floppy drive. It's a proprietary system by Nintendo and was originally sold as an add-on for the Famicom called the Famicom Disk System. The Sharp just combines these two in one system.
Yep! You bought the power adapter separately because northern Japan is on 50hz and southern Japan is on 60hz, so you buy the power adapter specific to your region! (At least, that's how I understand it!) It saves the manufacturer money so they don't have to make two different boxes of the console and can ship the same box country-wide!
One of the first things I ever bought on Ebay was a Twin Famicom. It still works 👍 I wanted one when I was a kid and we were visiting Japan, but my parents said no.
In Japan, "junk" can also mean: Damaged products Products that stores haven't been able to sell Old and used things that have little value and that you do not want any more
17:00 That is a 7 pin Din connector. Din connectors have been used for keyboards, joysticks, midi, and in todays world ADJ still uses the 5 pin Din as the remote line for their fog machines. In this case... that is for an RF-switch... if you recall the original Nintendo could only plug into your TV using the cable line, you had an adapter that you plugged your cable into, and then plugged it into the tv, and you had to select channel 3 or channel 4 as the channel the Nintendo would work on. That is what this Din port is for... and yes, it is a form of RF.
17:39 to be clear, the Famicom Disk System did pretty well in Japan--it's just that the Sharp Twin Famicom didn't sell as much as the regular FDS add-on. A lot of popular NES games actually released as disks in Japan. However, pretty soon the cost of making cartridges dropped enough that the disk system really didn't have a reason to exist anymore. Thus, we never got the FDS in America and games were tweaked for a cartridge release--including in Japan, where games like Zelda, Metroid and Castlevania got cartridge rereleases after originally coming out on disk. The only real bummer about this is that the FDS had an extra sound source that sounded pretty neat, and also a lot of games that saved on the FDS switched to a password (Metroid) or nothing at all (Castlevania) when they came out in the west.
You might find it cool to know that the theme for that disk system start up screen is the same theme as the Gamecube menu, it's just slowed down 16x on the Gamecube.
I grew up in the Philippines, where the Family Computer was sold under that name and without the modifications that would turn it into the NES in the West, so I actually find them more nostalgic for me than seeing the NES in most English-language vids about video games on YT. I had the original white and red model with the red rectangular controllers mounted on the sides.
This video is pure nostalgic aside from the things I’ve never actually seen before like the Famicom mixed with floppy disk‘s. Didn’t know those existed lol
If anybody is wondering, the Panasonic Q is probably the hardest console to take apart. It's literally multiple motherboards on top of each other, as you can kinda see from taking off the sides. Even people who are skilled at repairs hate working on these, thus why so many stay broken.
@thehalflow-qualityhalo1130 I didn't hear "ness" the entire video? He only mentioned it once and he clearly said N.E.S. The only time he said "Ness" was literally for the character Ness, not the console.
With the SNES you could replace the cartridge slot and do a deep clean to remove the yellowing. I know it's been done a million times on youtube, but I reckon you'd make a good video of the process.
I bet the diskdrive works just fine but as it seems like he doesn't have any clue on what the twin famicom even is, i fear that he simply tried to cram a regular good old 3.5" floppy disk in there which wouldn't work anyway since nintendo's famicom disk system (FDS) games where differently shaped
The Sharp Famicom console probably just has a dirty head in the 3.5" floppy drive. It might only need to have a 3.5" floppy drive head cleaner run on it to get it working properly.
@@lookitskazzy Yeah. And in the last video of this sort he was able to get a console to work by putting it through some sort of converter like this... But it's definitely not because any standard dictates it. 😆 maybe his TV is jank or something.
The Gameboy cartridges most likely have flat CMoS batteries. You can open them up and replace them (most often cause of broken cartridges) as they also power the drm which is why the save and cartridges then don't work
I remember hearing the Panasonic Q is very prone to getting damaged in shipping, like your chance of it still being working when it arrives in the US is pretty low. This is on top of it being a massive pain to work on due to how much stuff is crammed in there.
Your video on the Panasonic Q was the first tech video I ever watched on RUclips. Ever since that day, the Panasonic Q has been probably my favorite console of all time.
Yeah, if I remember correctly, NTSC-J was the video standard they used for standard definition broadcast TV and devices that output standard definition analog video until the development of the ISDB standards (for broadcast TV). So basically... Austin and his team won't need to use a PAL to NTSC video converter with their Japanese consoles unless they have a console that outputs PAL video.
Nintendo partnership consoles always cool. Twin Famicom Disk system (can be awkward to work) & regular. S Video, RF, Composite & Mono. Combo like JVC X eye, Panasonic Q. PC FX yeah adult stuff on some of them as a failed console would have. It prioritised mostly FMV I guess 32bit sprites too not polygons. Yeah it's cool but not surprised why it failed. I think it had expansion slots. The PC card version is different. Same with the 3DO card as well for PCs. Also as if the Aaturn wasn't a 2D 32bit sprites powerhouse, 3DO or CDi were FMV focused consoles. Anybody that has lokked into thwse consoles know. The Panasonic Q is conplex but I assume shipping hmm yeah a challenge.
I bought a panasonic Q from japan complete in box about 10 years ago for about what you payed for that one. It is wild how much they jumped in price. mainly bought it as a cool novelty.
It's odd to think that Nintendo couldn't figure out on their own, without a partnership with an external company, how to make a console that played digital media as Playstations and Xboxes do. It's strange that the Gamecube, Wii, and Wii-U didn't support playing DVD or Blu-ray discs. I suppose the closest Nintendo really came to it was their cartridge-based GBA Video, aside from digital media.
The partnership ones made sense due to the parent companies for the Panasonic Q or Sharp made some parts hence the Twin Famicom or the Sharp TV. Sega had the JVC X Eye as a Sega CD/Genesis/Karaoke disks while Sega's own CDX exists and is whatever quality. But I think the GameCube to Wii U was their own they didn't want to pay the licensing for the DVD support or Dolby support or otherwise. The others were either part of that alliance or open to doing so. Nintendo having Wii/Wii U optical disks were done on purpose to have control over them for security and not paying royalties and such for DVD/Blu ray.
Welcome to the fun and laughter of Japanese junk listings. Having bought tons of "junk" PSPs from Yahoo Auctions, I can confirm that the Japanese have a very different definition of "junk" compared to the US. I've probably had a 90-95% success rate on all the Japanese junk systems I've bought just working right out of the gates. Just do a little looking at the listing to make sure it isn't obvious that it won't work and you'll have a reasonable shot of getting a working bit of gear.
It is often the CD-drives that fail in the old PlayStation 1s. Because of mechanical wear and tear over the decades and all that. And it can be somewhat hard to find a replacement drive. Since when it is the most common thing that breaks, who in their right mind would rip a drive out of a working console. - However don't throw a broken PlayStation 1 console out just yet (if you've got one of those), because an SD-Card based replacement called the "XStation Optical Drive Emulator" now exists... check it out, it's pretty neat. 😉
If a person knew how to fix game systems and do board level repair and also was a RUclipsr, like say TronxFix might be able to fix all that, then I could see them buying this stuff for more than deceration! 😁
That distorted image from the Super Famicom is almost certainly bad capacitors, maybe a dirty AV jack. Definitely not the cartridge. Also don't blow in cartridges it doesn't help.
The fact they reached out to you about a cheaper chipping option is a bit sus ngl. Not that Austin is sus, but shops in general. Been noticing higher shipping expenses lately that probably shouldn't be as high as they are 🧐
It would be wonderful to witness the Panasonic cube functioning flawlessly again. Consider creating a video on how to fix it.
I 6th this
I can't remember who but a RUclips did a teardown on this and it is wild with multiple layers of motherboards
@@gstargreen1Spawn Wave Media
The Panasonic Q is notoriously one of the hardest game consoles ever to tear down and repair, which is part of what makes working units so expensive.
The disc drive is more than just a common issue, it's pretty much every unit the plastic in the drive is extremely brittle and has broken. If you get one that's ever seen any use you're likely replacing the plastic rails of the disc drive.
Japanese "Junk" means more along the lines of "as is, untested" than any indication of cosmetic condition. I've read my fair share of sellers saying "i don't know how to use this thing, so selling as junk"
As opposed to ebay in the US where "as is, untested" means "I know it's broken, but I'll get more for it if I don't tell you".
cultural differences I guess@@icebergmm
Capacitor replacement is a must
Was going to comment that exactly lol
It means its broken man that how japanese ppl talk like
The 3.5 inch drive on the Sharp twin Famicom is for the Disk System games such as Legend of Zelda and the main reason it probably doesnt work is because the rubber band that operates the disk reading function is broken
It's an ancient floppy!!
Of course it's broken!!!
They're relatively easy to fix too, I replaced my original Famicom Disk System's rubber band, though realigning the head was a bit tough.
It's crazy that he could know what the Panasonic Q is but not the Famicom Disk System lol.
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises I can tell you that at least most floppy drives still work as long as you replace the belts.
Can't say that about the lasers in most consoles. PS1 is barely holding out, but gamecube already failed twice.
@@NottJoeyOfficial The Panasonic Q has gotten way more attention online, especially in the West.
I want a video where Austin attempts to fix the Panasonic cube and everytime he fails he gets shocked
I don't know how we got here but I'm all for it.
Count me in! This has to happen
is not a Floppy Drive its a Quick Disk Drive.
Even though the Quick Disks that Nintendo used for this look like floppy disks on the first look, they work completely differently than a floppy disk.
While a floppy disc works with sectors and individual files can be accessed directly, a quick disk is more of a data cassette drive that uses a disc instead of a tape.
These drives are also a horror to calibrate when the rubber drive belt needs to be replaced
I bet the reason the twin famacom disk drive isn't working is due to the rubber band in the system being old and broke
Judging by the physical size of the drive, I think there might also be a good chance of just replacing the drive entirely, with a random old floppy drive from a beige-box PC. Uh... if your idea of a belt replacement doesn't work. 'Cause I wouldn't want to ruin the factory appearance of the machine.
@@Dee_Just_Dee The disk system used a proprietary disk so trying to replace it with another floppy drive wouldn't work. It'd physically fit but a standard floppy drive wouldn't be able to read the disks themselves.
Japan was definitely a leader in tech innovation.
I would actually say they still are, maybe in a different way.
@@XxMiNeCaRtPhOeNixXnot as mainstream, but I'd say especially for arcades and marketing/showtime presentations. Two areas where they excel over everyone else imo
Was?
They're also the leaders at sexualizing school children in anime
@@NicotineRosbergnot who you were replying to but I'd also say "was".
I'm basing my opinion on the fact that Japan in the 80s- early 90s was THE worldwide leader in tech and electronics. They were the ones at the forefront of innovation and quality and nobody even came close. Arguably the US was their closest competitor but they were still a whole decade ahead of them.
All that stands in stark contrast to today. They no longer are the de facto tech leaders of the world. Even a country like South Korea has leapfrogged them in every possible way. Just ask anyone living in Japan today. They'll tell you that the country is practically living in the early 2000s. Mobile/smartphone banking and payment is practically nonexistent among other things.
That Japanese SNES and the PS1 are both giving me nostalgia. The Japanese SNES is the one that I'm more familiar with than the US models since it was the one given to us by my uncle who used to worked in Japan.
The Super Famicom shell was also used for the PAL-region SNSP-001A model Super Nintendo. So that design is familiar to most of the rest of the world.
On the Sharp Twin Famicom: it's not a 3,5" floppy drive. It's a proprietary system by Nintendo and was originally sold as an add-on for the Famicom called the Famicom Disk System. The Sharp just combines these two in one system.
I just got a package from Sendico and they changed my shipping to Fedex as well. It was like a third the price for shipping.
That's how the Famicom and super Famicom were sold in Japan you had to buy the power adapter separately.
Yep! You bought the power adapter separately because northern Japan is on 50hz and southern Japan is on 60hz, so you buy the power adapter specific to your region! (At least, that's how I understand it!) It saves the manufacturer money so they don't have to make two different boxes of the console and can ship the same box country-wide!
@QuestionBlockGaming I knew this already, but It's good to have this information here for those people who don't know that watch this video.
One of the first things I ever bought on Ebay was a Twin Famicom. It still works 👍
I wanted one when I was a kid and we were visiting Japan, but my parents said no.
I really want to see a Panasonic Q fix video, it would be pretty tight if it was actually fixed as it was by far my favorite console growing up
That Panasonic Let's Note is soooooo ahead of its time - it is literally the Microsoft Surface's ancestor 🤯
It's 7th gen intel CPU so it's at least from 2017. Not that old.
In Japan, "junk" can also mean:
Damaged products
Products that stores haven't been able to sell
Old and used things that have little value and that you do not want any more
pretty sure the english "junk" also means all of those things
17:00 That is a 7 pin Din connector. Din connectors have been used for keyboards, joysticks, midi, and in todays world ADJ still uses the 5 pin Din as the remote line for their fog machines.
In this case... that is for an RF-switch... if you recall the original Nintendo could only plug into your TV using the cable line, you had an adapter that you plugged your cable into, and then plugged it into the tv, and you had to select channel 3 or channel 4 as the channel the Nintendo would work on. That is what this Din port is for... and yes, it is a form of RF.
1 hour gang 👇
3mins dude
3mins
Yup
early damn
Yessir
the TimtheTatman music threw me off i was looking to see if i had another tab open lmao
100% video on restoring the Panasonic Q. Its the jewel in my console collection along with my PS2 automobile yellow.
17:39 to be clear, the Famicom Disk System did pretty well in Japan--it's just that the Sharp Twin Famicom didn't sell as much as the regular FDS add-on.
A lot of popular NES games actually released as disks in Japan. However, pretty soon the cost of making cartridges dropped enough that the disk system really didn't have a reason to exist anymore. Thus, we never got the FDS in America and games were tweaked for a cartridge release--including in Japan, where games like Zelda, Metroid and Castlevania got cartridge rereleases after originally coming out on disk.
The only real bummer about this is that the FDS had an extra sound source that sounded pretty neat, and also a lot of games that saved on the FDS switched to a password (Metroid) or nothing at all (Castlevania) when they came out in the west.
Please do a video on fixing the Panasonic cube. I would love to see this.
Make a video repairing the Q. Or make a new ultimate GameCube out of it!!!
Just clean the pins with iso on the gameboy games. They should work
Really hate the fact you make these videos with half-a$$ knowledge of the devices you bought that you can easily Google about.
Japan gave the world some amazing tech.!
And still does.
You might find it cool to know that the theme for that disk system start up screen is the same theme as the Gamecube menu, it's just slowed down 16x on the Gamecube.
I really want to see that Panasonic Q up and running and Austin having fun with it.
That Sharp Famicom probably just needs its drive belt replaced, it probably works just fine. Cheap and easy fix!
7:43 "Is that Ness?"
7:46 "No, it's a Famicom" 🤣
Hope we get a deep dive video on the attempt to fix it. I think it would be great to see how it turns out.
I grew up in the Philippines, where the Family Computer was sold under that name and without the modifications that would turn it into the NES in the West, so I actually find them more nostalgic for me than seeing the NES in most English-language vids about video games on YT. I had the original white and red model with the red rectangular controllers mounted on the sides.
a couple of those would probably be some relatively easy fixes. the super famicom and the twin should be manageable.
This video is pure nostalgic aside from the things I’ve never actually seen before like the Famicom mixed with floppy disk‘s. Didn’t know those existed lol
I think it's just for Famicom Disk System functionality, rather than being a floppy.
If anybody is wondering, the Panasonic Q is probably the hardest console to take apart. It's literally multiple motherboards on top of each other, as you can kinda see from taking off the sides. Even people who are skilled at repairs hate working on these, thus why so many stay broken.
thank you for calling it a N.E.S. not a "ness."
is this sarcasm? cus he said ness
@thehalflow-qualityhalo1130 I didn't hear "ness" the entire video? He only mentioned it once and he clearly said N.E.S.
The only time he said "Ness" was literally for the character Ness, not the console.
The Super Famicom might've just had incorrectly placed AV cables. I've seen that tissue come up before.
Love the chemistry between Austin and Ken when they found cool old technology and just having fun uncovering more.
Austin, Matt and Ken are all very different dudes with equally goofy personalities lol they host well together for sure
With the SNES you could replace the cartridge slot and do a deep clean to remove the yellowing.
I know it's been done a million times on youtube, but I reckon you'd make a good video of the process.
I want to see the Panasonic Q all fixed😂
👍
I bet the diskdrive works just fine but as it seems like he doesn't have any clue on what the twin famicom even is, i fear that he simply tried to cram a regular good old 3.5" floppy disk in there which wouldn't work anyway since nintendo's famicom disk system (FDS) games where differently shaped
Japanese tech not being wild is unheard of
The Sharp Famicom console probably just has a dirty head in the 3.5" floppy drive. It might only need to have a 3.5" floppy drive head cleaner run on it to get it working properly.
"It's got better graphics than Pokémon in 2023"
Yeah but it doesn't though does it.
Deffinitely want to see a repair attempt of that Panasonic Q, maybe a collab with someone with experience restoring older consoles?
You just need to replace the belt in the disk drive for the sharp famicom. But you would need the actual disk to play. There special disks not floppy.
You never need PAL to NTSC converters for Japanese consoles, which are NTSC compliment lol. Please stop propagating this misinformation.
Did he actually say that lmao
@@lookitskazzy Yeah. And in the last video of this sort he was able to get a console to work by putting it through some sort of converter like this... But it's definitely not because any standard dictates it. 😆 maybe his TV is jank or something.
The Gameboy cartridges most likely have flat CMoS batteries. You can open them up and replace them (most often cause of broken cartridges) as they also power the drm which is why the save and cartridges then don't work
You should check stuff for radiation, some of it might be from excluded zones.
Everybody wants a Panasonic Q fix video.
"I dunno anything about it"... If only someone invented an easy way to find out about stuff immediately...
Hmmm...
yeah thanks sendico for ramming shipping right up your customers butts and giving the much cheaper option to a youtuber so you get promoted more
90usd for fedex a huge box???? the f#¤%rs wanted 212 USD to send a simple letter.......
Am I the only one notice TimTheTatMan’s old outro song as their background music? You can hear it at 5:03 and at 15:43
Ther is a good chance that Panasonic Laptop has a bloated Battery, it causes pressure to the digitizer and cause it to ghost touch
Did anyone notice the "It's got a bush? wtf?" lol Awesome to see an ITYSL references
What does the game being on CD have to do with it being 2D? Like larger data storage isnt inherent to 3d games
I remember hearing the Panasonic Q is very prone to getting damaged in shipping, like your chance of it still being working when it arrives in the US is pretty low. This is on top of it being a massive pain to work on due to how much stuff is crammed in there.
FIX THE PANASONIC CUBE! NOW!
i would watch the repair video of that Panasonic Q if you guys do one. Plz
That plug is a DIN plug. Used to have one on my Japanese MegaDrive.
make a video of fixing the Q I am interested to see how it goes :D
I use to want that NEC machine soooo bad , I was already On Turbo Duo After Having Turbo Gfx 16 , Great Times
Your video on the Panasonic Q was the first tech video I ever watched on RUclips. Ever since that day, the Panasonic Q has been probably my favorite console of all time.
Once again when I hear Sendico I think Elliot from The Retro Future
8:24 Are we just gonna glance off the fact that he calls the circle button an O button?
Japan is just a fascinating place. It's a gift that keeps on giving.
Yeah I still want to visit Japan one day
Japanese? CAN I GET AN UWU SENPAI? 👉👈
you wouldn't even know what 1987 would smell like your not old enough
Ahh the mysterious tech of *checks notes* PlayStation
The contacts probably just need cleaned on those GBA games. Probably why they kinda worked after slotting them in and out a few times.
Wasn’t ntsc the standard in Japan and not PAL?
Yeah, if I remember correctly, NTSC-J was the video standard they used for standard definition broadcast TV and devices that output standard definition analog video until the development of the ISDB standards (for broadcast TV). So basically... Austin and his team won't need to use a PAL to NTSC video converter with their Japanese consoles unless they have a console that outputs PAL video.
At 9:13, why does the like and dislike area have an RGB effect?
Better collab with 8 bit guy on yellowed plastic whitening.
Hey Austin I’m paige I never heard of Japanese junk until I saw your video good job
:)
First
They wouldn’t offer that shipping to anyone else ):
i'm low key hoping for a follow up video on a possible attempt to repair that Panasonic-Q
Nintendo partnership consoles always cool. Twin Famicom Disk system (can be awkward to work) & regular. S Video, RF, Composite & Mono. Combo like JVC X eye, Panasonic Q. PC FX yeah adult stuff on some of them as a failed console would have. It prioritised mostly FMV I guess 32bit sprites too not polygons. Yeah it's cool but not surprised why it failed. I think it had expansion slots. The PC card version is different. Same with the 3DO card as well for PCs.
Also as if the Aaturn wasn't a 2D 32bit sprites powerhouse, 3DO or CDi were FMV focused consoles. Anybody that has lokked into thwse consoles know.
The Panasonic Q is conplex but I assume shipping hmm yeah a challenge.
You have to make a video fixing the Q now no exceptions.
I bought a panasonic Q from japan complete in box about 10 years ago for about what you payed for that one. It is wild how much they jumped in price. mainly bought it as a cool novelty.
It's odd to think that Nintendo couldn't figure out on their own, without a partnership with an external company, how to make a console that played digital media as Playstations and Xboxes do. It's strange that the Gamecube, Wii, and Wii-U didn't support playing DVD or Blu-ray discs. I suppose the closest Nintendo really came to it was their cartridge-based GBA Video, aside from digital media.
The partnership ones made sense due to the parent companies for the Panasonic Q or Sharp made some parts hence the Twin Famicom or the Sharp TV.
Sega had the JVC X Eye as a Sega CD/Genesis/Karaoke disks while Sega's own CDX exists and is whatever quality.
But I think the GameCube to Wii U was their own they didn't want to pay the licensing for the DVD support or Dolby support or otherwise. The others were either part of that alliance or open to doing so.
Nintendo having Wii/Wii U optical disks were done on purpose to have control over them for security and not paying royalties and such for DVD/Blu ray.
Is that the TimtheTatMan outro theme I hear XD I know its just a non copywrighted song but I just think of Tims outro every time I hear that lol
Welcome to the fun and laughter of Japanese junk listings. Having bought tons of "junk" PSPs from Yahoo Auctions, I can confirm that the Japanese have a very different definition of "junk" compared to the US. I've probably had a 90-95% success rate on all the Japanese junk systems I've bought just working right out of the gates. Just do a little looking at the listing to make sure it isn't obvious that it won't work and you'll have a reasonable shot of getting a working bit of gear.
It is often the CD-drives that fail in the old PlayStation 1s. Because of mechanical wear and tear over the decades and all that. And it can be somewhat hard to find a replacement drive. Since when it is the most common thing that breaks, who in their right mind would rip a drive out of a working console.
- However don't throw a broken PlayStation 1 console out just yet (if you've got one of those), because an SD-Card based replacement called the "XStation Optical Drive Emulator" now exists... check it out, it's pretty neat. 😉
I want to see a video series on repairing that Panasonic Q.
u need to make a video repairing the Panasonic cube!
more japanese mystery tech please!!
Hey milk it hahahahha do a full video recovering it
If a person knew how to fix game systems and do board level repair and also was a RUclipsr, like say TronxFix might be able to fix all that, then I could see them buying this stuff for more than deceration! 😁
🤣😂
The Twin Famicon socket is an 8 pin DIN socket.
That distorted image from the Super Famicom is almost certainly bad capacitors, maybe a dirty AV jack. Definitely not the cartridge. Also don't blow in cartridges it doesn't help.
Proudly claiming the 15th commment.
"oh wait I'm ken" * *screams in short person* *
you hurt my soul when you gave that game a blowie
The fact they reached out to you about a cheaper chipping option is a bit sus ngl. Not that Austin is sus, but shops in general. Been noticing higher shipping expenses lately that probably shouldn't be as high as they are 🧐
110 volts will fry the console
19:16 Very cool device - the western equivalent would be the Asus Eee Pad Transformer (not nearly as nice) but it was a fun device I remember using!
"The... 'Wiggly Diggly Dudes' is Japanese." The way I spit out my drink. 😂😂😂
Stopping children from saying first
What happened to the weird looking guy?