Oh man they’re so so so easy to fix.
My childhood NES had a capacitor go out recently and the color was off. It still worked it was just ugly.
I have like 10 of them so I just swapped my case, but for some silly reason it’s like I don’t feel connected to the “spirit” of the machine because of it.
I’m going to have to order new capacitors and you just reminded me.
Get that thing fixed. It’s so so easy.
Can you believe my original ps1 is still rocking hard with zero adjustments?
My ps2 is currently dead, but it was because I used thicker wire than necessary when modding it a thousand years ago and I need to just heat up the solder a bit.
That console is a nightmare to disassemble/reassemble though and it’s been down for around 15 years. I’ll fix it one day.
I put mine in a .zip file and renamed the file extension to .dll and stuck it in the system32 folder haha. Hide file extensions when done and make the file hidden. Blammo!
I visited my childhood home which is now falling in. I probably shouldn’t have gone in there but I’m glad I did.
On the side where the roof hasn’t yet collapsed I looked into the downstairs closet by my last bedroom and the only item sitting in there, pinched between the wood of the floor and the wall, was a single floppy from the Windows 3.1 set.
I didn’t sleep for a week because of the state that place is in. :(
Me too. Would have been so rad. I could have used my PlayStation which would always spin so I could boot with GameShark.
With a boombox sitting across from a radio?
I have no idea how I tolerated that with my cheap Koss portable cassette player. I was just happy to have the songs though haha.
Bro, Zip disks were for the porn you downloaded from WinMX.
It’s funny, I finally got one of those and used it once.
I remember watching my mom sit and type code for games from magazines. If she made a mistake you’d know it. “MOTHERFUCKER!!!” rang through the entire place.
Me too, either old enough or poor enough. I had nothing but tapes and records until I seen a kid with a Discman at school and I HAD TO HAVE ONE. My mom got me one for Christmas finally and I had already traded up for every Nirvana CD, just had them there waiting.
I jumped to burning CDs as quickly as I could because I always wanted to be one step ahead with tech.
It’s crazy how far behind I am now. I always buy used phones, haven’t updated anything in my pc since 2014ish, still rocking a 2009 Mac Pro for music production.
I have, eh, how do you say? Got old? :(
700mb was insane back then. I had a 6gb hard drive.
My mom and my girlfriend bought me an 80gb hard drive for my birthday and I couldn’t believe I had so much storage.
I still have it because I don’t want to lose what’s on it, but that ship probably sailed. It had mechanical failure about 20 years ago at this point.
I remember this being a DVD thing. By the time I got a dvd burner though mine supported both.
The RW issue with CDs was that a lot of older players couldn’t read them.
Here!
Kazaa, Kazaa light, WinMX, DC++. I used them all.
And just saying, if it’s the 72 pin connector, you don’t need a new one. Just pop yours out and bend the pins back out. It’s very very easy, honest to God there’s no reason to get a new one. I have new ones in my closet, probably 20 of them, but I’ve never really needed to use any of them.
If you don’t want to fool with that PM me your address and I’ll send you one.