Just getting into electronics repair and I keep ending up on your channel! Thank you for the educational content, it’s really been making all the difference for me
Im getting into gamecube collecting and this is a useful guide. Wish you went a little more in depth about soldering them back on but overall good info.
If you’re still trying to repair your GameCube, I check if my lasers are good by stepping the potentiometer on the board down by 20 ohms or so at a time until it reads. All you need is a cheap multimeter and a screwdriver for that
@@peppertherat Anything above that it won't read the discs. I have since picobooted the console anyways and mostly intended on playing backups off an SD card. I would've gotten a replacement laser but they're more expensive than just getting the parts to pico mod instead. 112 ohms also wil not harm the discs when people do nanogc mods to read burned discs they drop the laser to 80 ohms. It's not gonna burn the disc but it will shorten the life span of the laser.
heres one for you. years ago my friend spilled a can of coke over my ps1, let it dry out a bit and used it again....now something shorted in there (right hand side) that meant the games both loaded and ran about 4xfaster. not unplayable faster but just vastly improved performance and that 4x increase in loading speeds. ive never seen anyone online with the same results bit it seems a shame to see that tweak go un-noticed by the masses. it seems ps1 was a powerhouse with a chained ankle. i dont have the expertise to explain how it happened.
Just getting into electronics repair and I keep ending up on your channel! Thank you for the educational content, it’s really been making all the difference for me
Im getting into gamecube collecting and this is a useful guide. Wish you went a little more in depth about soldering them back on but overall good info.
Do you offer this as a service?
Should the laser move outside of the where the disc is spinning when its starting up?
We have seen it do that on a couple occasions, yea!
If you’re still trying to repair your GameCube, I check if my lasers are good by stepping the potentiometer on the board down by 20 ohms or so at a time until it reads. All you need is a cheap multimeter and a screwdriver for that
I fixed my GameCube but the 4 screws with washers aren’t wanting to screw back in. I don’t know why. Any tips?
Could you make a list of the tools needed for this?
What temp do you use?
Could you share the specs of GameCube capacitors please? Thanks a lot
And what capacitors am I meant to purchase?
The capacitor kit from their website
@@JoshuaMaj12 There's no capacitor kit on their website.
There's a kit from Console5 which has all kinds of capacitors for lots of Consoles
I recapped mine but the laser would not fire up and spin to read discs until I dropped it to 112ohms.
You don’t want to release the laser that much, it can damage your disks
@@peppertherat Anything above that it won't read the discs. I have since picobooted the console anyways and mostly intended on playing backups off an SD card. I would've gotten a replacement laser but they're more expensive than just getting the parts to pico mod instead.
112 ohms also wil not harm the discs when people do nanogc mods to read burned discs they drop the laser to 80 ohms. It's not gonna burn the disc but it will shorten the life span of the laser.
heres one for you. years ago my friend spilled a can of coke over my ps1, let it dry out a bit and used it again....now something shorted in there (right hand side) that meant the games both loaded and ran about 4xfaster. not unplayable faster but just vastly improved performance and that 4x increase in loading speeds.
ive never seen anyone online with the same results bit it seems a shame to see that tweak go un-noticed by the masses.
it seems ps1 was a powerhouse with a chained ankle. i dont have the expertise to explain how it happened.
It wasn't unnoticed, now your system is overclocked because of a short circuit, the thing is, the time is will be alive lol
I don't watch videoes that are 90% fast forward. 1:05 and I'm gone.