little tip for future repairs on chips with broken pins, you can get a tiny usb engraving pen and use it to remove some plastic on the edge of the chip next to a broken pin to expose the internal metal leg and solder a wire onto it. ive fixed a lot of things this way
Not gonna lie, Steve, I thought you might give up on this one after seeing how absolutely mangled it was in the first video. The fact you were able to revive it at all is nothing short of a minor miracle. Well done on this one.
seeing the state of those caps makes me somewhat grateful that the first time round i sent my pc engine gt away to be fixed they didn't butcher it anywhere near as badly, they just didn't bother replacing half the caps, in the end i re did the whole job myself and im glad i did!
It’s Alive! Sometimes you gotta work with what you got. RGB screen looks awesome and so glad you sorted it out. Please keep the content coming, mistakes included. The realism is what I love.
@@Mizai It's a very annoying, irritating, issue for sure, when it happens like this, it's something TH-cam definitely need to address, and from what i've read, they are well aware of it, but this really isn't the fault of any poster, this is ALL the fault of YT. Of course it wasn't an issue when comments were always a scroll down to the bottom, and then they decided to go with this format. But this irritating issue could easily be resolved by eliminating that single visible comment, with a simple update, making it so, to read any of the comments, you'd have to purposely click on comments. But of course YT are typically slow to act on anything that doesn't involve large amounts of money
I'm really glad TH-cam randomly suggested me your channel. I was big into modding Gameboys for a while, but kind of out of of the electronics repair game. Watching you fix these devices definitely makes me want to get back to it. Great job brining that thing back to life.
@@StezStixFix i have Garmin dezl 780 that wont power on even with new battery replaced. i tried pressing power button for 5sec, 15sec, 30 sec still not working. i also tried pressing power and volume down at same time not working still. GPS micro usb port not taking charge either, i think its defective too. Could you do a similar gps fix that wont power on video?
This week on' Tales of the UN-Expected. The viewers are shocked & Steve's! face (Reactions) leave the viewers in tears of joy & laughter. My wife told me pass her lip stick but.. I gave her a glue stick now she is not talking to me. (I'm trying Not! to give the game away) 😂👍🏻
GET IN THERE!!! I almost fell over when it came on. Great fix Steve, that was intense. They didn't leave you much to go on and you still nailed it, well done!
Thanks Travis! Still shocked that it actually worked! I've been playing on it these past few days and it's a fantastic handheld! The RGB screen is awesome too! 👍
Sorry it's not much, things are tight at the moment. I know nothing about electronics but for some reason I've been finding your stuff fascinating and relaxing (for me) to watch! Hope one day you get a Sinclair Spectrum or Atari St! All the best, Thanks
I’ll never get bored of the pure joy from you when you get something fixed (equally the confusion as to how the hell it’s working 😂) keep going Steve 👍🏻 Glued components?! Fair play to you for not giving up!
B-Y and R-Y sounds like Pb and Pr from Y, Pb, Pr component. Y is Luma. Pb and Pr are the difference from Luma to generate blue and red. Green is generated from Y algorithmically.
It is a reference to the YCBCR color space. Y is luminance. Cb is blue minus luminance, hence B-Y. Cr is similar. The Pr and Pb you mention is a gamma corrected variant.
Great fix mate 😂😂your a wizard Harry loved that game in the arcades remember you used to sit down with a joy stick and the machine moved was crazy back in them days 👏👏❤️👍🏻
Great rescue Steve 👍😀. That hot glue can be a pain ... sometimes using a craft knife to put cuts into it or male a dimple in the top can help increase the surface area and time with the IPA in contact improves the softening. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Chris! Great tip! I'm not sure it would have helped with this one, I'm pretty sure those caps were ripped off and then glued back down anyway! 😬
Impressed you managed to get this working! So many issues and bodges, what a wild job someone did on that thing. As someone who's still learning to fix stuff myself, this stuff is super inspiring.
Ignore my comment in previous video. Excellent work nice bogged together. Your assessment of the video chip correct comp out puts not need for screen mod. Person who did the original mod needs shot. Well done again.😁👍
I laughed at those glued caps. So many people think that just glueing components back in place will fix it. I just fixed a Dualshock 4 controller where they'd tried to change the battery, ripped the battery connector off the board and just glued it back down thinking that'd make it work again.
If it is a Zener diode, then it only would need two legs, it is quite possible the third pad was purely a support. Not sure how you managed to get it going after such a mess being created by the previous hack, but you did it and it will be a really nice little device.
Thats an excellent job there.always impressed with your perseverance.as a sidenote you can pick up a power cable for this off ebay which allows you to power this from a usb powerbank instead of a million AA batteries a week,although admittedly the lcd upgrade certainly cuts down on battery usage a bit.
Good job !! At some point the RGB board was very hard to find (slightly easier now I think). At least it made the cut legs matter less. The diode might be 2-in1, or both pins being the same, so if it works like that it'll be fine.
Dude great job! I have watched a few of your videos and I am quite impressed how you use what you got and make it work! I have already learned some things from you. I am trying to grow an electronic repair business at home. Mainly video game, consoles and such. So I decided to subscribe and keep on watching!
Im so glad you made a return to this, i was going to mention on the previous video that so long as you could fix the power circuit it wouldn't be that bad an investment to buy a faulty pc engine basic console and use hot air to swap the HU chip although it looked like youd've had to fix the pads it connected to anyway :)
some of those pin names sound like maybe they are colour combinations. Red Blue green yellow cyan etc maybe not but if its just different colour blends that might explain why the thing still works .
Not sure you'll ever see this, but the link in the video description that's supposed to go to the first video, is actually a link to this second video.
That board looks so busy, when I watched the first video I just thought 'nah im ok thanks', how do you capture the zoomed In parts do you have it going through a computer? The clarity is amazing
You total animal! (not 100% sure this will be seen as a compliment, but it is supposed to be) What a ride, the glued parts cracked me up. Forgot to solder them perhaps. Drugs maybe? hahaha. They need you in the Nasa space station for repairs until they actually get those nano bots that do repairs.
Hey Man love your videos. I have a pc engine gt that i recapped. Unfortunately it didn't fix it. i have a "shorted" capacitor pad on cc503. Positive pad is grounded and the ground isnt grounded. Not sure how that happens. Any advice would be appreciated.
The trace is there, you can faintly see it travelling upwards but is obscured by the paint and the little chip. I watched it several times that bit and its just hard to see.
little tip for future repairs on chips with broken pins, you can get a tiny usb engraving pen and use it to remove some plastic on the edge of the chip next to a broken pin to expose the internal metal leg and solder a wire onto it. ive fixed a lot of things this way
Commenting to save this amazing tip. Thanks!
Just the tip. Sounds like an option
@@denserdeezsignz5498 that's what she said!!
For more powerful engraving, a dental plaque removal tool would also do the trick!
@@rookie3528 And for even more powerful - jackhammer.
Whoever did the original job should not be allowed to touch electronics ever again. Great job repairing this..
Not gonna lie, Steve, I thought you might give up on this one after seeing how absolutely mangled it was in the first video. The fact you were able to revive it at all is nothing short of a minor miracle. Well done on this one.
seeing the state of those caps makes me somewhat grateful that the first time round i sent my pc engine gt away to be fixed they didn't butcher it anywhere near as badly, they just didn't bother replacing half the caps, in the end i re did the whole job myself and im glad i did!
This one was certainly butchered! I'd be so annoyed if someone did this to one of mine. Good job on fixing yours yourself! 👍
It’s Alive! Sometimes you gotta work with what you got. RGB screen looks awesome and so glad you sorted it out. Please keep the content coming, mistakes included. The realism is what I love.
Thanks Bitdigital! Yeah, the screen looks beautiful, makes a world of difference over the original!
thanks for ruining the ending no point on watching now (yes you were the comment youtube placed in the preview)
@@Mizai It's a very annoying, irritating, issue for sure, when it happens like this, it's something TH-cam definitely need to address, and from what i've read, they are well aware of it, but this really isn't the fault of any poster, this is ALL the fault of YT.
Of course it wasn't an issue when comments were always a scroll down to the bottom, and then they decided to go with this format. But this irritating issue could easily be resolved by eliminating that single visible comment, with a simple update, making it so, to read any of the comments, you'd have to purposely click on comments. But of course YT are typically slow to act on anything that doesn't involve large amounts of money
I'm really glad TH-cam randomly suggested me your channel. I was big into modding Gameboys for a while, but kind of out of of the electronics repair game. Watching you fix these devices definitely makes me want to get back to it. Great job brining that thing back to life.
This is great to see. The person who did those things to it should be ashamed of themselves. Glad it landed in your hands and was able to be rescued.
Thanks Terry, really happy to see it back up and running! 👍
Quite an achievement to rescue that! Well done.
Thanks Stuart! 👍
Your channel is really making me want to get into the hobby of fixing old consoles
You should do it! It's great fun 👍
@@StezStixFix i have Garmin dezl 780 that wont power on even with new battery replaced. i tried pressing power button for 5sec, 15sec, 30 sec still not working. i also tried pressing power and volume down at same time not working still. GPS micro usb port not taking charge either, i think its defective too. Could you do a similar gps fix that wont power on video?
This week on' Tales of the UN-Expected. The viewers are shocked & Steve's! face (Reactions) leave the viewers in tears of joy & laughter.
My wife told me pass her lip stick but.. I gave her a glue stick now she is not talking to me. (I'm trying Not! to give the game away) 😂👍🏻
🤣🤣 brilliant, thanks Steve! 👍
GET IN THERE!!! I almost fell over when it came on. Great fix Steve, that was intense. They didn't leave you much to go on and you still nailed it, well done!
Thanks Travis! Still shocked that it actually worked! I've been playing on it these past few days and it's a fantastic handheld! The RGB screen is awesome too! 👍
Congratulations on salvaging this beauty!
Hitting us with Peter Gabriel on the Outro was mega! Well done on the repair👍
Sorry it's not much, things are tight at the moment. I know nothing about electronics but for some reason I've been finding your stuff fascinating and relaxing (for me) to watch! Hope one day you get a Sinclair Spectrum or Atari St! All the best, Thanks
You are an absolute LEGEND for getting this mess working again.
I’ll never get bored of the pure joy from you when you get something fixed (equally the confusion as to how the hell it’s working 😂) keep going Steve 👍🏻
Glued components?! Fair play to you for not giving up!
Holy Crap... I seriously thought this was going to be trashed... I was going to say great job but this deserves a "Damn good Job Steve..."... WOW
Thanks Oz! I was really please (and surprised!!!) to see it come back to life! 😬
B-Y and R-Y sounds like Pb and Pr from Y, Pb, Pr component. Y is Luma. Pb and Pr are the difference from Luma to generate blue and red. Green is generated from Y algorithmically.
Ah, thanks Emmett. That would make sense that it had a composite mod thst was ripped out (taking the legs with it!)
It is a reference to the YCBCR color space. Y is luminance. Cb is blue minus luminance, hence B-Y. Cr is similar. The Pr and Pb you mention is a gamma corrected variant.
It's always a good insight how other techs attempt to repair; Then you come in like god mode and just make the magic happen!
I credit Dave for that 😄
I loved how you kept trying and did your research and whatever. Instant subscribe.
Great fix mate 😂😂your a wizard Harry loved that game in the arcades remember you used to sit down with a joy stick and the machine moved was crazy back in them days 👏👏❤️👍🏻
Yeah, i remember it well! I'd love to have another go on it in an arcade! 🤩
Beauty it is with all the comical expressions from you LOL. Don't give up is the moto! Well done Steve. No comments on the singing this time! 🤣
😁 thanks M m!
Good to see your revisit on your PC Engine GT there Steve and this time it paid off good work there - Nice 1 mate 👍
Thanks Chris! 😊
Another great fix and video, your face when the screen worked was magic 👍
Thanks David! 👍
I cannot believe that this HuC6260 chip, with so many legs missing, ended up working properly. What a save Steven!
Great revisit! My son and I just watched both. Glad you got it sorted out (and also glad we waited so we had both of them to watch).
Thanks Matthew, glad you and your son enjoyed it! 👍
I actually screamed when it booted. Well done you. Well done!
I enjoy learning about electronics with you Steve, and I want this journey to continue.....but I THINK my sub conscious does it for the tunes x
😁 yes!
Great rescue Steve 👍😀. That hot glue can be a pain ... sometimes using a craft knife to put cuts into it or male a dimple in the top can help increase the surface area and time with the IPA in contact improves the softening. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Chris! Great tip! I'm not sure it would have helped with this one, I'm pretty sure those caps were ripped off and then glued back down anyway! 😬
Steve you bring the dead back to life.
I wish I had 1/33 of your skill!
That! Was! Awesome! So gratifying to hear the sound!
Nice going. I'm surprised there wasn't more damage.
Thanks pds. I couldn't see anything else but I also wouldn't be surprised! 😳
@@StezStixFix Well it seems to be all working now. So other than some lifted tracks I don't think there would be anything else damaged.
Nice one steve another handheld saved from the landfill, lmao @ capacitor bodge some people are just clueless
Thanks Darkshijima 😁 who glues down a couple of ripped off capacitors and expects them to work!? Strange stuff! 😳
Impressed you managed to get this working! So many issues and bodges, what a wild job someone did on that thing. As someone who's still learning to fix stuff myself, this stuff is super inspiring.
Ignore my comment in previous video. Excellent work nice bogged together. Your assessment of the video chip correct comp out puts not need for screen mod. Person who did the original mod needs shot. Well done again.😁👍
Good save. Though the person who tried to do it previously had to start somewhere and might now watch your videos and be learning better techniques.
Oh man, was so excited watching this thing come back to life!! Good work mate!
The link in the description just takes me back to the beginning of this video.
I laughed at those glued caps. So many people think that just glueing components back in place will fix it. I just fixed a Dualshock 4 controller where they'd tried to change the battery, ripped the battery connector off the board and just glued it back down thinking that'd make it work again.
I've also had them taped down with sticky tape, I'm not sure which is worse! 😬
If it is a Zener diode, then it only would need two legs, it is quite possible the third pad was purely a support.
Not sure how you managed to get it going after such a mess being created by the previous hack, but you did it and it will be a really nice little device.
You are amazing for attempting that cap replacement. ❤️
Great ending Steve wow you put her back together nice and puurdy!👍
That look on your face when it worked, brill. 👍
😁 thanks Sherlock, I was a genuine look of shock! 😳
Magnificent result. Well done!
Thanks Marv! 😊
Even though I just watched you do it, I'm actually astounded you managed to get that thing working agin from the state it was in.
great that you got it fixed and that screen ends up looking much better than the other working one you had
Well done Steve yes it was a little messy but it works and with time you will get better who’s a clever man 🤣👍take care 👏👏
You probably know it
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What you do in your videos,
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Good show mate! Way to stick with it and clean up this catastrophe!
Ace, well done, bit of an overdue credit, but what a fix (eventually)
7:03 "I wish I knew more things." Me too, brother. Me too...
Thats an excellent job there.always impressed with your perseverance.as a sidenote you can pick up a power cable for this off ebay which allows you to power this from a usb powerbank instead of a million AA batteries a week,although admittedly the lcd upgrade certainly cuts down on battery usage a bit.
Thanks for the lesson
Excellent, I really did think it was a lost cause..
Thanks MJ, me too. Think I got a bit lucky, but it's working great now! 👍
wonderful job Steve
Good job !! At some point the RGB board was very hard to find (slightly easier now I think). At least it made the cut legs matter less.
The diode might be 2-in1, or both pins being the same, so if it works like that it'll be fine.
Thanks Ryoandr! Yeah, I've had a quick look for the RGB boards and they are still quite hard to find (in the UK at least!)
This was awesome! Nice job and great perseverance
I really enjoy your work. Good work on this one.
congrats on the save
A methodni use to see where traces go is to shine a bright light behind the board
Thanks schweatty! Great tip! 👍
That was an epic save. Well done.
I've pretty much fixed mine now, just going to add a heat sinks to the chips that get super warm, maybe a mini fan.
Cool, sounds like a good plan! 👍
@@StezStixFix Just done it, and left it on for 3 hours, no screen glitches, and it's definitely cooler than it was.
Well done Steve, I'm wondering who the hell worked on this before you, Jesus wept!
Thanks Adrian! I know, it is one hell of a bodge job. Makes me feel like a pro! 😁
what a journey 😂 so happy for u when you fixed it
A skilled fixer, you have become! Another very well made video! Like alot!
Thanks Willy, much appreciated! 👍👍
Great video Steve
Thanks Jon! 👍
very nicely done sir.
Thanks WanJockey! 👍👍
Glad you were able to save it!!
Dude great job! I have watched a few of your videos and I am quite impressed how you use what you got and make it work! I have already learned some things from you. I am trying to grow an electronic repair business at home. Mainly video game, consoles and such. So I decided to subscribe and keep on watching!
'Tis a true miracle! Amazing work :)
😁 definitely a miracle! Thanks Kevin 👍
Im so glad you made a return to this, i was going to mention on the previous video that so long as you could fix the power circuit it wouldn't be that bad an investment to buy a faulty pc engine basic console and use hot air to swap the HU chip although it looked like youd've had to fix the pads it connected to anyway :)
Excellent job
Thanks Alvin! 👍
Amazing. That thing looks like it has been in a war with all the mess inside.
Did i see a spark at 9:40 ?
Very nice repair! Job well done!
Thank you! 👍
poor PCB
Good job Steve, you "saved a life"
You literally brought this back to life from console hell
Glueing components on is a step up from ones that you've encountered that were sellotaped on.
That is very true! 😁
Awesome channel. From a Wythenshawe ex Para geezer, who hasnt got a Scooby Doo what you`re doing but enjoying it all the same.
some of those pin names sound like maybe they are colour combinations. Red Blue green yellow cyan etc maybe not but if its just different colour blends that might explain why the thing still works .
1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth🤨
Well done sir
Not sure you'll ever see this, but the link in the video description that's supposed to go to the first video, is actually a link to this second video.
That board looks so busy, when I watched the first video I just thought 'nah im ok thanks', how do you capture the zoomed In parts do you have it going through a computer? The clarity is amazing
Thanks J amesie I record on my microscope SD card and transfer to the PC for editing. Works a treat 👍
@@StezStixFix Amazeballs, hope you are feeling better dude
Fantastic video, please do a Sega Nomad smd cap upgrade please :)
nice one steve 👍
Can you give a link to the scratchy pen that you use to scrape the solder mask? :3
You total animal! (not 100% sure this will be seen as a compliment, but it is supposed to be)
What a ride, the glued parts cracked me up. Forgot to solder them perhaps. Drugs maybe? hahaha.
They need you in the Nasa space station for repairs until they actually get those nano bots that do repairs.
Hey Man love your videos. I have a pc engine gt that i recapped. Unfortunately it didn't fix it. i have a "shorted" capacitor pad on cc503. Positive pad is grounded and the ground isnt grounded. Not sure how that happens. Any advice would be appreciated.
Great video!
Thanks Matt! 👍
I was here before 5K SUBS! (keep in mind I will use this comment as proof of an og subscriber!)
😁 much appreciated Mer! 👍
I have one of them and no sounds, I need to replace some capacitor on mine has well
Great repair! But I love your endings Lol!
😁😁 thanks Slingshot!
Everytime you say Stupid Game I think of Hacker T Dog.. love your videos man
Be cool to show us a library of games for this as I’ve never encountered it like many others
epic repair!
Amazing fix, seen a few bad jobs in my life. But that PC Engine is among the worst shit I've seen on TH-cam.
Nice work!
Yeah, it's definitely up there and it's certainly the worst I've ever worked on! 😳
💪🏼😊 great job!
Thanks Aisflou! 👍
i would love to see more turbo express repair videos theres just some allure for a system ill never own lol
The trace is there, you can faintly see it travelling upwards but is obscured by the paint and the little chip. I watched it several times that bit and its just hard to see.
Oh wow, I'll need to have another look. Thanks Watson! I'm still shocked that it worked without it! 😳