Exposing FAKE Console Restoration Video
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- I enjoy watching restoration videos for games consoles and paraphernalia. I use them to help educate me on what I can do to improve and restore damaged gaming goods. It’s also immensely satisfying to see and old or damaged console being brought back to life. But recently I was unrecommended a video by TH-cam for a restoration of a Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive. And what I watched frustrated me.
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Do it Mike! Give your MD collection a good old clean. Soapy water won't wreck anything, even the game manuals and covers 👍
I'm already on it Stav. It's not going well.
They film the "restoration" stages in reverse order I think, saw one where he restored a ds with a hole through it, water fixed the screen really well
😂 really? Amazing.
Yeah ive seen a ton of these for awhile now, its kinda bananas how long they've been circulating with that just straight up false info, but its great to have someone in the know actually react to them
It's so bizarre that these exist. I guess it makes them a lot of money.
That did make me smile. Its like when you see a grotty console on marketplace and they describe it as 'like new' or 'hardly used' 🤣. Great content as usual.
Yup, I've seen that on eBay. "Rare games console, excellent condition" and it an old Mega Drive covered in dust and grime.
@@RetroGamerBoy yes and people thinking their retro console and games they have acquired is worth far more than it is
Backyard Ballistics did the world a great disservice when he defined those two categories of fake restorations. He defined "mild fakes" people actually weathering the objects then restoring them, but that's not always the case. In many cases, they film the objects being ruined, then arrange the clips in REVERSE ORDER to make it look like it's getting better. They just destroy an object and throw it away!
I guess if you're desperate for views it's a thing you could do.
@@RetroGamerBoymost of these fake videos come from poor asian countries, so yes, they are desperate enough.
I love restoration videos and haaaaaaaate when videos like that clog up my suggested feed. They're all so clearly fake and they devalue channels that put in the real work.
Yup, I like watching restoration videos.
I'll say he's got balls for being so brazen with the fakery
It's kinda worked. The made between 10k and 30k on the video.
@@RetroGamerBoy that's absolutely bonkers!
The reason why all the "dirt" came off that easy is because he just did put it on the machine himself shortly before "finding it" and not been in dirt for long as might be suggested.
Everything he found look the same way, same amount of fresh dirt and preety easy to find without lifting anything, almost like is having a neon sign where he see from his house which I guess is crossing the street. He is so lucky to live next to a retro console garbage.
Yup, fake dirt.
Water and soap will not necessarily damage the board, just make sure the water is well filtered and the soap is neutral.
I don't that's the point of the video.
Breathe Mike, breeeeeathe.
Enjoying the new direction for the channel. Am interested to know what's coming next on 'Rouse's Restoration Rant'.
In next week's show, toy car restoration.
@@RetroGamerBoy Was hoping for an explosive reportage on the return of the monarchy in 1660 after only a decade of Republican rule. But alas, a girl can dream.
Haha! what’s “refreshing” was the soapy water I guess, 😂 i had a good laugh watching this, thanks Mike! Have you seen “Ben Heck Hacks”? His restoration videos are so satisfying to watch.
Ive not, I'll check them out, thanks
Ben Heck is the real deal, what he did with Todd Rogers where they read the memory in real time to figure out the theoretical best time on Atari Dragster is so dope. Also the consoles he modifies to essentially make them portable/handheld is pretty amazing too!
The best fakes are the computer "restorations" where they just poke around with a multimeter and pretend that they know what they're doing. :D
Ah, he does the same here :D
🤣 yup I've seen those.
Even opening a HDD and cleaning it with soapy water 😂😂😂
Sadly even some of those Primitive building videos are also Fake or scripted.
Ya, it amazes me how much stamina they have to make them 😂
The Retro Future made a bunch of videos on these fake restorations. It’s unbelievable how many views they get.
I'll need to check that out, thanks.
I do love those videos with retrobrighting and even those dirty diecast model car ones (though I wonder why anyone wouldn't just build a new one). But just chucking wires and circuitry into water... That will help with the corrosion and dirt...
These videos are a joke.
Well done mate it was your reaction that made this one fun to watch.
I was just amazed to see this blatantly obvious fake. It's was almost like it was so bad it was good.
The way i said OH MY GOD out loud when he put EVERYTHING in water... usually its some non descript liquid they pour in so you maybe you're not sure, but that was a HOSE. There's NO WAY that wasn't water. Ive seen a few other of these fake restorations reactions from Elliot Coll but I gotta say this one was the biggest emotional rollercoaster I've seen so far LMAO
thank god for japan’s innovation to video games
Without them we would have nothing 😅
Dkoldies should take a note or two!!! 😂
I've not really been following this Dkoldies thing, what happened.
I was always suspicious of the oil-destroyed VIC20 restoration video the 8 bit guy put out. Looks pretty similar to this one. Completely destroyed motherboard, and only some minor technical issues….
Some have said that they make the video in reverse.
I'm really surprised you didn't know that soapy water can fix anything Haha, These fake joker videos always bring a smile to my face
I've got a soar throat and I'm try it on that now.
Wow, just what I always wanted. A Soga PooStation. At least it's a bootleg, I guess.
Yup, I'm sure they bought 2 bootleg consoles and ruined one and put the other back together.
@@RetroGamerBoy They're common and cheap, so I have little doubt.
I used to piss on my brother's snes to get it to work. It's still working now. Much better and cheaper solution than some soap and water.
Good tip, I'm off to do that to the 32X. I thought it needed recapping but this sound much easier and cheaper.
@@RetroGamerBoy 🤪
Yep))) 😀👍 A Old TV CRT maybe reestablish. Oops 😬
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The fact that he has such a high like ratio and people believe it is a perfect example of how stupid the general population is. Incredible.
Yup, I guess people just don't know any better.
its a Brazilian official megadrive from tek toy, they still in production i think? its licensed by Sega
That makes this even more of a crime.
It's a clone that's been around developing regions (and Ali Express, eBay etc.) for a long time. The last machine Tectoy made in the Mega Drive 2 mold, Mega Drive 3 from 2007, had built-in games and no cartridge slot.
Hi there : i can tell you this : that effect , having the look of so much durt , can be achieved by using Coffee but you need to have it grinded extra fine rather then the usual grade. now having different types of coffee gives you also different colors which here are also seen if you take a realy close look. and the rest is probably some backing powder and other Pigmantations ( the best is of course acrylic ones sine those can get washed off better ).
coffee is the answer to the realy brownish almost like shit looking color that thing has gotten
That's interesting
The water part 😢 how... why... When I cleaned my gameboy, I got paranoid to touch the motherboard 😂 I was carefully trying to get it out with my fingertips on the side without grabbing it to hard 😅 putting it carefully on a plate and getting paranoid every time I slightly touched it or it slightly moved 😅😅
Well I had pretty good success throwing my Mega Drive into a dishwasher.
And now it smells fantastic!
Disclaimer: Of course I did not, don't destroy your Mega Drive!
It's the best way to fix failed capacitors as well😂
And do you know how much I love your videos "Retro Gamer Boy" I come into the right place about someone who's big fan of SEGA Genesis/Megadrive like me!!
I've got some cool things on the horizon , so stay tuned.
@@RetroGamerBoy OK I heard you!
Same thing to me too! 0:00
It's an awesome system.
What could you wash an appliance with if not water? It can't get much worse than it already is if not powered while wet. A large tub of any solvent would be uneconomical.
It is the slapdash way it's cleaned. I only have to look at my old consoles and the brake. Submerging the board in water and adding soap is not a great idea. The board wasn't even air blasted afterwards to ensure all the water was removed.😂
He's been doing that for some time. What he does is get a piece of electronic like the Sega clone and takes it apart. Makes a video putting it back together and then he throws some mud on it and goes out to "find it".
Films it taking the now very dirty and destroyed Sega apart and then use the footage taken from before it was destroyed were he puts it back together to get the illusion it's been restored
What gets me is he uses soap and water to restore it. And also sands of the logos!!!!
Truth shall be told my Mike to expose these videos publishers for what they truly are. Well done Mike. 8^)
Anthony...
Anthony it's amazing how this low effort video fool so many people.
You should buy a cheap Megadrive 2 and do a video demonstrating what happens when you actually emerse it in soapy water 😂
That's a great idea.
@@RetroGamerBoy I can see the comedy Street Fighter 2 style electrified skeleton effect now 😂
@@businesscat380 😂🤣
You mean buy and not by. 😂😂😂
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But can he clean tomato stains off Tupperware? That would earn my respect.
He would be a magician.
Pretty sure some of these restoration videos they actually make them dirty in a specific way for effect on the video. Like you say the screws haven't rusted at all which would mean they weren't abandoned for as long as the outside of the case would have you believe.
Yup, and you can see when he takes the pad apart that the runs some of the dirt off to reveal perfectly untouched plastic.
marinated in dirt for a week before the "restoration"
They have all the skills.
I guess the guy filmed the "new" part before, then destroyed it and edited everything.
Yup that's what I'm thinking.
I've seen three of these videos and I can already see the pattern. Everything is clearly false. Now, it's not impossible to wash appliance boards that don't have batteries inside. I myself already needed to wash some plates in restorations. But you have to make sure they are completely dry before turning it back on.
It's the fact that the soap and water magically removed the rust.
@@RetroGamerBoy This is really interesting. I would like to learn this technique they use too. There are every device that comes to me that would help me a lot.
It's like they see an Odd Tinkering video where he washes the *PLASTIC* is soapy water and cleans the *CIRCUIT BOARD* with isopropyl alcohol and all they see is 'guy cleans the thing with clear liquid'
There's a fantastic restoration channel that's real but I honestly forgot the name.. Anyone else? He generally does laptops.
I'll ha e a search. I like restoration videos. Especially if I can learn how to do some of it myself.
I have allready stumble over restration videos in that kind, it was kind of subspicious. I mean that all unrealistic.
And btw.: That two light gungs got a great place in your cupboard left of you. :)
Yup they are very hard to get hold off.
Mike, I cannot believe you didn't know how easy it is to restore consoles and controllers with a bit of soapy water! Can't believe you call yourself a gamer. 😂😂😂
I'm disgusted with my self Tom.
Lol that’s the megadrive 2 clone off Alliexpress. I think it goes for around £16 . Wow I wonder if anyone went off and washed there megadrive in the bath after watching this 😂
This is clearly an educational video.
Those ribbon cables just regenerated! Despite how dumb these videos are, the production value is always top notch. But why? They should take that talent elsewhere.
I guess they can make a lot of money from them.
Water doesn’t damage electrics like you think. PC motherboards can be cleaned in dishwashers.
Generally I agree, water on a PCB won't do any harm if it's done correctly, but it's best to use deionised water so that when it dries it doesn't leave any residue which could be conductive, adding soap and leaving the board to soak in filthy water is going to make the issue even worse, that's before considering how the soap and content of the mud might interact with the metal parts or getting inside switches like the power and reset buttons. Using regular water on its own can be okay but you're best off using something to displace the water like IPA before it dries. If he'd stuck it in an ultrasonic cleaner with some deionised water to shift any residue after the mudbath it might have been a bit more convincing. Never tried the dishwasher method on a PCB since I don't have one, but I assume people don't put soap in, or if they do it'll be soap with no salt etc. to reduce residue.
I know, but not like that. Also you run the risk of water traped under components corroding and metallic parts.
probably filmed the putting back together before getting it dirty
I would not put it past them.
Fake views , fake attitudes, fake videos we are all living in Faketube. I stumbled recently upon another exposed fake video that the maker off camera has the nerve to glue barnacles on a turtle so that he can post it as a "Barnacle Removal Turtle Rescue" video, this is disgusting.
What!! That can't be true, who the hell would do something like that?
It's not a new circuit board ... it's the circuit board that was in there originally when they bought it second hand ... before they beeped it up to make the rest of the crap video. Might even have come with a white and a black controller hence the inconsistencies during the montage.
Yup I hate this fake restoration rubbish.
Please make more of these videos
Really, not the retro stuff😅
Magic Bubble Shower
It fixes everything.
If you let everything dry, it could still work.
It's just that I just need to look at my 32X and it breaks, this guy gets a scrubbing brush, washing up liquid, and a tub of water.
I found this physically painful... 😅
Especially when he sands off the logos.
💯👍Repairation
Thank you Michael.
sh***t.. my MegaDrive (model1) does not connect with my MegaCD anymore...
It just won't turn it on..
What do you think... some soap and water????
Might do the trick...
Make sure you scrub really hard as well.
Esta muy chido tu canal saludos desde México 👍
Thank you, and welcome.
What kind of controller is that? It's not a Mega Drive controller for sure. I thought it was a PS2 controller, but it does have A, B, C, X, Y and Z. Is that a Famiclone or something, in the shape of a Mega Drive? Because that is either a fake or third-party controller.
The whole console is a fake. I guess they wanted to make the video as cheap as possible.
this was in my recommended, i stopped watching once i saw the controller picked up, didnt consider it fake at the time, but wasnt interested as both controller and console were clearly out in the open
😅yup, he just takes it from someone's shelter.
This was obviously a console they just buried in soil for the day.
Yup, 4 million views later and they are laughing all the way to the bank.
Is the Game Gear a better system than the Gameboy?
Games library is pretty subjective, but the GB one is bigger even if the game gear isn’t small either.
The game gear is basically a souped up master system with more colors than the mega drive. So if you can benchmark these things the Sega would come out on top.
Both screens are pretty crap for todays standard, but as something portable the GB won’t run out of power in 15 minutes like the game gear.
Personally I couldn’t pick between the two. Both have great little games. The puzzle ones aged best. Colums and Pengo are still great fun today on game gear and can’t go wrong with Tetris on Gb
For me the Game Gear was like the switch back then. I could play full sized console games on the go. Of course they were previous generation but still it was pretty amazing.
Water is fine to wash electronics, just keep it away from batteries. I'm not saying this video isn't fake.
I know😅 it was just how it was chucked in and scrubbed. I only have to look at my Sega 32X and it breaks.
@@RetroGamerBoy I had my 32x serviced back in the day and mine runs perfectly till this day. It has all the service bulletin fixes done. You might want to look into having the same thing done to yours.
У этих обманщиков (по русски назвал бы их гораздо грубее и красочнее) целый канал построенн на фейковых ремонтах техники. В большинстве роликов они используют перестановку местами фрагментов съемки, т.е. изначально разбирают абсолютно рабочюю технику, снимают её подкраску и сборку, далее снимают то, как она работает, затем технику специально убивают и загрязняют, после чего снимают фейковый ремонт и уже в видео компануют фрагменты в нужном порядке. К сожалению, невнимательные и технически несведущие люли ведуться на эти фейки, а эти уроды продолжают снимать и убивать хорошую рабочую технику. Очень жаль ту мегадрайв, которую они угробили, сердце кровью обливается, когда вижу такое отношение к консолям.
P.S. А может эти чудики таким образом бросают вызов тем ребятам, которые реально могут восстановить даже самую убитую консоль? 🤔
It's a real shame that they are destroying these old consoles.
DKoldies is this you?!
This DKoldies things seems to be sucking up a lot of oxygen.
@@RetroGamerBoy From internet trolls with nothing better to do than point out the obvious, I suppose. I wish I had time to care, but...alas, I'll never pay those prices.
@@jamesburchill7522 is that the issue is it, that they are expensive.
@@RetroGamerBoy I think people have come to terms they are dealing with the devil when it comes to pricing. I think what they are most miffed about, is that they are paying for functional pieces, that have been refurbished. Granted, they have a warranty, that provides some insurance if the unit arrives in a non-working condition, however they often aren't refurbished as evident by dusty internals, swollen caps..ECT.
ITS MAGIC WATER
Quick money grab: yeah dude. It"s a brazilian.
I thought so👍
There's so much fake click bait on the internet
I can't believe these guys have such a successfull channel full of it.
@@RetroGamerBoy there's a lot of successful channels like that, unfortunately
😉😋love your videos.
Thanks 🤘😝🤘
Yeah``` i'm with you. I think most of his restoration are fake, but still in doubt. Now i can be sure..
It's crazy that people would even bother doing this. I guess views are very important to some people.
👉🏽3:13 he touches the dirty cartridge dust flaps slot and chunks of crud falls right in on the pin connectors 😶🤣who does that!? Why didn't he turn it upside down and hold it upside down with one hand and rub his finger with his other hand up against flaps to knock the crud down on the table instead 😅 that's how you know this is just a bunch of crap💩.😂
Yup, it's so blatantly fake.
I think you even give them to much credit, i think they had 1 console which then absolutely destroyed and then cut the video back together in reverse order.
Yup, that sounds about right.
To be fair, you're British. You know how people leave random stuff in the middle of an alley or a footpath (I, personally, have found a working coffee machine this way myself). And if you've ever been to a car boot, you know the type of random shit those house removal man and van guys always have for sale there (my examples here include a Gamecube with no controller or TV cable - just the power lead - a copy of Resi 4 on the Wii with what appeared to be soot inside the case, and a special edition of - I think - Dark Souls with no game CD and the bonus content CD for ANOTHER special edition release of the game). I can see a battered Mega Drive fitting into both categories.
PS I know the videos are fake, but just saying, it's not out of the realm of possibility, at least not in the UK.
😂 true
So fucking fake that restauration video,haha😂😂😅😅Indeed,something very new on your channel,thanks Mike for sharing!Its magic soap water who fixes it😂😂🤣🤣💥💥
😅I know right.
You had me worried there for a moment Mr Mike: when I saw the preview I thought you had bought into the fakery
Anywho, thanks for watching the clickbait so I don't have to 😅
It's pretty clear from the first few seconds that this was fake. I could not believe how little effort they put into this though.
🤣🤣🤣
😅😂...😥
Yeah, totally fake.
I mean aside from obviously ruining the electronics by submerging them in soapy water and scrubbing them like that, you can tell the flaps were replaced. The old ones were deformed when he pulled them off, and the new ones are flawless.
I really hope nobody watches that video and takes it as advice on how to clean and restore their consoles.
With 4 million views, I sure there is one or two people out there.
nice
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Thanks for russian subtitles
Anytime 👍
Why would you even bother on a fake megadrive 2 though lol, they are renowned for poor build quality even new ones fail quickly, there is no way that cheap board is going to work without replacing pretty much the entire board and it would cost more in parts than it worth, my guess is he had another fake md2 there and cribbing bits from lol 😁
I guess it meant they did not need to spend money on their fake video.
Yeah total fake, on the bright side he got paid for the video huh 🤣
He did indeed😅
Why not go a step further? Just submerge your entire games room with water and soap, leave it for a few days then drain it and leave a heater and dehumidifier in their a few days? Surely that would save effort and do everything in one go? (Note - of all the piss takes, this comment is the most piss takey)
I understand this method works really well for SNES cardboard boxes.
Take old fake parts put new screws and by new parts and new console blamo "restoration"
Yup, that is exactly what they've done.
Lol so your the restoration expert now, whatever it sounds like your jealous of his views as he gets literally gets millions more then your Channel does, just stick to what you know and keep your opinions on things you know nothing about to yourself
He clearly proves the original video is a fraud and fake. Nothing to do with jealousy.
😂😂 is this a joke, you have to be kidding me right?
Poor content don't see the point in it really
I guess it makes money
I don't know why you felt the need to make this video, yes we are all allowed an opinion and to express it but making a video about it? Was that the right thing to do? It's like a trap and you have fallen right into it. The whole point of TH-cam is to make money so his whole point in making these videos is to make money. You have fallen into the trap of finding something ridiculous on TH-cam and making a video about it. Why a trap? Well, the hook is to make a ridiculous video about something because the world is big enough that someone will find the subject matter interesting, like you did. Now someone with a bigger or as big of an exposure on TH-cam will make a video about this video pointing out how ridiculous it is. Thqt video has now given exposure to the original video, giving the original video more views and clicks = more money made from said ridiculous video because people will want to see how ridiculous it is for themselves. You are now in the trap doing all the work for someone else, well done lol
Sometimes as good as an idea for a video is, sometimes it doesn't benefit you as much as it does for the person being highlighted
I'm not here to make money I have a job for that. I make video's that interest me and fuel my hobby, which is the Sega Mega Drive.
their are lots of different fakevideos from east asia(i believe india). i ve also seen weird fish catching videos and fake animal rescue. they are all very similar.
Fake animal rescue, that sounds very wrong😥
@@RetroGamerBoy yes it is not funny, i forgot those weird "disney" pool builders: th-cam.com/video/gArwDlejigk/w-d-xo.html
@@RetroGamerBoy i got an idea, lets invent new and upcoming hot videogames and preview them.😉