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In this installment, we examine a turd brown PC-E that is in a non-functional issue. We'll attempt to repair this unit, and perform a thorough cosmetic restoration to the plastic housing.
At 9:33 of the video, I didn't set the instrument to ohms or continuity. when I was probing the area and I found the break. I didn't need to, as I could tell by the behavior on the display that something was amiss. I just know all of the strange quirks of this particular multimeter. Sorry if that confused any of you as I didn't explain that.
SONG LIST:
01. Valis II - Act 1
02. Efera & Jiliora: The Emblem from Darkness - Field
03. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood - Beginning
04. Gate of Thunder - Stage 1
05. Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire - Stage 2 / Boss Theme
06. Last Armageddon - Battle Theme
07. Ys: Book I & II - Palace of Destruction/Palace Of Solomon
08. Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair - Every Little Helps/Boss Theme
09. Popful Mail: Magical Fantasy Adventure - Volcanic Zone (Map)
10. Sylphia - Level 1
11. Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams - Stage 1
12. Double Dragon II: The Revenge - Level 5
13. Fighting Street - Eagle Stage
14. Sorcerian - The Ice Cave − Cave II - เกม
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God bless you man... You took what would have probably ended up in a landfill and gave it life again. What is completely miraculous about this video is... you didn't restore some 1948 Tucker discovered in a barn in West Virginia... you restored a common piece of retro gaming trash nobody was going to miss. Even in great shape, these things only go for $40-50. In the state you received it, someone would struggle getting $5-10 for it and most likely would have ended up in the trash. What you have done, is you took that poor video game console soul and gave it a second life. Not for profit... just because you have a love for the tech enough to do something... and it was the right thing to do. There's going to be a day in the future where these things are almost extinct... and because there are Voultar's of the world... that day might come much much later. I admire what you do, I wish I knew how to do what you do, I wish I had the skills for what you do. I loved watching this... it really gave me the feelz. Great job... you've done a great civic duty of the retro video gaming community.
Where are you getting $50 PC Engines from?
PabstOban WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY ROADS
This isn’t trash! No retro gaming console is trash.
I found a broken one for $50. Pce duo's are going for $200 to $250 broken as well so apparently it's the time to sell. I was going to buy a couple different systems to mod for myself assuming they were fairly cheap still. Was looking for a new hobby with practical uses. Guess I'll just take up gardening instead.
If you and everybody else watches the required 30 seconds of commercials on his video, he'll certainly make up for time and material he used.
Watching what you do is always amazing.. I'm 41 but when I grow up I want to be like you
hehe
I'm 43 and I'm drinking milk. 🤣👍
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lol!
Hahaha....
Another video full of aesthetic pleasure. The only thing that bothered me was cleaning cases with IPA. For me it's more effective to plunge it in hot water with soap or washing detergent and then scrub it with a toothbrush, like you did, and some soft cloth. The gunk usually comes off much easier that way so you don't have to grind off layers of plastic with melamine sponge. Thanks man, I totally enjoyed the process.
I too find that submerging the plastics in dish soap solution for a day will clean off smoking residue much better than alcohol scrubbing.
Couldn't agree more, the hot water and soap makes the dirt go soft and comes off with a toothbrush really easy after that 99% of the time.
soapy wooder is magical
You are a lifesaver!!! Just got my first PC Engine and I recapped it, did the jailbar fix, and installed the turbonanza on it and it quit working! Same pad was lifted on mine! Its working like a dream now!! Thank you!!!
I got a Sega Genesis for $5 at a Salvation Army recently and it had a very similar issue, just reflowing the solder for me fixed it though!
Really enjoying your vids! Gives me the inspiration to dig into some of my own non working units to figure em out!
Seriously listening to you talk about this stuff along with troubleshooting is making me want to get an electrical engineering degree.
He is the Bob Ross of soldering! We're just gonna solder this happy little wire right here, and see it's just that simple!
You don't need an engineering degree to do this stuff. You need to learn how to read schematics and practice the shit out of your fine pitch soldering work. I've been doing mods like this for decades and what I know I learned in high school. I keep my skills up by fixing dirt cheap swap meet junk.
I actually love ripping out bad mods and making them right. I just wish I had all my PS, PS2 and XBOX mod crap still. Used to have tons of chips for all three systems but the ex got to keep all that stuff. I think more people need to gear up and start doing this stuff. It's really not that expensive to get everything you need for a hobbyist. Just buy a Hakko 888 and some hand tools and go to town!
alunaticbastard is right. You don't need an engineering degree to do Bob Ross-level soldering work. You just need a few happy little tools you can get online and maybe an online video or two. Some schematics wouldn't hurt, either. I think most of the console modders/fixers are mostly hobbyists who may end up getting paid for their happy little work. Half the time, I've noticed, serious issues can be fixed in simple one/two-step processes.
his soldering is defect in all classes. do not take this as a proper example if you want to learn how to properly solder anything to spec
@@yar0nix224 on that note I would say please show us how to properly do it then. I have been soldering for 30 years, have done many more professional repairs than I choose to remember and don't see much wrong with his work. He is competent, thorough and precise enough to get the job done. Most people can't hit consecutive pins on an 80 pin package with a microscope without bridging half the side. I've seen him do it effortlessly without a scope on his videos with repeatable results. I would say that's good enough to be paid to do it.
But I would still like to see that video of yours.
>internet superstar claims hes been soldering for 30 years
>doesnt have j-std
>competent
>floods the already broken pad with solder while providing zero strain relief
i dont record videos of soldering you clown
Man, brings back old memories of working in a repair shop. You do good work!
I really love your restoration techniques. Sitting here on my day off, watching beatuy be restored to a piece of gaming history while listening to your lovely voice has been most enjoyable. Thank you for sharing. Keep up the great work you do. :)
Just finished my first recapping of a PC Engine CoreGrafx (the first of two and my first recapping of anything period). I accidentally bought two consoles from sendico, but thankfully both work. It was using Console5's Kit which included the caps for the jailbar fix. The only thing I messed up on was the big power capacitor on the right side of the mainboard. I accidentally ripped out a capacitor leg via, but a paper clip, revealing some copper and some solder fixed that problem. It is much better now with much higher quality sound and less noisy video signal. A bit of care and patience sure paid off. All my joints were clean. I'm amazed that if you take it slow and be patient I can do soldering much like you can. I used a japanese solder sucker (the engineer brand) with a silicone tube nozzle; which works better than all other solder suckers for through hole, but not as great as a desoldering station. I'm thanking my foresight to get that or else it would have taken far longer.
I love the vintage look it reminds me of those handmedown day's. Dreaming of one day owning a PC Engine and a TG-16. Thank you Voultar for this repair video much appreciated.
You are the Big Boss of console mods. Wish you would make more content, as you say you are the old guard of console modding and I'm just getting deep into retro gaming after years of hiatus. This is so enjoyable to watch.
Thanks for the quality work and quality videos. The dry humour is perfectly on point.
Wow the idea that you took the time to restore it and even send it back to the original owner is so very nice. Good on you sir.
I salute anyone who restore and repair consoles (and home computers). So they can be continued to be used instead of being in a landfill. Well done. You gained a new subscribe.
Always well worth watching PCE/TG16 stuff
This was really great and inspirational! It's the first video I've seen of it's kind and I'm sure it won't be the last. Thanks for introducing me to this world!
That power jack problem is very usual on guitar effects pedals, I used to do this fix all the time, using the same technique, and i'm happy to say that the first one I fixed still works fine, after 10 years. And effects pedals gets plugged and unplugged all the time, way more times than game consoles. Great work!!!
After 3 videoes I was sold. Awesome job dude!
incredible save! and beautiful solder link
25:35 wow I need to know more details about the UV box now you made it too.
By far the best video I have seen on TH-cam so far
Thank you
Michael Bowen I also would like what was used about the UV box. Living in PA, we don’t see much sun. Mainly, what lights did you use.
MightySquirrel
I've been watching people on TH-cam do this but never have I seen anyone do what this guy's done with the UV box living in London, England you sometimes don't get the good weather,
There are UV "nail dryers" you can buy if you are doing small projects, otherwise it's just UV LED's that you can buy in strips off of amazon for about $20-25usd with an included power supply. it looks like He just puts them in a plastic tote lined with aluminum foil.
Michael Bowen you get a lot more than we do in Scotland!
That's really awesome! thanks for giving us the step by step on repair.
This was beautiful. I've learned so much in this one video that I feel like I should have learned while getting my BS in Computer electronics engineering.
I really love how you explain stuff !
Love it, thanks for sharing the technique on whitening the plastic, going to try that out.
28:34 Stand up guy. Always enjoy your content.
Voultorbs method here for de-yellowing is by far the best. I did a few experiments with some really yellowed plastic. Firstly coating plastic with salon creme and leaving it out in the sun for 24 hours, and the other using the method that's shown in this video, coating the plastics in salon creme and then leaving it in a UV light flooded box. The first one was completely over-brightened and had ugly looking streaks of colour through it due to the uncontrolled intense heat of the sun. The uv light controlled method is almost perfect. Giving a result that is nearly exactly close to the original condition of the plastic. There is a chance that these plastics can go yellow again in only a few months after treatment though, but for now everything I've treated looks great. Thanks again Voultarb.
GOD DAMN, THIS IS SO QUALITY...
Subbed.
Just found your channel and I'm hooked!!!! Can't wait to see what is next
Your videos are the best seriously~ I can just listen to them during work cause Your voice is so relaxing and when I get to watch them it's quite effective in teaching how to do certain repairs :) Keep it up!!
Nice work! I picked one of these up with a Super SD System 3 last month and was only getting a white screen. I tried cleaning the pins and made sure they were all nice and straight but I still only got that white screen. Someone online said it was probably a problem with the motherboard, so I ended up sending it back to the seller in Japan and buying one with a expansion port cover. Working great now, loving these cd games!
I was able to get a busted pce going tonight by following this video. I really appreciate it!
AWESOME VIDEO! I got to build one of those Retro Bright boxes. Nice work, Lord!
Nice video! Loved it, easy, hassle free repair.
keep it up!
My white PC Engine died last week, i'll be trying this at the weekend! Thanks for sharing, good old evergreen content!
Great video, your presentation is excellent, learned some things - time well spent.
hats off to you , fantastic work. !!! keep up the excellent videos. thank you !!!
You're the man, very clever repair on the lifted pad there
The voltage would still be 0 volt on that line, the ohm would be infinite, which would be the issue, measuring on the same point on the same line, will always return 0v
That's right. It would be 0v. But there was no connection, hence the craziness on the multi-meter. We could've set the instrument to either Ω or continuity, but the behavior on the display told us what we needed to know, that it wasn't connected!
Yeah, I was yelling at the video at that point. lol
CanadianFuzzy Me too!
Unless there's high resistance then in that case you will be measuring the voltage drop across the two meter leads.
That part drove me a little nuts too -- Thanks for explaining in the comments @Voultar -- though, for me, seeing the voltage (or even just the ohms) jump around usually just means that I'm not holding the multimeter very steadily. XD
A new Voultar video? And it's PC Engine?! AND IT'S NOT EVEN MY BIRTHDAY!! :V
Very helpful how you went through your entire troubleshooting process even as the solution was physically visible! This can be applied to other electronics easily, thank you very much.
I think you went a little too far with the magic eraser, though. A harder-bristled brush (they're available for specific applications, but nail brushes work perfectly) and letting the part immerse in hot, soapy water to loosen up the gunk tends to work very well for me.
A few years ago I bought a Multitap for PCE and it was very yellow, so I disarmed it and put it in the dishwasher for my surprise I managed to reduce the yellow since then I use this method as a first step, obviously there are certain objects that do not work with the dishwasher.
love that you gave it back to the guy really nice of you would have been so easy for you to just keep it
Great video. Could you make a tutorial on how to build a retro brighting UV-light box?
I think it's as simple as it looks. Large plastic bin, aluminum foil (also keeps the bin from degrading), clear stand that isn't plastic, and UV LED strips.
Gotta love that sweet Sapphire Soundtrack for the PCEngine CD awesome game !
i remember a turbo gfx had the same issue . its the first thing i check when i crack the chassis on a dead or intermitant device . i never thought to use a cap snip for this repair but i did have one surgically removed from my foot . ouch it was in there for a year. be careful and make sure all cap snips end up in the trash not yer shoe ... you can also use goot wick to bridge the gap or some stranded wire . really good job on these excellent videos . dont listen to me suggesting how i do it wrong .
I wish I had skills like this, or, hell, just the equipment to fix systems like you do. And that whitening treatment for the yellowed plastic, I never would have thought of hair cream! All in all, awesome job fixing this old gem!
I have fixed similar issues on colecovisions, I desoldered the trace and using krazy glue glued it back to the fiberglass board for the mechanical junction. Then like you bridge the electrical with wire.
Bro ive recently been watching all your modding videos and even been adopting yout techniques for my own noobish soldering. Literally watching your videos makes me wanna become a modding god like you. Thank you for the great videos man. (love the Duo R videos lol)
I love your videos dude. I have lots of melamine sponges i use for different stuff but never thought of using them to clean a console.
Well well! VERY nice work, and I am glad I found your channel! I was never a big fan of the PC Engine/TurboGrafix16, but I love seeing any piece of retrogaming from my childhood rescued and restored.
I work in Electronics repair and have seen many jobs, by far you do some of the nicest work I've seen :) Keep up the fantastic videos :)
Giving my girls Cotton & Silk some love there, some of the finest shooting ever in that series! Great video as always Voultar. Also for those little gunked in crevices like the lettering I use circular motions with the tooth brush, tends to get it pretty well.
Very nice work. Ill be watching more videos from you . Keep it up.
Looks good. I feel that thr best first cleaning step is a soak and a scrub in warm soapy water. Water and isopropyl alcohol are pretty different solvents and you might find yourself scrubbing like crazy with alcohol on something that would come right off in water. Plus the soak really helps loosen grime in corners etc.
and found a new channel to subscribe to...always enjoy these kind of videos
I had a similar problem on my Mega Drive, the power was very intermittent.
Luckily all it needed was re-flowing the solder on the pin and the connection is now solid.
Great video, Voultar!
Yet another great video. thank you. keep em coming
It's crazy to see so many through hole components. I get that was the tech back then but it's still cool to see
Awesome vid. I love retrobrite but getting on your hands sucks. Your method really reduces the chances of doing that a great deal.
Awesome job Voultar and thanks for inspiring us many to repair our own old electronics.
It would be awesome if the gentleman who sent you that wonderful machine, would do an unboxing video - It would be great to see his reaction.
As for retrobrighing, I use cream and works better than hydrogen peroxide solution. I don’t swish it around like you, I pour and smear an equal level of cream all over my subject (mainly vintage Star Wars figures), but can understand about the blotching you mentioned.
Oh, I was screaming at the phone when you were cleaning the console. You could have washed it in some soapy water, would have made easy work with that grime and dirt. That way you don’t damage the surface with the manic eraser.
why is this so satisfying to watch
amazing video as usual and i really love your UV light box rig instead of putting it out in the sun
I wanted to rave for a couple minutes about how I wish more TH-cam videos had the good fundementals of a tech YT video of this style just like yours does, but I'll just leave it at this: You have a new subscriber, and also that's a beautiful Y solder. I haven't gotten to the part with the yellowing repair yet either.
Wait if a circuit track has low resistance then measuring the voltage in 2 points on that track you should be getting 0V
I love that you are saying what are you doing, and why plus good video angle where you do something and how to set multimeter :) great job, even me a noob in electronic can understand the proces :)
Using the same basic technique 'The 8-Bit Guy' uses. Its a pretty damn effective process. I was really concerned the salon product was going to ruin the PC Engine emblem as I thought it was a decal. Glad to see it was good to go! Great work bud.
Great work man!
Just found the channel, and this is the first video I'm watching, but fuck, your intro is amazing! Just by it, I know that I'll enjoy the channel :D
The correct way to deal with the initial cleaning is warm water + dish detergent, or even better warm water + denture tablets. The latter is standard practice for dealing with ABS keycaps on museum-quality keyboard restorations. There is also no need to combine mechanical and electrical with one repair. Epoxy to fix the jack mechanically in place + jumper wires to the next components on the rail would be a far more reasonable solution. With that said, good on you for fixing this console and making it look great again - anyone who does battle against "throw away culture" and popularizes repair is doing good.
that uv box is genius good to have in winter when you are mostly inside
Great video great results . though Isopropyl alcohol is a solvent (ref 21:48) just with lower toxicity than a lot of other common solvents, out of interest water is also classed as a solvent :)
Thanks for making this video. My PC engine seems to have died suddenly, so now I know to check the fuse. Wish me luck!
Excellent restoration work. For future reference, it's less heat that helps the deyellowing process and more UV radiation. Also one of the best things you can use for deyellowing is ozone gas.
Not really. You can use Sous-Vide stick or something like BrewPI controlled container, without UV radiation at all. Stable temperature matters and results are much much better that retrobrighting on sun or with UV container. At least it was proven on keyboard restoration.
did u end up giving it back ? thats so awesome, i pray the future of humanity is exactly like your example. awesome work dude!
Voultar: The Bob Ross of repairing old consoles
I have even put old computer motherboards that came from industrial control in the dishwasher, they came out looking like brand new and sometimes that was all they needed to work again, and these were scary looking, like 486 with 20+ years of shop filth inside it! XD Turned into a really nice vintage PC just through cleaning and maintenance.
Thank you for the video sir. I have two PC Engines I still need to fix.
Great job! Went from trash to treasure! Great repair.
Awesome video. Keep em coming!
The little PC Engine that *could*
How do you recommend cleaning the pin connector on the HuCard Interface? I get the feeling my PC Engine has had a dirty past and no longer plays nicely with the HuCards...
Awesome using a component leg to replace a trace, I do this to broken little 1960's transistor radios and those boards are DELICATE! It works great and it's a solid durable fix. Also, a carbon fiber brush is much better and less abrasive to the underlying copper than the edge of your tweezer.
Great repair and restore!
Cool video, nice introduction and good explanation. Good debugging tactic too! But, RIP C148 :D
If you want a more permanent retrobrite box solution, try getting a fishtank and using a mirror spraypaint. You can turn the inside of the fishtank into a pretty decent reflective surface.
Morgan Mixer and spray the Outside of the fish tank for best results.
Don't spray inside the tank since you're going to be using the inside and it'll chip, spray the outside and then apply a clear coat to prevent scratches.
Jonn Benny more than the chipping issue, the glass side will be way, way smoother.
Thinking about it that might not be ideal. You want a surface that reflects as much light as possible, but is a diffuse reflector so the whole box is evenly illuminated.
Perhaps something like bright white ceramic tile would be best?
Thanks Voultar!
Had to do something similar to a SNES power supply recently. The entire board inside was cracked in half, one side just held on by a wire.
You are a real lord ! I just wanna thank you !
Amazing results. You could even get it whiter than that if you wanted to, with repeated applications.
Console restoration videos are so theraputic.
Lord Voultar another A1 video!!!
after checking for input and output voltage you followed by continunity test without first disconnecting the power supply, if there had been some intermittent power there it could have damaged your multimeter as a lot of meters will fry when used on ohms/continunity if there is any voltage present.
Everytime I watch a voultar video I feel like I'm watching a Peter north special film!
Who would throw away a lovely example of miniaturization such as the PC Engine?
I know.. God, I know..
Guys got mad skills.
Hi there Voultar ! Were you able to preserve the serial number sticker on the bottom case after the retr0bright ?
I learned a lot from this video. Thanks man.
Great video... thankfully mine was in better condition to start with, but this video got mine working. What an awesome console!!!
i just want to leave a tip i learned from a friend, you can clean those small crevices without messing with the plastic with a pencil eraser, i use those vinyl ones for most stuff and those hard eraser pencil(those which are a pencil but with a hard eraser in core instead of graphite) for the stuff, you just gotta rub the plastic with a cloth after to remove the residue