Video Game Repair

It’s not too complicated. JUST DO IT. Get inside your PS5 controller. The tools needed are a metal spudger and a size 1 or zero Phillips screwdriver. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.

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There's a lot to know when dealing with controller repair. Hopefully this romp through the nightmares of an Xbox One controller will help you out in some way. Screw driver needed: T8 security Torx (T6 needed to remove motherboards) Main resistors used: (size 603) 82k, 100k, 68k, 51k - I the drift needs to be pulled up then apply the resistor to the 2 points that control up. You can find this out by using metal tweezers to short them and find out which is which. also needed Advil/ Tylenol: for the headaches. There are also tiny potentiometers that can be soldered to the 3 solder points of the stick pots (like the up, down pot for example) and you can dial the drift in to zero. There are different values for these "adjuster" pots as well. I have 50k pots that work all day long on PS4 controllers, with rare exceptions but seldom do they work on Xbox controllers if ever (it may be an issue with the adjuster pots' value). When installed and the face plate put back on, your stick may be centered but now you can't go all the way up or down anymore. Your range is cut down. These little pots you have to wire yourself, but you can also get them on little flex circuit boards that make everything easy. On AliExpress I found 10k and 50k packs and run under a $1 each. I even cut them in half when I need to adjust just one pot.

It is very easy to rid yourself of the dreaded stick drift that lives in your nightmares. Shoot, if you don't have to film the process, you may actually complete the task in 7 minutes. Tools you'll need: • Plastic prying tool/ Spudger • 91% Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol (keep it to rubbing alcohol) • Air compressor and 60 PSI of blasting power (canned air can work but may put more moisture inside then an air compressor). On the rare case this doesn't work then the stick mechanism may be damaged inside and will need to be replaced. That is a little more complicated process to put it lightly.

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Behold! It's the trick that gets most dead lasers reading again, it will definitely increase your odds in saving the old laser. When a "laser cleaning" doesn't work, the next best thing to do is adjust the potentiometer for the laser... if it has one. It is possible to do this with no formal education in electronics or knowledge of circuits. I am proof of that. Additionally, you may run into that situation where the "Open" button gets stuck, even after a cleaning. I'll show you what to do! It's a 2 for 1 special all in 1 short video! Holey Crap!

Full disclosure: •Nobody asked me about nuthin. •That fkr is really haunted. •I actually have heard of that Icarus game. •Kid Nikki is my favorite NES game in that bunch. •I've never played it. •This is a test video using a G7 Mark 2 camera with one noticeable dead pixel. Its internal microphone is bad but could be worse. •The bit of music was a piece from the Heman cartoon, sped up.

How was I supposed to know that signature made that Dreamcast worth so much? lol $2000? Oops... Kevin (who I mention in the video) Is one of the owners of Blue Shell Gaming, you can also check out their YouTube channel (and subscribe) here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8W5BjuitOJS1FV8r3YsGA. That signature made that Dream Cast worth $2000 - well, worth it to the right collector... Just so you know, this is a forgery signature; you can tell by how shinny the marker strokes are. ... #shorts

Many game cartridges on all platforms have become corroded. Some so much so that they grow deposits along the edge connector pins and sometimes even on the perfboard material, visible between the pins which you will see in this video. Here are some cheap tools you can search for; some may already be in your possession: -91% Isopropyl alcohol -Fiberglass pen/ Scratch brush (magic erasers are affective too) -Any multimeter or just one of the probes/ dental pics Vinger breaks that stuff up too but I did not use it in this video. Let it soak in that stuff and it should come right off. If not, then resort to the tactics in this video. This same cartridge was "cleaned" in a very aggressive and destructive manner several years ago just to get it to work, which it actually did. I stopped the "cleaning" once it started working. Like torture tactics lol. It lasted for quite some time although I noticed recently it has not been feeling well. Here is this Super Game Boy's first cleaning (roached) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGeibljmmdk I never use the sandpaper (1000 grit) on game carts anymore and haven't for quite some time now. I don't want to take down the older video so it's nice to "right a wrong" with this new video, while using the very same cartridge. As destructive as the sandpaper was, the pins held up quite nicely through it all.

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This PS4 can fit quite a bit of roaches in there. Figures I would drop a small part in the roach bag...

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There are many disc drive variations for all the models of the PS4 but the manual eject gear and spring are relatively in the same area and of similar design. If your getting gnarly crunching noises when you insert or eject a disc, it will likely mean 2 things: someone was messing around in the drive and the spring is catching on the intake/ eject gears. Have a nice day!

WARNING: Attempt repairs at your own risk! Due diligence is required before attempts. I am not a one stop shop for tutorials. Do your research first! Does your PlayStation 4 make a terrible grinding noise? Well I got a possible solution for you. Update: Space was made on the hard drive and the game disc was read. All is good. Sometimes consoles get too dirty to operate. I suspect there was an air mister or humidifier sitting near the PS4. That is a no no.