@@scottbogfoot nah no need. It's just the two corners which should be easy to reattach. If I replace the front with a 3d printed one it won't be original

Thanks for the suggestion!

The plan is to get the Car Marty recapped anyway. I know a guy who's done a few of them in the past and was able to revive them. It seems mine can read the disks it just gets stuck on the splash screen for whatever reason. It can't even boot the software from the navigation card. The Panasonic Q and PSX work fine so they shouldn't need anything at least for a few more years

@RetroZero64 could be a dirty lens or the caps. They provide the necessary power to run everything. The trouble with fm towns is that they were very, very infrequently used. And that even brand new caps will need to be reformed if not frequently used. You reform caps by applying power to it. So a frequently used device is sometimes better than buying one brand new never used. I fixed a car marty that just kept on spitting out disk simply by just leaving it running for a few hours over the course of a week. After a few sessions, it stopped spitting out disks, and then after a few days, it began to read disks fine, and after a week, i could not flaw it. I mean, ask yourself, why aren't other cd roms in other systems notoriously bad?? In all my cars, my head units were the last thing that wasn't faulty! Just warning to NOT adjust the lazer diode. All that does is compensate the power. Now imagine when that power is restored? You fry your diode.

Yeah I know not to adjust the laser. I'm just saying I don't think the problem has anything to do with the disk drive. It gets stuck on the splash screen and doesn't even go into that spinning ball intro like it's supposed to. When putting a disk in. I hear it spin up for a bit and it doesn't spit it back out. It just does nothing. Unless I'm missing something, it seems it's issue goes deeper than just the CD drive

@RetroZero64 theory of operation is that the cd is loaded in, the system reads the disk, the data then is fed to the cpu and it excecutes the code. If there is not enough power to drive the cd mechanism in anyway due to mechanical or electrical issues nothing will happen. There are many surface mounts and also non electrolytic capacitors that is responsible for driving the cd rom. People overlook those ones. Especially the smt mounted ones. I doubt its anything to do with the main board as it boots which means ram rom and cpu and gpu are all working fine

@@monstermug yes but doesn't the Marty and car Marty still go to the spinning ball logo and menu with no disk loaded at all? Even with nothing inserted it does nothing. If you want to join my discord I can show you what happens with it.

I think stuff like the Car Marty and the Hisaturn Navi are so cool so I'm hoping to have one of those too some day

@RetroZero64 oh, yeah. Hi Saturn Navi and the original Wondermega are top 2 on my coolest consoles ever list.

I don't know what I'd rank them but some of the coolest consoles I don't have in my opinion are the Sega SGX, DMB-800 3do, Super Acan, Hisaturn Navi, Sega Teradrive, katz media Pippin, Haitai Vistar, and the Divers 2000

@RetroZero64 oh, I didn't even know about the SGX! Theres also that kareoke Saturn SKC-1000.

@@undamned I actually have one of those! I made a video on it last month :)

@@OGRetroRebirth trust me I really want one 😂 it's just a little outside my price range lol

@@OGRetroRebirth I'll make sure to check that out thanks!! I believe the harness I got with it has video out but if for whatever reason it doesn't work right, I'll check out that breakout board :)

@@gregjarvis1232 I already took it apart but only fixed the tray since it's much easier to get to the that than the GameCube board since it's right at the top. Plus, I have a Freeloader disk which lets me keep it stock while also playing any region games which I'd rather do imo

Awesome thank you!

Perhaps 😂 I just saw a CIB MVP-1 sold a couple weeks ago and I would have loved to have that too

@@RetroZero64 Would you be interested in a trade for that FDD-1 floppy at all?

@@RetroZero64 The FDD-1 Was what i really wanted from that auction. I grabbed the other auction that had the Fujitsu Ten 8000AV monitor.

@@monstermug honestly probably not but I guess it depends on what you have to offer

@@RetroZero64 You might be mildly surprised in what have to offer in exchange. is there anything in particular that you are interested in?

If you search "Panasonic Q Region Mod" there should be quite a few videos on it. I just have plenty of GameCube consoles and a freeloader disk so it just really doesn't make much sense for me personally

Thankyou! I really appreciate it 🙏🙏🙏

Yeah I filed a claim with them so hopefully once they do their investigation on it, they'll be able to do something for me. It sucks the SFCBox got damaged but almost everyone I know who has one had the exact same thing happen to them

Thanks!! I've been wanting both for a super long time

@@DoubleMonoLR I'll definitely look into that! Thankfully it's not the worst damage I've ever seen (some end up absolutely shattered into 100 pieces) so it shouldn't be too noticeable anyway. Still unfortunate it happened but oh well what can you do

@retrozerosix Weldon works well for that

They're really neat systems but unfortunately it seems most have at least some sort of problem. Unfortunately my car Marty won't go past the splash screen on startup :(

@ yeah they seem to be prone to failures ;-(

Yeah hopefully I can get a working one some day

Thanks!! Just from a quick glance the health bars looked like punch out so I had to do a double take 😂

Known outside Japan as Saturday Night Slam Masters.

Thanks I appreciate it!

It just plays CDs and DVDs but it's able to record and burn disks which is really cool

Awesome I'll definitely make sure to check that out. Thanks!

I'm glad I was able to show off some stuff you've never seen before! :)

I mean if you need to dispose of some I can take them off your hands 😉

Unfortunately after recapping the Sega CD it still doesn't work so I ended up ordering another unit for parts. Everything else works though and I'm really happy to have them!

@@ScattmanJon yup that was me 😂

Nope! The tuner was external just like the game gear's although much more bulky and uncomfortable

@@RetroZero64 i could see that im guessing they made it as a side peripheral because analog tv tuner technology would have never fit in a hu card configuration

@@5825-i7s yeah plus it probably helped keep the costs down

@@pigs18 yeah last year there wasn't anything too crazy. I think the rarest thing I saw was the Jaguar I ended up buying. This year was so much better

I removed the anti static bridge and the laser does light up a very faint red. Not nearly as much as the old one though

@@Shattertry yeah I always prefer cartridge based systems but for something like this, I'm willing to put in the effort to make it work again

@@LetsPlayKeldeo yeah I saw that in the state of play a few weeks ago. I might do that when it comes out

@@RetroZero64 I had played the Ps4 edition and will double dip and use the new version to play it again

@@aBathingSloth thanks it really means a lot!! I'm definitely planning on doing a collection tour but there's just a couple more things I'd like to get finished before I do it

@@chavo064 I got it about a week ago but it's been sitting in my garage for a couple days. I just got around to cleaning and testing it

Yeah I was super surprised it just worked without any issues

I have eczema. It causes my skin to break out and crack when it gets dry. I recorded this back in February and I didn't have any meds at the time so it was pretty bad

@@RetroZero64 damn dude, well at least lefty was unscathed.

I bought one on Aliexpress and one on eBay and both arrived in the same sort of packaging and didn't work

@@RetroZero64 thank you. Do you happen to have a spare prologue microphpne ?

@@monstermug I don't even have an official microphone myself but any 1/4" microphone should work. I personally own this one: a.co/d/9DBZzvz

What??

Seriously wondered why no one else said a thing about that!