Sharp X68000 Ace HD Repair

[@roknamza]

Having this kind of repairing skill is so cool. Can buy broken ones so cheap and make them work like new! And sell them for profit.

[@ChainerKusunagi]

Nice work. Always a pleasure to watch you save something from the grave.

[@COBOL]

You're right! The PlayStation 4 design is like a modern version of the Sharp X6800. And it's not the first time that a PlayStation recall and old computer. The PlayStation 2 is very similar to the Falcon 030 Microbox :)

[@ianbolfa]

Beautiful system. These reading mechanisms are really complex. Ys, great series! Great job Luke!

[@TortureBot]

Great job Luke! Never had any experience on this machine, but I bet if you played it when it was new that this really brings back memories. I always love to pull out old 25-30 year-old consoles and fire up some games I played as a youngster or teenager. It gives you almost a "time-warp" feeling. You get instantly transported back to when you played it as a kid when it pops on the display and you hear the music fire up!

[@-DeScruff]

Man I really want one of these and a PC 88. I don't read Japanese, but they really seem like cool machines, and have a lot of connections with some of my favorite games. Not to mention I just like tinkering around with old computers.

[@LFOSyncToo]

So how did the trace repair turned out with the vinegar treatment ? Obviously the machine works so I suspect it did turn well ;) After cleaning, how good/bad was it ?

[@Evaldas256]

Sweet, Luke, i really admire your repairing skills. Good job, buddy!

[@CommodoreFan64]

Very cool, and it's a shame we never got these computers here in the states.

[@electricadventures]

Awesome that you got that all working. I wouldn't mind getting a x68000 system down the track, as they are quite an interesting Japanese system and sort of follow the MSX machines in a way. I need to find out more about them.

[@Tanerion]

The Ys music sounds pretty epic on that thing : )

[@bombjack1984]

You've had worse X68000s to repair - spiders! It'd be nice to see more X68000 coverage Luke, it's still quite the mystery machine to most Westerners.

[@mookie3three]

Awesome love the X68000 vids. Would love one.

[@Captainkirk923]

"Be back in a little bit." This needs to be a t shirt, coupled with your hand against a motherboard holding a soldering iron.

[@Bangulo]

Could you make a video on how to remove one of those slots? ive tried it just seems so time consuming and hard.

[@Romeoisburning]

Luke is just a BEAST at this stuff. Amazed @o@

[@VideoGameSauce]

Very nice Luke. I would have seen that pcb and thought it was a paperweight.

[@FumiyaSugawara]

Yeap thats a screw ball linear bearing pretty sweet n accurate micro size-probably a nsk brand sweet bro

[@KevinTwiner]

Just awsome Luke! An loved the fancy camera work at the end :)

[@arcadeuk]

Hey Luke, firstly I am surprised you had to order from the UK to get the right caps. Panasonic make a full range (and are one of the 2 best cap makers) and should have the full range available in Japan (or at least so I would have thought) You've also got Rubycon over that part of the world, so again I am surprised if there are no local distributors.

[@1980sGamer]

Yes! Another Sharp X68000 repaired. You're the best man.

[@MrFixer1983]

Do you alway use orginal disk to test the drive's, way do you not use a backup? For testing my old C64 disk drive's (1541) i use a backup for testing.

[@RUTGERMORTENSEN]

Great interesting video as always Luke!

[@stephenhoderny]

that yamaha chip is that the sweet sound chip midi thing

[@williamkreinberg6318]

Awesome videos love watching your videos wondering if you could fix a game gear and how much it costs i would greatly appreciate it

[@Robertkopp84]

luke can you please show what kind of desoldering iron you use or do you make all this with copper braid?

[@TheKayliedGamerChannel-YouTube]

Hi Like :-) - I do like the look of the Sharp X68' series. I wouldn't like to have to do all that maintenance tho' lol - seriously though - how common are X68's in Japan and are they costly?

[@pikuorguk]

haha I like how you've bought cheap electronics from England and had them sent to Japan. Over here in the UK we usually buy our cheap electronics from China or Japan. Many of the UK sellers are actually just importers that resell stuff from where you're from :-)

[@AnalogX64]

I wonder if the XBone took cues from Sharps design, it does kind of look like it.

[@Xan0906]

Hey Luke, have you thought about getting an external MIDI module for your X68000s?

[@tubularLeah]

Space for Rent? What?! Lukes rentin' out space :p

[@psistis80]

I ain't no scientist,but I have a question.Why does the hardware have a battery inside,since the damn thing is always on stand by?If you remove it permintly,does that malfunction the system,or is it like the Dreamcast,just for clock memory?

[@robert1975031]

I know this is an old video, but what might be going on with the hard drive is "Sticktion" a lot of old hard drives do this after sitting up for a while. I have an amiga a1200 that has the same issue. had to actually tap the hard drive to get it to spin up lol.

[@alanredstar]

Lol, I like how you say fun when things gets complicated.

[@melynxcat3091]

The capacitors that are branded "long life" aren´t long life at all, every single capacitor of that branding that i have seen in old computers have leaked, some of them pretty badly, like for example in a toshiba t12000sx power suppply board, all the capacitors on that board leaked, and i literally mean every single one of them, by the looks, almost all the electrolyte from the capacitors leaked completely and when i got the laptop it was all over the psu board, luckily there was a metal shielding tray under the psu board ehere all the drained electrolyte fluid went to stop, that tray actually saved the motherboard from rotting and it was in perfect condition. By some miracle i managed the psu board to work and now the laptop works perfectly fine.

[@droidika11]

I'd like to see video of you doing the work. Great video.

[@TommyMacsWorkshop]

i wonder if you can use a standard pc floppy drive with that, electrically i mean.

[@airthrow]

Are Sharp X68k's hard to find in Japan nowadays?

[@arcticfox04]

Love these video's makes me want to start hunting on craigslist/ebay.

[@Oldsukerbole]

Yeah finally some x68000 vids again. Can you do some game vids on this or maybe on the MSX?

[@ianbolfa]

Does the computer has an operational system built in?

[@darkinertia2]

hey luke, i took apart a controller i have to clean and modify some things, and its pretty sturdy inside except for the ribbon cable holding the dpad to the pcb was held together with only glue and im now trying to use some ribbon cable to put it back together...any quick tips on working with ribbon cables? ive never used them before and i fucked up 3 times haha. its a PDP fightpad so worst case scenario is i can use it as parts or hack it into another arcade stick or something

[@Nickinkick]

Damn its been a while since ive seen that. When was it when you first uploaded vids of this machine

[@markistheone]

Thanks Luke,I wanna buy one of these right now :P

[@RetroClash95]

Awesome stuff isn't castlevania chronicles on playstation a port of a x68000 castlevania game? If so do you own it?

[@R33Racer]

Lemon Juice should be used too on acid damage since that neutralizes it.

[@DisRupted]

How do you spell the title of the game at the end? Ease,,? E's? Maybe I'm just brainfarting but it seems that I can't find it with the help of auto complete on google.

[@nesfrk]

Awesome video as usual, have you seen the HxC2001 floppy drive emulator? It has some support for x68000, i use this on my Amiga 1200 and it is awesome.

[@RyuHayabusa06]

Another great job, Luke!!

[@VintageTechRepairs]

Good Work as Always Fella ;)

[@ThePressurizer]

Honestly, Luke, is there any place left to sleep in your apartment?

[@briansivley2001]

Luke can you tell me what is the difference between the models they made for x6800 I'm confused and I'm a computer geek everyone comes to me for help for there problems so can you tell me the difference they have like spec difference or ram difference or what thanks the the knowledge I really love learning about computers

[@Naitoraven951]

you...are....the...best, luke *-*!!!

[@utubie24]

awesome video!

[@Bylga]

Great repair!

[@ArcadeMagician]

I like the design of the unit.

[@SmoothEmJay]

I swear you live in a tardis with all this stuff. Good job mate.

[@CorporalFunishment]

Right on thanks for the video! Much enjoyed

[@Matlalcueitl]

You could use capacitors with higher capacity.

[@pydpipper]

what would we do with out the internet, we can now find just about everything we need for fixing things.

[@fabianrob]

Sharp X68000 Ace look like a pain to repair.

[@BaconMinion]

Sony should get on their hands and knees and thank both Falcom and XSEED for their work on the Ys 4 remake for the Vita, because that's the ONLY reason I want the handheld and will be dropping several hundred USD on it.

[@Perkinson78]

Luke you have bad luck with this machines man lol, you have any other x68ks (working) besides the ace hd. You have to love micomsoft dem arcade ports.

[@MetalTiger88]

wow that is some old hardware :-X

[@De5con]

Hopefully when that time comes were games on magnetic disk no longer work you've played the game to death...

[@bombjack1984]

'Ys'... Yep, I wouldn't have thought of that either. Maybe it's French.

[@NOSTEKxINC]

Luke can't live without repair something hehehe

[@robikaey167]

fucking batterys, makes only problemes. i have removed ALL batterys from ALL my arcade boards and consoles stuff. my collection is totaly battery free!

[@Byudda]

Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow lol

[@orangeActiondotcom]

Don't bother Luke with this simple stuff when you have Google.

[@hannonm]

wow ive seen your other video's, This is a really bad battery Leakage.

[@doalwa]

Don't copy that floppy!