VGRestore Ep45: 3 SNES Boards & Retrobrite

[@aaronpierce3199]

So the grind in the heat sink is because two of the screws were stripped and one of them was near that grind in the heat sink. The shell and the metal shells were rusty when I got the system. The other stripped screw was near the reset switch. I did a lot of sanding on the metal parts. I apologize. But 2/3 isn't too bad. Btw thanks for the fixing of my Kirby game it works well.

[@aaronpierce3199]

I hope some of the parts in the broken motherboard will work out for you in the future hopefully? I had this idea about SNES CPU's and PPU's being made third party since they are to replace since they are custom made. Do you think it's possible to make them?

[@aaronpierce3199]

I'm also really mad that the first one was just a dirty cartridge connector lol I cleaned the pin connector so much and it was failing on me lmao. I'm glad you got it to work through.

[@Brunn0121]

19:34 whats the point, some might ask... They don't manufacture these old consoles anymore, down the road there will eventually be more dead consoles/ cartridges *_(with the Nintendo leak and the cic chip's secret being cracked at least we can preserve the games forever using brand new cartridges)_* / controllers than working ones, people like you have a huge impact on the gaming preservation scene, console by console. I'm not a long time watcher of your channel, but I gotta say that as soon as I discovered it, I just binge watched every single one of your videos, so much so that it gave me the inspiration to get me a soldering kit and I'm now trying to bring a N64 back to life. Cheers, stay safe.

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Nice, I like your thinking, good luck. 👍

[@gc4408]

How you don’t have a million subs is beyond me...... by far one of the best nes/snes repair videos.... I have learned so much from these......

[@joshuawilliams9560]

My favorite part of the day! I’ve been really sick, I enjoy your videos. They cheer me up.💕

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Get well soon, I’m glad you enjoy the videos. 👍

[@SparksNZeros]

always a good day with a new punk video to watch :D

[@leex187]

You’ve done a really good job I can tell you love your work due to how much you’ve put into fixing them a lot of love had gone into them

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Thanks 👍

[@TheGamingScription]

Good video very clear and detailed yet simple

[@n.h.s.a.d.m.]

After a tough day this was satisfying and soothing. Thanks!

[@joesaiditstrue]

Should also keep the water heated up to about 50C, will make the retrobright much more effective

[@74bobby]

Your Retro Brite set up is Bad Ass.

[@danielsantana540]

Great vid

[@Norrecito]

What a great video! :) Thanks for showing the troubleshooting process. I might dig out my two SNES motherboards in the future that are having the "black screen of death". I'm curious to see what a test cartridge like yours has to say about them. I can't seem to find a place where I can buy a PAL version though...guess I have to look into a guide that tells how to make one.

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

I’m compiling a list of each failure what chip it relates to. So far I only got a few of them listed.

[@allenbot]

interesting soldering technique, might try it out in the future. thanks!

[@gregdunlap7538]

27:08 solder ball between U4 pins 21 & 22

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Good eye but I don’t think it’s causing any problems. It may not even be solder splash, could be debris or the silkscreen mark underneath.

[@fortiogames]

Very nice. You motivated me to do a cpu swap on my super famicom, it works! I have pretty much the same tools as you (fr-301 and fx-951), so is was doable. The donor board was a working one, but it was the second revision and the case was fragile and horribly yellowed, the board didn't fit in the console I fixed. I filmed it all, so I may be uploading a video about it soon.

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Bytoven I subbed I’m going to check it out when it gets uploaded.

[@fortiogames]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer Thanks a lot! I speak french though

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Bytoven no problem I speak English Portuguese and Spanish how much different is French really?

[@MonsieurHonHon]

upload it. I speak french, ill watch it lol

[@Arcade_Mania]

good job as always, keep up the good work ❤️

[@ESLTeacherTom]

Nice work! How does one contact you to fix an old console or two? :)

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

I have my email in some descriptions to my videos, I think my last video has it, although I’m not taking in any repairs at the moment due to having a lot of projects of my own. It could be 3-6 months before I get free time.

[@LightSpinAngler]

Awesome content have almost caught up with every video of yours. I just found my SNES in the basement, so have been going extra on retro content lol. It was covered in rust, and only booting into one game (NBA LIVE '97) with no controller response. Decided to clean the whole system top to bottom only to now have no power light and less frequent boots only into NBA still. I feel like there is hope, but at the same time I it was ALOT of rust.

[@kenpomroy7052]

that snes shell has seen better days.

[@Mynameis7nad]

How often do you have to replace your mixture? I was going to try my set up this way but I didnt want to have to replace the liquid all the time. So I use a foiled tub heat lamp and lights with salon care 40 and zip lock bags.

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

I haven’t replaced it yet, I keep it covered to not let it evaporate.

[@Mynameis7nad]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer how long have you been using it?

[@phillipmennor2585]

Will retrobrighting in the hydrogen peroxide bath damage the gray 1-800 number sticker on the back of the bottom shell of the console? Also, how long of a UV LED strip did you use?

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Phillip Mennor 5 meters long led strip. No, the stickers are fine from my experience.

[@phillipmennor2585]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer thanks for the quick reply. From your video and others that I've seen the peroxide bath with the LED strip is the best retrobright method out there. I'll be giving it a try.

[@Mynameis7nad]

Iv done hundreds with no sticker damage. Some times with the paper barcode stickers you might have issues (just try not to touch them when cleaning and rinsing) but not the nintendo logo ones.

[@laser203]

Hey man, great stuff! I have a somewhat unrelated question: I have a copy of Super Mario All-Stars missing a resistor in the top right corner of the board labeled "CB". The game works, but I'm assuming I should replace the part. Can I purchase an appropriate resistor for that, or do I need to rip one from another SHVC-1A3M-30 board?

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Resistors are resistors as long as you can find the same value, you should be good to go.

[@laser203]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer Thanks!

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Find a board that has that same resistor to measure with a multimeter or try to find the band colors to check the value.

[@laser203]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer Thanks man. I tried checking value via band colors, but I'm not sure I added/matched colors correctly. I'm going to try again, thanks for the options.

[@ringtheding15902]

Awesome video and great techniques! Can you link where you found the generic caps from? Would love to have some on hand for future repairs myself :)

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Search cap kit on Amazon it’s a box of various caps that are commonly used on small electronics

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

It’s actually “capacitor kit” not “cap kit”

[@ringtheding15902]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer Man this is perfect! 🙂 thanks again!

[@Macfrugal_]

I know this video is old but if you or anyone else was wondering the super famicom requires the japanese power supply as the plug to the system has reverse polarity. No american power supply's will work so the easy alternative is to solder in the snes plug

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

This is not true, a Sega Genesis model 1 power supply is the same polarity as a Super Famicom. But yes you can solder in an American power port to use a North American Super Nintendo power adapter.

[@Macfrugal_]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer This isn't true either I have found 1 style of 3rd party power supply that worked the others including the first party sega supply didn't work. Used the 1 good super fam power supply I had to verify.

[@oOignignoktOo1]

the 2nd console is a SHVC-CPU-01 board it seems like those are notorious for having the CPU on them going bad.

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

That’s right.

[@SaltySnallygaster]

I just snagged a cheap SNES off EBay and it was listed as broken. Cleaned it all up and even soldered a new LED in for the power and it works fairly well. Only issue is if I do much as touch the cartridge it freezes up. I tried cleaning the pins several times and I just can’t seem to figure out the issue. It’ll play games perfectly fine but getting a cart to start up or not freeze if I touch it is killing me. Any tips on cleaning the pins or bending them?

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Replace the pin connector is the best option, second best option is to clean them with deoxit. Spray some deoxit on a small piece of cloth wrap it around an old credit card or ID card and give the pins a couple of passes. As far as bending the pins back to give them better grip, I’m not sure how to do that, I’ve never done that on SNES pins before.

[@SaltySnallygaster]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer rad, thanks man!! I’ll give it all a go and if I do try rebending the pins I’ll report back on the results.

[@SaltySnallygaster]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer I just have thought that you can bend the pins for the SNES but that’s the NES. Either way - just wanted you to know I swapped all the caps and lifted a pad and traces for c58. Panicked and remembered your vid mentioning the capacitors all running together so I took my multimeter and tested to figure out where the capacitors went and used wire to hodgepodge c58 to its neighbor and the snes works great. Couldn’t have done it if I hadn’t watched your vids, man. If you got any tips on how to learn these fixes I’d love to know them but you’re one of my fav KZbinrs, now! My spouse isn’t thrilled with all the busted nasty ass systems I’ve been buying but they’re happy I’m having fun fixing them Lmao.

[@Mynameis7nad]

Looks like maby the top screw could of been stripped and rusty so he had to Dremel it off. Iv seen something similar.

[@StephenMooreOfficial]

Can you retro bright the snes controller ports or do the electronics in them make it impossible? I have an SNES thats been retro brightened but the controller ports are still yellow.

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Yes you can, there are 2 tabs on each side of the controller port squeezing them may be a little awkward at first to detach the front bezel.

[@danielsantana540]

So you said Aaron sent ya . i own mike ditka power football on GENESIS which i got at one of my retro game stores in town and the last owner carved his name on the back Aaron. Mike ditka power football not licensed by the NFL of NFLPA is a fun game in which you should check out

[@aquarianvibe5086]

How did you get the snes to run without the tin sheild on it? I can't get one of my snes boards to turn on without the tin shield.

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

The aluminum shield is to prevent RF interference, if you try hard enough yours will work without it as well.

[@aquarianvibe5086]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer try harder as in wiggling the cartridge? Also the SNES Burn-in that you used, i think i want one of these for testing, will a repro of this suffice? thank you for the reply :)

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

@@aquarianvibe5086 yes clean the cartridge port and cartridge and try again. The cart I have is a repro cart it will work.

[@Tele3C]

first again, I start watching the video👋

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Haha you were really close to being first.

[@price5560]

New to soldering, what problems can a "bridge" cause?

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Each pin/leg/trace has a unique destination. As in point A to point B, you don’t want to combine two or more different points of travel and have them all mixed up. Also, if one leg carries a 5v charge you don’t want to send that directly to a data or address line. Hope this helps.

[@nicolasmolina7294]

Hi, i watch your videos and help me a lot, i have a SNES CPU 01, and i keep getting black screen, i realize that the CPU get hot very quickly, problably its bad and should i change it?

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

You could swap it out if you’re familiar with that kind of work. Remember SMD rework is not really for the inexperienced.

[@danielsantana540]

I own both GENESIS and snes systems. Which one is your favorite ??? Mines is GENESIS

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Snes hands down.

[@danielsantana540]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer i see everyone's got their own style./taste... One of my all time favorite genies games is dick tracy. And my all time favorite GENESIS game is revenge of shinobi

[@mint_kyuu99]

If a n64 reset works on a snes, would it also work on a snes jr? Mine has a non working reset button

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Yes, I don’t see why not.

[@brooklyn11218]

Is that an official Test cart or a repro? I've been trying to find a repro of it but can't find any.

[@74bobby]

Ill watch this when I get home I just wanted to be the 1st to comment lol

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

You guys always make my day lol.

[@mint_kyuu99]

Also, the non working board seems to be a dead cpu, no doubt

[@Red_Panduh]

Flux is your friend my dude. The rosin core solder isn’t good enough

[@ytphfelipesos1314]

The best is the SFES

[@michaeltepaurel2257]

"Test Your Skills", says it's the word or you will play Mario.

[@Tele3C]

not first😅

[@74bobby]

You usually are the 1st lol

[@Tele3C]

@@74bobby 🙏

[@MundoNintend0]

Hello, I really like your snes repair videos and I want to ask you, I have 2 bad consoles, both of them do not shoot video, I can send them to you and you repair them and I pay you for your service, I will be awaiting your response.

[@SatansLtlBaby]

NO BRASSO!

[@fortiogames]

why, it is perfect for cleaning, as long as you don't polish it too much the gold plating doesn't go away. In that case, the cartridge port was junk so it was a last resort.

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Bytoven absolutely, the Brasso was last resort and it did actually get the burn test to post a screen. There is a lot of misinformation from some of the large most influential youtuber community on Brasso and I’m tempted to make a video putting some myths to the test.

[@74bobby]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer Yes you should

[@Mynameis7nad]

Brass is amazing if used correctly. The problem is people use them to clean games and stuff and don't polish with a clean q tip after wards leaving a corrosive residue behind that can damage stuff or prevent contact between pins. But if you don't go crazy and polish it after the initial clean it works wonders. I don't recommend cleaning the same game every time you use it with it but for a game that has been sitting for 30 years it's a cheap quick way to restore the pins where other products won't come close to cleaning.