SNES repairathon part 4 - The final four

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@luke9511 3 ай бұрын

as long as you dont toss those canabalized boards they may get modern cpu/ppu replacements, i have seen some great info with pi picos being replacements

@BluesfireTV 3 ай бұрын

I would love access to that translated service manual once you have it ready! Would be an invaluable asset to anyone who works on SNESes frequently.

@Flokker 3 ай бұрын

That sped up burn in cartridge audio is the sound of nightmares.

@gam85191 3 ай бұрын

I wish they made PPU and CPU spare parts. So many boards will go to landfill in the coming years when these chips start to fail in big numbers

@flagrama 3 ай бұрын

In theory someone could make replacements for them considering we have FPGA "emulators" for the SNES. It's a bit of a different skillset to do though, and who knows if Nintendo would try to interfere.

@luke9511 3 ай бұрын

i posted a reply as i was thinking the same and some people have said a pi pico could in theory act as the cpu/ppu

@albertrafuna2071 2 ай бұрын

Stupid question: could use SFC chips (eg cpu, ppu, apu) on SNES boards and vise versa?

@HoneypawsModsDE 3 ай бұрын

28:00 that moment when you realize that you've been trolled by a stupid power connector... HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@horstszibulski19 3 ай бұрын

Never owned one of these things as I was never a console guy and probably won't even repair one of these as well, but your no drama presentation makes it worth watching though! 👍👍👍

@raulhoyos85 25 күн бұрын

Hí, I bought a SNES to repair. I`m learning a lot watching your videos. Thanks 😊. I`m not technician, I have the black screen error.😅

@thereeven 3 ай бұрын

I bought two 1Chip boards online, both sold as "not working", so far I managed to fix 1 of them with the help of your video series, the crystal oscillator was bad and I also converted them to full NTSC boards. Originally they were PAL-M brazilian standard, which is essentially NTSC with color carrier signal at a slightly different carrier frequency. Converting then to full NTSC is actually trivial, just install standard SNES NTSC crystal and remove a jumper under the board, pretty easy and there is a small but noticeable difference in image quality, NTSC being best, like, seems more "stable" I guess, even in composite. I guess the system was really designed to output at NTSC, maybe the reason it seems better at it. In the last 20 years or more pretty much all TV sets sold are compatible with all major old analog color standards, so there's no reason to not do this mod. Besides that and despite the name similarities with PAL-N, a PAL-M brazilian SNES (or N64 and about all other systems officially manufactured and sold here back then) is to all other extents essentially NTSC machines, including lockout chip standard. I assume you already know all that, but I would like to let you know that your trouble shooting process actually taught me a few tricks I wasn't aware of. Thank you and great work with those boards!

@Numfuddle 3 ай бұрын

I must say I’ve been in the electronics development business since 2003 and in my time so far I have never once seen a dead or defective crystal oscillator. It was always a different fault. Like the driver circuit or the buffer.

@mint_kyuu99 3 ай бұрын

0:23 That isn't kanji, that's actually katakana on the top of the screen. And its showing the alphabet in a broken order (a-i-u-e-o (the a is broken), ka-ki-ku-ke (ko is missing after ke), ra (could be another one as is broken just like the a at the start)-ko-ri-wo-i (this one has no sense)). The other symbols after those are just a garbled mess before it reverts to the proper letters

@TheStudioManila Ай бұрын

Thanks Einstein 😂

@herbertwongsanimations6266 3 ай бұрын

4:03 is it bad that I held my breath?

@GearShiftin42 3 ай бұрын

Fuck yes!! :D 28:55

@mbob4337 3 ай бұрын

Is there a possibility with 3d printed sockets. To make a test SNES board. So you can pop the chips in?

@TheRetroChannel 3 ай бұрын

There are sockets available, but they cost around $100 each. I can't see any feasible way of 3d printing such a thing, the pin pitch of these is 0.65mm

@JayAlfredoG 3 ай бұрын

I see a lot of SMD videos for cell phones where they use a gel flux and a solder paste with the hot air gun and the whole chip easily floats into place. Would be cool to see that attempted. Is it harder than it looks?

@TheRetroChannel 3 ай бұрын

I've done it a similar way in the past, pretty sure I showed it in the SNES repair video from last year. But I've had more success soldering them manually. Depends on the IC package, solder being used, condition of the IC (new or used) etc.

@jimdavis6833 3 ай бұрын

How did you get the service manual traanslated?

@TheRetroChannel 3 ай бұрын

OCR the PDF using Adobe's online tool. Then copied all the text from the new PDF into Word. Used the translate function in Word to make an English version. It's far from ideal and there's plenty of translation errors and other stuff that I need to check manually, either by punching the text from the original into Google translate, or relying on my own knowledge of the SNES to make sense of it

@c1ph3rpunk 3 ай бұрын

Is it wrong of me to enjoy watching someone else’s pain this much? I can totally relate, I feel the pain, I’m just glad it’s not mine for a change. 😂😂 As I stare at an Apple ][ Rev 0 board that I *should* be working on.

@rofbungle8572 3 ай бұрын

Me too. I'm staring at an IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086 board that is proving very difficult. Much easier to watch someone else's pain! And I'm just putting off looking at three Apple IIes and the Amiga 2000 that I haven't been able to fix for more than a year. I'm glad I'm not the only one...