Things you recently bought or got

[Mama Looigi]

[emoji14]

Great brand for mass storage imo

 

[ladypoodle]

Bought on Target for 20 bucks and on sale. Sadly had to cut my playing times on PS4 due to overheating this summer and planning to take it apart instead of using the usual compressed can Just gonna buy some torx screwdriver for it...

Spoiler

 

[hippy dave]

Mawaru Made In Wario. It's the Japanese version of WarioWare twisted - and costs a small fraction of the price of the American cartridge.

 

[Blaze163]

I didn't get a chance to buy much for myself because my daughter got hold of the Switch and bought herself a bunch of stuff (for the love of god put on 2FA) so now she's playing Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition building a park full of ostriches and water slides. I didn't have much money left, so I bought myself the Sephiroth DLC for Smash to more efficiently teach her a lesson. Let's see how far the cheeky madam and her hat wearing Jigglypuff get now.

 

[ladypoodle]

Forgot that I bought this on Best Buy last week, after store said they don't have it even though the site says 1 left. Rather than going online, I was already in store and paid it there and estimated arrival on 22nd or 23rd. That and mom replaced our old (and still working) 24 inch TV yesterday with a 38 inch HiSense Roku TV. Didn't setup any Roku since I don't wanna.

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[dragonblood9999]

Preordered the Zelda Game & Watch

 

[subcon959]

Looking forward to playing Yuffie's mission.

 

[Shadow#1]

For small crevices in electronics [emoji14]

 

[Hanafuda]

NESRGB kit for my AV Famicom. Just ordered, now I wait for shipping from Australia.

https://etim.net.au/shop/shop.php?crn=203&rn=522&action=show_detail

Edit: Turns out I didn't have to wait for shipping from Australia. When I ordered the kit on Tim's website, I was only given two options for shipping, Aus Post and UPS. But after ordering I got a paypal notification that my order was shipping from Ohio. Tim has a distributor arrangement with a guy named Todd there. Only good news for people in US, apparently. So anyway my NESRGB should be here by Saturday, and after emailing Tim I received a $9.82 refund on the shipping. I think that might not have happened had I not bothered to send the email, but he made good on it once brought to his attention so there you go.

 

[Deleted User]

I recently bought a broken Gameboy Color (It does not turn on at all), I wanted to see if I can repair it.
At the moment I just have to wait until the right screwdrivers finally arrive.

 

[Shadow#1]

I recently bought a broken Gameboy Color (It does not turn on at all), I wanted to see if I can repair it.
At the moment I just have to wait until the right screwdrivers finally arrive.
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Dirty power switch typical problem with gbcs

 

[Hanafuda]

I recently bought a broken Gameboy Color (It does not turn on at all), I wanted to see if I can repair it.
At the moment I just have to wait until the right screwdrivers finally arrive.
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Before you do anything drastic, open up the back and blast into the on/off switch with CRC Electronics Cleaner*, flip the switch a few times while it's still wet (the stuff evaporates really fast), then blast it again. Make sure the battery contacts are corrosion free, and make sure the batteries are brand new. If it won't turn on after those easy things, then yeah you have a project on your hands.

* you can get it at Walmart in the same section as the spray oils, WD40, stuff to make seized nuts loosen up, etc. If you're really in Germany, well .. find a spray electronics cleaner, only in German lol.

 

[Deleted User]

Before you do anything drastic, open up the back and blast into the on/off switch with CRC Electronics Cleaner*, flip the switch a few times while it's still wet (the stuff evaporates really fast), then blast it again. Make sure the battery contacts are corrosion free, and make sure the batteries are brand new. If it won't turn on after those easy things, then yeah you have a project on your hands.

* you can get it at Walmart in the same section as the spray oils, WD40, stuff to make seized nuts loosen up, etc. If you're really in Germany, well .. find a spray electronics cleaner, only in German lol.

Thank you so much! This is what I will do first then

 

[Hanafuda]

Thank you so much! This is what I will do first then

Good. I should have said in the post above though ... before your blow that electronics cleaner into the power switch and flip the switch on/off a few times, remove the batteries!! Common sense, but I should have said so.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

A buddy of mine was cleaning out his grandparent's house, and stumbled across an old late 90s era desktop in it, told him I'd pay him $50 for it if it turned on and he claims it did. So I'll probably be picking that up sometime next week if it actually works works.

Seems to have an old 266mhz AMD K6 in it, he says he "thinks" it has 16mb of RAM, 3.2GB HDD that I bet is dead, and a couple expansion cards he can't identify and the pics he sent me are useless so that'll be fun. Some kind of soundcard, video output, and networking thing though.

Be a nice Win95 PC to play with if it all works, been a bit since I've gotten my hands on a nice vintage PC so figured eh why not if it works

Same guy also offered me a little probably garbage CRT TV, some cheapo Toshiba thing that I told I'm I'd just take. I have a nice big 27" LG one in my basement that's really great for retro stuff...but I have 0 place to put it upstairs (and it weighs like 100lbs ), so I figure a nice small one I can place on my desk will be better than nothing at all for all my retro stuff

 

[dragonblood9999]

Ordered a 4 pack of smart plugs because 2 of mine randomly stopped working after upgrading my internet. The one I use with my lamp stopped going into pair mode and the other one that ls connected to my aquarium light randomly turns off after 10-30 seconds.

 

[emmanu888]

Was given a Master System that doesn't read cartridges, probably needs to have the pins reflowed since it seems to be a common failure point on Master System consoles

 

[subcon959]

 

[GhostLatte]

 

[lwiz]

The day when (mostly) PC gamer got swag too...