My SNES's sound stopped working, no idea where to even try looking into it, going to hope that a cap replacement from fixes it. Also of course a lot of save batteries to replace, hopefully with sockets. Are the cap replacement kits from Console5 any good?

>>11848706
>renaissance kit
Tried looking it up, and it's a bunch of tiny metal bits that you have to manually take apart your existing N64 joystick and replace with? And they are laughably expensive? There are HDMI mods that cost less than just these two tiny metal pieces, I'll stick with the $20 hall effect placement sticks.

>>11849013
From my experience the best place to get those pads is a site called Hoskinson Industries, at least for the SNES. I tried the Console5 ones and they felt terrible, the Hoskinson ones felt like the originals to me.

>>11849015
IIRC Nintendo used to repair the NES until sometime early to mid 00s (The Famicom they stopped in 2007) and have slowly been winding down repairs for older systems since due to difficulty of getting parts. Though it feels like they are winding them down much faster nowadays, Wii repair services ended in 2020 for example.

>>11857287
>sega was using all kind of crazy technology at the time
Not surprised, SEGA tended to do that a lot. The Dreamcast had a hall effect stick, something that nobody to this day actually does in their laughably overpriced and overengineered feature bloat controllers.