You did make sure to change your capacitor on your aging consoles right?

I simply sold the consoles.

>>11812283 (OP)
Only my Duo-R. I should probably do the rest at some point. Thanks for the reminder :^)

>>11812283 (OP)
Nope! I don't know what any of that means

>>11812283 (OP)
not until they stop working :-)

if a failed capacitor can cause damage instead of just non-functionality, the product is poorly engineered and shouldn't be kept around

dream psu was a god send

>>11812283 (OP)
Yes replaced them along with the entire apparatus for cycle-accurate emulation.

>>11812334
For me
It’s emulation.

>>11812283 (OP)
Imagine doing any of that instead of heaving it into the trash bin.

>>11812283 (OP)
I throw them into the ocean instead. Out of sight, out of mind

I bought a soldering gun about 15 years ago, used it once or twice. There's a split I think - computer people who get into hardware, and those that don't. What determines to that, it's hard to say.

Nope.
"Fixing" things that aren't broken is retarded.
You're just creating additional stress for the whole board by de-/resoldering for something that might work completely fine for years.

Kek this shit kills me, there's gonna be 75 year old men dying in the hospital clutching their NES and giving detailed instructions to their bored nephews about how to tell when you should re-solder something

Let this shit go man

>>11812283 (OP)
why would i fix something that isn't broken?

>>11813150
Can leak and damage your board

>emubaby poorfags shitting up another thread

>>11813301
i've never in my life seen a cap leak under normal working conditions.
the only caps i saw leak were from a power supply that was rated for 110v plugged into a 220v outlet.

>>11813731
You must have never worked on a GameGear, then. They've basically universally failed at this point and are notorious for leaving behind their fishy smelling contents.
I know I've had three videogame things which have had problems due to faulty caps - said GameGear with no sound, a Super Famicom with an audible hum, and a 1942 PCB with extremely low volume. Capacitor replacements fixed all three. I don't do preemptive capacitor replacements, largely because I'm too lazy, but some gaming hardware do indeed have capacitor failures.

>>11812887
just waste all the money bro, never leave anything to your descendants bro

>>11812283 (OP)
Some, not all... Gotta get on that soon

>>11812296
Lots of caps back them were fish oil based iirc. They will damage your mobo if they leak and you don't do anything about it.

>>11813301
Xbox clock capacitor is one of the rare cases where a bad capacitor will cause bad damage to the board. Most of the time, capacitors will simply buldge, and the console will sart to glitch, short or stop booting.

There's a lot of fear mongering about full recap when in reality, almost all most times you dont need to do all that. At the end of the day, if you dont have the proper tools to measure ESR and accurately determine the remaining life expectancy of a capacitor, you're better off leaving it alone.

Capacitors on a board all wear out differently, it depends on how much workload they get put under and how hot they get. Some caps on a board rarely get put to stress, and will likely never fail, while other caps get put to work where they will require swapping every 10-15 years.

>>11814208
Do you have any reccs for a type of cap to use, like ceramic vs paper in oil? Id think ceramic would be best(just for future leaks), but does it matter as long as you get quality made caps? I'm new to this.

>>11814253
nta, but if you are gonna replace something, you replace it with the exact same part.
there is a good reason a device has uses regular caps for some things and ceramic for others. the engineers that made the device didn't decide that kind of thing on a whim.

>>11812283 (OP)
my top 5 capacitor-bleeding fucker consoles:
5: 32X
4: Sega CD
3: Game Gear
2: Xbox
1: fucking Xbox again

>>11814202
Just makes shit up.

>>11814373
I have a master system. Isn't that the same as a game gear?

My consoles are in a box under the stairs. I just emulate now.