Battery Replacement
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Original PlayStation Move batteries are now over a decade old. Here’s how I replaced one in four screws, and stopped the smaller replacement cell rattling.
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A dusty Saturn from Mike Dailly gives a black screen. I track down the fault, then fit a Fenrir ODE, update its firmware and test European, US and Japanese games from SD card.
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A pile of scrap Game Boy boards, a botched bivert mod and a torn ribbon cable. I undo the damage and rebuild it with a RetroSix IPS screen, clear shell and rechargeable battery pack.
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Dead controller ports and a console that always asks for the date. I replace the Dreamcast’s one-shot controller fuse with a resettable polyswitch, fit a rechargeable battery holder, and swap the LED for fun.
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This heavily expanded Atari Falcon 030 needed a recap, a clean, tidier wiring, a fix for its dead numeric keypad and a dead RTC chip. Mayhem ensues, but it ends up running Quake.