Rise from your grave! Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) repair marathon!
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2020
- The Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) is one of the best consoles from the 16 bit era, but these days it's common to find them in a non-working state. We recently picked up a lot of 13 broken Sega Genesis on eBay - how many of them can be fixed? On this Fix It Friday we will go through some of the common problems that you can find with the Genesis/Mega Drive and how to fix it.
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Great as always bro
I have a Sega CD model two. It stopped working one day. I just took it to a repair shop. He couldn't fix it, despite the replacement of the most commonly broken parts. I wasnt charged.
It is different than it was before I took ot to the shop. It used to stick the splash screen. Now it is not responding to any power.
With out visual evidence my best guess would be that the fuse is bad. Hope you figure it out
I should have tried contact cleaner...i ended up replacing a reset button with a microswitch on one console.
Yeah contact cleaner is a miracle worker and can resolve a lot of issues. But if you want I think those original reset buttons are still available
Good video. Did you clear that solder bridge at 8:34 before testing?
Yeah I cleaned all of that up. Otherwise that would’ve been pretty ugly
I use this contact cleaner and it's awesome
7:23 is it okay to let the power jack solder points bridge? I just ask because I'm desesperate to fix a genesis model 2. It doesn't want to turn on, I already clean the motherboard (all traces are ok no cracked ones, no corrosion) it just doesn't turn on.
No those solder points need to be separated, otherwise you are shorting the main input voltage to ground
@@LIRetroGaming I guessed so, mine still doesnt work, I test with a multitester the regulator, ground-input and ground-output (first gave 0.05 and the late 0.01) does that comfirn my problem is the regulator? is it easy to change?
It’s possible that the regulator is bad, but I think I would really need to see it in person to be sure
My model 2 works somewhat, the TMSS screen comes on but won’t load the actual games. A week ago it was working a lil bit just freezing on the games, no scrambled graphics. Not sure what it can b
It’s hard to say, but to me that sounds like maybe a bad connection at the cartridge slot. I would start by cleaning it thoroughly with alcohol and a toothbrush and seeing if the connection improves. I would also confirm that your games are good, and hopefully there is another system you can test them with
Long Island Retro Gaming lol I fixed it by soaking the board in 90% ipa and letting it dry out after. It’s been working for a few days already and I’m happy 😃
I have a weird question. I have a genesis 2 that works fine with the two carts I have handy. It only plays some games from my mega sd though. I tried Roma of the two games I have and the crash at the title screen or during the sega logo. I tried a couple cd Roms and those work as well as Aladdin and Tetris. There was a lot of corrosion on the board that I cleaned off so maybe it’s just getting a poor connection somewhere. Does anyone have any ideas?
That probably is an issue with the genesis but without pics it’s really hard to be sure. Have you tried the flash cart on another console to rule it out?
I have an issue,i bought a new sega that had no cables,i bought the cable but its showing no signal on my tv despite being connected
If the red led doesn’t turn on then the power socket has probably gotten loose and needs to be resoldered. I show how to do it in this video
I have the same issue with the controller ports.did you find what the issue with yours was?
Yes the solder that connects the ports to the motherboard had cracked. I added fresh solder and that fixed it
@@LIRetroGaming ive resoldered,cleaned the pins til shiny,but still no response.the controller shows function tho.
I found a schematic of the board,and it seems as if ports lead to a single strip on the board,but i wouldnt know what is was called,or how to test/repair it.
Hey can you help me with something? I got a Sega Genesis 16 bit console but my ac cable adapter for the console is faulty so today I got a Universal ac Adapter from retro-bit and the input is 110-240V, but wend I was testing it for some reason all my sega games dosent got a sound except for some reason one ( witch is Revenge of Shinobi) and wend I put the game of Toys Story the sound was find but for some weard reason wend I prest start to go to the menu I dint heard the "YeeHaaa" in the game and wend I try to start the game it like freezes and the game Dosen't start, tell me if the Power adapter have something to do with it or is something else?
Really hard to know what is wrong without looking at it, but it could be the power jack or the new power supply
ok, how to fix it?
the genesis ii was a cheap console compared to pal mega drive ii which had Rubycon caps installed i i find the main issue is the main asic chip that fails