Posted by exodus on March 25, 2016 at 15:36:14 EST in reply to 1) The arcade card issue is almost definitely not a laser issue. You'll probably find its an issue with the region mod, you're using some dumb converter, the slot is dirty, or the card itself is on the way out. 2) I would never recap a TG-16 since they are worth less than the cost of the recap and, AFAIK, almost never/never need caps. Only things with bad caps, bad from manufacture, bad 25 years ago, need recapping. The only PCEs with bad caps are black Duos, Super CDROM2s, Laseractive PACs (Megadrive as well) and the GT/Express. I'm pretty sure that's it anyway. SuperGrafx might also be in that group but I don't remember. Recapping anything else is just throwing money away unless its an old amp or something that's clearly just old and worn out. 3) while shopping around for this service...I know everyone needs money, but don't go with the cheap guys. There are some dudes that will provide $100 services for $35 but you really don't want to do that. Some of those guys learned to solder last week and do terrible work. PCE especially since all the mods require significant care, video mods especially, and while recaping is really simple its also easy to fuck it up so bad that it takes another guy twice as much money to fix it. 4) I know PCEFX is full of assholes and all, but the technical info there is extremely solid and growing all the time. Also, honestly, I think the general attitude there is improving at a much faster rate than the rest of the gamer world. The biggest dicks there now are probably me and all the millennial collectards that only show up to post bad pics of their "collection" before it even arrives in the mail. A lot of the fixes you eventually see elsewhere originated on that forum, like the Chopsado, CDROM2 replacement gears, solder-less region mods, and capacitor replacement charts, 3D printed HuCard doors, and more. I do my own mods but there are several great guys there. (n/t) from SignOfZeta.
thanks for all this! I don't have a region mod, so... I guess it could be the connection inside the system needs cleaning, since my arcade card pro also has the same problem in this system. Hopefully that is easy to do by myself! but are you certain a duo R wouldn't need recapping? a friend had his start to go on the blink and his needed it. I forgot I have this supergrafx to potentially do as well! noted on the tg-16s though. (I am definitely doing my expresses, since they're both hosed). maybe I'll come back and check out PCEFX, we shall seeee
n/t
Follow Ups:
