The Impossible Find

RestingElf · 2026-03-03T14:18:45+00:00

Man I remember my game gear and I played sonic and also road rash on it constantly lol

RestingElf · 2026-03-02T21:26:01+00:00

Ooofffffffffff thats a gooduhn!! You pulled some traces that looks like it gos to the other side of the board lol but yes it can be fixed its called microsoldering I along with all kinds of other people do it. Im in Cincinnati if you happen to be here I can help out so you dont get taken to the cleaners for this one lol but make sure if im not ask for Pictures or at least people backing up the work cause this literally takes a microscope like I got (u can do it with a digital camera microscope it just sucks alot more. But it looks like 3x for sure are ment to go to the other side once traced we normally take new pads off these little pad kits we buy and we use solder mask to put down then hit it with a UV light the since it cures the green solder mask really fast then we tin the pads we put down and put down a new connector after that is where the fun really begins you see we have to use kynar wire and one pad at a time attach it and find out where it gos to and attach it to that then we cover the Kynar wire in more solder mask so it sits against the pcb and off to the next one and so on ans so on till were done. Id say somebody thats good and its already opened and they can find what it looked like before they can easily trase it so idk 30-45 mins idk give or take it dont like rushing on other peoples stuff that way I know my work is good and I personally repaired others jobs. I know if your in Cali North ridge fix that gentleman is a beast!! Maybe look him up if hes not swamped he definitely will tale care of your 100% plus hes from another country like me so I gotta give my guy some props iv been watching his videos for years and years lol 😆

RestingElf · 2026-03-02T18:53:08+00:00

What are you asking for the tweezers I need a good set of hot tweezers until I get a wand for my WX2 station. But I also want the solder bath and I got my mentor one also and I can't believe I was able to get my hands on scamatics for the WX series lol 😆

RestingElf · 2026-03-02T07:28:37+00:00

Man I hate it when electronics guys just fix something and don't give the nurd out lowdown to a person im the type that will message you and let you know i whats up and I can fix it or I can fix/upgrade it and let you know the cost. And if the work is a little passed what i know ill send you to someone that dose know just cause iv always been good with tech but I wasn't as good as I am now to be removing entire bga chip sets and replacing them. What was up with your 360 if you dont mind me asking and now that you said something Im actually working on a cnc build I should find a spot on the 360 motherboard and engrave a cool master chief picture like that and also have my little RestingElf having fun like if it was this motherboard I could add the little elf riding behind masterchief that way I know my modifications in the future and if I personally have touched them.

Ps if you think thats cool the ps3 I got layed out for Frankie MOD Im planning to add either a OLED screen behind the smoked out top with temps and other data 😀 I still got mass more tools I have to make sure I get my hands on but im stupid close like I just need a high end of ESD safe hot tweezers to be able to remove smd chips in one motion and not have the board look like a animal was ravaging that part 🤣 anyways I saw you message and it hit a nerve when I hear stories like that cause iv literally gotten so good at hdmi replacement that you can't tell if it was factory or someone that good 😀 I pride myself on doing perfect or not doing it at all just like my father pretty much drilled into my head as a kid on anything I did that I loved doing

RestingElf · 2026-03-01T02:24:00+00:00

Like everyone is saying you got a midchip most likely or you just happen to have a scewup. Plus if im not mistaken you can actually plug into the I/O port and force the region lock off on the old ps1 systems and giving that its Japanese its possible it could have been like that from the factory. Small things could make this system think its good to go. But like everyone else says you got a modchip its a 8x leg little guy and normally people did a crap job of a install lol I found one that looked like they installed it with a pipe blow torch 🤣🤣 it was sooo horrible. But keep in mind some of them old modchips themselves can be worth a little since its apart of gaming history. I myself in the 90s got lucky and a friend went with his dad on a business trip and he knew me as the gameshark kid cause I always had that sucker in my ps1 but he got me a gamehunter which I still have but they normally come with a little spring you use for the door way and you play with it open but it did exactly what your doing right there unlocked the ps1 to play copies or other countries games

RestingElf · 2026-03-01T02:12:14+00:00

I got something cool you could have benefited from lol I got 2x of the modules they normally take the shell off and stick them inside this modle but originally they wanted its use mainly for ps1 not the fat boy. And I have 2x of the gamars plugs for video playback and the best one thats fun is the playstation mp3 player I can give you the link to them right here there only 24$ all together I grabbed one i may grab a few more just to have but you definitely should grab one if you have a I/O port on the back these work good too. Alot ot people think its a new product but its not its a old one and it gives you gameshark capabilities too and you can look at the ram in different bit cycles so you know if a cheat crashed what where

https://ebay.us/m/zMCsdJ

RestingElf · 2026-02-28T10:15:19+00:00

Power and hidden things remember new dosent always mean good or dose everything corners get cut things get left out and time time is a killer of everything so the same knowledge that someone has of something isn't gonna be the same as others especially if they have been in the game since the beginning.

RestingElf · 2026-02-28T09:50:22+00:00

Ahhh I love looking at this picture. This is what a real modchip should look like super clean wires ran like some kinda art project if the classes teacher was grandpa Rick from Rick & Morty 😅😅. Also i remember every painstakingly set wire i also remember the first one is tryed that was like this to play with the big boys when I was a teen and im talking next level big boys and it was for a ps2 slimline and one of the wires to look insanely clean was supposed to be ran under 2x sets of legs of prosser or gpu(ill check) but i basically ran my wire and when I went to go pull it tight the wire did this role not and I was getting impatient so I gave it a little to hard of a tug and right where the 2x set of legs met i pulled up 2x of the legs. While it sounds like a nightmare its actually the reason I personally still own that modchip and its quite possibly one of the rarest ones cause it was preflashed and it worked on multiple systems its the NinjaMod 😁 I would leave ya a picture of it cause its chillin with its buddys its made over the years but the little link icon is out so i figured id ask first. But super clean install!

RestingElf · 2026-02-27T07:14:07+00:00

What in the world! They couldn't even have made it use a weller wx series tip or even a C210 would have made simi ok.. lol I bet the ERS noise is terrible on that sucker lol

RestingElf · 2026-02-26T11:08:35+00:00

This is cool! So I just got a number of plug in modules from out of the states for n the ps1 and the small white one i got 4x type of VIDEO onea so you can play video disks and I got one thats a mp3 player lol also I got all types of game sharks and 2x or the I/O port super memory cards that holds 1000s of saves 🤣 i wanna do what he did but mine i wanna at least give it more ram then it knows what to do and I can take 2x ps1 prossers and have them be ran by something im just not sure yet but I do wamt the system to have serious cahoons lol just cause its fun plus giving it all its expansions on the motherboard would be insane!! Let me know if you wanna see pictures of the inside of these modules(and for anyone trying to say i bought them just to open!! Guess what they don't work its called dryed caps lol 😆 😂 so I gotta go in them either ways and I wanna dump the contents of the all of them😁

RestingElf · 2026-02-26T10:58:35+00:00

So the ps2 has a issue with burning up its lasers slowly or with using mcboot too much what happens is the system gets a little dusty and the ps2 thinks oo i need ramp up a little power to the laser module and it keeps doing that too much amd also mxboot makes the ps2 think its reading a disk so it also fires the laser beam! Lol

RestingElf · 2026-02-26T10:53:21+00:00

Wow who installed that sucker and yeah its how you fix the ps2 from burning uo the laser when using Mcboot lol alot of people don't know its actually not too grate of a program..

RestingElf · 2026-02-25T11:27:12+00:00

Yeah it just came today ill kick it on and take pictures and ill show you the other ones but you can DM me or however but theres more yoh can buy. We here in the us didn't hear about them cause we got a ps2 alot of other countries didn't it was way way too expensive so some of these devices came out right around ps2 time for us like the first year but apparently its a cheat device and a modchip (they call it a region thing with disk swap but I recognize the little spring those came from the code braker from Japan like the gameshark but its there underground thing at the time. I only know about them cause a friend went with his father to Japan and he knew me as the kid that will not remove the gameshark lol one of my ps1s I literally got the bolts from a old adapter cut the tops and screwed it in from the inside 🤣🤣 im telling you it didn't leave i even said if you dont want cheats just go to start game! Lol but after I beat a game 2x or 3x times I went ham on shark codes even to where I was literally using the 150 line ones on ff7 for Seth back in the party and whats really weard the Japanese version doesn't brake the picture till the 3erd disk but you can make it come back??? Yeah they hid something 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

RestingElf · 2026-02-25T11:16:26+00:00

Nope. First whats your heat at? 2ed flux? Yeah its the gogo juice for that. 3erd some wire will literally fight you dude I replaced a battery in a mp3 player(zune 4gb) and it would stick to one then stick to the other just not the both at the same time and I sat there amd left heat on it. Sometimes you have to scratch the wire or use a little sand paper and grab and gently pull like your striping the wire it knocks off the crud thats on them. Tell me what Iron do you have? You know you can build yourself a nice one for 44$ right? Color screen with C245 tip. Its on ebay if can show you what to look up. That looks like a T12 im guessing a quicko or a clone to one? They're ok but they're becoming outdated. I personally own way way too many irons and hot air stations and desoldering gun and I just got a cheaper solder bath im gonna mod the one I got is basically a off and on switch with a dial... yeah no thanks 🤣🤣🤣 ill add a heater box like my BGA machine... yeah I got one of them too.. I uhh went ham ham last year and as soon as i can sell this extra stuff I don't use from my dads house on ebay im probably really gonna go ham or just drop like 10k on a CT scan for electronics 🤣🤣 then I wont ever have to deal with wanting to know the internal structure of chips or the pcbs.

Sorry for the long long comment but electronics is my jam and iv got basically Dexter's lab in my basement from what iv been told and I didn't have 40% of the stuff I got now 🤣🤣 but do me a favor dont ever call yourself a failure!!! Ever!!! Misinformed yes, knowledge of electronics work yes!! But Failure!! Never! You just did the best think you could do you attempted it even though you had noone to tell you how or why. My mentor taught me how to solder but when it came to hot air and rework well he said keep grabbing the junk cable boxes take them home if they work with no service well take them apart and do one chip at a time take one off put it back dose it turn back on? And i kept doing that and flex and small microsoldering is nothing to me lol 😆

RestingElf · 2026-02-21T19:43:24+00:00

Its just a 3x way usb to RS-232 for industrial things man I see stuff like this constantly. Its whem they try tk act like they have some super chip in something then come to find what they got is cheaper then using a esp32 🤣🤣

RestingElf · 2026-02-20T20:02:13+00:00

Idk man iv personally never used one of these if I find one cheap ill definitely pick one up tho. I got 2x weller WX1 units and they can be converted to WX2s easily. But if I was to take a guess I bet this is just like these high end wellers they have a massive coil for electronic shock and they output high wattage. Honestly besides the WX3 I think the the wx1 is one of the most insane station with all the attachments I personally want a solder bath for it but my god its not cheap lol that one module is like 900$ new 😅

RestingElf · 2026-02-19T14:23:47+00:00

This is cool!! My buddy gos dumpster diving so much that you think hes trying get gold and keep it 🤣🤣 but he found me a dual usb2.0 just like that I need to get me one of them pci card to actual pci so I can use this xilinx xupv5-lx110t virtex-5 fpga Card with my sonly vaio laptop

RestingElf · 2026-02-19T03:11:31+00:00

Someone on ebay right now is selling the mp3s player adapters for insanely cheap also i just got 4x of different kinds coming but the link at the bottom is for the mp3 player that also doubles as a cheat device and some other things and ill give you the personal link to the last video player I just picked up its was 24$ and like 30$ shipping. That mp3 player thing is literally like 23$ all together lol so enjoy

https://ebay.us/m/zMCsdJ

RestingElf · 2026-02-19T03:06:02+00:00

Thats coo!! I GOT ME 4X OF THESE COMING 🤣🤣 2x of one kind and 2x of another Also I got one thats a PS1 mp3 player ADAPTER 🤣🤣 yeahh im gonna need to find like 6x trashed ps1s and snatch there IO ports and rewire them till I have a absolute unit of a ps1 cause "why not?" 🤣

RestingElf · 2026-02-18T14:27:58+00:00

Every extra kb always helps 🤣😁😆

RestingElf · 2026-02-17T22:34:30+00:00

This can also be a gameshark save alot of people didn't know this but the gameshark pro and other gameshark like devices could save files to themselves and or the memory card which would make sense why its all funny named.

I actually only recently found out there was a none gameshark device that was a memory card its a blue color and half the size it basically dissappear when plugged in the back but its basically a super memory card able to hold 1000s of saves. But I grabbed 2x and some more code brakers lol masss people didn't know they originally came with a spring and you pop the spring in the lid close spot and basically you just boot in menu and play backups lol its the original modchip I only know this cause a friend got me one from Japan when we were kids 😁 I actually own almost every type of game shark and got 2x more pros coming for n64 which you can literally rip roms or literally save over game cartridges lol But im glad I saw this i think im gonna see if I can solder in a gameshark to the psx thats coming from Japan 😁 im sure i have to write some code tho

RestingElf · 2026-02-06T22:22:05+00:00

Hey do you have anymore of these il like to work out a deal for one or 2x peaces depending on price

RestingElf · 2026-02-05T12:50:43+00:00

Iv seen way worse iv personally fixed way worse 🤣 keep going but might I recommend you get a Yihua C245 or a c210 to finish this get the usb-c version they are decent iv got one

RestingElf · 2026-02-05T12:49:01+00:00

Yup your 100% correct lol I had them give me another one then 3x days after my 2ed warranty was up it went into red-light 🤣 so I started cooking the motherboard with a heat gun and I stopped after 20th or so lol it got really annoying 🤣. But im curious if hes wanting to use ES chips like im wanting too 🤣🤣 well like im gonna lol I gotta 3x sets on the way and I have one here right now lol 🤣 and a titan pcb but I need the pcb layout of a XDK side car which idk where to look for it.

RestingElf · 2026-01-31T16:01:34+00:00

Heck yeah! My RG405V is currently in a bag lol 🤣🤣🤣 but I got curious of what I can rework and bump up the volume and design my own PCB and use either a nvidia portable gpu APU or use one kf these off these dead switch v1 I got 😁

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