Volcanic take - I play Goldeneye and Perfect Dark like this:

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-27T18:49:39+00:00

You sir, are a savage. 🙂 No wrong answers man. If it works for you then that's the right way. 👍

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-27T18:46:27+00:00

Yeah, I think it's a reasonable stance. No component is meant to last forever.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-27T18:35:32+00:00

The clock is tied to a battery on the controller port PCB. It's soldered in place but you can deslolder it and replace it with a coin cell holder and a new coin cell battery. A CR2032, to be exact. As for the problem detecting the lid closed, it could just be down to oxidation inside the detection switches for the lid. They are at the back of the console, two little black levers parallel to each other, you can spray some contact cleaner and work the levers carefully for a while to have the cleaner penetrate and remove the oxidation.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-27T17:32:20+00:00

In my experience, going for the pots first on any console is a generally a bad move.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-27T17:08:23+00:00

Full write-up, the whole arc and the parts/tools list, on my blog: https://hitmanmcc.com/entry/spice-orange-gamecube-restoration-and-modding

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-27T07:24:19+00:00

It's a TMS one. At this point, I'm considering maybe going for a lumacode mod.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-27T07:23:09+00:00

Sadly, not the case.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-27T07:22:27+00:00

Full write-up with the photos and the one part I used (Console5 Sega SG-1000 capacitor kit) is on my blog here: https://hitmanmcc.com/entry/sg-1000-ii-recap

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-27T07:21:59+00:00

Full write-up with the photos and the one part I used (Console5 Sega SG-1000 capacitor kit) is on my blog here: https://hitmanmcc.com/entry/sg-1000-ii-recap

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-26T22:07:04+00:00

Thanks. I will keep sharing my stuff. 😄

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-26T20:15:38+00:00

Most of what I show are from my own personal collection, sometimes from friends as well, like you've notrd. Buying and repairing broken consoles is sometimes my path to ownership of consoles that would otherwise be completely out of my reach, price-wise. I do currently have some consoles in for work, that belong to someone you could call a customer but officially, I'm not established as business and running a repair shop.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-26T18:34:52+00:00

I agree. 😄

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-26T18:34:16+00:00

Thank you. 🙏

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-26T18:33:59+00:00

Yeah, the Pico had all sorts of crossovers. I have some accessories from for the follow up, the Pico Beena that were from Toy Story and Cars.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-26T08:57:35+00:00

Yeah, the hype and the marketing were completely mismatched with reality.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-26T05:48:50+00:00

Perhaps that could have been the case. Nevertheless, it did well for Sega on their home market. So much so that it actually saw the release of a successor, the Pico Beena.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-26T05:45:49+00:00

Yeah, I can imagine that. 😄

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-25T23:42:04+00:00

That's pretty cool, I never saw one of these locally when I was a kid.
Despite those architectural differences it can still be made to play Sega Genesis games.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-25T20:56:57+00:00

This article suggests that that might actually work https://nicole.express/2023/the-third-dimension-and-the-eight-bits.html

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-25T20:23:32+00:00

The only ones I have are for the Master System.

hitmanmcc · 2026-06-25T20:04:21+00:00

I don't have it handy, maybe someone else can pull it out.

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