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I now own a Super Famicom. What a rollercoaster of frustration its been.
Before all of this, I've always wanted one of these. For those of you in PAL land, the Super Famicom is physically identical to a European SNES. Hardware-wise, they're not compatible. 50hz/60hz difference and different television standard.
First off, the AC port had a bad solder joint. Seems easily fixable, right? Wrong. The solder pad had lifted from the board. I ended up taking the same motherboard type from a US SNES and installing it. But, it didn't completely fit, due to the plastic molding on the inside of the shell of the SFC.
The US SNES and Japanese SFC motherboards are effectively identical. The only difference is the AC port and the slight voltage difference (US 120v to JP 100v). The plastic part that holds the AC port is a different shape on the US model. This part is a straight diagonal that fits flush in the back of the console. It's notched on the SFC.
I had to actually melt the plastic on the SFC shell to fit the new board. I'll have to take some pictures to show it.
Is it a little unauthentic? Kinda, but the board is completely identical to the Japanese version that there's no difference.
TL;DR: rambling.
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It's always relieving to hear that other people get frustrated when playing games too - because I certainly do 
So, overall, it was pretty good?
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It's the time of year I'm soon digging out my 28-year-old Master System.
It's starting to be in pretty bad shape, have to wonder how many more years it'll last...
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It's always relieving to hear that other people get frustrated when playing games too - because I certainly do
So, overall, it was pretty good?
Not playing it, trying to repair it was frustrating. I'm not an electrician for one thing, and I'm not particularly great with a soldering iron.
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It's the time of year I'm soon digging out my 28-year-old Master System.
It's starting to be in pretty bad shape, have to wonder how many more years it'll last...
Bad shape in how, exactly? I have two of them, and they seem like they're built like tanks.
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It's always relieving to hear that other people get frustrated when playing games too - because I certainly do
So, overall, it was pretty good?
Not playing it, trying to repair it was frustrating. I'm not an electrician for one thing, and I'm not particularly great with a soldering iron.
Oh, dunno why I missed that.
Ha, that does sound like an ordeal. I learned a valuable lesson from taking Computer Programming this year: Just because you like video-games doesn't mean you'll understand programming 
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It's the time of year I'm soon digging out my 28-year-old Master System.
It's starting to be in pretty bad shape, have to wonder how many more years it'll last...
Bad shape in how, exactly? I have two of them, and they seem like they're built like tanks.
The cable particularly, have to find just right position for it or picture is something between slightly faulty to barely visible.
Of 3 pads, I can barely get one to be fully functional (and most likely the one from which D-button's edges have broken so that I've wrapped it with cellophane to keep it in place).
Light Phaser is barely better.
And usually have to insert games 2-3 times before they work.
It was once dropped from table quite roughly by a dog (that ran into controller cord).
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Kaunisto wrote:
It's the time of year I'm soon digging out my 28-year-old Master System.
It's starting to be in pretty bad shape, have to wonder how many more years it'll last...
Bad shape in how, exactly? I have two of them, and they seem like they're built like tanks.
The cable particularly, have to find just right position for it or picture is something between slightly faulty to barely visible.
Of 3 pads, I can barely get one to be fully functional (and most likely the one from which D-button's edges have broken so that I've wrapped it with cellophane to keep it in place).
Light Phaser is barely better.
And usually have to insert games 2-3 times before they work.
It was once dropped from table quite roughly by a dog (that ran into controller cord).
The video out port might have a bad solder joint. That's why when you move it, it will make a good connection.
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It's always relieving to hear that other people get frustrated when playing games too - because I certainly do
So, overall, it was pretty good?
Not playing it, trying to repair it was frustrating. I'm not an electrician for one thing, and I'm not particularly great with a soldering iron.
Oh, dunno why I missed that.
Ha, that does sound like an ordeal. I learned a valuable lesson from taking Computer Programming this year: Just because you like video-games doesn't mean you'll understand programming
No programming, either. I was trying to repair a component. I definitely don't know how to program! 
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Oh yeah, I didn't mean I thought you were programming, but just that I'm only good at playing games (sometimes), not fixing/designing them. But yes, Programming is even worse 
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