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The service was for a recap, IPS screen installation, glass lens install and battery mod for a V0 Sega Game Gear. The IPS screen was a BennVenn screen sourced from ZedLabz, and the glass lens and the battery mod were sourced from RetroSix. The console came with a non functional screen but with power. First […]

The order was for sourcing and modding a Sega Genesis model 2, and it was agreed with the customer to source one with two controllers. The console sourced came with a box and manuals, marked as untested but on arrival it tested just fine. The services ordered were a Disassembly, test and Recap The console

The customer sent a Panasonic Q console which wasn’t reading discs properly. These consoles are well known for having issues with the plastic material of the DVD drive rails and tray, and like many consoles of this era, also with the rubber belt degrading and not ejecting the tray properly. On receipt the console had

This 1.6 console came for a CPU recap and the installation of a XRT-C mod (which includes the rebuilt of LPC port). The customer also sent an OpenXenium from LonWay Technologies. I also agreed with the customer to configure the stock HDD with UIX-Lite. The console did not boot when received and tested. Upon disassembly

The service was for a Sega Mega-CD 2 recap and FRAM mod. The customer advised that the laser might need replacement, but when testing on receipt (and after a slight lens clean with a cotton bud and some IPA), the CD drive was found to be perfectly operational with a burnt copy of Sonic CD.

The order was for the installation of a N64RGB V2.1 mod kit from RetroUpgrades, based on Borti’s Open Sourced design. The customer mentioned that the console had been RGB modded a long time ago (in 1997), and wasn’t sure what the mod looked liked, but assumed it would be possible to remove and install the

The service was for an OG Xbox Refurbishment and modding, with a 1TB used HDD. The console was in a good condition externally, with a working DVD drive. On disassembly, the security stickers were preserved as much as possible by removing them with hot air. The consoles internally was quite clean. with minimum visible rust

This order included 128 Installation The installation of the RAM in the 1.0 went on with no problem. An Aladdin modchip with an XblastOS was used to test the installation. The installation of the 1.1 was a bit more problematic as one of the modules was found faulty, so had to be removed with hot

The console was sent for a N64 RGB mod, using the N64 64 2.1 modkit from RetroUpgrades. The customer mentioned that there was a prior mod done on this console a long time ago. Upon opening the console, I found some pre-existent wiring to the VDC-NUS chip going back to the video connector. The chip

The service requested was initially a Hispeedido IPS screen replacement, but a capacitor kit and a Mega Nomad region free mod were also discussed. Eventually the region free mod was not installed because of fears of the “hot keys” interfering with the OSD menu hot keys of the IPS screen. The console was first disassembled