{"id":2091,"date":"2024-10-06T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallingstuff.net\/blog\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:04:45","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/06\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega Thrift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first dive in the thrifty series got into the goods and bads of some eBay finds<\/a>, this time though, we have a find from a proper thrift store. I found this bit of gaming archeotechnology for only a few dollars but just the console alone – no cables. Being only a few bucks, and the shell looking to be in very decent condition, I picked it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One Sega Genesis II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First order of business, I ordered a set of generic power and AV cables for it and then set about testing the console. To be completely honest, I was not surprised to see that it powered up and was working almost without an issue the first time. Key word .. almost<\/em>… The connector for the power adapter wiggled a bit more than it should have, meaning the board most likely had a few broken solder joints. So popping open the case and pulling the main board out …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yep, there are broken joints here … can you see them?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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241<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yep, broken solder joints … but easy to fix. The fix for broken solder joints would be just a quick reflow (that is heat up and make liquid) of the solder and the console would be good to go, but since the connector looked a little rough, I figured I would go ahead and just replace it. Only about 20 minutes worth of work to replace the power connector and only a few bucks for the console and parts, and another piece of old tech saved from the landfill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a rather short story, and admittedly not very interesting, it is exciting to see old tech saved from the landfill with only a few dollars in parts and a little bit of work. Cannot wait to tell more stories like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first dive in the thrifty series got into the goods and bads of some eBay finds, this time though, we have a find from a proper thrift store. I found this bit of gaming archeotechnology for only a few dollars but just the console alone – no cables. Being only a few bucks, and … Continue reading Sega Thrift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}