Speedy recovery, Steve❤

Those threads were stripped out because they are plastic and some people think that the screws need to be tightened by a gorilla. Tighten until they are snug. That's all that is needed.

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

Yep, agreed

@brickupgrades

22 күн бұрын

I definitely think some electronic technicians generally use powered screwdrivers and most cases and definitely in all cases older electronic devices especially made of plastic. You should always use a hand held screwdriver.

Been waiting for a new drop! Fastest and easiest click today. God speed brother in your recovery.

Please do Sega Genesis/ Sega CD repairs too besides NES and SNES console repairs!

@FluffyFerretFarm

23 күн бұрын

I honestly don't ever remember him repairing or refurbishing a genesis before

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

I've got some here that I'll be making a video on.

@BRGKasumi77Main

22 күн бұрын

@@TronicsFixLongs can't wait to watch it!

@destindude1978

22 күн бұрын

I'll be watching that one too :)

@JoseLopez-uc2hn

22 күн бұрын

That'll be awesome!

thank you for another long video always look forward to theses

@TronicsFixLongs

24 күн бұрын

Glad you're enjoying them!

SHIRT LINK?? We want that shirt Steve! Keep on kicking that recoveries butt!

Looking good! Love seeing the long vids

Thanks for contributing to help make our lives better. Your videos help a lot of us by having relaxing and interesting content with a nice person. It doesn’t seem much but you have a positive impact on humans and society moreover you repair things ! I wished I would contribute this much to make the world better ! :) keep going on !

@TronicsFixLongs

22 күн бұрын

This is such a sweet message, thank you!

Isn't the smb duck hunt cartridge a fake? No nintendo branding and 4 blob chips...

@AndyDo

24 күн бұрын

Yeah, that's why the screws were new.

@cl1ck99

24 күн бұрын

This is probably the only cart they produced with glob tops. Just because they packed it in with the system for so long and it was cheaper to do. There is actually a Nintendo branding on the solder side of the PCB.

@anthony7184

24 күн бұрын

It's real

@joshkelly4682

23 күн бұрын

Nope it's legit, smb/duck hunt always has blob chips

@phoenragon

22 күн бұрын

I was wondering the same thing

Those screws were cross threaded and tightened too hard. A trick I learned as a repair tech for a major company was when I'm putting a metal screw into plastic I start the screw backwards until it "pops". Its at that point the screws threads are in what has been cut into the plastic already. If you just start screwing it in, there's a chance it will cut new threads into the plastic between what has already been cut. This weakens the plastic and potentially shears it.

Nice to see you are better mate!

That Nintendo looks really great condition for its age. It does look like they cleaned it as well maybe not 100% perfect but wow looks good before you even touched it

I've begun refurbishing my own consoles, and I'm having a lot of fun doing it and I do my best to clean every reachable nook and cranny for everything I send out. I don't charge exhuberant prices, and I don't deyellow my SNES or NES because I don't have equipment for that. Just cracked open my first NES, got it working for 2 minutes and then it went to a wavey salt and pepper screen and blinking lights so now I need to figure out how to clean the slot pins

Hello Tronixfix, we need a video of you showcasing all of your tools.

Purchased many games from them. I think they did a good job.

Haven’t heard anyone else mention the light gun functionality on new tvs, nice info to have. ✌️❤️

Nice. Thank you for your work. Always its relief to watching your videos. I hope you are doing well. Best wishes from 🇺🇦

When replacing any kind of self-tappers I always turn the screw anti-clockwise very gently first as you'll feel when it drops back into the original thread. Then tighten up. You can sometimes get away with recutting the thread into aluminium if you don't align with the original but you can only do that once - after that it's stripped and you're into oversize screws 😮

Thanks for the video. Is there a way to remake the treads of the plastic? Thanks.

Looking good bro. Back to the old looks

@HMJ66

23 күн бұрын

These videos were recorded before he started treatment, they're just longer versions of videos previously published on his main channel.

In a few months im gonna be starting a NES Collection from lukie games. Going to start small at first mainly starting with the system and a few mario games but im super excited! They had some good prices in my opinion but then again im no expert.

My childhood right there, Mario/Duck Hunt.

You didn't have to retro-bright the case! LOL (see Odd Tinkering for that process... LOL)

23:18 XD XD thanks for the laughs Steve!!

You're looking good, hope you're feeling better!

@HMJ66

23 күн бұрын

These videos are reuploads of older videos, just re-edited to be longer than the original on the main channel. These videos were recorded before he started treatment.

@stevesgaming7475

23 күн бұрын

@@HMJ66 oh okay.. thanks

200 plus bucks for that, damn, i got my nes, plus 4 Controllers, 2 advanced Controller gamepads, the 4 player adapter, and 1 game for like 100 euros a while back, i hit a jacktop deal it seems

When the game started, the music played in my head 🤭

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

Lol!

When you're bending the pins at 16:45, does that make them tighter or looser? Thanks

when you buy a new after market 72 pin connector the back 2 holes are bigger. every time I referb. a NES I have that issue with the back 1 holes.

curious if the zapper is modifiable to work on flat screens?

Time is money. I'm guessing they are using screw guns and that's what's snapping the screw threads out. Glad to see you're doing better. 👍🏾🙂

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

I'm guessing that as well

Nice to see the hair growing back.

@phoenragon

22 күн бұрын

This a longer recut of a video he recorder before his treatments. That said, he is in remission so hopefully this will be what he looks like again soon. Unless he changes his look of course

Hey Steve, hair is back good for you…. My forehead continues to grow in other news lol

Clean any game you get from Lukie. They've sent me games that dont work despite them saying its been cleaned, just to find the pins coming up dark green for three or four passes. Then they'll try and say that's not possible and go "we'll let this slide this one time". Disc games are also a gamble, majorly scratched that are claimed in good condition with the center ring covered in the white powder you found on the console.

May be they are using electric screw drivers. May be that's why some of the screws are tight, loose and stripped

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

Yep, I think that's the problem

Amazing video as always Steve and it's great to see doing extremely well. I personally feel though for that price, they could have given you a REAL Mario game and not a knock off.

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

It's a real game

You didn’t blow in the cartridge, or jiggle it back and forth or anything the first time you put it in. No wonder it didn’t work! 😂😝

sold the same for 40 euro like 9 years ago and it was almost brand new and yes i feel like a fool now ! and yes with games mario bros 1/duckhunt mario bros 2 and 3 , metal gear ,zelda, track and field

The extra super glue after you got the piece into place; that’s why they pay you the big bucks Steve!

@TronicsFixLongs

22 күн бұрын

Gotta make sure it's nice and secure!

Baking powder on the glue would have made it go off more quickly and strengthen the joint :)

Tronics when he tries to sleep at night, why wasnt the screw tightened all the way down?

Wish was able to know where to get PS3 Controllers that are good be better if was a Sony or not as long lasts a long time under alot of use as there no where near me that repairs them even if was a simple problem like R1 button sticking down and not popping back up but the PS3 got drom Lukia Games still working since a few years

Why won't the gun work on a flat screen television?

I say make a full Mario 3 playthrough video, all the best Steve

i dont know if that was the perfect amount of super glue

Hello from Ecuador, big fan of your videos. I guess you didn’t notice when you open the game cartridge but that’s not an original game 🤔

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

It's original.

4:10 omg. I’m so immature….. I laughed at the sound that made. 😅

@Darktophat_10

24 күн бұрын

its ok, children are usually quite immature.

@yumark5800

24 күн бұрын

@@Darktophat_10 usually children call others children to make themselves feel superior over others. I’m glad you got that opportunity on a KZread video. Must feel like a big boy now, mama’s gonna be proud.

Imo, doesn't look like they did any cleaning inside. Maybe they tried the outside a bit, but it was a quick wipe.

Super Mario Bros 3......The best Nintendo game ........in my opinion!!

I saw on tiktok, that somebody cook 72 pin to clean it

Sprinkle baking soda on that wet super glue and it will make it rock hard

I thought the 1st NES game motherboard looked like a repro

@23:18 🎤Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyama 🎶 -"Circle of Life" Lion King

👍👍👍

I can't help thinking that these "refurbishing" companies are running a scam. This one at least works, but that is a bare minimum, and for a price like this, it should be pristine, and it is not. For $234, you will get a squeaky clean console on eBay more often than not.

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

Yep

Am I the only one that hoped Steve got keelt by the very first Goomba? Silliness aside, hopefully your recovery is going both well and quickly! I like this content, educating most of us on scam vs at least mostly legitimate companies. I agree with your point of "I'll pay a little extra for something that was advertised accurately rather than WAY overpay for being lied to." I've never purchased from a certain company that.. well.. straight up hasn't learned a damn thing so far, but I'd rather learn about other places as well that MIGHT be a little more reputable than those hacks at the other place. Another good video, keep up the good work and keep the retro culture alive! 🖤

Playing Mario without pressing the B button? Ok...

10:25, better off using a welding plastic glue, that melts the plastic together like modelling glue does. Super glue is brittle.

I only use ipa and a pink eraser on my carts and they all play first try every time

@TronicsFixLongs

22 күн бұрын

That is a good way to clean them too!

I'm not 100% sure but the 72 pin connector doesn't look original to me.

Isn’t that cartridge a copy?

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

Nope

The trouble with using Magic Eraser, or any sandpaper, is that it could be repeated by someone else on the same cart, or even just repeated by someone who doesn't know how to use it spareingly. I'm a firm believer in using white pencil eraser to clean metal contacts. I was taught taught that from my grandfather, in 1982, when cleaning Vic-20 carts, and still do it today. I also used to clean many the NES, Gen, SNES carts from multiple Funcoland stores, which sent us their inventory overage, so I've probably cleaned upwards of 10,000 carts, and I think I only had maybe 5 carts that the pencil eraser didn't fix. They all worked on the first try on a clean console. -Matt

A little squirt of chloroform on broken plastic, like the screw post of the controller, would bond it together without any residue unlike you have with super glue. But use it in well ventilated rooms :)

@kraftaculousgreekgodofcraf1113

23 күн бұрын

Oh yea lemme just go buy some chloroform because that won’t look suspicious 🙄… (lol I’m not funnin you I would just feel weird buying it, also where does just go by chloroform?)

@mrtree1368

23 күн бұрын

Where does one buy this chloroform. Asking for a friend

@kraftaculousgreekgodofcraf1113

23 күн бұрын

@@mrtree1368 😂

Too bad you can’t use that light gun on your LCD tv.

Geez all that wasted space inside a NES game cartridge

@BIayne

23 күн бұрын

Haha yup. Inside the console too.

@mrtree1368

23 күн бұрын

Not all cartridges have boards that small but compared to the Famicom they are alot bigger

anyone else sing the mario level start music?

Damn they sent a repro SMB cart? Yikes

@BIayne

23 күн бұрын

No, some of the boards look like that.

@joshkelly4682

23 күн бұрын

Nope it's legit

All these companies you get what you pay even on Ebay.. just gotta do your own research. Yes, these companies have to make money but still crazy prices so again you get what you pay for.

Time for some regulatory agency to start keeping these ripoff companies accountable.

Its unfortunate, but a lot of people just tighten way to much.

@TronicsFixLongs

22 күн бұрын

Very true

all of that would of been like 400$ at a place like dk oldies lmao

@JerrySpann-fn4kw

23 күн бұрын

Twice as much when new. What a fucking scam.

@mrtree1368

23 күн бұрын

Still more money than i would pay . U just can't beat ebay get all that for under 100 bucks

You really need to up your Mario game.

Series two zapper gun. Changed to that disgusting orange because of Congress, Nintendo was being proactive after the change in regulations. Because you know somehow a plastic gray toy gun with a cord looks like a “real weapon.” I had the gray version growing up, it looks so much better.

This is a repro game

@BIayne

23 күн бұрын

It's not.

@dkaytan

23 күн бұрын

@@BIayne Sure?

@BIayne

23 күн бұрын

@@dkaytan Certain.

@dkaytan

23 күн бұрын

@@BIayne OK,seems Like repro because of the blobs and new screws

@BIayne

23 күн бұрын

@@dkaytan the multicart games have blobs. I have Mario/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet and Mario/Tetris/Nintendo World Cup boards which are the same.

Get well soon egg 🥚 head..

DeoxIT? Amateur... EVERYONE knows that the way to clean an NES cartridge is to blow in it! 🤣

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

Lol

bad IPA will leave residu behind even 99%.

To anyone who didn't know or was too young to possibly know, the original gun controller was actually a different colorway. The orange was a different shade of grey. They changed it when laws came into effect to make toy guns look less realistic.

Jesus loves you!

Well, I am glad you are better at repairing these systems and games than you are at playing them.

Will never buy anything from Lukie Games again. Bid on a SNES lot that supposedly had a copy of Chrono Trigger in it with no label. The name was written on the cart. Turned out to be an NBA game but because they never listed it as Chrono Trigger in the info, they wouldn’t take it back. Way too fishy of a situation to me. Really looked like they either wrote that on there themselves to inflate the price or just didn’t bother to check the games. Shoddy business practices there.

That game cartridge is fake, not sure if know already.

@BIayne

23 күн бұрын

It's not.

@TronicsFixLongs

23 күн бұрын

It's really not

I hope you never purchased any of my refurbished any esses on eBay, they will not pass your meticulousness lol. Wow, speech to text “NESes” Also, it could be possible that used power tools for the screws if they’re going to be working on a lot of machines and maybe that’s how the screws threading got destroyed. I’ve done that before.

Um isn’t that game a fake? I didn’t know Nintendo ever did the chips with epoxy resin on them

@freddykruger1118

23 күн бұрын

Yes they did

@joshkelly4682

23 күн бұрын

It's legit

That's a fake. Nintendo doesn't put that resin crap on the chips.

@mpowerness92

24 күн бұрын

It’s not, it’s authentic. Nintendo didn’t do it often, but some games had glob tops. Key thing to look out for is if they are square globs.

@BIayne

23 күн бұрын

It's real. Some of the boards were like that for the multi-carts.

@joshkelly4682

23 күн бұрын

All smb/duck hunt have blob chips, that game is legit

5TH! WOOO

@TronicsFixLongs

24 күн бұрын

Welcome!

not a legit game cart.

@jonathanfischer9026

2 күн бұрын

"Gloptop" are normal for that game, that is 100% a legit game it's a Sharp LROG124 PCB

That game board is not real Nintendo

@KngKurd

23 күн бұрын

It is real, Nintendo made those and some starfox games as cheap as possible when bundled

who names these companies?? 40 year old 5 year olds? Lukie games...DKOldies....

Fake games no official logo Nintendo in a pcb sry Steve

@joshkelly4682

23 күн бұрын

That game is legit

Stupid Game.

Yeah that is definitely a fake Nintendo game

The game is fake the broad has no nintendo logo lol

@BIayne

23 күн бұрын

No, it's real.

@joshkelly4682

23 күн бұрын

It's legit

This is all wrong...now everyone is a tech ? No liquids left on or in electronics ever all you need is a clean pencil eraser and a paper towel. It's not opinion there's a right and wrong way to do things and 99% of KZreadrs got it wrong. I've repaired electronics since 1978 and I know for a fact no liquids should be used on that cart it's all fine until that PCB swells up like a sponge 🤔

Waste of money way to clean it. Isopropyl is all you need. Not some bullshit product