These video game things are getting expensive. You could lose an NES and not know how to fix it, and have to spend nearly $100 on a new one, or you could buy a cheap 72 pin connector and have it working like new.


Personally, I've repaired the following in the past successfully:

Stick drift and triggers on Xbox Elite controller for my brother, I cleaned it out and made sure it all connected.

Repaired disc drive on Wii. I disassembled the Wii and replaced the sensor when it was a lot cheaper to buy.

Repaired DS. The hinges on the shell were broken, so I bought a brand new shell and swapped out the console's guts. The new hinges were wobbly, but worked a lot better.

I've repaired several PS4 controllers. I've fixed stick drift on three of them by cleaning them out and placing a small piece of paper behind the analog sticks. I fixed two other PS4 controllers by replacing the battery.

I ran into an issue with my first Switch, I had a problem with the charging port so the dock would no longer work. I bought a new one and planned on soldering it on, but there is a screw that's so nastily stripped from the manufacturer that its holding the shell thats been cracked almost to pieces by the heat vents on the top. I wanted to buy a new shell, but can't find a way to safely extract that screw without breaking the threads in the post.

How about you? Have you ever tried to repair one of your consoles?

well this is kind of hard to explain but somehow I managed to get one of my PC games to work again after it wouldn't, because after I installed another game somehow the game that wouldn't open was working again (I'll explain whenever I do my review for Rocky and Bullwinkle's Know it All Quiz Game)

I have repaired a few things.

One of the things I repaired was my play station one memory card. It stopped working. It was one of those memory cards that could hold several files at once. I took it apart and saw the problem. Dust had built up inside. I took a Q-tip cleaned it out and put it back together. It started working again.

Another thing I repaired when I was younger was my SNES TV adapter for those that do not know. Back in the day the NES and SNES came with a rectangle like box that you could hook into the back of your tv or VCR and to the back of your SNES. For a lot of us this is how we played the SNES. The adapter had two cables at the end of it. One of the cables bent inside and the adapter would not screw on. I could have gone to Radio Shack (electronic store that used to be around) and got me a new one. Instead, I bent the little pin inside of the cable. I was able to get it to where it would stay on the back of my TV

Physically, the most I've done is clean up some cartridge's so they can run better, but I've had to do some programming to fix some games I've either made or my friends have made.

I also helped move some flash games to HTML after adobe shut down flash.

I've tried to repair some gamecube controllers, because they always seem to break, but I had no success with that.

In 2021 I bought a Wii from Goodwill and one of the camera things wasn't connecting to it. Because I didn't think I would need it, I decided to randomly see if I could fix the wire myself because there would be no harm in it breaking even more.

I used to fix a few PlayStation 2 consoles. Either the laser is dying (rendering it from reading the disc) , the disc tray won’t open or it won’t close.

For the laser I just easily removed the case itself from removing the screws off the rubber padding and the case holding the disc drive. If I remember correctly they used two different screws. Large screws for the case and smaller screws inside the PlayStation 2. Disconnect the ribbon cable and remove the remaining screws holding the laser and replace it with another ps2 optical laser.

The disc tray not opening or closing I usually use oil or something to lubricate the railing so it can open and close again. Safe? Probably not but it works