I have successfully opened up my CD-i, replaced the drive belt, and put it all back together! Pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever actually fixed a console before.
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Wait, I thought everyone our age put a mod chip in our ps2 ordered from some seedy website in the early days of the internet with a jankass soldering gun from Radio Shack?
Congrats!! I wish, I still had mine. The pack-in golf game and the Defender of the Crown are good times. So in the early 1990's when Blockbuster bought my Alfalfa-Movietime workplace and Phillips was involved, I was given the "opportunity" to have my wages garnished to purchase this $999 marvel.😜
Now I can finally watch The Naked Gun 2 1/2 the way it was meant to be seen—as a crappy mpeg upscaled to 4K that craps out after a few minutes because I haven’t figured out how to cleanly burn cd-i discs.
I think the trick in the old days was to burn at 1x or 2x speed for CD's. Gives the laser more time to burn which I think makes the laser sensor on the cd reader easier to pick up the burned cd or something.
I dunno, been a long time since I last burned a cd-r.
Nice work! Since moving back to Japan, I've been slowly teaching myself soldering and other repair skills since the professional modding scene here is in such a legally grey place after the crackdown on video out mods. I'm no master, but feels good being able to look after my arcade PCBs especially.
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I tried replacing the drive belt on a Model 1 Sega CD once and now I'm too anxious to try anything of the like again.
I dunno, been a long time since I last burned a cd-r.
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