We've all experienced that sickening feeling when we're geared up to dive right into our game of choice, and something goes pop. Or boom. Or flashes. Or whimpers. Games hardware, unfortunately, doesn't last forever, and repairs or even full replacements can be necessary at times.
Yet we are all busy people, and we can't always get our repairs sorted out straight away. Sometimes problems are more difficult than removing a couple of screws and nipping down to the local hardware store for a cheap replacement part. Sometimes the solution IS that easy, but we're nervous about opening our pride and joy up, or we're just a little bit shit at this sort of thing – nobody gives you a DIY aptitude manual on your 18th birthday, after all. Unless your dad is Ron Swanson. Finally, it might not even be a case of fixing something that's definitively broken, but instead wondering if we're missing a trick when trying to get a specific function to work.
And Destructoid's strength is its community, right? So, why not put that force for good to work and discuss those niggling problems we've pushed to the back of our mind, or those big repairs that seem to be going nowhere? Let's share our stories and lend each other a hand in the comments section! Who knows – you might save someone from replacing an entire unit or making a costly false move when trying to get something fixed.
To break the ice, I'll share a few of the ongoing problems I have with my weird menagerie of old-ish games consoles and what I'm trying to find the time to investigate. A lot of it could probably be solved with a cursory Google search, but hey, why not cut your teeth on something easy, commenters? Let's go!
via destructoid https://www.destructoid.com/the-big-destructoid-games-hardware-fixing-thread-498737.phtml