Fixing the Super Rare Sega Pluto Prototype

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Heh, this is awesome! Wish it was more involved though

"In this video we discuss Indiana Jones movies and also fix one of the only two remaining Sega Pluto prototype consoles. Enjoy!"

 
Redoing those bodge wires bothers me... i mean that seems to really be a screwed up thing to do in terms of historical value ?

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GiGaBiTe
 
LOL soon as I read "Fixing the Super Rare Sega Pluto" I thought - they should have taken it to Ben Heckendorn. Too fast I guess.
 
erek said:
Redoing those bodge wires bothers me... i mean that seems to really be a screwed up thing to do in terms of historical value ?

.... ????

GiGaBiTe
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Who cares about historical value if it doesn't work. I abhor collectors which put things they perceive as high value on high shelves in a glass case and refuse to touch them because it goes against their warped narrative it reduces the value of the item. Electronic items tend to deteriorate into a rotted mess when left unrestored/unmaintained and are permanently unsalvageable as a result, key example being leaking batteries. Huge numbers of old systems from the 80s and early 90s were lost due to NiCD CMOS batteries going off. The next major problem are going to be capacitors going off, which is happening right now. SMD capacitors from the 90s tend to leak and the corrosive electrolyte starts to delaminate the PCB substrate and eventually cause irreparable damage.

Ben was right to go over those bodge wires, the solder connections were very poor, especially the ones going into VIAs that looked like almost no solder at all was used. The leftover flux and detritus on the board around the reworks is indicative of either someone was in a big hurry, or they just didn't care because it was a prototype.
 
caddys83 said:
Man I wish they could access the hard drive
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It looked like a very early IDE hard drive, which may require an ancient laptop or motherboard to read. I have several drives of that vintage and they won't work at all on any controller I have made after 2000. I keep some 486 and early Pentium machines around to read old drives like that.
 
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