30 years ago, the main engine was repaired improperly, and the card blowing and biting battery were used to invert the main engine, which has indeed been tested to be effective

Tech 2023-07-07 17:16:52 Source: Network

In this era of material abundance, every 10 year old child has a smartphone, and since elementary school, they have a personal computer, NS, and PS5 console. They can spend tens of thousands of yuan to play 3A masterpieces, and it is also a leisure time to give money to mobile games

In this era of material abundance, every 10 year old child has a smartphone, and since elementary school, they have a personal computer, NS, and PS5 console. They can spend tens of thousands of yuan to play 3A masterpieces, and it is also a leisure time to give money to mobile games. But in Lao Liang's childhood, having a red and white computer at home was already enviable. If it were paired with a GAMEBOY, you would be the god of the entire grade!

This statement is absolutely nonsense! The above are all the childhood experiences of Lao Liang. I still remember that around the end of 1996, when my parents took me to Hong Kong, they bought it at CITIC Plaza. The GAMEBOY body was paired with a genuine box of "Super Mario Continent", as well as a pirated box of 12 in 1 cassette tapes, which included "Wandering White Book: The Unification of the Demon Realm", "Soul Douluo", "Locke 1-4 Generations", "Ghost Adventures 5~Inheritors of Retreat", and several games that couldn't be named. The total cost was over 900 Hong Kong dollars.

You know, at that time, my family gave me 5 yuan in pocket money every week, and this machine and cassette tape were equivalent to I had to save 160 weeks, 1120 days of money to buy! So when my mother took out the "redwood fish" one by one and handed them to the clerk, I felt at that moment that my mother was the greatest mother in the world!

Understanding the value of money naturally makes hard-earned treasures extremely precious. But looking back, compared to plain red and white machines, GAMEBOY can definitely be considered a loser. Why do you say that? Because besides the card money, battery money is also a big expense! If you take GAMEBOY out to play games and unfortunately run out of battery, it's like taking a brick to the street.

Thirty years ago, there were various types of No. 5 batteries, with the cheapest being the 555 white battery, which costs 50 cents per battery. You can play with 4 batteries for 2 yuan. Although it is indeed very cheap, when used on GAMEBOY, it will run out of electricity in at most two hours, which is just a drop in the bucket. In contrast, the Duracell, which costs only 3 yuan each, is more reliable. Although the price is 6 times higher, it is no problem to play for more than 20 hours.

In addition, expensive batteries also have a durable feature. Once they run out of power, simply roll them up with a cloth and vigorously "grind" them for a while, and they can fight for another hour! Later on, some friends even taught me to use my teeth to bite the battery like squeezing toothpaste. Although my teeth were very sour, they did work. Lao Liang didn't understand the principle, maybe it was something like activating ions to generate electricity!

As for the faulty GAMEBOY machine itself, what remedies can be used to repair it? Lao Liang can only say that the quality of GAMEBOY is really amazing. After playing with the machine for many years, it has not broken. The most impressive thing is that it fell from my fifth floor to the bike shed on the first floor, and there was no damage at all - including the LCD screen! I call GAMEBOY the toughest guy in the handheld industry, shouldn't anyone object? Unlike those little ladies from Sony PS who always make mistakes for me.

By the way! Speaking of Sony PS, back then, Lao Liang also had a PS1 console that someone else gave away. Although GAMEBOY and red and white consoles have brought me endless happiness, after all, PS is the next generation console, and the gaming graphics, sound quality, performance effects, and other experiences are incomparable to 8-bit gaming consoles.

To put it metaphorically, it means suddenly evolving from "Devil's City" to "Devil's City X-Moonlight Fantasy", from "Super Robot War II" to "Super Robot War ALPHA", and from "Legend of the Sword" to "Legend of the Sword: Legend of Mana", and everyone understands it. So when I received this PS host as a great gift, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep all night! Thank you again after many years to the unknown benefactor who gave me the game console back then!

However, playing PS games is both enjoyable and enjoyable, but over time, the machine often fails to read the disc, which is very frustrating. I remember the most painful time playing Heartbeat Memories 2.

This game has to be changed every cycle, and I have been working hard to improve my attributes and girls' liking. As I was about to welcome the other party's confession, the machine kept getting stuck in the PSLOGO screen and didn't move. How could I press the controller without any response! This feeling of despair is more painful than eating Zongzi and finding it is red bean stuffing. Believe that the still PSLOGO screen was once a shadow for many players?

Helplessly, he had to run to the electronic game store with the console to check. The boss immediately asserted that it was bald aging. If he washed it, it would cost 30 yuan, but there was no guarantee that it would improve. If he replaced it with a bald one, it would cost 480 yuan, which could cure it. As soon as I heard this, I knew that the boss was deliberately trying to kill me. I could buy a second-hand GBA for 480 yuan... I immediately chose not to repair it, or at worst, not to play! Although I think so in my heart, I still feel sad to some extent.

Fortunately, my friend told me a trick, saying that simply turning the machine upside down or sideways can effectively improve the problem of poor disk reading. This move sounds unreliable, but at least it doesn't cost money or is easy to operate. Why not give it a try? What surprised me was that it was really useful... Later on, I went to check and found out that the PS host's inability to read the disk was not entirely due to the aging of the optical head, which was largely due to a design defect in the optical head. Prolonged horizontal placement caused the optical head to sink, and the laser's focus shifted and could not read the disk data. Therefore, I kept getting stuck in the logo interface. Tilting or reversing the host can actually improve the situation!

In addition, I also saw another technique on the software. As long as you open the host and use a screwdriver to unscrew the screw next to the optical drive a few times, you can adjust the power of the optical drive. I have not personally tested this technique, but it is said to be effective.

The problem with the design defects of the PS host's bald head is not only reflected in the PS1. Later, Lao Liang bought a PS2 with his own money and played for about 3 to 4 years, but the bald head also had problems! I happened to be playing 'Dragon Shadow Talisman' at the time, but halfway through it, it actually gave me a chuck. PS1 is most afraid of constantly seeing the host logo, while PS2 is most afraid of not seeing the host logo!

Thinking that they were all Sony products, I held a glimmer of hope and turned the PS2 console over again. Guess what? Go ahead! Use this method until you pass the customs.

With this move, I successfully managed to get through "The Great God," "ICO," and "Heart of the Kingdom 2," and the entire process was smooth and smooth. I didn't have much time to play until 2011, and this PS2 finally completed its mission.

Looking back now, in the past, playing games in order to prolong the game duration and console lifespan as much as possible was really a miracle! The security of these "folk remedies" is often difficult to investigate, and it is not known if they pose any harm to the hardware.

For example, when we were young and couldn't read cards on red and white machines, didn't we often blow air into the card slot? Believing that blowing out the dust from the cassette can read the data is not only a common practice among Chinese players, but also a consensus among global players!

Although it seemed like there was such a loss effect, in September 2010, coinciding with Nintendo's 25th anniversary, the official released a statement clearly telling players that "blowing air into the red and white machine cassette would cause rust on the metal terminals and affect reading". From then on, players suddenly realized that their childhood operations were all wrong! Since it's such an important matter, could you please tell me 25 years ago!

That's all for today's content. If you have seen or experienced any folk machine repair methods back then, please share them in the comments section! I am a nostalgic Lao Liang. If you like my article, please follow and like it. I will push you more interesting game content!

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