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Appreciation post: a $5 capacitor kit brought my Sega Genesis back to life
Last Saturday I pulled out my old Sega Genesis from the attic to show my nephew, and the screen was just a black mess with no sound. I figured it was dead for good, but a buddy in Portland told me the capacitors on those boards dry out after 25 years. I ordered a small kit online for $5 and spent two hours with a soldering iron replacing about six of them near the power input. The thing fired right up after that, and my nephew asked why I was so excited about a game older than his dad. I never thought I'd be doing component-level work, but now I'm wondering if the same fix applies to my original PlayStation that's been sitting in a closet since 2001. Has anyone else had success swapping caps on older Sony boards, or is that a whole different animal?
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