Recapped Laseractive Sega PAC - 80 Caps Done!

[wmsteele]

Wow... If you thought we had it bad in Amiga land with caps these boards have 80 smd caps in total, every single one had started to leak

Each one was removed and the boards thoroughly cleaned before recapping could start. Not a single trace lifted, phew!

Board now looks almost like new, just need to power her up... fingers crossed.

 

[Sardine]

wow!!! 80 ...

well done and good luck with the powering up!!

 

[wmsteele]

Success... playing a Sega laser-disc game



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[tokyoracer]

Very cool indeed, i'd love something like this if only I was rich/lucky enough. I wonder if this can be modded for region select and 50/60Hz modes...

 

[wmsteele]

The laseractive is now almost fully functional... LD movies and mega LD play just fine, have a few movies and one mega LD game all working without a hitch. The CD drive is also fully functional, audio and JPN mega CD games play perfectly. I've successfully changed the region on a few USA games and they are working fine as well (using SCDToolz 3.55).

The one issue I have is cartridge based games, all I get is a black screen when powering the unit with a cart connected to the PAC. I had originally thought this was due to me having a JPN region PAC-S1 but no JPN cartridge games. The mega CD games I have running are all JPN, USA/PAL discs don't work without altering region. So I ordered a JPN cartridge game, this arrived today but gives the same black screen as my PAL cartridges. I also have a mega Everdrive and this also results in a black screen... weird.

Both PAC cart connector and cartridges have been thoroughly cleaned with no change in behavior... same black screen. I'm now lost as to what to try next... any ideas??

Help.... :sos

 

[wmsteele]

Ok... total noob here, apprently the PAC's when new had a little sticker with the correct way to insert a cart, I has assumed (wrongly) that the cart label would face upwards when inserted... apparently not....



Once inserted the correct way everything works! Thankfully no damage has been done and my Sega PAC is fully working, plays PAL/NTSC & JPN carts. Mega everdrive also works perfectly and can be used with a region free bios for mega CD games

Time now to start looking for a N1 PAC...