So I have a og fat ps3 with a broken disc drive… could it be worth it to get it fixed?
Idk how much it cost or how much the console is worth even…
How about my nes that stopped working is it worth it to get that thing fixed?
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What's wrong with the nes?
I couldn’t honestly tell yeah it stopped working 20years yeahs ago and got out in a box in da garage.
Send to me, I'll clean it up and test it. If I fix it, let's call it 10k sats. You pay shipping both ways.
For the PS3, I'm tempted to buy it off you broken for the collection... Idk though, I might not can fix it so I'd want it dirt cheap. If I do fix it I can always sell it back to you but it's only really valuable to a collector. There are cheaper ways to just play those games now
Ok that seems like an amazing cheap price lol… (tbh I will have to find said box in my garage this summer when I "try" to clean it this year) but I’m totally will to send it out to ya… do you have any experience with modding em?
Now as for the ps3 I want it for my collection broken or not lol I would like to get it working again.
I can absolutely attempt to fix it. It will cost you more (like 50k maybe) pus parts I might have to buy and shipping.
The NES is a stupid simple console. Just take it apart and clean with a brush and rubbing alcohol. If that doesn't work, just buy another one. They're pretty cheap. I don't know anything about modding either but I can't imagine there is much to do with the NES. I was always an Xbox primary guy so I can mod OG Xboxes and I know how to do various things for the 360 depending on the model.
Ok let me think about that… cuz yeah it might cost a bit for parts…
Was kinda thinking about getting a new modded nes but they were kinda expensive lol, I never tried cleaning the nes either.
I think I still have my of Xbox somewhere too lol but man I’m pretty sure I tried to mod that way back when and failed lol
I did small device repair for a living for about 5 years. I also collect consoles. The NES probably just needs cleaning. Not sure on the PS3 but if be happy to help in both cases. I'll do it cheaper than any repair shop, I won't charge you if I don't fix it and I accept sats as payment
Idk but after buying ps3 the disk drive stoped working… I didn’t want to send it back to Sony to get it fixed under warranty (I had already gotten rma box sent to me) because they couldn’t guarantee me I would get the same model of PS3 back lol… so I just bought a gen 2 ps3 which is still working (although I don’t have working controllers as they all stopped working)…
Probably said that because drives are tied to console. They would have just replaced it.
The only use I could think of for an og PS3 ATP would be PS2 emulation and other devices are a lot better at that now, It's probably too old to be useful as a daily driver computer or anything else you could hack it to do. I'd say it's probably useless except to the most OCD collectors.
NES collectors are probably more common but it might be cheaper to sell it and let them fix it.
I just want to be able to use them both.
NES is probably better to discard and emulate. I'm pretty sure that's easy though I've never tried.
I'm not sure if decent PS3 emulators have ever been completed esp since most of its games are cross platform and the PS3 version of a lot of them relied on Sony's proprietary servers to work.
It might be easier to just get a new PS3 rather than repair, they're probably cheap at this point.
I get that but I want it to work I’ve been putting off getting it fixed for to long and I do have a switch and play nes on it lol…
I have a gen2 ps3 that works but I would like for my og one to get fix as well…. Also have put it off for way too long…
The NES absolutely.
The PS3 is still a little early, give it 5 more years before considering maintaining it long term but parts probably become more rare, and expensive by then so find a donor console, or cheap parts for it now before it becomes vintage.
