Retro Gaming Life Hacks

Some Times consoles break down and you don't have time or places to repair them . here's some old game life hacks #shorts #nintendo #playstation #lifehacks

[Batav]

My PS2 slim would stop loading games. So when it would get stuck on a load screen I would open the disc tray, remove the disc and then put it back. It would work like 90% of the time. Sometimes it was just a bad disc itself

[Romeyson]

Me as a kid thinking it made the disc spin better 😂

[OtisMcNuttIII]

I had a Sega Genesis and the 32X add on. Unfortunately the 32X was designed mainly for the Genesis 2 but had these aluminium brackets to place in the Genesis 1's cartridge slot to make up for the difference in dimension. Unfortunately the aluminium was so thin and cheap that one broke in half making the 32X unstable. I got an old aluminium soda can cut it up using the broken bracket as a template and cut the can into the same shape and it actually worked.

[teddydashers]

You just reminded me of my old PS1 that wouldn't hold the disc correctly. We had to put a little piece of paper town on the part that the disc clicks on to, just so that the disc would actually spin. The piece of paper towel provided enough friction so that when the motor starts, the disc would actually spin. Fun times. Core memory unlocked!

[wiggy]

I used to shove a Lego futuron windshield into my nes to mash the cart down. Worked like a charm :)

[bobbyblanco]

It all started with a quarter on a record needle 😅

[clydepack]

Grew up without ac and used to keep a bowl of ice and fan next to my 360

[stonedplaya]

I remember the lid never staying closed on my PS1, always had to have something on it lol

[acetw]

I had to surround my xbox 360 with a towel to get the red ring to go away.

[specialightsound]

FYI you can play nes games without pushing them down. I found that out switching games and forgot to push it down.

[joeydurant]

Shit im old enough to remember not onltly rewinding tapes woth a pencil but also using a butterknife to shim eigh tracks to keep them from wobbling and going all warbly.

[masjuggalo]

Not a console, but I remember on the Apple 2C that we played the Oregon trail on every so often. You would have to pick it up a couple inches off the table and drop it

[mojolojo]

Original sega genesis had a toggle switch(the one with the headphone jack). When the power button would start going out you had to play dj and run it back an forth a few times and stop it before it hit the edge to get the game to start

[tjflacid]

deodorant and the cloth that came with glasses or jewelry cleaning kits to buff out surface disc scratches!

[TheOnlyRealSquid]

The flip was to allow the heat to realign the laser, not to disappate the heat! Great video though!

[Rao_Rolland]

Yeah... We used to flip the PS1. You took me back with that one.

[Liquidglitch]

My GameCube just stopped reading discs after a point and the fix was to take the whole thing apart and turn the potentiometer for the laser to make it more powerful.
I didn't know a thing about circuitry as a teenager. I was just doing what the internet told me but, it worked!

[dokkaebiking]

So for the Nes, if it didn't play the game, we would spam the spring on the inside to kinda get it in that best position to read the games and then hit the reset. Usually worked, lol

[southparkenterprise]

I love the fact you brought up the NES and the game having to be locked in. I remember doing that myself and the game wouldnt work if it wasent pressed down. But if you look it up now you never had to press the game down to play it, just put it in the system.

[froderickalabaster]

i didn’t know until this year that apparently you don’t have to push the games down on the nes