Although I'm American I can fully appreciate the "ooo friend" Inbetweeners reference. Love that show

Just found your channel, such a relaxing watch before bed. I love how you don’t add a bunch of unnecessary music. Thanks!

Love the "friend" part referring to the show Inbetweeners! LOL

3:03 The delivery of this line had my sides splitting in laughter. Absolutely hilarious to hear this sentence delivered in such a manner. 😆

I busted out laughing so hard i almost pissed my self from that alarm

One tip on measuring mains voltage. There’s no reason to be afraid of it just so one thing. Clip the common to your primary or secondary (depending on what you want to measure) and just hold the probe in one hand keep the other hand away from the board and probe it. Then when you accidentally touch something (I don’t know why you would) at least the current doesn’t race through your heart and you’ll just have a little shocking experience.

i dont think a man as big as yourself will get to reading this, but i have to say i like the fact that you had timestamps in the video, because ive seen alot of n64 restoration, but i love when you do lesser known tech,

Clean video Steve 👍

You're a safe guy. Don't be scared with mains. Main thing is to never ground yourself. I put a GFI on my bench that definitely helps me out.

Probably mentioned before, but the extra battery hole is for a spare. Wished G&W did the same. Great channel and great videos!

hey ho, electrical engineer here. I used to work for 7 years for a company in germany which is producing power supplies for industrial applications. I first used and fixed the power supplies (5W to 2000W) there were quite similar step down supplies like yours. here are some main adivces from my point of experience: you should set it up under AC Input voltage. I had houndred thousands of these thingis in front of me without security box/shield/whatever. less than every 10.000th will pop up (FET or capacitor if it was wrong - not your case, otherwise you would already know ;). check if there are voltages on the secondary / slave side of the transformator. the behaviour under voltage can give you better informations what it could be (and what not). if there is something wrong it could be your regulation: btw the optocoppler is for the feedback of voltage and currenct regulation. it could run on a lower voltage if there is some trouble in the regulation but that ist very rare. Most of the time its the "power parts" like FET (field effect transistor), transformator or some diodes. you PCB looks good but I realized that you already have a good eye for problems like that. Maximum expierence advice: had a lot of diodes and FET´s which were totally fine by messarement. even when i soldered these out with no intereference from other parts. but they were quite often defect. :( sometimes it was quite frustating and I substituted a lot of parts to find the problem. Of course you don't have these different parts at home. PS: I like your equipment. for a efforetless working on a PCB i can recommend something like this: www.amazon.de/Fixpoint-Platinenhalter-Best%C3%BCcken-Leiterplatten-Platine/dp/B000LB4PWM/ref=asc_df_B000LB4PWM/?tag=googshopde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309904116164&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7301917377656258488&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9068308&hvtargid=pla-475410755431&psc=1&th=1&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=61691617836&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=309904116164&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7301917377656258488&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9068308&hvtargid=pla-475410755431

I have no idea what anything you do means or what purpose it serves, but I just like watching these videos for the hell of it.

Steve!!! I stumbled across you channel the other day and now I’m truly addicted! One of my faves of all time!! 😃

Just found your channel and now I’m binging all of them, you’re a true genius

The other hole is for other games that take 2 batteries. Just a way for them to reuse the same housing on multiple games. Plus it's a way to keep an extra battery at hand whenever you need one.

golden eye such a classic and remember playing with my uncle every time after school... wish they would bring back split screen play

Stumbled upon your channel a week or so ago, and have been binging content ever since!

...i was waiting for "stupid game" at the end. 😄

You too funny. Guys like you make youtube such a good enjoyable platform

The sounds of the n64 plastic is so nostalgic

I had BTTF when I was a kid, forgotten all about it, now I miss it, I need to find one

Great fix Steve! can't believe how clean the inside of the handheld was if it was released in 1991... Think you're right in the sense that it never got used because of the fault. Well done mate 😁😁👌

I used to own that BTTF3 handheld. It was such good fun when I was 12.

Have had a love of electronics since I was a kid. Would kill to have yur knowledge! 👍

That video game shelf setup is freaking sick

back in the day when the rest button got stuck i whack it a few times lol man consoles back then could go through hell and still work

Recently suggested, watching previous vids, awesome content!

Came across the channel by chance, love the content 👏👏

Great stuff.... And my fave N64 game in the slot. I used to be a bench engineer years ago working on data comms devices... I never liked working on switch mode PSUs....

Judging from the voltage readings you've taken, I would suspect that there is no power coming into the power supply. It would be worth checking whether there is continuity from the plug to the power supply. I suspect there's a decent chance that either the fuse has blown in the plug, or there is a break in one of the wires in the mains cable.

Oh my god I had that back to the future game when I was a kid

Think you`s find that 2nd slot is for an spare//extra battery, so when the battery goes flat you can switch them..

1:57 remindws me of a mattkc video where he made the powersupply more modern and use a figure 8 plug. his had adhesive on the inside of the casing so it was very very tough to remove

That feeling of gaming in the 90s...complete inadequacy, led to the game being thrown down. And that sir, is how that piece got damaged. Lol

that handheld remind me of frog game that u have make to other side without being ran over by other objects

Found your channel recently and binged watched most of your uploads now. Mildly disappointed we didn't get a 'stuuupid game' from you after playing the fixed BTTF game! :)

I quite this channel😆 only came across it recently but love the quirkiness and the content💯

Great Scott! You used 'flux' to remove a 'capacitor'...

Transistors will only give you "expected " results out of circuit . If you leave it in circuit , it`ll give you all kinds of weird results (as you found out)

Another great video, Keep up the good work.

I went Awe! The same time you did in that Back to the Future game. Haha! Great Videos.

I have seen many very good repairs that you have done. And I don't finish wondering how you can confuse an inductance with a capacitor. It stumped me. The problem was loose battery contacts. very clear. Please don't forget to take out all the flux you left behind.

nice work with the handheld

Badass setup !!

I enjoy the periodic Inbetweeners references

Maybe the case on the handheld was used for multiple games, some requiring both batteries.

Handheld had a backup battery compartment. Pretty smart actually.

Love your videos mate, but did you check the fuse in the plug? 😎

Hello look at 5.44 there is a little blob of solder under the capacitor , you should check this one first , good work !

why do i have a feeling with the bttf3 game that if you just supplied power to the battery contacts it would have fired right up. wouldn't be surpised if it was just dicky contact between the battery contacts regardless of no visible corrosion, and the act of you taking it apart and reassembling it was all it took to reseat or give good contact between the metal contacts.

That BTTF 3 game...wouldn't be the first time I've seen storage for a spare coin cell as they are not everyday items.

I have about 20 genuine inop power supplies. I have had a quick look but nothing obvious. More (and as you pointed out - safe) testing is needed. Interestingly, as another similarly mentioned in the comments, I found zero repair videos/comments/advice anywhere on the net. Surely, someone, somewhere has fixed an N64 supply and posted about it.

Good to see some more fixes there Steve and 2 in this vlog , for me the N64 was just a great classic console that i had back in the day along with the Expansion Pak . but good to see this - Nice 1 👍

Love ur gaming setup

On the handheld it looked like there was some kind of yellow residue around the soldered components, which I would assume is some kind of flux. If that's what it was, that may be what caused the problem with the pad, especially if it wasn't a 'no clean' flux.

Oooo friend another great video mate

@Stezstix at 5:43 you can literally see a black unlabeled component on the right with what looks to be a burn hole in it, right in the middle.

Ooh friend. Do you mean your football friend 👍🤣 love your videos

Thanks for the great vids, I do this very same thing in the states and absolutely love it! I just don’t record it haha

Clean video!

They were both satisfying to watch, particularly the LCD game - right up until you got it working (then the memories of wanting a gameboy and being stuck with something similar back in the day came back xD)

That hand held sounds and plays a lot like a pink coloured Thunderbirds handheld I had

Great fix!! I love seeing fixes of those old handheld games. They might be boring by today’s standards, but I still love them.

I don’t know how I read the 3 handed n64 system but I did

That was a clean fix.

I love the modification you made to your microscope. Would you mind making a video on this topic? I have the same model and I would like to make the same modification to the base.

That second battery slot is for back up battery, I think Nintendo did that too back in the day. Just swap the old with the new, and keep on gaming.

1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth👈💖👍

Wouldn't the first thing to check be the fuse in the plug? :)

I got the "ooh friend" reference :)

"Ooh friend, nintendo friend"

Hi, what wire do you use for track repairs also what the hot air gun you have?

I think you can definitely say that it wasn’t you that damaged that pad. Great video, can’t wait for the next clean haha.

It's 10 to midnight, I should be sleeping. But I need to know if you fix it!!

"Because I will kill myself and I'm not ready to do that yet" Is both iconic and also raises the question of... "yet?"

6:35 Hey! I've got the same expansion pack (kind of). That a Pelican memory expansion card?

Question about your gaming setup. How do you transfer the controller connection through to the same side as the TV? Very long custom cables? I like the arrangement!

Steve, The Circle with Fuse on, is the mains fuse. The 12v 3v are the 2 square fuses behind the output socket where you see the bent over ribbon. 5000 - 2500 What the hell, did I see Gordon the Gopher?? LMAO!! 🤣🤣 I love your humour Steve 👍

Keep on bringing the console fix videos bro!

Im suprised you got the casing off the psu so easily! I cut my hand trying to get it off !

@ 10:07 Sounds like a mouse on Bagpipes.

Hahahhaa! “Football Friend!”

any tips on learning how to solder want to know how so i can fix my own stuff and mod my systems with backlight and other stuff

Great video as always :)

You know enough to work live on that. Its only mains. Don't worry about it.

What is the clear goo you put on before soldering?

I had that back to teh future game... awesome game

I like your vids so plz do not die

Still my favourite console of all time. Súper Mario 64, Banjo & Kazzooie, Goldeneye, Turok. So many, I've forgotten them lol. Feel free to name your favs. I don't really game these days but I'd love to pick up an N64 a replay all my old favourites.

so to turning it off you remove the battery and storage it in the other non functional compartment?

007 golden eye is by far the best n64 ever!!!

I found an N64 in my.local vintage shop , sais doesn't power up £20 . I'm tempted to try fix and flip it .

Seeing That Taped Up Section On The N64 Power Supply Cord Says Throw Me Away All Over it

My n64 had exactly the same issue with the psu, just bought a new one.

Nice one and looking forward to retroN 5 part 2

19:12, is that a "flux capacitor "?

I like your walk-in-game console room.

Nice line up of all consoles and tv!

A fix is a fix. Nice work Steve

It blows my mind how much stuff just gets thrown away when it could b fixd