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erehwon
07-22-2009, 11:18 AM
I picked up two colecovision that were in pretty bad shape a year ago. The colecovisions don't work, but the atari modules do. All I get with the colecovision is some colored bars. Is there a simple fix for this? Also, is there anything you can do for a dead power brick? One of the two power bricks is dead.

I was going to see if anyone wanted to take these off my hands to fix, but so far no one wants them. So, I'm going to have to fix them or freecycle them.

Atarileaf
07-22-2009, 01:54 PM
Colecovisions are notorious for bad power supplies, power switches and joystick ports going bad.

apogee_vgc
07-23-2009, 06:56 PM
Every non-working one I've purchased had a bad power supply

JohnnyBlaze
07-23-2009, 09:05 PM
I third the bad PSU. Worse yet, because of that, they are becoming harder and harder to find.

channelmaniac
07-27-2009, 01:47 PM
The power supplies ARE repairable...

You just have to use a hammer to crack the glue holding the 2 halves together.

http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=40.msg94#msg94