February 2009 Finds

[Dreadstar]

I bought a dusty loose fat PS2 (scph-30001 r) today at Goodwill for 10 bucks, but of course it doesn't work. Powers up, has picture and sound, tray opens and closes but discs never spin. Gonna return it unless you guys can suggest an obvious or easy fix for it.

[adler_0]

In the mail today:

virtual boy (boxed)
AC adapter (boxed)
Golf (boxed/complete)
red alarm (demo version)
Jack Bros W/instructions (US version)

Everything works. All for 100 on ebay. Not sure if it was a good deal or not, but I didn't have a virtual boy and figured this would be a nice lot to start a collection on.

[darkslime]

I bought a dusty loose fat PS2 (scph-30001 r) today at Goodwill for 10 bucks, but of course it doesn't work. Powers up, has picture and sound, tray opens and closes but discs never spin. Gonna return it unless you guys can suggest an obvious or easy fix for it.

Try cleaning the laser?

[Cornelius]

I bought a dusty loose fat PS2 (scph-30001 r) today at Goodwill for 10 bucks, but of course it doesn't work. Powers up, has picture and sound, tray opens and closes but discs never spin. Gonna return it unless you guys can suggest an obvious or easy fix for it.

Laser is likely shot. Possible that a cable has simply come loose from somewhere, though. You can take it apart and check without too much trouble. While you have it open, you can clean the lens w/ a q-tip with a small amount of alcohol on it. There is a second, larger lens or mirror underneath that can also get dirty, but that is harder to get to. Next step is to get a multimeter and adjust the potentiometers, usually only temporary fix, though. Replace the laser assembly is next, but that's no longer worth the effort given how cheap a ps2 is now. Some easy searching and you can find guides for all this, then you can judge if you want to try any of it or not.

Forgot to ask to start off with... Do CD discs spin (purple game discs)? PS1? DVDs?

[InsaneDavid]

PS2 - PS2 Sony 8MB Memory Card two pack (new) ($19.98)

[Dreadstar]

Forgot to ask to start off with... Do CD discs spin (purple game discs)? PS1? DVDs?

Thanks for the suggestions. I have a thread in the tech forum so we don't clog this one up. So far I tried PS2 silver discs, a PS1 game and an audio cd. Nothing worked. Didn't see any loose cables when I had it apart.

[JustRob]

I hit up the thrift mall near me. Found a couple of those Lucasarts Archives sets. Both were Star Wars Volume II, but one was PC the other Mac. Both were complete with all the little papers and everything inside. $3 each. Pics to come when I get home and to my camera.

Edit: +Pic

[Deadman]

Walked into a Gamestop today just killing time and found virtually nothing as usual. So I checked the Gameboy case on the way out and found:

Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening DX
Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

Each was marked at $9.99, but each rang up $1.50. So, just under $5 including tax for three nice games, all in great shape with perfect labels.

A question about the Super Mario Land, as it has a different product number on it that isn't in the database, plus lots of Asian characters on it (Chinese, I'm guessing). Here it is:

[The 1 2 P]

Thanks to an inside tip from my buddy Carlcarlson I was able to snag these all from Best Buy for a penny each. From the long list of guides the only one I wanted that wasn't there was Ninja Gaiden 2. I left the rest, although not all from the list were there.

[Steve W]

Today I bought a boxed Suncom Tac-5 joystick (the box says TAC stands for 'Tactical-Audible-Controller', which means that the microswitches in the joystick are noisy as hell) for $2.92, a TI 99/4A Speech Synthesizer with the pins that plug into the computer still having it's protective cover, for $1.91. The place I went today had the proverbial butt-load of Atari compatible joysticks, most were familiar but two I'd never seen before, one of which I bought. It looks like a Gemini Gemstick, but it says 'ACE' at the top of the stick, and it has the most insanely deep fire button I've ever seen in all my years of video game collecting. I don't know who designed this, but that fire button makes this thing totally impractical when you have to push the button nearly three quarters of the way inside the joystick's casing to fire. Anyway, for a novelty, I bought it for $1.91. I also picked up a Famiclone cartridge, a Power-Joy PC-008 multicart. Someone mentioned it in another thread, so I thought I'd pick it up. $1.91. I also picked up a DVD of the movie Drop Dead Fred (Phoebe Cates! ) for 99¢ and a Toytronic brand electronic LED football handheld from the late '70s or early '80s. $1.48 for that one.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I wanted to post some finds yesterday but my stupid ISP decided to block half the internet, and DP was part of that blocked half. Dammit.

Anyway.

Yesterday!


$6! Kane & Lynch + Hitman Trilogy were $2 a pop, the bottom CDs were $1. I almost left empty handed, it looks like some douchebag CLEARED OUT all the games from the booths about a half hour before I got to the flea market. Every single booth owner that knows me told me this. Blargh.

Today:


$3 total. The two books are for Scans Daily purposes, the Panzer General game is... I dunno, and the CD is for MobyGames. :P

[Atarileaf]

A few small things I found today. These were all $4 total for everything:

[SegaAges]

My Skate 2 bundle came in today. No flashy box or anything that it all comes in, just a shipping box.

My board is number 163 out of 350.

Yeah!

With shipping, it was 105 (I think), but will be well woth it in the long run if skate keeps up the gaming goodness (either that or it will end up the like tony hawk boards where they are worth like $5 a piece, but either way, this thing is cool, and the game is awesome to boot

[DigitalSpace]

Got a few things this evening:

Genesis:
T2: Judgment Day (cart only... or should I say "naked?")

Dreamcast:
Dynamite Cop! (complete)
Tokyo Xtreme Racer (complete)

Game Gear:
Tengen World Cup Soccer (cart only)

$9.50 total. It was nice to get a couple more Dreamcast games, and hopefully Tengen World Cup will be better than the other GG soccer game in my collection (World Cup USA '94, which was included with a GG I bought in September).

Free stuff:

PS2:
Lego Island Xtreme Stunts (complete)
Madden 2002 (complete)
Cool Boarders 2001 Demo Disc (complete)

Xbox:
Halo GOTY (complete)

With the exception of Madden, all of the discs are pretty beat up. The Cool Boarders demo disc looks like it should work, but Halo and Island Xtreme Stunts look like someone scraped them against a sidewalk. The manuals and case inserts are in good shape, though.

[Atarileaf]

20 Boxed Atari games - $36. It was an ebay win but the seller is local so no shipping charges involved. Just picked it up this morning. I've bought a few things from him in the past few months, good deals too.

[Kuros]

Dreamcast w/ 2 controllers, Mega Memory Card, power cable, Hydro Thunder, Sega Rally and a...



Dreamcast Broadband Adapter!!! Sweet!

$7 for that.

NFL2k1, NFL2k, You Don't Know Jack and Maximum Pool for $5

Persona 3 LE in a trade on GTZ

Donkey Kong in a trade on CAG

[c0ldb33r]

Dreamcast Broadband Adapter!!! Sweet!

$7 for that.

Wow! Great find. Well done.

... *grumble* lucky bastard *grumble*

[Vinnysdad]

I have kind of been on a 360 buying spree this month.

1.Youre in the Movies-Picked this up at Target for $30. My son likes to play this one and thinks seeing himself on the television is the greatest thing ever.

2.Fallout 3,Call of Duty WaW,Lego Indy/Kung Fu Panda-picked up in a trade here with another member

3.Gears of War 2,Guitar Hero 3 w/wireless and wired guitar-$60 off of two different Craigslist sellers

4.Spiderman Friend or Foe-$15 of the Chuckwagon. Again for my son since hes on a anything Spiderman is cool thing right now.

[otoko]

Dreamcast w/ 2 controllers, Mega Memory Card, power cable, Hydro Thunder, Sega Rally and a...



Dreamcast Broadband Adapter!!! Sweet!

$7 for that.

NFL2k1, NFL2k, You Don't Know Jack and Maximum Pool for $5

Persona 3 LE in a trade on GTZ

Donkey Kong in a trade on CAG

I got one myself.. now the question to him is does he have the software to make it work?

I do!

--Zero

[Kuros]

DOA2 Hardcore, Tsugunai, Chronicles of Narnia, Spyro: A New Beginning and Sly Cooper 1 - $10
Soul Calibur, RE Code Veronica, Sega Rally 2, Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver, Expendable, Fighter's Destiny 2 - $18
Rocket Fish Wii/PS3/360 componet cables - $5
5 Uncle John's Bathroom readers - $2.50