You have a soothing voice and your hands/movements remind me of my dad. i know people are going to laugh, but it's true. and you're smart like he was. he was ahead of his time.
keep in mind the possiblity of buliding up static electricty when you rub with the q-tip on the board + the table cloth could also store static electricty ... Aside from that great video , its cool to se that you take such care of your consoles! :-) Greetings from Norway!
Yay! Adam these cleaning videos are my favorite! It's also cool to learn new information about the consoles that I didn't know about. Thanks for the awesome content!
Intellivision was out before I was even born...I wasnt born til 1980. I think I got the Atari 2600 first before I got the NES. Great that your 1970's console powered up.
Looks good,it’s much more modern looking then the previous model, in fact it could sit next to a snes and even make some asociation with it since it’s cpu was also 16bit😁
Looks like you used a Glass Cleaner to clean the place to insert the game cartridge? I´m asking that because I live in Brazil and considering use a similar product. Thank you!
I did all the steps in there, cleaned my intellivision 2. Unfortunately, my power supply didnt had the pins you had but it had more some kind of plastic piece with the pins inside but it was glued to the other board. I cant get any picture from my intellivison II and I don't know why. The power turns on and I can see that something is going on on the screen but no picture it's just the "snow" changing color on the screen.
I just bought a Intellivision two and it was disgusting so I cleaned it my power supply was a little bit different than yours instead of having the like prong looking things it had a ribbon cable so I couldn’t take that off but what I figured out was with the magic eraser after getting it wet and cleaning off the air main consul you can dry it out and put isopropyl alcohol in it and then scrub off the controllers and it doesn’t damage the controllers and they’re really clean it looked really great by the way thank you and I did like your video
I have a question for @Adam Koralik, What cords do you use to run the Intellivision II on the LCD T.V. you have? I have the original double sided RF cord that the Intellivision II came with, and I attempted to get it running on an LCD T.V. I have using a RF to Coax converter top on the other end and simply screwing the Coax end into the back of the LCD T.V. however, despite this effort, my Intellivision II fails to produce a picture on the screen. I'm hoping you have some advice or at least a list of functional cords and adapters you use to get this old time console running on an LCD T.V. Many Thanks :)
All I used was a direct screw on coax cable to TV adapter. Not the traditional RF box that came with say an NES or whatever It just worked. I didn't have to do anything beyond that. Sorry I can't be of more help.
What is the piece of tape over the power switch inside is that necessary I accidentally took mine off also I have an Atari 5200 power supply it’s a little less on the output when I tried it main television doesn’t work do I need the exact one for it
Thank you veyr much for this pal, I bought a "near mint" intellivision II off of ebay and the smell of the box is so noxious that im kinda scared of opening it xD I've been looking for cleaning videos so that I can clean away any smells from it -- once i get the courage to try
AdamKoralik Thanks for the quick response! Sadly it looks like it's quite a pain in the ass to get my hands on an EU version, the only place selling them is amazon.uk and they don't seem to properly list whether it has an EU (two pronged) or UK (three pronged) connector on top of the EU version being almost twice as expensive, and I can't get a US version because of different voltage. Also according to the shipping page I would have to pay upwards of 60 dollars on delivery costs because of the weight! :( Would've really liked one.
When you have a console with a internal power supply like that it would be a good idea to have a quick check of the capacitors for any leakage it could save it from death down the line.
Austin Ellis Yes, though I may have to wait until September. I'm not back from Europe, and apparently I'm being shipped off to a few other places once I get back to the States.
Um, you can (and should) clean inside the controllers, you have to pry them apart carefully (this is vintage plastic at this point). Start at the bottom, be mindful of how everything mounts (the disc spring is small side down btw). The inside of the console is almost never as bad as the controllers so do the job right.
Adam: for surface PCB cleaning, get an anti-static brush. They cost ~3€ on Amazon, for a pack of five and they last forever. The Q-Tip method is arguably bad: It's made of cotton, you introduce fluff to the PCB that you've just taken out of. Also it's not anti-static. Don't use Windex. I've seen you making this mistake over and over. The water content is too high, and the perfume and dye additives usually create a surface for dust to attach to. Also, the PCB is made out of resin, Windex seeps into it, and can dissolve the adhesive the copper is attached to the PCB substrate. Use industrial grade (99%) Isopropyl alcohol. NOT THE MEDICAL GRADE stuff! That might leave an oily film. You can get a pint of that from Amazon, and it'll last a long time, if you don't go crazy with it. Next time: remove the socketed chips and check for corrosion and dirt that has accumulated in the sockets. When handling PSU components, make sure the caps are discharged, otherwise you might get a shock, that's another reason not to use water based cleaning agents.
+DuRöhre How likely are electronic components to be damaged by static electricity from a Q-Tip or a typical plastic-bristled brush? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm genuinely curious. I've been using a small vacuum with various brushes and crevice tools to clean the insides of computers for years and haven't ever had them damage anything.
It's not so much the static charge you build up while rubbing the Q-Tip against the components or the PCB, in as much as it can be pre-charged while handling it. If you rub a q-tip once or twice over your lower arm, you'll charge it up to around 1000V. The capacity is tiny, but it just might be enough to kill a transistor on an aging dye. The static electricity from Q-Tips isn't the big point of concern here. It's mostly not a good idea, because of the fluff it leaves behind, etc.
+DuRöhre I usually don't use Q-Tips other than for cleaning flat electrical contacts, and then the Q-Tip is usually soaked in alcohol. I'm always careful to look for any fibers left behind. I usually go over the area lightly with a small brush afterward. Mostly I use a vacuum, either a slightly larger hand-held one with a hose, or one of those little specialty computer vacuums which runs off AA batteries and has about 10% more suction power than just waving your hand over the board. The brushes for both have plastic bristles. The crevice tool for the larger vac, although relatively small, is too large to get in tight spaces, so I made an extension for it out of a plastic drinking straw. For cleaning between the fins of a heatsink, I usually use either a small round shaver brush (like a micro bottle brush) or one of those extra-fluffy pipe cleaners you can find in craft stores. I've also used an old toothbrush for some spots. Often, the dust inside the computers I clean can't be completely dislodged by just air pressure. In particular, the fans always seem to have a layer of dirt stuck to them that can only be removed with a brush.
lurkerrekrul well, if it has worked so far for you - go you. Coming from the professional EE field, I can tell you that would never be permissible in an electronic workshop or EE lab. "Alcohol" but which one? Is it Isopropanol or plain ethanol? And in what concentration? Is there a dissipation agent in there (sometimes it's Ammonia sometimes it's something else)? I mean, improving isn't really all that difficult. Just get a couple of antistatic brushes, they're often cheaper than even the cheap brushes you're probably using right now, and you're on the safe side. Same thing for isopropanol. You can get a jerrycan of isopropanol on Amazon for 30 bucks and it'll last you for probably hundreds of PCBs, even when doing immersive wash cycles. I'm not saying you should get a grounding wrist wrap, and an antistatic mat to do stuff on. Just ground yourself before touching the PCBs, and use a table with either a wooden or glass top, one of these antistatic brushes and isopropanol. Using Q-Tips is just pointless, really. You can easily use a spray bottle to put the isopropanol either on the brush or directly on the PCB (or you just immerse the PCB in isopropanol), and you just brush away. Then you just let the PCB dry, which only takes a couple seconds, and that's it. Using alcohol soaked Q-Tips is just a placebo extra step. Your cleaning process would benefit if you'd use even a slightly more rigid regular brush soaked with isopropanol instead of using Q-Tips. Similar Q-Tip-like procedures are never used in a professional environment, because it's just pointless, and if anything, has negative side effects. Whether you used compressed air or a vacuum to get rid of the larger chunks or help the isopropanly drying, doesn't really matter. The only thing that does matter, is that it's not heating or cooling the PCBs too much (happens with these duster air cans, when held too close to the PCBs). In fact, I'm wondering who came even up with using Q-Tips on PCBs. I'm guessing it's just what many people have conveniently in their homes and kinda figured this on their own... Also this: These duster compressed air cans are not even worth the money by a long shot. If you need something like this, and you don't want to shell out the money for a compressor: Get a squirt bottle. You can use an empty squirt bottle as a poor-mans, hand-operated "compressor". You can get 400ml squirt bottles from a pharmacy for around two Euros, whatever that is in your currency. Oh and one thing: For the love of gay raptor jesus or whoever your god is, don't use nail varnish remover on PCBs. It's mostly acetone. It dissolves many plastics and adhesive compounds.
The one thing I don't like about the Intellivision II is the buttons on the keypad It's not the same bubble feel as the numbers were in the first unit, or the Super Pro System model of 1988. I guess it's a good thing you could take the controllers and replace them because I'm sure that happened a lot with the how cheap the intellivision II controllers were. If I had an intellivision II, I would want to know if somebody could create two controllers from the first unit, the brown ones, to be able to use on the second.
Funny enough the Sears Intellivison aka Telegames Super arcade system. Has the OG style controller and were removable. Not sure if they used the same plug as the Intellivison 2 but wouldn't hurt to give those a look
+AdamKoralik No, it's when you weren't able to remove the controller port with one hand, I was thinking "why doesn't he get a tripod if he has to hold the camera with one hand". Am I a videography noob?! Lol!
My dad would take the controllers apart to clean them. How? I don't remember. I was like 4 or 5 at the time. But I do remember why we threw it away. My dad had the cover off the console and was cleaning it. I was a curious child. Interested in electronics. I asked him what a microchip was. He removed one of the socket ones to show me. And then one of the pins broke.
I'm 12 and I go for authentic consoles all day. I have a few old consoles including Atari 2600, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Genesis, N64 and PlayStation. So yeah.
You act like i didnt grow up with them,its more like a purist thing wanting authentic, i dont play these today because of nostalgia but because of great gameplay, + that nes slot modding Adam did doesnt make it authentic so you might as well play those cartridges with a PC."Boohoo Nostalgia"- Adam
Point is , don't get too worried about the console you play with but the game you enjoy, im totally fine with playing Genesis on my CRT television, 5 inch phone, or 42 inch upscaled + HQ filter with a PS2 controller. Sorry if what i said offended you Adam.
Did you actually ever try silit bang? Because when I restored a PS2 simple soap and water didn't do shit against some marks and I didn't wanted to use Mr Propper oh sorry I meant Mr Clean (Actually same thing) scrub thingy and Used Cilit Bang. It just washed all the shit away. If you never tried it I would recomand if you can get hands on Cillit Bang because it won't scratch of your logos.
I am watching as I have two controllers and the main system but nothing else. I saw another controller repair but damn the insides of both intellivision 1 & 2 controllers is a tad scary with all that fine plastic and contacts (looks like metallic pain tbh). My controllers work so maybe I shouldn't bother opening them up. The colecovision controller is superior in construction imho.
Adam i just noticed something. I know Dreamcasts should not be able to play burned games. If it was not made to play CD's why can you play regulator CD's with music on it with no problems. Because its made to play music like that
Nolen84 Interesting you bring that up, my next video is about that. But the burned game format is NOT the same as the music CD format. Stay tuned for the video.
Ok thanks but if the disc is the same whats the difference from it from reading a format from another one. Also if i make a vid of my stereo modded NES can you do a video on this mod? It's not really hard to do
I always agitate the stuck-on dust with a brush before blowing. Anyway, my Intellivision II is much more disgusting so I guess I'm about to be one of those "6" people. ;)
Video Games from the 70's and early 80's were so shitty. If I was stuck in that era for a few years, I would just play D&D. Video Games from the second gen feel like the shitty mobile games we have today but with 70's tech.
Well it was the 1970's and games were really new (btw the NES also is pretty shitty :( (I love my NES but it's a pain that damn design).) It's better than being yellow and black with pink and orange controllers, right?
Nintendo64_Lover Well, 2nd gen games were also shitty because they're based on Arcades. Now, you may not remember this, but apart from Street Fighter, Arcades are casual garbage. Go to a Dave & Busters or a Japanese Arcade machine and you'll realize this. Now, Arcade games suck because they're designed to eat quarters and not have closure, just a high score dick comparing contest. In a way, they were mobile games before we had mobile devices.
+GastonAsston You have to look at them from the perspective of the 70s and 80s. Up until the first home Pong consoles were released, TV had always been a passive device. You turned it on and watched whatever was on it. Then suddenly you could actually control what was happening on the screen. True, the early games were just two rectangles moving up and down and a little square bouncing back and forth between them, but it was magical to be able to turn a knob and see the paddle on the screen move. 99% of the population had never seen anything like that. The early consoles were self-contained units that just played variations on a theme, then Atari came along and suddenly you could have a completely different game just by plugging in a new cartridge. You were no longer limited to just playing the same few games; you could drive cars, fly planes, shoot aliens, and more. OK, Atari wasn't the first cartridge based system, but it was the first one to really become widely accepted. Each new system that came out had better graphics than the last. Nobody expected photo-realism because back then even super-computers weren't capable of rendering realistic looking images. It took them hours just to render a single image that looked like it was made out of plastic. I have an old video game magazine article where they showed various images that were made with computers costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and today those same images could be rendered in real-time as a screensaver on the average home system. I can't argue that the games back then were very deep, but some of them did have actual endings rather than just going on forever. To put things in perspective, imagine if a company today came out with a game system that projected true, free-standing, 3D holograms into your living room for you to interact with. They would only be monochrome and fairly undetailed, but they would be moving around in the real world like something out of a Sci-Fi movie. I'd be willing to bet you'd be impressed by that. And yet 20-30 years in the future, a teenager would look at them and say "Holographic games from the 2010s were so shitty. They feel like the shitty telepathic games that we have today, but with 2010s tech."
lurkerrekrul Look, you don't need ultra modern graphics to have deep gameplay that's more than a cheap dopamine fix Look at Shovel Knight or Zork. Atari Games are the silent films of gaming and there are NES games that are the Black & White of gaming. Almost nobody finds silent films entertaining today, but myself personally have enjoyed Black and White Films and even Radio Theatre. I've listened to the Mercury Theatre Orson Welles Plays and they're pretty damn good.
Always excited to see a new cleaning video!
Mr__Pickle Youre right Mr Cucumber
Mr__Pickle Thanks for watching!
Mr__Pickle Cant wait to watch "how to clean Adam Koralik"
mattymatt2323 Don't forget to wipe him down with Pledge ;)
For some reason I am addicted to watching you clean consoles that I will never own
Tyler Holmes Appreciated.
It's made very user accessible, thumbs up for Mattel for that.
I love when u clean up old game systems u should so make more of these videos their the best by far
natalie cepeda Thanks!
Can you imagine that you cleaning and restoring Xbox One or Playstation 4 in 20 to 30 years later? And your grandchild will ask you "what's that?".
Why are you thanking us for watching if we don't need the info? Thank YOU for making such great content!!!
*****
You have a soothing voice and your hands/movements remind me of my dad. i know people are going to laugh, but it's true. and you're smart like he was. he was ahead of his time.
homeopt Thanks.
Great cleaning video, as always!
David Halligan Thanks!
That one came out really good, Awesome Job!
Darth Sega Thanks!
I'm surprised Pledge and Windex haven't considered sponsoring your videos. Great Video buddy! ;)
Stevie G That'd sure be nice.
keep in mind the possiblity of buliding up static electricty when you rub with the q-tip on the board + the table cloth could also store static electricty ... Aside from that great video , its cool to se that you take such care of your consoles! :-)
Greetings from Norway!
boundish1 Thanks, greetings from the US!
Yay! Adam these cleaning videos are my favorite! It's also cool to learn new information about the consoles that I didn't know about. Thanks for the awesome content!
***** Thanks for watching!
Love your system cleaning vids keep up the good work adam you deserve 10,000,000 subs
Luke Harper
Thank you so much. Very helpful. Just got one and it's really dirty. Have a good day.
"...if you're watching this and you don't need this information..."
Guilty. Love your videos.
Firejackson
Intellivision was out before I was even born...I wasnt born til 1980.
I think I got the Atari 2600 first before I got the NES.
Great that your 1970's console powered up.
great cleaning video adam!
James Reiner Thanks James.
anytime
Random fact I get to meet the president of Intellevision later this month. Random coincidence.
Love all of your videos man.
Jc Wadkins Thanks!
Good video ,but I have a question should I not have my game console in the bathtub with me when I take a bath, not plugged in but just to wash it
Wait....does this mean that you can do the 2nd gen,adam? But please do the 3rd gen I really love all your vids, nice work, and good luck!
Looks good,it’s much more modern looking then the previous model, in fact it could sit next to a snes and even make some asociation with it since it’s cpu was also 16bit😁
This is the console that got me into gaming when I was a wee lad.
Looks like you used a Glass Cleaner to clean the place to insert the game cartridge? I´m asking that because I live in Brazil and considering use a similar product. Thank you!
Thank you ... I did need this video.
Ha. I am trying to do the exact same thing and I found your video . Perfect timing.
Yeeeeeee son!
Nothing else on and your voice is entertaining
MultiRayman98 Thanks?
I did all the steps in there, cleaned my intellivision 2. Unfortunately, my power supply didnt had the pins you had but it had more some kind of plastic piece with the pins inside but it was glued to the other board. I cant get any picture from my intellivison II and I don't know why. The power turns on and I can see that something is going on on the screen but no picture it's just the "snow" changing color on the screen.
I came for the audio background noise, I stayed for the joy you have from that mega duster, yooooou weirdo! -_^
The Shadowgate Keeper Thanks.
I just bought a Intellivision two and it was disgusting so I cleaned it my power supply was a little bit different than yours instead of having the like prong looking things it had a ribbon cable so I couldn’t take that off but what I figured out was with the magic eraser after getting it wet and cleaning off the air main consul you can dry it out and put isopropyl alcohol in it and then scrub off the controllers and it doesn’t damage the controllers and they’re really clean it looked really great by the way thank you and I did like your video
I have a question for @Adam Koralik,
What cords do you use to run the Intellivision II on the LCD T.V. you have?
I have the original double sided RF cord that the Intellivision II came with, and I attempted to get it running on an LCD T.V. I have using a RF to Coax converter top on the other end and simply screwing the Coax end into the back of the LCD T.V. however, despite this effort, my Intellivision II fails to produce a picture on the screen.
I'm hoping you have some advice or at least a list of functional cords and adapters you use to get this old time console running on an LCD T.V.
Many Thanks :)
All I used was a direct screw on coax cable to TV adapter. Not the traditional RF box that came with say an NES or whatever
It just worked. I didn't have to do anything beyond that. Sorry I can't be of more help.
@@AdamKoralik, by TV adapter do you mean the coax nub that's on the back of the television set, labeled TV/Antenna?
@@eclecticreader961 I think we're describing the same thing. Little silver adapter basically.
I now have a clean II too
do you plan to do a video on the retro VGS?
Treyldog Fillms Maybe, I need more information on it first to be honest.
What is the piece of tape over the power switch inside is that necessary I accidentally took mine off also I have an Atari 5200 power supply it’s a little less on the output when I tried it main television doesn’t work do I need the exact one for it
Adam, just wondering, have you ever made a console stop working after you opened it?
Franco Pellegrin No.
Thank you veyr much for this pal, I bought a "near mint" intellivision II off of ebay and the smell of the box is so noxious that im kinda scared of opening it xD
I've been looking for cleaning videos so that I can clean away any smells from it -- once i get the courage to try
have you ever done a cleaning video on a snes (removing yellowing)?
crimson bolt Twice actually.
AdamKoralik cool I'll take a look
That duster really is badass!, Where did you buy it and how much did it cost?
Yojiro $60 on Amazon, here's the link: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001J4ZOAW?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage
AdamKoralik Thanks for the quick response!
Sadly it looks like it's quite a pain in the ass to get my hands on an EU version, the only place selling them is amazon.uk and they don't seem to properly list whether it has an EU (two pronged) or UK (three pronged) connector on top of the EU version being almost twice as expensive, and I can't get a US version because of different voltage.
Also according to the shipping page I would have to pay upwards of 60 dollars on delivery costs because of the weight! :( Would've really liked one.
Just find yourself a 2nd hand hairdryer and if necessary disconnect the heating element. Much cheaper and as effective.
One of the 6 that need this video 🤣
When you have a console with a internal power supply like that it would be a good idea to have a quick check of the capacitors for any leakage it could save it from death down the line.
Hey Adam, do you know if there is 3rd party/alternative power supply available for this system somewhere?
sthenurus1 Not that I'm aware of. Google it. It's POSSIBLE a Genesis PSU will work.
I would gladly say that you should do more of these but the problem is you're soon going to run of video game consoles to clean. Lol!
I'm one of the people who watched it for the hell of it :D
wjc0322 Thanks!
My memory might be fuzzy, but how did you get this to work with a modern tv?
When I did it, the TV I was using still had RF jacks in it. I have since replaced that TV. To use it now I'd have to get more creative.
Thanks Adam. I'm one of these 6 people XD
sthenurus1 Awesome!
hey adam great video, was wondering if you could do a ps3 slim cleaning video
cheers
That'd be a great video. Maybe a GameCube too.
KalleGore94 Thanks. Maybe eventually, those are still a bit too new and complex for me to want dive into.
Oddity GC Did not one, but two on the GameCube actually.
As much as I watch your videos, I've actually never come across those 2. I'll be sure to give them a watch
Still interested in the xrgb mini test Adam?
Austin Ellis Yes, though I may have to wait until September. I'm not back from Europe, and apparently I'm being shipped off to a few other places once I get back to the States.
Keep Cleaning!
F0bius Ha, that would have been a good series name.
I see that the Intellivision II uses 9-pin controller ports. Will Sega Genesis controllers work with it?
doctor345678 Yep.
Man, that'd be wierd. I wonder how it's mapped.
this helped me thanks
gaming with taylor Glad I could!
had one of these back when they first came out. cool system, but its long gone now;-( dungeons and dragons was probably the best game on it
Um, you can (and should) clean inside the controllers, you have to pry them apart carefully (this is vintage plastic at this point).
Start at the bottom, be mindful of how everything mounts (the disc spring is small side down btw). The inside of the console is almost never as bad as the controllers so do the job right.
I found a bottle of pledge for 7 dollars I think it was 400ml but it didn't have the spray top bit.
I just got my hands on a Intellivision II today
Where do you buy the DADAVac?
Amazon.
Adam: for surface PCB cleaning, get an anti-static brush. They cost ~3€ on Amazon, for a pack of five and they last forever. The Q-Tip method is arguably bad: It's made of cotton, you introduce fluff to the PCB that you've just taken out of. Also it's not anti-static. Don't use Windex. I've seen you making this mistake over and over. The water content is too high, and the perfume and dye additives usually create a surface for dust to attach to. Also, the PCB is made out of resin, Windex seeps into it, and can dissolve the adhesive the copper is attached to the PCB substrate. Use industrial grade (99%) Isopropyl alcohol. NOT THE MEDICAL GRADE stuff! That might leave an oily film. You can get a pint of that from Amazon, and it'll last a long time, if you don't go crazy with it. Next time: remove the socketed chips and check for corrosion and dirt that has accumulated in the sockets. When handling PSU components, make sure the caps are discharged, otherwise you might get a shock, that's another reason not to use water based cleaning agents.
+DuRöhre How likely are electronic components to be damaged by static electricity from a Q-Tip or a typical plastic-bristled brush? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm genuinely curious.
I've been using a small vacuum with various brushes and crevice tools to clean the insides of computers for years and haven't ever had them damage anything.
It's not so much the static charge you build up while rubbing the Q-Tip against the components or the PCB, in as much as it can be pre-charged while handling it. If you rub a q-tip once or twice over your lower arm, you'll charge it up to around 1000V. The capacity is tiny, but it just might be enough to kill a transistor on an aging dye. The static electricity from Q-Tips isn't the big point of concern here. It's mostly not a good idea, because of the fluff it leaves behind, etc.
+DuRöhre I usually don't use Q-Tips other than for cleaning flat electrical contacts, and then the Q-Tip is usually soaked in alcohol. I'm always careful to look for any fibers left behind. I usually go over the area lightly with a small brush afterward.
Mostly I use a vacuum, either a slightly larger hand-held one with a hose, or one of those little specialty computer vacuums which runs off AA batteries and has about 10% more suction power than just waving your hand over the board. The brushes for both have plastic bristles.
The crevice tool for the larger vac, although relatively small, is too large to get in tight spaces, so I made an extension for it out of a plastic drinking straw.
For cleaning between the fins of a heatsink, I usually use either a small round shaver brush (like a micro bottle brush) or one of those extra-fluffy pipe cleaners you can find in craft stores. I've also used an old toothbrush for some spots.
Often, the dust inside the computers I clean can't be completely dislodged by just air pressure. In particular, the fans always seem to have a layer of dirt stuck to them that can only be removed with a brush.
lurkerrekrul well, if it has worked so far for you - go you. Coming from the professional EE field, I can tell you that would never be permissible in an electronic workshop or EE lab.
"Alcohol" but which one? Is it Isopropanol or plain ethanol? And in what concentration? Is there a dissipation agent in there (sometimes it's Ammonia sometimes it's something else)?
I mean, improving isn't really all that difficult. Just get a couple of antistatic brushes, they're often cheaper than even the cheap brushes you're probably using right now, and you're on the safe side. Same thing for isopropanol. You can get a jerrycan of isopropanol on Amazon for 30 bucks and it'll last you for probably hundreds of PCBs, even when doing immersive wash cycles. I'm not saying you should get a grounding wrist wrap, and an antistatic mat to do stuff on. Just ground yourself before touching the PCBs, and use a table with either a wooden or glass top, one of these antistatic brushes and isopropanol.
Using Q-Tips is just pointless, really. You can easily use a spray bottle to put the isopropanol either on the brush or directly on the PCB (or you just immerse the PCB in isopropanol), and you just brush away. Then you just let the PCB dry, which only takes a couple seconds, and that's it. Using alcohol soaked Q-Tips is just a placebo extra step. Your cleaning process would benefit if you'd use even a slightly more rigid regular brush soaked with isopropanol instead of using Q-Tips. Similar Q-Tip-like procedures are never used in a professional environment, because it's just pointless, and if anything, has negative side effects. Whether you used compressed air or a vacuum to get rid of the larger chunks or help the isopropanly drying, doesn't really matter. The only thing that does matter, is that it's not heating or cooling the PCBs too much (happens with these duster air cans, when held too close to the PCBs).
In fact, I'm wondering who came even up with using Q-Tips on PCBs. I'm guessing it's just what many people have conveniently in their homes and kinda figured this on their own...
Also this: These duster compressed air cans are not even worth the money by a long shot. If you need something like this, and you don't want to shell out the money for a compressor: Get a squirt bottle. You can use an empty squirt bottle as a poor-mans, hand-operated "compressor". You can get 400ml squirt bottles from a pharmacy for around two Euros, whatever that is in your currency.
Oh and one thing: For the love of gay raptor jesus or whoever your god is, don't use nail varnish remover on PCBs. It's mostly acetone. It dissolves many plastics and adhesive compounds.
The one thing I don't like about the Intellivision II is the buttons on the keypad
It's not the same bubble feel as the numbers were in the first unit, or the Super Pro System model of 1988.
I guess it's a good thing you could take the controllers and replace them because I'm sure that happened a lot with the how cheap the intellivision II controllers were.
If I had an intellivision II, I would want to know if somebody could create two controllers from the first unit, the brown ones, to be able to use on the second.
Funny enough the Sears Intellivison aka Telegames Super arcade system. Has the OG style controller and were removable. Not sure if they used the same plug as the Intellivison 2 but wouldn't hurt to give those a look
this video is aimed at a very small demographic
Get a tripod, Adam! :)
Toufeeq Mohd It's...on a tripod.
+AdamKoralik No, it's when you weren't able to remove the controller port with one hand, I was thinking "why doesn't he get a tripod if he has to hold the camera with one hand". Am I a videography noob?! Lol!
My dad would take the controllers apart to clean them. How? I don't remember. I was like 4 or 5 at the time.
But I do remember why we threw it away. My dad had the cover off the console and was cleaning it. I was a curious child. Interested in electronics. I asked him what a microchip was. He removed one of the socket ones to show me. And then one of the pins broke.
Boohoo Nostalgia, just get quality reproduction and youre fine!
I'm 12 and I go for authentic consoles all day. I have a few old consoles including Atari 2600, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Genesis, N64 and PlayStation. So yeah.
You act like i didnt grow up with them,its more like a purist thing wanting authentic, i dont play these today because of nostalgia but because of great gameplay, + that nes slot modding Adam did doesnt make it authentic so you might as well play those cartridges with a PC."Boohoo Nostalgia"- Adam
The Dark Soul Don't drag me into your argument sir.
Point is , don't get too worried about the console you play with but the game you enjoy, im totally fine with playing Genesis on my CRT television, 5 inch phone, or 42 inch upscaled + HQ filter with a PS2 controller. Sorry if what i said offended you Adam.
The Dark Soul I'm not offended.
When i clean circuits I use a product made for this purpose
***** i don't think that you can find it in america, but it's something like this one www.jaycar.com.au/p/NA1008
Did you actually ever try silit bang? Because when I restored a PS2 simple soap and water didn't do shit against some marks and I didn't wanted to use Mr Propper oh sorry I meant Mr Clean (Actually same thing) scrub thingy and Used Cilit Bang. It just washed all the shit away. If you never tried it I would recomand if you can get hands on Cillit Bang because it won't scratch of your logos.
I am watching as I have two controllers and the main system but nothing else. I saw another controller repair but damn the insides of both intellivision 1 & 2 controllers is a tad scary with all that fine plastic and contacts (looks like metallic pain tbh). My controllers work so maybe I shouldn't bother opening them up. The colecovision controller is superior in construction imho.
Adam i just noticed something. I know Dreamcasts should not be able to play burned games. If it was not made to play CD's why can you play regulator CD's with music on it with no problems. Because its made to play music like that
Nolen84 Interesting you bring that up, my next video is about that.
But the burned game format is NOT the same as the music CD format.
Stay tuned for the video.
I would not think it's the format. A CD is a CD. It reads the disc as it would a music CD. The format is the type of file.
Nolen84 The game format (MIL-CD) is different than music CD format. The disc itself is the same, but the data on it is different.
Ok thanks but if the disc is the same whats the difference from it from reading a format from another one. Also if i make a vid of my stereo modded NES can you do a video on this mod? It's not really hard to do
I always wanted to get an Intelivision and a colecovision. I dunno why I want those though.
Cool :-)
i hate how consoles make the power and reset the same button. first time i got a ps2 i left it on for an entire day
I always agitate the stuck-on dust with a brush before blowing. Anyway, my Intellivision II is much more disgusting so I guess I'm about to be one of those "6" people. ;)
Aren't you supposed to use mr clean wet?
Video Games from the 70's and early 80's were so shitty. If I was stuck in that era for a few years, I would just play D&D. Video Games from the second gen feel like the shitty mobile games we have today but with 70's tech.
Well it was the 1970's and games were really new (btw the NES also is pretty shitty :( (I love my NES but it's a pain that damn design).) It's better than being yellow and black with pink and orange controllers, right?
Nintendo64_Lover Well, 2nd gen games were also shitty because they're based on Arcades. Now, you may not remember this, but apart from Street Fighter, Arcades are casual garbage. Go to a Dave & Busters or a Japanese Arcade machine and you'll realize this. Now, Arcade games suck because they're designed to eat quarters and not have closure, just a high score dick comparing contest. In a way, they were mobile games before we had mobile devices.
+GastonAsston You have to look at them from the perspective of the 70s and 80s. Up until the first home Pong consoles were released, TV had always been a passive device. You turned it on and watched whatever was on it. Then suddenly you could actually control what was happening on the screen. True, the early games were just two rectangles moving up and down and a little square bouncing back and forth between them, but it was magical to be able to turn a knob and see the paddle on the screen move. 99% of the population had never seen anything like that.
The early consoles were self-contained units that just played variations on a theme, then Atari came along and suddenly you could have a completely different game just by plugging in a new cartridge. You were no longer limited to just playing the same few games; you could drive cars, fly planes, shoot aliens, and more. OK, Atari wasn't the first cartridge based system, but it was the first one to really become widely accepted.
Each new system that came out had better graphics than the last. Nobody expected photo-realism because back then even super-computers weren't capable of rendering realistic looking images. It took them hours just to render a single image that looked like it was made out of plastic. I have an old video game magazine article where they showed various images that were made with computers costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and today those same images could be rendered in real-time as a screensaver on the average home system.
I can't argue that the games back then were very deep, but some of them did have actual endings rather than just going on forever.
To put things in perspective, imagine if a company today came out with a game system that projected true, free-standing, 3D holograms into your living room for you to interact with. They would only be monochrome and fairly undetailed, but they would be moving around in the real world like something out of a Sci-Fi movie. I'd be willing to bet you'd be impressed by that. And yet 20-30 years in the future, a teenager would look at them and say "Holographic games from the 2010s were so shitty. They feel like the shitty telepathic games that we have today, but with 2010s tech."
lurkerrekrul Look, you don't need ultra modern graphics to have deep gameplay that's more than a cheap dopamine fix Look at Shovel Knight or Zork. Atari Games are the silent films of gaming and there are NES games that are the Black & White of gaming. Almost nobody finds silent films entertaining today, but myself personally have enjoyed Black and White Films and even Radio Theatre. I've listened to the Mercury Theatre Orson Welles Plays and they're pretty damn good.
but cool video
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I use a dashboard cleaner instead of pledge
I thought there must be something else to clean with rather than a scented Pledge. I wouldn't want my consoles to have a scent haha.
TheFavoritePlay yeah i use the stuff that is used to clean your car, doesn't damage the plastic and it doesn't have any weird scent
Why would anyone care about the looks of the inside of the cartridge port that can't be seen?
Intellicrap coleco master-race
Atari 2600 Jr. master race.
Next console to be cleaned the wii how to keep the dust off
Lol.
Mr sheen is better then pledge as pledge is better for wood Mr sheen for consoles trust me.
AdamKoralik is a turbo graphix 16 for 100$ a good deal
Mathew Birchfield Potentially, depends on what it comes with.
AdamKoralik It comes with three games, a turbo booster, the console, one controller and all the cords
Mathew Birchfield I'd say yes.
There is a way to make the dream cast 2 win the lottery give sega 1 to 2/3 of your money and bam new sega console
ryon carman No lottery in history would be even close enough to the kind of capital required for that.
+AdamKoralik What if it was limited it had a couple of games like Shenmue 3 limited like 10,000 consoles
ryon carman Sorry, that just makes no sense at all.
+AdamKoralik idk either I am retarded
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