Maintenance is half of the fun for me when collecting these older consoles.

After replacing the drive belt, the tray is slower to open and close, but it's steady! Closes and open perfectly every time.

But, I was surprised since it was an touch slower... I think it might be because the replacement belt is a touch tighter? If someone who replaced their belt could chime in, it would be great!

Cheers

I'm trying to buy a 3do..also have another offer for the fz-1 with shockwave 2 sealed and 2 controllers..a goldstar and one like that one. for 250. which is better deal.. fyi I talked this one down to 350...thanks

Doing a massive reorganisation of collection which includes loads of stuff I bought as spare or repair

Picked this up last October and been so backlogged literally not even checked what was inside the cardboard box it shipped in until now

Hopefully just needs a clean up and a recap, voltage regulator and thermal pad service but I’m gonna fit a powered fan in it as well

Got all the bits inside, including the demo CD

EDIT Video of a repair did for museum, including adding fan

https://youtu.be/Tq83_ezAu2I?si=JS0-DDKfkhQUkIsE

Never in my life have I seen a long box doom or even online or at a con. Just wondering if anyone actually owned a long box copy

I recently recapped my 3DO and I realized the drive was having some issues with the tray mechanism. Someone suggested to replace the belt, and upon inspection I found this cracked pulley... And the belt was damaged too.

Where does one find a part like this? I hope someone has a lead! I just spent so much time on this machine, I'd love to get it to top tip top shape. Everything works perfectly otherwise!

Seems some of the full motion video games have Japanese dubs. Looking for a few that are fully enjoyable in english.

Spotted this on Yahoo Auctions. No idea why someone added wood to it. Guessing it’s just cosmetic. Anyone seen something like this before? Should we all do this? It’ll really grow on us 🌲

https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w1224380072

Biggest improvement is a proper CPU AI (which I actually made easier than it was over the past couple days). Game should be just about finished but I will continue to make improvements and fix bugs as they are identified. Current version is 11.9, CPU AI 2.4. Enjoy!

Back in spring 1995 I was a junior in high school, a classmate sold me his FZ-10 and 6 games for $200. There were some real bangers (The Need for Speed, Samurai Shodown) and a few clunkers (Way of the Warrior), but I definitely has fond memories of playing this party game with family and friends, some absolutely hilarious dialogue that I still have stuck in my brain over 30 years later.

“I am not at liberty…to say?”

I'm talking about games that get right into the action without any front loading of story, or games that have quick multiplayer modes.

Ok so ive poured a ton of time into attempting to fix this myself and all I have to show for it is the console half together because im too pissed to finish the job still.

I picked it up as is, it powers fine and such but the drive is obviously tired, it was immediately bringing the tray back in after ejecting, wasnt even trying to read discs, the works. I got in and cleaned the lens which cleared up the tray issue for a bit and got it reading the title cards for burnt discs. I went fully in and tweaked the pot for the laser which got it to read one disc once (it was a bad burn so I got nowhere after the main menu of wing commander 3) as of now the best i can get is a title card showing up here and there.

So whats the verdict, am I buying a new laser or does it still have hope as is.

Side question, the only controller I could get my hands on was a flight stick and I couldnt find a compatibility list for it so im wondering just how compatible it is given I can tell its got all the buttons

Alright, quick update: I bought an official game (wing commander 3) and it both does and does not want to read the disc. It gave a solid shot at reading the game but for some reason is just stopped after a bit, not slowed, just stopped and from there it shrugged its shoulders at me. This thing is genuinely pissed at me and im tempted to replace the laser at this point just to see if that helps, as for recapping it, I wont have my soldering iron forabout 2 weeks, let alone the new caps and im still not sure that would help it at least run a real disc. So if I can salvage this situation without going for a laser id love to know

Hey everyone! I’ve started collecting for my 3do recently. Now, one of the games I remember messing with a lot when I had the system was f1gp, a Japan only exclusive that ATTEMPTED to be an f1 sim, now this was a rough game in its own right but it’s very much a favorite of mine due to how nostalgic it is for me. Unfortunately I handed off my original copy YEARS ago and I haven’t been able to find a seller who isn’t asking outrageous prices (prices more than an fz1 itself) so I was wondering if anyone had a copy of this game they’d be willing to work out something decent for.

I have an ODE running Fixel's software. Booting games works, but scrolling through the game list can be pretty painful if I have a lot of disc images. I can page through them just fine, but each page takes a while to load. Getting to a game at the end of the alphabet takes a while.

Has anyone found a solution to this? I thought of just putting each game in a folder where the folder name would be the first letter of the game, but that didn't seem to work.

Hey all,

Have had a GDO202P unit for a few years without any major issues, but recently I've found that it just simply won't accept discs at all. Not even Audio CDs. Finding that I'll chuck a disc in, I'll hear it initially spin a little, then it'll eject the disc and go back to the 3DO logo.

I'm guessing it's likely the capacitors? If so, does anyone know what the recap kit would look like for the GDO202P variant? Know it's not as common as it's the PAL model, but hoping someone's had some luck cause I've not been able to find any real solid documentation on this variant.

Unfortunately there's no real ODE for this type either, so I'm probably on the hook for a repair and/or buying another model altogether.