Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Sunday 3/23/2025

Episode Date: March 23, 2025

I am getting my JFJ Disk Cleaning System out to do some GameCube Games.

Good morning everyone. It is now 6 23 Sunday 323 2025. Just think there's 31 days in this month. So this is a long month March So yesterday I played around with oh I took I Tested my two Tandy 1000 HX is an There's an EX and an HX that are similar. The HX is the better version that's supposed to boot right up to DOS without a disc, which is pretty cool. And then I tore one apart. I had two of them. One I had started taking apart, but yesterday I took it completely apart.

It was pretty gross inside. Lots of heavy heat metalware. The electronics just make all that heat and over years of time it just makes the metal turn to yellow, like a yellow color. It's pretty gross but it's cool at the same time. There is a fan in there by the power supply but besides that there's nothing over the the actual motherboard so it fully works I think except that I couldn't get the DOS I mean I couldn't get the Decimate it's saying it's on the ROM so maybe that ROM doesn't have the Decimate anymore I'm not sure so we looked at that for a little while and I pulled it all apart so I'm gonna sell some of the parts today the power supply is fine keyboards not fully tested but we'll sell that motherboard

I'm gonna hold on to because I was sit with my buddy Zippy to get a little info of course I'm always trying to look for upgrades so there is an upgrade of a CPU and most of the CPU chips on this board are socketed so that's all about me I can do socket upgrades so we're gonna invest in upgrades for those same with my other I'm gonna see if the other boards I have two EX's as well both of those are intact I'm gonna keep one HX intact but I can see the chip right from inside the back Adapter Port

Back there, so maybe I'll just change that chip without taking them apart The disk drive and the one I took apart was all messed up. I don't even think it was an original one It was really really yucky. I don't know what was going on there Alright, so what else did I do yesterday? I did something else earlier. But we worked on that for a while. That was a fun little project. Alright, let's see what's going on in the news here. Doing awakenings, that may be an interesting one. I can't really get any games right now.

Doing awakenings Well, it looks like a it may be a open world kind of game. So it might be interesting Right now I'm playing I have I'm playing Frank Stone Casting of Frank Stone. It's really fun same the same super massive games that does all the dark analogy ones like I'm playing them too so that's what I was playing a little bit towards the end of the day yesterday trying to take a little time just to play I can't really play that long anymore like I used to maybe for like an hour I can play then my legs start hurting and the old man's things start feeling

dizzy and stuff so we just play for a little while. I have about four or five games I've got on my PS5 and I switch back and forth when I'm ready to play. So let's see if there's anything going on in the news. Government's getting weirder by the day it's really weird now actually but it's just gonna do what it's doing again if it doesn't come to my front door then there's nothing I can really do about it let's see what happens okay Okay, so See anything all right, let's go to Well, yeah March Madness is going on right now I really don't follow it that much but already seen we had a few March Madness teams here playing were in Providence, Rhode Island and

Number two Rick Petino's team just lost yesterday So you never know just cuz you're ranked two doesn't mean anything number 10 beat number two so so I keep an eye I just like to see what a little bit of what it's doing I would never do any brackets or anything like that but it's probably a lot of fun but it's almost I think the odds are almost impossible to get the whole bracket right I think Warren Buffett had one time had like a two million dollar prize if you got it right or something Somebody was doing that at one time Let's check out Etsy see what we're going on. No, it's he's been quiet I was doing a nice little run fancy and then I kind of

Kind of stopped on me, which is a bummer But I mean I can see an Etsy I can see where things are favored so that means that people are potentially interested in stuff. Just not really selling anything here on Etsy. But it's my little, I call it my little side quest store. So it's pretty fun. But just right now there's nothing going on. The only problem with Etsy is they charge you 20 cents per listing every few months.

So if you have a hundred some listings, that adds up. So, alright, so let's go to RSS feed this morning. I did something else yesterday, I can't quite remember what it was. So I do my PS2 now. So today, I'm not sure where I'm going. Oh, I'm going to Gamecube today. We're going to go into Gamecube. I've got lots of disks to clean. I'm going to pull out my RJFJ cleaning machines.

I have two of them. So we'll pull those out. I've got some loose discs I didn't have any download yesterday but we still have 75 total for the month Brazil United States so we got a few couple of months so today yeah I'm gonna do some GameCube stuff oh Wii U that's what we did yesterday I knew there was something in my brain Wii U so I spent all morning on Wii U, that's what we did yesterday. I knew there was something in my brain. Wii U.

So I spent all morning on Wii U. We tested all the ones that almost fully work. Some of them I think the HDMI. You have to set it manually. So we spent the whole morning on Wii U. That was my thing yesterday morning because I had an order for a motherboard. Of course I got that out and then we went through all the ones I had. So I have two Wii U's that I got a few fun things on.

One of them is Breath of the Wild on one of my Wii U's. So I'll probably keep that one. And then there were some other weird fun games I never't heard of uh... that were on the other one so that was pretty exciting so yes i spent a good hour so just on we use and because i need an order so that an order like today i'm gonna go to even just a few minutes uh... will go to youtube now

but if i have an order then i will uh... kind of have to steer my order my direction of the day towards that because I need to get the order out today's Sunday so I can so so today's Sunday so I can take a little bit break don't have to rush to get orders out. Alright so we're on YouTube. I have 28,744 subscribers. So we went up just a little bit. Average duration saying 4 minutes 36 seconds.

Impression click through 1.5%. So those are the really low numbers that because my revenue didn't change $30.47. It actually goes up and down if you want you made revenue you I don't know how I end up losing revenue but I do a couple comments let's check them out I like comments if they're fun anything that's not hi there I followed your video successfully disabled to disassemble mine because the power supply unit isn't working correctly or So it seems though. This is dissembling a satellite Pro

To get inside have you ever fixed one with that issue the power supply looks good and no caps blown But I've got no idea yes. Yeah, see I don't know For Yeah, yeah, see I don't know. Unfortunately, I also do not know electronics or do board work says it could it also

might be your motherboard. for other issue repairs on this model. I have two that still do not work. I have no idea why. Unfortunately, I spelled that right. Oh, here we go. I've got another one. So this is, I had no choice but to do a deal DIY and life boiler You sir are a hero. I couldn't find nothing online You processed your process just saved me $1,300 repairs on top of oh, yes, so this is on top of

Your in into retro computer. I've got an Atari 400 Apple pie platinum that you're into retro computer. I've got an Atari 400, Apple Pie Platinum, MSX2, Tandy and the solution by accident searching around on the internet. I wanted to share it with others, as this is a very common problem. I already have an extra. This is about my boiler. The Acra Smart has an Acra Smart 7610B. We got a new boiler a couple years ago and there's a problem with the sensor. If it goes, and it it did just only two years into

having it and I couldn't figure it out and then I finally found it needed a sensor replaced this is I already have an extra sensor as a backup when needed okay awesome I like when I help people out that's the whole purpose of doing these things so people can see stuff I don't really do too much of like repair videos I'm not ready to repair kind of guy because I don't know electronics so I'm not showing you how to repair anything I'm more just taking it apart and looking at it kind of kind of guy only because I'm not showing you how to repair anything. I'm more just taking it apart and looking at it kind of kind of guy Only because I'm limited to what I can do

Some things I can I can tell you how to fix it or at least give you point you in the direction But both of these I kind of helped somebody out And one is this boiler thing. I've had a lot of views on that one not significantly, but thing I've had a lot of views on that one not significantly but so I was able to help the guy out because yeah it's a sensor and without that sensor being replaced it won't boot it doesn't doesn't fire up it keeps kicking down because it's thinking it's sensor goes very quickly so that's cool so that's why I do YouTube one of the things just just to share whatever I can for what I do, you know I mean you can only do you you know what I mean? So that's what I do

I just do me and people are into it and that's cool if they're not then they're not But so far it's again, it's still growing we're still we got oh, yeah, we hit 8,000 videos now, so I've done 8,000 videos We got oh, yeah, we hit 8,000 videos now, so I've done 8,000 videos Because I'm always doing stuff all day long anyway So when I started and this is only when the last year that I really started pumping out videos Only again like I said, I'm always doing them. So I figured hey, why not? Why not just they started out really small and bad lighting but I got it as best of an area as I can do It's a makeshift at best, but I got as much lighting as could I upgraded my phones for the cameras It's probably it so where I'm at is unless I had some sort of a somebody wanted to finance me into a studio or something

This is the best I got but It's good enough. I think I think it just It's good enough I think. I think it's good enough to share at a good amount of people. Alright, so let's go to eBay. Let's see, not really a lot of orders on eBay and looks like nothing going on. There's one order, message. Alright, so return, you have a message, need return closed, okay cool that guy closed it cool All right, so I'm in the missing

Just Matthew Okay, the guy closed that return. Go you're lucky. He's saying he would be right. He wrote Either you can accept the return or explicitly draw out a lengthy dispute. This is avoided by taking back your incorrectly described I know he had all kinds of things going on some of the missing the some of the summer missing the lens are just one nice job throwing

gel equipment in a padded each one was separated and just see I don't think you know how it's going on No, I wasn't gonna take the return. I was gonna fight it. That's what I was gonna do I'll take one of those so I'll take Free shipping is not free for me. After all fees, even, someone's asking if I'll take $10, not really. After all fees, even. One ounce now is $8 my cost out the door. My minimum now is $13. Now is $13. I would take a buckle off.

It's now $8,000. So at least the guy closed it. Luckily it did, because I wasn't having it. I had them all layered nice, they're not really delicate, they're just lenses. I mean, but, let's see if he hit me with a feedback. Probably did. Let's see what we got. Item as described very fast shipping to two grills. Oh I owe that guy something so I gotta give him a refund. I'm

kinda tight on money right now because I really haven't been selling some stuff. So Good quality motherboard Got here in great condition spindle cool So I'm sure he'll hit me with something but then he left me messages and then he closed the the Either way I sent him extra stuff, so I don't know. I put them in three different layers. So I just have one order, which is Xbox 360S, 1439, the top and bottom.

No, for the top. The two piece grill set. I sold lots of those. Sold those all the time, actually. So that's cool top in the bottom grill sets lots of I sold lots of grill set bottoms too so I'm just gonna leave that guy alone let's see close the return on me because that was not gonna happen I'm sure eBay would have forced me to take the return because I already had a problem

once before with those. But I detail them as best I can. But I'm still going to sell them. Alright, so let's see what else I want to do. Oh, let's see what's going on here. So today, yeah, I said today we're going to go GameCube because I'm not seeing anything where I have to do anything else, so we'll go on to Gamecube today.

And then... I'll pull out my disc cleaning machines. I don't think I've really done a good long video with my disc cleaning, I have two of them, only because one you have to have a smaller disc cleaning thing for the GameCube and the second one I use for the other ones. So we'll pull those out I've been meaning to get them out so I'm gonna get those out and then we'll do

some GameCube testing. One of the problems when I test games anytime it shows a game on the screen it hits me with a copyright for my video so I have to remember that because then it's not that it's a wasted video but it's just that I'll just have to show me cleaning it and then just say I'll turn it around the screen so you can't see it the actual boot of the. I don't think Gamecube seems to do that. I don't know why that is. We'll have to do it a different way so I can say yeah it's working. I can tell why it's working anyway without even having to turn it on. But I got my little mini screen I use. I was going to pull that out and use that. So we'll see. We'll see

how that goes. So that's what we'll work on today. I only have one order which is a bummer I'm gonna put some stuff up listing for I Worked on the Tandy 1000 yesterday, so we're gonna put some list some of those things today And then we'll go from there And then we'll go from there. Yeah, so we'll see. Alright, so you guys have a good day. Enjoy the Sunday. Weather here is, all this week our weather in Rhode Island is mid 40s to 50s.

Cold, some rain, all that that March spring kind of stuff, but here we are is Much better than other parts of the country, so we're pretty mellow here We're down usually stays mellow pretty much all year even in the winter. We're really mellow now So there's a place to live in this guy East Coast is basically where you want to live at these days West Coast midwest now not so much But we do pretty good out here in Rhode Island. It's pretty safe most of the time. But it doesn't necessarily mean that nothing major could happen at any time the way the weather is going. So in your area, I hope things are okay. And I will talk to you tomorrow. Alright,

have a good day. Bye.