Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Thursday 3/20/2025

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

I have a PS4 Slim to Teardown today.

Good morning everyone, it is now 6 15, it's 3 20, 20 25, March is just flying by. Which is actually alright, so March is kind of stormy. Up and down weather, cold, it's been cold in the mornings, we had a 60 degree during the day. So going towards the warmer days, which is what, not that I'm looking forward to, the really warm day and nights, yuck, I don't like that, the peak of summer, July and August, that time. I like it now, but we have to take it all,

good and the bad, which we always do. So, I really haven't got outside yet, and it takes me a little bit to get motivated But once I get going we'll blast out some stuff And I'm gonna make a I'm gonna make a space first to start as everywhere right now with full every space I have But I'm gonna pull some stuff and so I can make one space and then I can stop moving other stuff over and Slowly will open up some other spots. Alright so yesterday I worked on

Amstrad. I don't know if I ever say it right. AMstrad. Amstrad. It's the computers. Like Commodore 64 but much better. Back in the day, back in the day 19 in the early 80s it's a European so it's PAL and it is also 220 volt but I have a 220 step up and I got a monitor and I got the CPC 464 as a combo from Germany I think I got it really expensive and the extra shipping cost was what really hurt but it's really fun now and I'm glad I have I've got those three or four years ago probably things are a little bit cheaper than so you need the monitor it's just it's no no color I don't need color because if I'm dealing with old computers the older the better

I want to have it back to the way it was originally just more fun And it goes well obviously we have 4k and all that now, so it's no fun. I don't want that in 4k I want that in the old so we were planning out that I tore down I had a second CPC and I have a 464 and I also have a second motherboard and then I learned yesterday that I didn't know, I knew they were different but there are two different motherboards. One is a 16 pin which is the one that was complete that I tore down and then I had gotten another motherboard but it's not, it's it's a it's a different 14 pin the original one the 16

pin has a 40007 chip in it and then the newer one is a 40010 chip in it I believe the one so then I have a 128 as well So I have a CPC complete 64 and a complete 128 that both fully work Go-tex in the 128. I haven't really done much with that one yet Or neither one actually and then I have a lot of cassettes for the for the original one And I think my original one is the newer model one and I think my original one is the newer model the serial numbers up in the five thousands five hundred thousands I should say so I believe it's the newer newer model so I have an extra motherboard for that one I may swap it out at some point just to see if this other motherboard works. I got the broken one and I got the motherboard at random and other

times and I never, I don't remember. I know that the one that I took apart doesn't power on. It looks like the power switch goes through the board on the cassette player then goes into the motherboard so I'm not sure where the no power problem is so we put around that for much for most of the afternoon and then I ended my day with some oh Nintendo games NES games I've got some cool stuff Goonies got some cool stuff goonies Got some Zelda stuff and then I had some random really old silly stuff like golf and baseball and all that So I ended my day with a little close-up video just testing them on a random hyperkin

HD that works for NES Doesn't work great, but it works pretty cool. So that's what we did most of the day um... hd that works for uh... and yes the work report so it's a weekend most of the day again i have a little outside yet and i set my dogs for a while got my little buddy precious my new guinea pig

this put him on the couch with us so with me re-proxy ranger and and precious on the couch pre-fun just kinda system hangs out I can put a pad under him because he peace a lot so I had to clean up that area but so will get him out a lot he'll be a lot of videos now he's pretty mellow I have my other buddies spot but he's hard to get out he doesn't like to be picked up so I can't really do that so this guy here I'm gonna try to get him used to being out and about and so we can throw him in a lot of videos

He'd be a little rock star All right, so let's check out this most check the news norads some mysterious drones Surprising large disk galaxy discovered surprise in the large disk galaxy discovered June awakenings looks interesting I really don't need any more games for a while it does look uh... maybe the sun's in the moon

I think last night we were supposed to be able to see Jupiter. I believe Jupiter was crossing over between the Sun and the Earth. And I believe it said it was last night. So that would have been pretty fun to see. I'd like to be in astronomy if I had time, but I just don't. So and I don't think it's coming to do that again until 2038 I think they said. I believe I'll still be around then, 2030. I was hoping for 2050, but I don't know. Some days I feel like I could live to be a hundred and other days. I feel like if I make it 60 I'm a bit lucky. I will be 57 very

soon. April 8th is my birthday so I'm excited about that. Glad I made it through the 2011 just when I became clean and sober and started working on my mental health. Luckily that saved me or I wouldn't be here now so it's nice to be on the other end of all that in the positive way clean sober clear head Of course you get all that baggage that you everyone has so you gotta you kind of can see it clearly so it's a little bit difficult daily to deal with but Overall I I do pretty good. I Keep plugging away. Just doing stuff

Constraint on all my little electronics my gaming in my Vintage computing and whatever else I can come up with to do All right, so let's jump right into Etsy My order hasn't arrived So we've got Resolve fully forgot about I kind of just assumed the payment didn't go through so I never got Let me check the tracking.

So we've got one order and... Oh, I remember that. Oh, tracking number. Oh no I guess not. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Let's see what order I have. Oh yeah.

Huh. That's weird, so I missed it. Oh. I somehow... never... ship this Not Here we will For me I will

Refund now so it was an order that I never even saw. I printed the label out, I wonder why. Alright, so let me do that. Print out the order. Ah, that's weird, Nathan. San Francisco. Oh, that's strange. Alright, so we got a little awesome that I missed. Again, I'm not perfect.

I try to do the best I can with everything. Again, I do it all myself. Between listing, packing, shipping, messages, everything. Just me. I'm pretty good at it. Somehow I missed it. I must have printed a label and never, I don't even remember seeing that.

The order that I can see on here. So a little bit something. tiny damage control this morning. They were nice about it, so we will Resolve that it's not a big deal. Let's go to my RSS feed Yeah, cuz I ship you know hundreds of things a week thousands of things a month and Usually I have to ever, ever make a mistake. That one, I see the I see the list, the order. But I'm like, I don't even remember printing that or getting that order.

It's so weird. Sometimes you just do it in such a routine that you overlook something. All right, so check my RSS feed. I have one download. So I usually get one or two downloads, pretty cool. United Kingdom, Meridian, pretty cool. Appreciate anybody that comes in from across the world, especially across the world. Well, the United States of course too,

but it's just, it's great sending my message in a bottle over the internet ocean ocean all over the world It's a global international international internet ocean Pretty fun. I want way out there in the Brazil United Kingdom I'm seeing ashburg in a while. That's one that used to be always in the United States. Alright, so we went there. Let's go check out what we did.

Some videos, of course, always videos. Always come by and see what's going on on my YouTube. I try to keep it. Today I'm going to go on to, I have a PS4 Slim that I'm going to tear it down and sell all the parts off because it's not really selling as a whole But I know I'll sell a lot easier with parts or a couple of comments perfect perfect angle for classic gaming So we had a couple of videos. We're at 28,000

392 subscribers my average duration is at 4 minutes and 45 seconds which is pretty cool. My revenue, I clicked up a little bit here for a buck. I'm at $29.66 so we're not making a million. We're not even making enough to get paid for 4 months. So let's do Let's check my message. I got a couple comments It says how's it going? I?

Did just the laser in order to get the same game spinning Just ladies murder Always Ah, adjust laser motor. Yep, you need to always replace the laser board. That is 99.9% the issue. Always replace the laser board with this. 99% the issue. Perfect angle for class.

One end of the day. Fun end of the day relaxation. Fun end of the day relaxation. I did the close up view. Doing my regular Nintendo games. Regular Nintendo games are really fun actually. Before they went into 3D graphics and started to be in Super Nintendo and then it started getting really awkward for N64 was really awkward 3D graphics. So I can really I can't really play any N64 games. GameCube got better but

it was still a bit awkward and then after that we were pretty cool with 3d graphics, but stick with the 2d graphics is really cool actually All right, so we went there there See what's going on so a couple messages Let's see how many views if I don't if I don't promote at even $5. I got 18 18 views on my last video, which was going through the NES games that I had. They were so random. They were really the silly games on the golf. But there was a couple that were pretty cool.

There was a Top Gun in there, but the game itself was silly. Just some, I had a been of just some old Golf games and stuff so we were just going through those just just to kind of wind the day down So, let's see We got going on now, so all right, so let's go over to eBay see what I got for today this is where all the stuff happens here on eBay good or bad usually good but just want to just jink myself here order by mistake thought it was a motherboard housing order by mistake thought it was a motherboard just to cut the offer

Kill kill kill $10 for two It's too low just ten ten dollar offer for two Pennsylvania I don't even know if I have any more those actually that's for We you No, no, no Nintendo Wii Power adapters I can't two for twenty. He wants to cut it in half to choose for ten. I'm not doing half off sales $24

Yeah, I probably would have taken that So he says to discard that it's the frame top bottom motherboard plates He thought it was the top and he thought it was the motherboard They got the plates so my main photo always has got to be exactly what I'm selling. It may have been the exact one, but unless I say it is. So my, in the listing for this, which is the PlayStation 3 Slim, the 3000 model, I have a top and bottom, the plates for the motherboard, not the motherboard, and the plates are clearly shown in the main photo but sometimes

Buyers don't they want to see what they see? So I declined it because he didn't want it So that means they have a couple orders Let's see. Oh, I listed a bunch of parts. I started listing parts for my um, I'm straight. I don't want to I took apart I got the motherboard listed I don't know if I can do a 30 board I have to look I don't think I have one so I have a Nintendo Wii motherboards I have to check if I have a 30 board. I don't know. And then I also did my Super Nintendo. I had one more defective donor sound box.

So I got two of those two for orders. Cool. So a couple orders. Any more feedback? Let's check feedback here. Always got to make sure. Again, it's been really, really good lately and for a long time.

I like it to stay that way. Good positive feedback, that's what I'm all about, always. My negative feedbacks, I haven't had any or neutrals in a while. But I do have a lot of them more than I normally do. They're a 12 month period so anything negative and neutral will stay around for 12 months and then they disappear.

So that's cool so they don't get stuck there all the time. So I've been pretty good. I'm not cleared out at 6 months, but I'm zeroed. But again, I try to do every order as perfect as possible, but it's just not possible. So I, I make mistakes. Or it's just an overall issue with the buyer, and then things just go wrong.

And then things go really wrong. So, so. So... So... So I put that board up. I got that up. And I got a couple more parts for the that one hole Armstrad CPC 464

I got the top cover, bottom cover they're worn but they have all good screw posts and stuff so... And then the whole screw set so we're gonna finish listing all that today and then we're gonna go on they're gonna go to something completely different that's what I try to do I'm gonna go over to, I'm gonna pull apart a slim today. So we're gonna do that. Now I'm going back down to $2 again. Wonder why that is.

They changed it to free for $2. Now they went back to to $2 again. I wonder why that is. They changed it to free for $2. Now they went back to taking $2 away. So eBay changed the way you were depositing it. That's weird. Oh, I lose two bucks. So I went back to grabbing two bucks out of my thing. But I have to do it instantly because I'm really low rate very low right now again I live as I always say by it by the order every single order pretty much alright so that's my morning

all the things going on I got a couple mistakes I got a well just one mistake I got a fix here but besides, everything else looks pretty good. I'll see you guys have a good day and I will talk to you tomorrow. All right, bye.