The CMOS battery of my PSP 3000 died years ago :(
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2025
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Then there's the og Xbox and it's clock capacitor. Nothing like grabbing your console out of storage to find out it blew a cap and dissolved some of the traces on the PCB.
this is how a buddy and I cheesed playing through seaman in a single afternoon, just kept bumping the clock forward
Man, I remember when I used to play the Dreamcast and awesome games like Power Stone 2 and Super Magnetic Neo! The little cartridge inside the controller was awesome too.
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To be fair, there are tio many arcade boards from that exact era that have draconian DRM measures where if the CMOS dies, the decryption key is irreversibly lost, and it becomes ewaste
Exactly. It's not as if companies were being intentionally pro-consumer then any more than they are now, they just seemed that way as they hadn't figured out how to tighten the screws as much, and especially how to do it cost-effectively in the consumer segment.
Remember when printers wouldn’t even warn you that the ink was out? They would just give you a weird magenta ghost of what you were trying to print.
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