This is something that many retro gamers and collectors have to put up with from time to time. Consoles get old. They break. Or if they don't break, they just become more trouble than they're worth to keep fixing. Or maybe we just don't know how to fix the damn things. This happened to my Sega Saturn. It's been a problem since I got the console in a trade with a friend - it was a duplicate console for him, and he told me up front that it had a problem with the lid of the disc drive. It was a problem I could deal with. The console doesn't detect the drive as being closed unless it's held down by something. It used to be that I could just hold it down with a book or something and not have a problem. But after taking the thing out and hooking it up in the hopes of playing some Panzer Dragoon or Nights or something similarly awesome...
Yeah. It's on top of my 3DO, just because that's where I put it, but the rest of this is necessary to get the damn thing to even read a disc. I'm holding down the disc drive with my XBOX, which is balanced on a corkboard which is held up by a stack of VHS tapes. And to make things even better, I'm not hearing any audio, so apparently the disc drive isn't the only problem. Granted, I can play Panzer Dragoon just fine (albeit silently) this is kinda ridiculous.
So, it looks like I'm gonna blow $40 or so on a replacement in the near future. Hooray.
