My friend is selling me one for pretty damn cheap and this seems to be the only problem. It plays fine for awhile then all of a sudden it comes up with this error he says. How do I fix it?
The best way is not to start with a dead Neo Geo CD, save money and buy one that works 100%... Neo Geo CDs are appearing ultra cheap mainly as they stop working and it generally costs more to repair then it does to buy another a working machine... you could do things like clean the lens and make adjustments to the laser / ccd drive board but there is no gaurantee they will fix the problem for any more then a short time. If it's really cheap like under $20 for the unit then maybe it might be worth a play.
Its $35. It does work for a short time so i might just sell it to Play-N-Trade for a $200 profit. they are selling them really high.
You'll let someone buy an overpriced broken Neogeo CD? That's not very nice man. You could probably fix it by finding a replacement laser assembly. There is a chance that it is used in other products and someone has ununsed parts.
The $200 profit is after they take into account how much it is to repair. The guys at Play-N-Trade are pretty good at fixing pretty busted consoles.
Scratch the $200 profit. I called to see how much I would get and a freaking guy brought in 10 of these things and the prices were shot down.
People tend to sell slightly broken consoles to shops, back in the early part of the decade when I was working in a video game place, we bought in Neo Geo CDs but before me they had a good half dozen that didn't work, I did repair them and got 4 working. However I forced a policy change so that most consoles had to have an hours soak test and CD machines needed 2 hours, the Neo Geo CD needed a whole 4 hours and the Neo Geo CDZ we would only buy in if we could have an overnight soak test. This did however mean the number of dodgy consoles bought in dropped to zero.
I think we tested about 20, about a quarted failed within 15 minutes, nearly half of them within the hour, another quarter failed before 3 hours and I think 2 passed fine... these were tested on a metal shelf with ventilation all around the unit. Generally we never bought the machines that failed within the hour except for scrap.
