peace4myheart wrote:I have a cheap external HDD.

mmmmm no. My WD external dosent heat up that much. also yours being cheap is a likely culprit.

I better not hear anyone say SOTN either. They enhanced it as much as they fumbled it on Saturn. What's your gripe with the SS version? OMG. did you actually try both versions? The only thing the PSX version was lacking was the extra level, items, and Maria. But it was superior in everyother way. T...

You can do it yourself, even with no skills. Just need a steady hand, Solder, Soldering Iron, chipchip and the saturn. Its nearly impossible to screw up.

Nintendo Power has always been a joke. Gamepro, too. Pretty much any console game magazine sucks. Playstation: The Official Magazine is good, so is GameInformer and Electronic Gaming Monthly, but alot of them suck, I agree. Yeah but they say great games are crap when really they are awesome. They'r...

They need to make more PSP Castlevania Its quite awesome to have Dracula X and CSOTN on it too. I need to get my DS Working.

yeah I do plan on opening her up. I hear theres some fuses that blow if some crud gets inside and gets sticky. Conna check them and clean her out. Still waiting for my triwing from dealextreme.

nope. which is why im asking in the first place. I hear some people just bypass a few fuses with soldering which I can do, but I cannot tell if this is teh reason for my screens and sound not coming on.

well I have a ds that turns on but theres no video or sound.

Heres a vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYtOGth1Zyo

I was wondering if anyone of us here has had this problem and fixed it without paying nearly 100 to get it repaired.

I jsuted used a random color. Seems to work good for forums as I rarely have to change for anyone else.

Hates:
Sports (cept for SSX 3 and tricky)
Real Racing sims
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