Here are some pictures of my most recent soldering bench (2020) and a Japanese 3DO that I bought from Japan for $20, because it needed new caps and some trace repair.
In one of my weirdest and most shady feeling transactions, I managed to source an ODE from MNEMO. It paired nicely with the console.
One of the biggest physical design flaws with the 3DO is the hardwired power cord. So, I bought some parts online and modded in my own removable cable.
Picture dump below…
Old, bulging and leaking caps:
New caps and cleanup:
Removable cord mod:
All cleaned up and pretty:
ODE UI:
I wasn’t familiar with this console before, that was interesting to read up on. Nicely done on that power cable mod, hardwired cables are a mistake 9 times outta 10
It was a pretty big flop. I only became obsessed with it when I was a kid and saw it displayed at K-Mart, and got to play Gex on it.