Over the weekend I picked up Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. Pretty nice collection if you don't have a Sega Genesis hooked up to your tv. I bought it mostly for the first four Phantasy Star games. I figure since Phantasy Star 1 for Master system is $25 bucks on amazon and this game is $30 brand new and has a total of 48 Genesis games I figured it would be worth it. And it is, but that's just because I had a great time playing Streets of Rage 2 with my hot babe girlfriend. Wooo!

Also I just bought a new face place for my PSP, it's got a giant crack down the left side of the screen and it's almost all the way from top to bottom now so it needs to be replaced. After Fixing my Sega CD I've got a new attitude towards reapairing junk hahahaha. I feel slightly useful and capable.

I just beat Sonic CD and man was it great. I've never actually beaten a Sonic game before so this is pretty cool. And it's got a sweet closing credits video and junk. I'm way more interested in playing the other Sonic games I have. So naturally I want to buy more junk. I've always wanted to play Sonic Advenutre on Dreamcast and I don't have Sonic 3 even though I've got 1,2 and Knuckles. Actually I don't have one I've got it on the 6 in 1 cart so I guess it counts but I'd actually rather have the stand alone Sonic cart.

So naturally I'm taking a few days off work and in that spare time I will play many video games. I've been playing Yakuza, great game. I'm a little bummed that Yakuza 3 hasn't been announced for America yet. At least there's no region lock on PS3 games so I could always import it. I don't speak any Japanese though so that sucks. Hopfully it'll have full English subtitles then I wouldn't mind importing it at all. Shit I haven't even played part two yet why am I getting worried about part three? because part one's a great fucking game that's why!

I've been enjoying Yakuza. So much so that I lost a shit load of sleep yesterday from playing this amazing game. I was wow'd when I had to make a choice between paying someone that was attempting to black mail me or saying "fuck you!" I think it's great that fuck you is a selectable option, I think all games should have a fuck you option every time you have a choice to make.

I also got my Virtual Boy in the mail. The picture on that thing is pretty damn crisp. Too bad it failed, I really think the 3D effect is cool. It came with lame old Mario Tennis. Barf, I don't want to swat balls at Yoshi. Ever. I wouldn't mind getting my hands on the Teleroboxer game, I think that's how it's spelled and I'm too lazy to check, and Wario Land. I really liked the first Wario game on Gameboy and actually remember sitting in my Principle's office in like 3rd or 4th grade with my Mom playing Wario Land. I always wanted to play Wario Land 2 and the subsequent Wario Titles. Hell not to long ago I learned there was a Wario platformer on Gamecube, I'd love to check that out. Too bad Wario's got those Wario Ware games. They look like butt.

I just finished Shenmue II. Man I'm pissed. This is chapters 2,3,4 of a 16 part story. Both the games end in huge cliffhangers. The end of Shenmue II introduces magic, not as much as I thought there would be based on crap I've seen on some message boards. The story is just getting started though so I wonder where it was supposed to go from here? I really liked Ren, one of few characters with a decent voice over, and would like to see more of him in some future Shenmue games. They need to remake parts one and two and get on with the series.

I mean I'm glad I've had the chance to experience a great game series, but now I'm one of the angry fans that needs closure! Damn it!

I think I'm going to finish up Metroid Prime next. I know, I keep saying it and keep not doing it hahaha but this time I'm serious.

Damn, Snatcher is one hell of a game. I've fallen in love with this great masterpiece. I've never enjoyed a game of this genere before so I'm really surprised how quickly I've come to love this classic. The story, characters, settings all of it is amazing. Can't get enough. I might play through it twice in a row, at least. Shit I might buy the Konami Justifier and play this on an old TV just to get the full experience. The games that great.

So I went to Wal Mart on the way home from work to see if they had a soldering iron, and they did! So I picked it up and raced home to rip open my Sega CD and see if I could breath life into it once more. I soldered the new fuse in, and put her back together and fired her up. Works great! Awesome! Now I've got this problem with selling things, I hate to part with crap, I'd rather have a back up. But I might sell it after all and buy a few more busted Sega CD's to see if I can repair them. Got a few more fuses to use up after all.

I ordered the fuses on Tuesday morning and they're here by Wednsday afternoon. I wish everything I bought online got here that fast. It's going to be Friday before I try to buy a soldering iron. Shit. I asked the guy that made the video tutorial about soldering shit and he says it's an easy solder and I should just watch some soldering tutorials on youtube and go for it. I've all ready seen how to solder shit so I guess I'm just going to dive in. I'm still gonna shoot my brother a text and see if he's a soldering pro, I vaguely remember him working on electronics in years gone by.

I wish I had my video camera so I could document the process and make a kick ass video of the magic happening. I'm totally going to try to buy and repair as many Sega CD's as I can. Finally something I love possibly making me money isntead of gobbling it all up.

Second Sega Cd arrived in the mail today. Great success! It worked great. Not bad for a $10 investment. So I tested out the game I burned for it, another great success! So after I was done rejoicing I decided to open up the dead Sega CD.

I had come across someone saying they just used some wire to bypass the fuse, so I gave that a shot to see if it would power on. It worked. I didn't try to play a game I just wanted to see if it would power on and it did. So I've got the fuses coming to me and some time this week, probably Friday I'll head over to radio shack to get a soldering iron. Actually I might still ask around first and see if I can find anyone that's soldered small electronics before.

Snatcher is a fantastic game by the way. It's the first time I've ever tried to play a point and click adventure game but it's drawing me in pretty well. The voice acting is also spectacular. I've been turned off by a lot of PSX era games due to horrible voice acting, specifically Silent Hill, so I'm surprised to hear the quality of the voice acting in this game.

I'll probably head to the used game store Friday to pick up some Sega CD games. I saw Wing Commander there and as I loved Wing Commander 3 for the psx I'm curious to try out this game out.

So I got my Sega CD in the mail, the one that came with a Genesis. As I thought the Genesis works great but the Sega CD won't power on. After some googling and youtubing I've discovered that the model two Sega CD has a common problem with one of the fuses.

So I hopped on youtube and typed in Sega CD repair and found just one video that luckily showed which fuse and how to replace it. There was also a conveniant link to a website the sells the correct fuses. There are two variations on where the fuse is located. One is easy to get to and the other requires you to take out the optic drive and circuit board and do a lot of work. Mine's the easy to replace one. Lucky.

I've never done any soldering before so I'm worried about that. I ordered the fuses just a few minutes ago so in the next few days I'm going to ask around and see if anyone I know has done any soldering before. I'm sure my Dad was a pro but he's blind now. Maybe my brother has the needed skills. I don't know. I'm also just thinking about buying a Soldering iron off ebay and doing the damn thing myself. I might be able to find a soldering iron in my garage but then I have to contend with my Dad. He'd need to know why I want to use it, if I've ever used one before and would be up my ass for a week with questions and insist on watching me do the repair work breathing down my neck and bugging the shit out of me making me 100 times more likely to screw up.