WHAT WE DO INSIDE
THE_RESTORATION_PROTOCOL // Every console runs this before it earns a grade.
THE THREE STEPS
Recap
Old electrolytic capacitors dry out and leak; that's why a 30-year-old console hums, dims, or dies. We desolder every aging cap on the power and audio boards and fit new ones rated for another few decades, then photograph the board so you can count them yourself.
Clean
Every contact, connector, and port gets cleaned and reseated — cartridge slots, controller ports, ribbon cables. Corrosion and old residue are what turn a working console into an intermittent one, so we remove them before anything gets a grade.
Test
Before a console gets a grade it runs for a full hour on the bench: cold boot, warm boot, every port, every button, audio at full and low volume. We note anything we could not perfect, and that note goes straight into the listing. A grade is earned, not assigned.