Greetings to all!!!!
I have a little dilema I would like to call eBay mistakes and lesson learned. In an attempt to reclaim childhood dreams, I had decided earlier this year to purchase a Sega Master System. This was the second console my family had during my childhood years(the first one was a Colecovision). I have many, many fond memories of the Master System and the library of games it had. Owning it led my younger brother and I to be better than our friends at their own NES games. Anyway, I bought a Master System from a seller who had a high rating and thought nothing of shipping an almost 30 year old console, based on the shipping price. Well, as they say hindsight is 20/20. When the console arrived, it was shiiped USPS(Red Flag 1), the box was semi crushed(Red Flag 2), and when I opened the box it was stuffed with crushed newspaper(Red Flag 3). Immediately I started rummaging through the package to inspect the console and my heart started sinking quickly. The console shell was crushed on the AV out/power in corner, which had the av port bent back inside the shell. I began taking apart the console , and to my utter disbelief and horror, the system board was broken right at the av/power corner and also near the cartridge insert traces.
I contacted the seller as soon as i found out the issues with it and he stated that it was in working condition before it left. I find that hard to believe considering the internal damage I found. At any rate, I kept the console mainly because the items also included in the purchase were the SegaScope 3D glasses with adapter(both not damaged and working perfectly), a contoller, the light phaser, power and video, and Hang On/Astro Warrior in box. The amount I purchased the lot for was less than I had found for just the glasses. Since that time I purchased a Sega Master System from a local retail store that specializes in Retro games.
Now that I have set up the scenario, I have a question. Other than buying a large enough Perf board, does anyone know of any system boards that are out there in circulation that I can take my old components and install them to breathe life into this console?
