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LiteratureNo4594 t1_ivots4b wrote

Sorry for loss dude, when I lost my sister 15 years ago I never got over it, even now! Different situation completely but still losing your sibling is the hardest thing I'm dealing with.

As for your dreamcast I'd disassemble everything into individual stages. All cables I'd run through a dishwasher or soap and hot water but thoroughly dry with warm air, or ebay spares are plentiful, maybe a donor DC that's not working?

For the Power supply I'd replace it as the urine is slightly corrosive and could cause damage later on. They're quite cheap and easy to replace. As for the other boards I'd get some iso alcohol and a few tooth brushes and get scrubbing.

You mentioned retrobrite for the case so I'd stick with that and once applied get it in the sun or UV box which can be easily be knocked up, youtube is king for these kind of things.

Good luck with everything and I hope your family celebrate your sisters life, not everything is defined by what we do and I'm sure your sister loved you all and her cats. Remember her and celebrate everything she loved.

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No_need_for_that99 OP t1_ivov9k9 wrote

Thanks a lot.
We already had her funeral in october and it was hard.
I'm over what happened, but not over how much I miss my sister. We had the rockiest relationship... but the Pandemic brought us closer together and we finally became a family. SO it's really hard to accept, that only after 3 years of being real friends and family.... she had leave us in such a way... so in the end, I might not ever trully get over it.

I'm in my Male in my 40's, so she really was baby sister! :(

I will try as much as I can to save the dreamcast... maybe the best thing will be to replace parts from scrapped dreamcasts on Ebay... and maybe even replace the Disc reader with one of those SD card things... maybe.

But i'll start with the basics.

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