Aswan-Based Collectors Cataloging Console History One Teardown at a Time
We are a small crew of hardware nerds documenting vintage console teardowns and modding projects for fellow collectors across Egypt and beyond.
What Drives This Project
Not a shop, not a repair service — a documentation effort by collectors, for collectors
Every board revision, capacitor swap, and PCB variant we cover has been physically opened, photographed, and checked on our own bench in Aswan.
We log wiring diagrams, part numbers, and failure points step by step so other collectors can follow the same restoration path without guesswork.
This blog exists because we love vintage hardware, not to push products. Our write-ups stay free of sponsored bias or upsell language.
Rare motherboard revisions and regional variants get documented before they're lost, damaged, or forgotten in storage bins.
What Readers Are Saying
Found their teardown of a PAL Genesis motherboard right before I attempted my own recap job. Saved me from frying a trace because they flagged where the corrosion usually spreads first.
I've been chasing info on a rare Egyptian-market Famiclone for years and this was the first write-up that actually photographed the internal PCB stamp. Real research, not copy-paste specs.
Their region-lock bypass mod documentation on the SNES was the clearest I've read, step by step with actual solder point photos instead of vague descriptions.
The Archive So Far
Numbers behind years of teardown documentation and hardware research