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  Condition & GradingBuying a Game Gear or Lynx? Check These Failure Points FirstPop the battery covers off a Sega Game Gear and sniff. That faint fishy smell is leaked electrolyte from failing capacitors – an amine odour every Game Gear tech knows – and it means the console in your hands is running on borrowed time, if it runs at all. Cartridge collecting is mostly about cosmetics. Classic handheld collecting is about the hardware itself, because on a Game Gear, an Atari Lynx or an early PSP, the shell can be showroom-clean while the inside is quietly dying. Here's how to
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  playstationWhy PS3 Collectors Check the Model Number FirstFlip a fat PS3 over and read the sticker before you even glance at the disc tray. Those five characters – CECHA, CECHB, CECHC – decide what your library even is, because the PS3 is the rare console where the hardware revision matters more than most of the games it plays. Why collectors read stickers, not spec sheets The Japanese and North American launch units – the 60GB CECHA and 20GB CECHB from November 2006 – carry actual PlayStation 2 silicon on the board: the Emotion Engine CPU and Graph
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  playstationHow to Collect PlayStation 2 Without Drowning in ShovelwareTake a blue-bottomed disc with you to the next retro fair. A worn PS2 laser will keep reading silver DVD games for months after it starts failing on the blue CD pressings, so a console that boots the seller's copy of a big DVD-era title can still be quietly dying. Thirty seconds with a blue disc tells you more than any "tested and working" sticker ever will. That test matters because the PlayStation 2 is still the most open door in collecting. It's the best-selling home console ever made, with