Most consoles that get damaged on the way to a repair shop weren’t broken by the carrier. They were broken by the box. A PS5 rattling around in its original retail carton, an Xbox wrapped in a single T-shirt, a…
Your Switch works fine in handheld mode, but drop it in the dock and the TV stays black. Or it charges from one charger and not another. Or it charged yesterday and today the battery icon just sits there. These…
If you live in Lincoln and your PlayStation, Xbox, Switch or controller just quit on you, you don’t have to ship it across the country or drive to Omaha. Game Repair Shop has a repair counter inside the Gamers store…
Your Xbox Series X or Series S powers on. The light is on, the fan spins, maybe you even hear the startup sound, but the TV says “No Signal” or just stays black. It’s one of the most common problems…
You press the power button on your PS5. It beeps, maybe the light flickers for a second, and then nothing. No white light, no fan, no picture. Press it again and you get the same beep and the same nothing.…
No repair shop nearby? You can ship your system to Game Repair Shop from anywhere in the U.S. We repair all retro systems and PCs. We don’t accept international repairs. Step 1: Start your repair Open a repair ticket on…
Did your Game Boy game forget your save file? An old cartridge that stops saving usually has a dead internal battery, and it’s a fixable problem. Why old cartridges lose their saves Many Game Boy and Game Boy Color games…
A “dead” retro console often isn’t dead. Here are safe checks to try first, the most common causes, and what a professional diagnosis involves. Start with the simple checks The power supply. Retro consoles use external adapters that are easy…
You fire up Pokémon Crystal for the first time in fifteen years, and there’s no Continue option. Or Zelda: A Link to the Past forgets your file every time you turn the SNES off. Your cartridge isn’t haunted. Its save…
Your character walks slowly to the left on their own. The camera creeps upward in every shooter. Menus scroll by themselves. That’s stick drift, and it’s the most common controller problem we fix at our Omaha and Lincoln repair benches.…
