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| |  Dreamcast VMU Teardown |
| Device | Dreamcast VMU |
| Difficulty | Moderate |
| Time | No estimate |
| Steps | 4 |
This guide is by Caleb on iFixit and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. ByteRot mirrors it for non-commercial preservation: formatting changed and photos resized for old browsers; full-size photos and the text are on the FTP in /DOCS/REPAIR. Original guide >>
Tools: Essential Electronics Toolkit |
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| Step 1 :: battery cover | ![[step 1 photo]](82677/step01-1.jpg)
![[step 1 photo]](82677/step01-2.jpg)
• Remove the silver screw and batteries
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| Step 2 :: Rear shell | ![[step 2 photo]](82677/step02-1.jpg)
![[step 2 photo]](82677/step02-2.jpg)
![[step 2 photo]](82677/step02-3.jpg)
• Remove the four black screws
• CAUTION: Be careful of the speaker wire
• Carefully peel the speaker away from the shell with a Spudger
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| Step 3 :: Battery terminals | ![[step 3 photo]](82677/step03-1.jpg)
![[step 3 photo]](82677/step03-2.jpg)
• Remove the two battery terminal screws
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| Step 4 :: Motherboard | ![[step 4 photo]](82677/step04-1.jpg)
![[step 4 photo]](82677/step04-2.jpg)
![[step 4 photo]](82677/step04-3.jpg)
• Lift the main board from the shell
• Remove the screen from the motherboard
• Remove the screen stay, D-pad and rubber buttons from the shell
• And you're done!
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