my poor sanyo 3do is having disc drive trouble... going to open it up and see what i can do with the replacement parts i ordered
these old front-loading optical drives have such issues so many decades later, doesn't even seem to matter what hardware we're talking about
i fixed it! :D it was the ribbon cable after all
you can watch me testing it here:
https://eriis.gay/videos/Sanyo%203DO.mp4
the problem is that the oem ribbon cable is too short - when the disc tray opens and closes it physically pulls the cable taut, and after 30+ years of that back and forth the contacts get damaged and it stops working altogether
the replacement cable has a lot more slack to it so it shouldn't happen again. taking the cd-rom drive assembly apart was a real pain but it was worth it!
eri, lesbian wifey 
