two options:
1) Instant death: The ISO screwed up my laser and would probably have caused an explosion of the system and maybe some other calamities if I hadn't shut off the power.
2) More missing teeth: The ISO made the CD-Rom work a lot more harder reading the disk, thus some more teeth flew off the gear which is now the reason nothing boots up at all.
Its highly unlikely that CD-Rs have the ability to smash gears from 10mm away, and as I understand it most of the "extra work" that the drive has to do is far more likely to tax the laser's focusing mechanism than the gears since replacing the HOP3 seems to fix people's problems, and the HOP3 doesn't include any gears...does it?
No it does not. That is why I decided to cancel my order from Electronix.com when I noticed that the HOP-M3 did not come with the gears as well.
I just bought my first Turbo Duo last week after finding a local seller close to me who put it up for sale on e-bay. I got a pretty half decent deal on it and I got the box, manuals and about 40 CD-R games. I put in Dracula X and it worked great up until the first level boss. The system would not load the boss area and froze black on my TV screen. I noticed that the disc stopped spinning and when I looked inside the laser was indeed as far to the right as possible and couldn't come back on it's own. Upon realizing this, I knew it wasn't so much an electrical problem but a mechanical flaw. I opened up my system and removed the plastic cover which sits over the lens. I then forcefully moved the main drive gear (not the worm gear on the motor or the rack gear on the HOP-M3) with a small flat head screw driver. With the power connected and my finger to push the button down to make the system think the door had been securely closed, the lens moved back on it's own.
I then added grease to all the gear teeth (worm, ring gears and rack) and cleaned the lens itself with rubbing alcohol and put everything back together MINUS the black plastic lens guide/cover.
When I restarted the game, it worked FLAWLESSLY...I was very impressed. But to my disappointment, when I tried some other games the same thing would happen.
I have a few original Turbo CD games that I am going to try later tonight that I borrowed from a friend and see what gives. I might have no choice but to buy original games which should be no problem because I have the money to do so...but I'm going to fool around a little more at trying to copy some games using the various kinds of CD-R and post my findings as I go along.
