There are a few candidates, but I'd have to go with fixing my old Wii which couldn't read discs before.
Hell of a project, just getting the damn thing open took me way too long (a process spread out over weeks), despite buying a couple of screwdrivers specifically for the job (a few of the screws were in pretty rough shape and some were just plain stuck). In the end a knife and a pair of pincers were the real MVPs, the screwdrivers were just there for moral support.
Figuring out what exactly was wrong was an iterative struggle as well, trying a bunch of stuff out only to get the same error. It ended up just being a loose piece of plastic in the innermost part of the disc drive, which at least was easily fixed once I got the final panel open and it was sitting right there. Then, now that I already had the Wii open, I also spent a bunch of time attempting to make it less noisy which was, well, partially succesful in the end. Still makes a lot of noise, but if the TV is turned up it mostly drowns it out.
Of course I could saved the trouble and just bought a functioning Wii like a sane person, they're incredibly cheap second hand after all. But, well, this was more interesting if nothing else.
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