My brother and I recently bought a Goldstar 3DO from the US. To be honest, we've never imported a games console in our lives and we'd never really considered it, but we saw one while we were on holiday and knowing that it's not region locked, we bought it at about half the price we'd have expected to pay in the UK. We also bought around 20 games, some of them good (although mostly bad, I suspect!). I saw it working in the shop, so I know it was okay when it was there.
When we got back we plugged it in through a converter plug and although we hadn't pushed the 'on' button, it made a horrible buzzing sound and a sort of clicking (I can best describe it as though it sounded like it was melting away inside). We unplugged it straight away, maybe after 2-3 seconds, but it smelt bad and like I said, there was a noise coming from it which didn't sound good. A little research suggests to us that we've fried the poor thing, but I don't know for sure. It seems obvious now, but we use the same plug to power our PSPs (both US) with no problems at all and my brother also uses the same one for his PS Vita, so the idea of using a step down converter wasn't really on the radar.
Anyway, I wondered firstly what your opinions were as to whether or not we'd fried it and if so, if it would be repairable? Like I said, I already know I'm an idiot for not looking into this before plugging in, so only helpful advice required please
