Absolute nightmare. Not just leaking batteries but several components had to be replaced on the front. Ridiculous amounts of contact cleaner in the card slot. Copper plate ground so corroded I could peel it off like wet toilet paper. Removed it and soldered all the contacts together. Bought for 5 bucks, only took about an hour to fix.
Gameboy repair
6 Comments
runswithjedi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
solarknight@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
bout 3 months and 200 bucks worth of soldering equipment. Loving repairing consoles so far
runswithjedi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
solarknight@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
not too hard really, practicing on smaller and smaller is the key. i started with your standard amazon capacitor resistor kit and some perfboard, then moved to ICs, then to SMDs (surface mount device). The hardest i had to do was a picoboot, which is still pretty challenging. honestly it's pretty easy with flux and a good soldering iron. Buy a cheap amazon one and try it out!
CuddlesMcBubblefun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Wowza! So you ended up just bussing all the points that used to touch the ground plane together with wires?
brewdtype@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Game Boy be bussin’
DarthBueller@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Good save! How's the screen?
solarknight@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
It's a gameboy screen. Not good, but it works.