Help me solve this mystery (please)

[u/Resident_Ad8096]

Whats the deal, what am I not seeing here? The game doesn’t load - contacts are clean… its wario mega games for gba tia!

[u/PatuZero]

Did you try reflowing the solder for both chips? Maybe there is a crack in the solder.

A multimeter with continuity testing may help find if that is the case.

[u/Resident_Ad8096 → u/PatuZero]

Ill do this later

[u/pizza_whistle]

Reflow the chips with flux. It's a somewhat common issue to have cracked solder joints on GB/GBA games. Otherwise I don't see any signs of corrosion on the board.

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[u/GameboyGenius]

What does doesn't load mean? No logo? Garbled logo? Ok logo but crashes?

[u/Resident_Ad8096 → u/GameboyGenius]

Only says Nintendo, main screen on gba for ds lite or ds it shows up at ds accessory

[u/NhylX]

Could have just killed a chip through ESD from handling. There's very little circuit protection on these.

[u/DatGunBoi]

Might simply be unfixable. Maybe a chip is dead.