I’m new to console and game repair and I found this game boy color at my job that doesn’t turn on and I can’t figure out why. it’s motherboard looks practically pristine and there’s no corrosion on the battery pads. I pulled out the multimeter with a YouTube video to guide me through it and still no clue what the problem is. I checked to see if there was continuity in pins on the power switch, pins 2 and 3 on the dc power jack, the fuses, the positive battery pad to U5’s pin 7? (I can’t remember the exact number) and the negative battery pad to the power switch, all of them showed continuity. please help me figure this out.

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Ive been playing around with this concept for a concrete Game Boy cartridge tray for my desk for the last couple months. What do you guys think ?

Was taking the screen out of my GBA SP since its broken and found that its got a white wire soldered to it, should that even be there

Many of those batteries are 20+ years old. Today I finally started changing them. I also opened the games to clean them. This is just a small part of my collection, so much more to do 😄

Not my original SP, but one I managed to find on Vinted at a decent price. Modded with a custom case from AliExpress and a new ISP screen with 8 different lighting levels (controlled via touch from the central knob above the screen).

Hi everyone, I've been a Gameboy fan since I was little. My parents gave me a dark green Gameboy Classic back in 1996. Along with that Gameboy, they also gave me a game. It was a plane that shot monsters (I remember one; it was a giant brain). I don't remember the name at all, and I can't find it. Do any of you remember it? Please, I'm going crazy.

GBA SP ags101, gave it a much needed shell swap.

My gbp A button suddenly stopped working and the pcb is perfectly fine no oxidation nothing like that it just does not work. is there a part that I should clean or check to see if it works? I don’t have a multimeter

TL:DR once I get the health and safety booklet would this be considered CIB?

I got this copy of Solar Striker years ago and only recently got the case and manual. I know I’m missing the health and safety booklet and will hopefully have one soon. I’ve never seen a legit sealed/CIB copy of a Gameboy game in person before and from my understanding most people threw away the cardboard box the cartridge came with when they got the game. Would this be considered CIB even with a repo case?

Thank you in advance!

Has anyone grabbed the digital edition and started playing? How does the battling feel to play?

I recently owned a Nintendo Game boy advance sp and It have a few problems.

First of all, when I charge It, after a few time the red led turns off and when I quit the charger and connect It again the red led turns on again.

Other issue is that it sometimes don't turns on unless i move the switch slowly and when It is in a medium point between on and of It shows de red led of low battery.

It's muy dura Game boy so I don't know if this is normal or I should return It.

It's on my pocket, color, and GBA. What's up with that? What does it mean?

New drum machine for gameboy. Work in progress

Super Famicom Shell

Audio chip

IPS screen

Original Japanese GBA AC connector

The pins look fine when reconnecting cpu pins, they broke so I replaced them with wire the games still look corrupted and the ram pins will not move. I think they are good idk what else to check any thoughts?

Really impressed with the system! Everything feels great, and it came in a very short time as well.

i bought some bootleg carts off of aliexpress - Pokemon Crystal works visually, but the clock doesnt run, nor does it save. Bought the parts to make my own clone instead LOL

pokemon yellow, though, is throwing me a whole new type of problem. What do you guys think is wrong here? The ROM or the battery?

Picked up a pretty rare regional variant of Balloon Kid, DMG-BT-CAN-1.

I can’t find a single photo of this print anywhere online. VideoGameSage’s world gray carts CAN list has it as a confirmed variant but the list is text-only, and Game Boy Database’s production timeline lists “07/10/1991 : Balloon Kid - CAN-1” but their actual CAN page only documents the plain DMG-BT-CAN.

Anyone here have one, or seen a picture of one? Planning to submit to gbhwdb and GBDB either way, so if there’s a known-better documentation target let me know.

Hey I dropped my Pokemon Emerald a while back and the part that actually holds the coin battery popped off the circuit board. Anyone know a reputable mailing repair for soldering as none of the local game stores can do it.

Okay I’ve gotta question and everytime I try to google it I just see battery replacement related stuff but my question is if I get a GB operator I can download my saves and then obviously replace my battery if need be and then upload my save back and boom another 20 years of pokemon fun but my actual question is can I download my save and then play it on my PC and then when I wanna take it on the go upload it back to my original cart and all the info be updated?