Took a over a month but my replacement screen glass finally came. She looks like a propper gameboy now

3ntranced , 9 months ago

If you didn’t know, you can easily fix the blank line on the screen. If you take the cover plate off and remove the piece of foam right below the display, theres a line of solder across all the rows of pins. If you take a soldering iron and just run it along the solder line and melt it it fixes the connection.

Oha OP , 9 months ago

Already tried that. fixed 4 lines but I couldnt get this one to work again

3ntranced , 9 months ago

Ahh darn, it may be possible to drop a bit of new flux on the one spot and solve it. Else the pin is fried, in that case RIPski

Oha OP , 9 months ago

Cant see your answer on my instance because I just restored a backup. Dont really want to try doing that flux thing because I dont want to ruin the display

cupcakezealot , 9 months ago

Seeing that reminds me of being at my grams house during the summer 💕

Skkorm , 9 months ago

Omg so I wasn’t the only one who’s grandparents had an old school gameboy in their house

cupcakezealot , 9 months ago

Well it wasn’t so old school then :P

But I used to play Super Mario Land all the time with my aunt when we were there :)

ivanafterall , 9 months ago

Probably my favorite-looking console of all-time.

Empricorn , 9 months ago

I still prefer the 90’s-ness of the SNES, but this was a damn-fine looking machine.

KotActually , 9 months ago

What a glow up! DMG will live on forever. Also solid game choice with DK '94!

Littleborat , 9 months ago

I still have mine somewhere but I don’t know if it still works. Sold all modules for it too.

Battery use on these was crazy too.

elbarto777 , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Crazy in what sense? Very little use or a lot of use?

Edit: why the downvote?

Littleborat , 9 months ago

They pulled a lot of energy for what they did. Quite inefficient from today’s view.

elbarto777 , 9 months ago

Got it. Thanks.