Wow, thanks, I had had a GB pocket sitting for a while, I was wondering if it blue a fuse. I checked it, it showed a reading but, I did just put a temp jumper there to test and she booted right up. Thanks. This has been sitting on my desk for a while and now I will have it working again.

Wow! Excellent job. Im picking one of these up with what sounds like the same issues. Im going to use this video and maybe attempt this myself. Where can you find the replacement fuse? Is there only one fuse for it?

@bradyrepairs7735

3 жыл бұрын

I ordered my 1ohm resistors that I used as fuses from digikey, but they charge pretty heavily for shipping ($7.99 shipping on under $1in resistors). The cheapest option would be to get on ebay and buy whatever amount of 1ohm 1/4 watt resistors is the cheapest. As far as I know that's the only fuse for a gameboy pocket. Best of luck fixing the one you have.

@BetoCardenas

3 жыл бұрын

@@bradyrepairs7735 what about using 1 ohm 1/2w ?

Picked up gameboy pocket at the flea Market for £3 , no power , that's why I'm here

Sadly mine has game sounds, even can hear options being selected but the screen remains blank , it isn't burned like I see on other channels though so :/

Could always test for continuity on that fuse instead of guessing too

I’m sorry what did you do on the headphone jack to fix it I didn’t see you soldering on the jack I want more info as I’m trying to fix mine

@bradyrepairs7735

3 жыл бұрын

I messed with the headphone jack a little off camera to see if the piece of copper that breaks/completes (I can't remember which it does) the circuit for the jack was making a good contact. To test this I hooked my multi meter up in continuity mode and attached it to both sides of the contact point and pushed the contacts together with a pick tool to make sure it was connecting. What can happen is if that contact is stuck it will tell the GameBoy headphones are connected at all times and will keep the sound from coming out of the speaker. In this case it was a blown speaker that was the problem and I just didn't realize it when I read the resistance of the speaker. In the video what I did was forget to resolder the headphone jack after I had taken it out and if the jack is deleted from the circuit no sound will come out of the speaker. Sorry if this is long winded I just realized I didn't explain everything all that well when I went back and rewatched the video to answer your question.

@joesalgado

3 жыл бұрын

BradyRepairs Ok Thanks I just got a gameboy with no booting up so I just got a multimeter which I have never use one so I just wanted as much info as possible before I ended destroying it. I’ll let you know what happens. Thanks again