No audio while charging? It could be your cable: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fqd-qMaPeqm6gdI.html

Man you are a legend, you gave me confidence to do this without any special equipment!

For new folks, I've just been recommending that they carefully cut off the old power port with flush cutters. Even giving them step by step instructions using an iron and solder sucker, I feel like at least half end up still lifting pads.

@Jose-oj7vt

9 ай бұрын

Would it also help after cutting the port using air solder?

@Kyrox2

9 ай бұрын

Anyone with proficiency with a hot air station will be more than proficient enough to desolder the port with just an iron. Hot air is a little overkill, you risk melting the plastic inside the port onto the board, and you might lift other components using the hot air. Either remove it with an iron, solder sucker, and wick or cut it off if you aren't comfortable soldering.

Question @makho wouldn't a hot air gun be easier to use to help remove the original charging port?

@makho

11 ай бұрын

If you're comfortable melting the port, sure. Make sure you shield all the adjacent parts like the shoulder button, link cable port, and battery terminal or you'll melt those too. Be careful of the components on the opposite side too. This is a dual sided board so you cannot just hit it from the underside either.

Question @makho Do the motherboards require you to install BIOS software or is that all just built into the board? Looking to construct my own sp and couldn't find an answer to this.

@makho

10 ай бұрын

Game Boy consoles (all variants) use a SoC design in that the CPU contains every single part of the console, including the BIOS. Most models use external RAM though but otherwise the SoC contains everything you need.

I'm curious about the resolution of that green-tint problem. I've got the same thing going on with one of my boards too, IPS screen but I dont have a stock screen or spare ribbon/mod to troubleshoot with yet.

@makho

11 ай бұрын

In this case, it was a bad ribbon cable. I used this specific backlight kit in A LOT of Slates and had managed to put a hole in it.

@end_slayer

11 ай бұрын

@@makhodamn

I just had a problem with my SP speaker after installing the usb-c mod. The thing is that I have sound but it sounds very dirty, you can barely distinguish the music of the game and it sounds very loud a ‘BUZZ’. Can it be something like yours or is it maybe the speaker itself that has broken?

@makho

2 ай бұрын

Check your soldering.

To make it easier for me, in my USB-C installs I'd just snip the two side legs off with flush cutters, then folding the port back and carefully lifting the port off while heating the remaining pins.

Did this mod on my slate last week works great…wish audio worked with c-c cable though otherwise great mod to do to the slate and super easy to do

@SToad

Жыл бұрын

Is there any USB-C mod that word with audio on the slate?

@bananaking1288

Жыл бұрын

@@SToad it has audio just not with usb c-c cable while charging…if you use a usb a-c cable audio works just fine while charging

@SToad

Жыл бұрын

@@bananaking1288 I see what you mean. And I was confused then. So there is no way to have audio via the USB-C port currently?

@bananaking1288

Жыл бұрын

@@SToad audio works fine…if your charge brick is a usb c port (usb c-c cable) you get no audio while charging…if its a usb a port on the charge brick (usb a-c cable) you do get audio…audio with usb a-c cable, no audio with usb c-c cable

@SToad

Жыл бұрын

@@bananaking1288 what I meant is USB-C headphones via USB, not via 3.5mm. Was wondering if that’s even possible nowadays on the GBA.

6:50 to prevent the nut for the battery screw to fall out, after removing the screws, just close the battery lid and fasten its screw - then it is held in place when opening the case. I just checked my GBA (I used the FunnyPlaying centered USB-C with Audio mod) using the 240pee_mb.gba test rom. I can't hear anything on the left speaker when executing the right output test and vice versa.

@makho

11 ай бұрын

I've used a dab of hot glue on units I find myself disassembling frequently. I wonder how effective it would be to just try crimping the adjacent plastic with a fingernail or a flat head screwdriver.

Detach the 2 grounding pins. Snip or desolder, your choice Then cover the CPU and chips close to the port, and then run a ball of solder along it, add heaps of solder and lift it off in a blob 🤷‍♂️

Do you not have brightness control on this slate?

@Omega_2

Жыл бұрын

It's the button combo setup (Sel+L/R)

@WhiterRice

Жыл бұрын

@@Omega_2 I don’t see anything soldered to the lcd board though?

@makho

11 ай бұрын

Probably not. The backlight kit is one of the last things we made and this particular slate pre-dates laminated displays. I don't think the kit in this unit even supports brightness controls.

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ADVANCE soddering At this rate, we're gonna have to make a fancy ass belt mount leather holster for this thing. -Open Carry GBA Slate-

I was just about to comment at about 22 minutes that I was still confused on how the video is so long. 22:08 I think I understand.

It is getting harder to find a gba at a good deal

@makho

11 ай бұрын

Gotta look harder. Plenty of stuff is still out there

@paul11494

11 ай бұрын

@@makho I noticed the broken ones are sometimes $40 is that normal

@makho

10 ай бұрын

@@paul11494 It is now

I think i know how i burnt my motherboard for my ps4 controller i didn't have a desoldering gun i had a soldering iron n it burnt the motherboard lol but im ok with it i figured it out even tho we are looking at a gameboy lol silly 😜 me 😂

These port mods are pointless until they sort out usb C host stuff

@supermario3D1

Жыл бұрын

they did sort it? its compatible with usb-c to usb-c chargers, I have one installed in my sp

@jeremym8748

Жыл бұрын

​@@supermario3D1one way though. Personally, having to flip it occasionally if it's on the wrong side is a small price to pay for usb c to c and audio out

@smol7751

Жыл бұрын

FunnyPlayings supports usb c host now also.

@3a.m.284

Жыл бұрын

​@@jeremym8748audio out but it's one channel only lmao

@3a.m.284

Жыл бұрын

Point being, these still have a ways to go. For now they're just motherboard destroyers for new modders lol