Did you happen to check if there was a short between power and ground?
@Dtr14614 сағат бұрын
One of the IPS screen making company should sponsor you. Either that. Take a sponsor from like timu or eBay and just buy one off of there
@simplemindedsage16 сағат бұрын
I think the broken shell may have been causing the problem with Side Pocket. Gameboy and GBA games require different voltages and there's a little switch inside the GBA cartridge slot that toggles between GBC and GBA modes depending on what type of cartridge is inserted. The missing bottom corner of the rear shell is the part that is needed to engage that switch.
@averagephlogfan647517 сағат бұрын
Such a fool i am i should have been buying as many nes carts as i could in 2010 instead of being in school. You could get them 5$ a peice from GameStop and it was 7-10$ for the actually good ones
@NeonThoughtBox17 сағат бұрын
If only they were all as easy as Ant Bully.
@senordinkus12 күн бұрын
I had NO idea you were just under 100 subscribers, lemme help you get to a milestone raal quick :) Also, great video! Loved watching the process
@alexisguerrero755112 күн бұрын
I have enjoyed this video so much, thank you.
@itsnouse-yourswillbeastill256212 күн бұрын
The overconfidence of youtube repair channels reassembling things before testing is certainly a sight to behold, especiallly when it takes several minutes to reattach everything and putting back thousands of screws.
@ericvintage572512 күн бұрын
One of the best channels that i konow, congrats for your intelligence!
@ericvintage572512 күн бұрын
Wonderful!
@BoomerElectronics13 күн бұрын
Nice job getting all of the carts working again.
@frozerinosrepairs13 күн бұрын
Great video again !!!
@Dtr14613 күн бұрын
Hey. I know I'm commenting a bunch on your videos. But this is the last one I swear. If you somehow afford to get a IPS mod for any of your game boys. Do it on camera and post it to your KZread channel. I would seriously love to watch you put one in.
@HopefulRepairman12 күн бұрын
Thanks for all the comments! I would love to do an IPS mod and maybe get a nice custom shell too. Love the profile picture Snorlax is the best Pokémon :)
@Dtr14613 күн бұрын
I enjoy watching this guy. He is the epitome of you don't need fancy tools to fix stuff. This is exactly how most of us started.
@Dtr14613 күн бұрын
As soon as you showed the first cartridges problem. I immediately thought to myself watch it be that top right pin on the ROM chip. For some reason, game boy games just have that issue. I have witnessed this personally myself. Old game I found laying around. Didn't work, tried cleaning it, took it apart, after like an hour of dicking around I found that pin was loose. It's always those top corner pins. Sometimes if you get super unlucky the bottom corners will be loose too. Crazy.
@HopefulRepairman12 күн бұрын
I guess its common in GBA games too
@Dtr14612 күн бұрын
@@HopefulRepairman very and ive seen people buy up faulty lots for this reason
@JacknVictor13 күн бұрын
For burning the enamel off the wire, dont hold the wire in the lighter flame, you run the lighter back and forth very quickly for about 2 - 3 seconds then instantly wipe, and the coating is burned off with no melted wire. Also for these repairs, use air dry pcb an solder paint, with a couple of coats of UV-curable solder mask on top. No actual soldering required because the sokder paint joins the gap. And, a sewing pin stuck in to an old thin artist brush handle (remove the brush head, drill a tiny hole in to the brush handle, then insert the pin, sharp side facing out, superglued in- could possibly use a thick BBQ wooden skewer instead of the artist brush handle) is a better tool for scraping the solder mask off the traces. It also gives you more control and it makes sure you wont cause any extra broken traces.
@highandmightykayz22 күн бұрын
A trick that I like to do to expose the copper underneath the mask is to take an xacto knife and scratch away at it. I'm interested in the engraver pen, but my method works for me and I'm cheap lol.
@ovalteen440428 күн бұрын
The funny thing about magnet wire: If you're using it for patching a trace, then you want what is normally considered bad quality so that the enamel is removed easily. If winding a speaker coil or radio tuner or inductor, etc, you want the BEST quality wire so that the enamel doesn't flake off so easily.
@TheDrunkenPLАй бұрын
Dude, it seems that you have no idea what you are doing.
@HopefulRepairman29 күн бұрын
I'm still learning as I go. It's one of the reasons I started this channel - to learn and grow my repair skills, and hopefully get to a point where I can confidently fix various electronic devices.
@TheDrunkenPL29 күн бұрын
@@HopefulRepairman yeah, therefore you would have to investigate and reconsider the steps you perform. Troubleshooting would require at least a plan according to which you proceed. Maybe you should start with more basic knowledge about electronic? You could e.g check the capacitor capacitance, this could be a useful knowledge instead of blidingly replacing components. It’s great that you are willing to learn but you should wait a bit before making videos out of it. Sorry to say that, it’s not an insult, just a feedback - with those vids you are humiliating yourself.
@HopefulRepairman23 күн бұрын
@@TheDrunkenPL Thanks for the advice :)
@frozerinosrepairsАй бұрын
Great video ❤❤❤
@ericvintage5725Ай бұрын
Good job! One more subscriber!
@Dtr146Ай бұрын
As a person who has mediocre soldering skills and has learned everything I know from breaking stuff. Flux is your friend. Get to know it, Love to use it, too much is way better than too little.
@Dtr146Ай бұрын
Only once you get comfortable with your tools. Then, you can learn how much flux to use with what solder and what tip. Because it varies. A lot.
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
Good advice! I've started to realize I haven't been using enough flux hopefully I'll catch it sooner as I'm soldering. I was using a flux paste when I first started. I just switched to a flux pen, which I liked until it opened up and leaked everywhere. Now I'm back to the paste for now. 😞
@Dtr146Ай бұрын
In the beginning. Did you record the Sonic music from your own gameplay? Cuz you can hear the character stopping and losing coins at certain points.
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
No, I just found the music in a playlist of Sonic game music and thought it sounded good. I didn't even realize there were noises of Sonic dying in the background, lol.
@JanoschNr1Ай бұрын
That mono made me check my headphones ...
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
Oops 😬
@adilatorАй бұрын
I can see the reflections of the LED lights you got going there yet the image is still too dark. fix the exposure setting on your camera.
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
Thank you for your comment! I'll look into the exposure settings going forward
@Dtr146Ай бұрын
huh magnent wire for enamel wire. i learned something. never crossed my mind.
@Dtr146Ай бұрын
subbed. keep it up.
@74bobbyАй бұрын
By cheap Sports games and swap the rom chips
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
I tried that on a couple of other Sega games so many pins to desolder I messed up so bad lol
@carlosdestroАй бұрын
@HopefulRepairman what catastrophe caused this damage?
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
I got these games a lot, so I'm not sure what kind of life they had before I got them, but it might have been corrosion, it could have been the stress of putting them in and taking them out over the years. But it was probably corrosion that got them.
@ovalteen440428 күн бұрын
I'm guessing it's the ripping the old cartridge out and slamming a new cartridge in that might have done it. Maybe that's why NES tried out that ZIF-style cartridge insertion scheme.
@bryanobrien2726Ай бұрын
The fiberglass pen that I use has a smaller diameter fiberglass element . Possibly the broader size pens like that cover too much area for such a job .
@Adam-jr4lxАй бұрын
you need more flux.
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
Yeah watching the video back while editing I realized that as well rookie mistake I guess. Thank you for your comment
@LyzzzanderАй бұрын
I won't be bothered to place a wire when the gap itself is less than diameter of that wire. On good half of these cracks you can get away with just a solder blob.
@Dtr146Ай бұрын
exactly what i was gonna say
@riccamuttАй бұрын
for some reason youtube recommend me this video. Great video and new subscriber here
@fu1r4Ай бұрын
I have used fiberglass pens many times. I don't know why you are freaking out 🤨
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
I got some fiberglass dust on the mat I was using and my arms started to itch I just got concerned that I was contaminating my work area with fiberglass dust I know a lot of people like using the fiberglass pens for me it just wasn't working fast enough maybe I was doing something wrong 😕
@aedusxerxes7702Ай бұрын
Years ago... i did a repair on my surfboard no gloves.... that dust is no joke. took about a month to stop feeling it... never did that mistake again
@TheDrunkenPLАй бұрын
18:12 with such a solder blob on a contact pin you are going to destroy your cwrtridge slot as it will bend the contact in the slot.
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
You're right I should have cleaned that pin up with some solder wick. Thankfully it wasn't enough to mess up the cartridge slot when I tested it but I'll have to make sure and fix that it just in case
@monkersuk6719Ай бұрын
Great job on these! If you replace that flux pen with some genuine quality flux (amtech is great) it will make a huge difference :)
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
@@monkersuk6719 I have some amtech flux paste I switched to the pen to see if there was a difference in fumes and cleaning and I feel like the pen flux is easier to clean up although I'm sure it's not the best quality
@R_P_T_7Ай бұрын
Good stuff mate, just started the same thing, first video coming up soon. Let me know if you want to chat about it... In the meantime I just got hundreds of cassettes and games...but nothing makes you feel better than a repaired sega cartridge!
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
Awesome I hope your video does well! It's a great feeling when you get a dead game working again. I see you've made some overwatch videos, That's cool I used to play a lot before they came out with Overwatch 2
@anthonyaviles8665Ай бұрын
what solder are you using
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
It's a radio shack brand leaded solder 60/40 rosin core solder .032" diameter I probably should be using thinner solder but it's what I have
@pistolpeterealАй бұрын
I had no idea game cartridges could just stop working like that, I’ve never had any die on me. Wonder what causes it
@HopefulRepairmanАй бұрын
I've been working on trying to fix the Sega Genesis games. Some of them just had dirty pins, others needed a resistor across the rom chip, and three of them had broken traces due to wear or corrosion. Some damage is due to neglect, some is due to accidents, and some is due to manufacturing defects showing up over time.
@paranoidgenius9164Ай бұрын
In most cases, if a cartridge won't boot, it's because of dirty contacts.
@danialothman2 ай бұрын
i like how you are just having fun after a tough fix 😄
@Hounddoggy332 ай бұрын
You don't know Bret "The Hitman" Hart, The Undertaker, Brutus Beefcake, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan or Lex Luger? You must be a young lad and missed out on the golden age of wrestling. Great job on the repairs!
@HopefulRepairman2 ай бұрын
I'm just ignorant I was born in 1991 lol
@antssaar8632 ай бұрын
Seen quite few sega games with black screen where fault was capacitor. Easy to desolder and test :)
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Did you happen to check if there was a short between power and ground?
One of the IPS screen making company should sponsor you. Either that. Take a sponsor from like timu or eBay and just buy one off of there
I think the broken shell may have been causing the problem with Side Pocket. Gameboy and GBA games require different voltages and there's a little switch inside the GBA cartridge slot that toggles between GBC and GBA modes depending on what type of cartridge is inserted. The missing bottom corner of the rear shell is the part that is needed to engage that switch.
Such a fool i am i should have been buying as many nes carts as i could in 2010 instead of being in school. You could get them 5$ a peice from GameStop and it was 7-10$ for the actually good ones
If only they were all as easy as Ant Bully.
I had NO idea you were just under 100 subscribers, lemme help you get to a milestone raal quick :) Also, great video! Loved watching the process
I have enjoyed this video so much, thank you.
The overconfidence of youtube repair channels reassembling things before testing is certainly a sight to behold, especiallly when it takes several minutes to reattach everything and putting back thousands of screws.
One of the best channels that i konow, congrats for your intelligence!
Wonderful!
Nice job getting all of the carts working again.
Great video again !!!
Hey. I know I'm commenting a bunch on your videos. But this is the last one I swear. If you somehow afford to get a IPS mod for any of your game boys. Do it on camera and post it to your KZread channel. I would seriously love to watch you put one in.
Thanks for all the comments! I would love to do an IPS mod and maybe get a nice custom shell too. Love the profile picture Snorlax is the best Pokémon :)
I enjoy watching this guy. He is the epitome of you don't need fancy tools to fix stuff. This is exactly how most of us started.
As soon as you showed the first cartridges problem. I immediately thought to myself watch it be that top right pin on the ROM chip. For some reason, game boy games just have that issue. I have witnessed this personally myself. Old game I found laying around. Didn't work, tried cleaning it, took it apart, after like an hour of dicking around I found that pin was loose. It's always those top corner pins. Sometimes if you get super unlucky the bottom corners will be loose too. Crazy.
I guess its common in GBA games too
@@HopefulRepairman very and ive seen people buy up faulty lots for this reason
For burning the enamel off the wire, dont hold the wire in the lighter flame, you run the lighter back and forth very quickly for about 2 - 3 seconds then instantly wipe, and the coating is burned off with no melted wire. Also for these repairs, use air dry pcb an solder paint, with a couple of coats of UV-curable solder mask on top. No actual soldering required because the sokder paint joins the gap. And, a sewing pin stuck in to an old thin artist brush handle (remove the brush head, drill a tiny hole in to the brush handle, then insert the pin, sharp side facing out, superglued in- could possibly use a thick BBQ wooden skewer instead of the artist brush handle) is a better tool for scraping the solder mask off the traces. It also gives you more control and it makes sure you wont cause any extra broken traces.
A trick that I like to do to expose the copper underneath the mask is to take an xacto knife and scratch away at it. I'm interested in the engraver pen, but my method works for me and I'm cheap lol.
The funny thing about magnet wire: If you're using it for patching a trace, then you want what is normally considered bad quality so that the enamel is removed easily. If winding a speaker coil or radio tuner or inductor, etc, you want the BEST quality wire so that the enamel doesn't flake off so easily.
Dude, it seems that you have no idea what you are doing.
I'm still learning as I go. It's one of the reasons I started this channel - to learn and grow my repair skills, and hopefully get to a point where I can confidently fix various electronic devices.
@@HopefulRepairman yeah, therefore you would have to investigate and reconsider the steps you perform. Troubleshooting would require at least a plan according to which you proceed. Maybe you should start with more basic knowledge about electronic? You could e.g check the capacitor capacitance, this could be a useful knowledge instead of blidingly replacing components. It’s great that you are willing to learn but you should wait a bit before making videos out of it. Sorry to say that, it’s not an insult, just a feedback - with those vids you are humiliating yourself.
@@TheDrunkenPL Thanks for the advice :)
Great video ❤❤❤
Good job! One more subscriber!
As a person who has mediocre soldering skills and has learned everything I know from breaking stuff. Flux is your friend. Get to know it, Love to use it, too much is way better than too little.
Only once you get comfortable with your tools. Then, you can learn how much flux to use with what solder and what tip. Because it varies. A lot.
Good advice! I've started to realize I haven't been using enough flux hopefully I'll catch it sooner as I'm soldering. I was using a flux paste when I first started. I just switched to a flux pen, which I liked until it opened up and leaked everywhere. Now I'm back to the paste for now. 😞
In the beginning. Did you record the Sonic music from your own gameplay? Cuz you can hear the character stopping and losing coins at certain points.
No, I just found the music in a playlist of Sonic game music and thought it sounded good. I didn't even realize there were noises of Sonic dying in the background, lol.
That mono made me check my headphones ...
Oops 😬
I can see the reflections of the LED lights you got going there yet the image is still too dark. fix the exposure setting on your camera.
Thank you for your comment! I'll look into the exposure settings going forward
huh magnent wire for enamel wire. i learned something. never crossed my mind.
subbed. keep it up.
By cheap Sports games and swap the rom chips
I tried that on a couple of other Sega games so many pins to desolder I messed up so bad lol
@HopefulRepairman what catastrophe caused this damage?
I got these games a lot, so I'm not sure what kind of life they had before I got them, but it might have been corrosion, it could have been the stress of putting them in and taking them out over the years. But it was probably corrosion that got them.
I'm guessing it's the ripping the old cartridge out and slamming a new cartridge in that might have done it. Maybe that's why NES tried out that ZIF-style cartridge insertion scheme.
The fiberglass pen that I use has a smaller diameter fiberglass element . Possibly the broader size pens like that cover too much area for such a job .
you need more flux.
Yeah watching the video back while editing I realized that as well rookie mistake I guess. Thank you for your comment
I won't be bothered to place a wire when the gap itself is less than diameter of that wire. On good half of these cracks you can get away with just a solder blob.
exactly what i was gonna say
for some reason youtube recommend me this video. Great video and new subscriber here
I have used fiberglass pens many times. I don't know why you are freaking out 🤨
I got some fiberglass dust on the mat I was using and my arms started to itch I just got concerned that I was contaminating my work area with fiberglass dust I know a lot of people like using the fiberglass pens for me it just wasn't working fast enough maybe I was doing something wrong 😕
Years ago... i did a repair on my surfboard no gloves.... that dust is no joke. took about a month to stop feeling it... never did that mistake again
18:12 with such a solder blob on a contact pin you are going to destroy your cwrtridge slot as it will bend the contact in the slot.
You're right I should have cleaned that pin up with some solder wick. Thankfully it wasn't enough to mess up the cartridge slot when I tested it but I'll have to make sure and fix that it just in case
Great job on these! If you replace that flux pen with some genuine quality flux (amtech is great) it will make a huge difference :)
@@monkersuk6719 I have some amtech flux paste I switched to the pen to see if there was a difference in fumes and cleaning and I feel like the pen flux is easier to clean up although I'm sure it's not the best quality
Good stuff mate, just started the same thing, first video coming up soon. Let me know if you want to chat about it... In the meantime I just got hundreds of cassettes and games...but nothing makes you feel better than a repaired sega cartridge!
Awesome I hope your video does well! It's a great feeling when you get a dead game working again. I see you've made some overwatch videos, That's cool I used to play a lot before they came out with Overwatch 2
what solder are you using
It's a radio shack brand leaded solder 60/40 rosin core solder .032" diameter I probably should be using thinner solder but it's what I have
I had no idea game cartridges could just stop working like that, I’ve never had any die on me. Wonder what causes it
I've been working on trying to fix the Sega Genesis games. Some of them just had dirty pins, others needed a resistor across the rom chip, and three of them had broken traces due to wear or corrosion. Some damage is due to neglect, some is due to accidents, and some is due to manufacturing defects showing up over time.
In most cases, if a cartridge won't boot, it's because of dirty contacts.
i like how you are just having fun after a tough fix 😄
You don't know Bret "The Hitman" Hart, The Undertaker, Brutus Beefcake, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan or Lex Luger? You must be a young lad and missed out on the golden age of wrestling. Great job on the repairs!
I'm just ignorant I was born in 1991 lol
Seen quite few sega games with black screen where fault was capacitor. Easy to desolder and test :)