Absolute nightmare. Not just leaking batteries but several components had to be replaced on the front. Ridiculous amounts of contact cleaner in the card slot. Copper plate ground so corroded I could peel it off like wet toilet paper. Removed it and soldered all the contacts together. Bought for 5 bucks, only took about an hour to fix.
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bout 3 months and 200 bucks worth of soldering equipment. Loving repairing consoles so far
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not too hard really, practicing on smaller and smaller is the key. i started with your standard amazon capacitor resistor kit and some perfboard, then moved to ICs, then to SMDs (surface mount device). The hardest i had to do was a picoboot, which is still pretty challenging. honestly it’s pretty easy with flux and a good soldering iron. Buy a cheap amazon one and try it out!
Wowza! So you ended up just bussing all the points that used to touch the ground plane together with wires?
Game Boy be bussin’
Good save! How’s the screen?
It’s a gameboy screen. Not good, but it works.
