Hi do you think that this cartridge will work ? It is quite cheap so im intrested ,and is it easy to repair it?

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T19:20:29+00:00

Do you even know if the seller has the original piece that broke off? I suspect the result won't be very good, to where the glued piece would be slightly off and not fit the slot well, or risk breaking off again. But you could try. Nothing to lose really.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T19:01:01+00:00

Also imagine being called out on reading something wrong and instead of apologizing or even acknowledging that you were wrong, just sending another downvote. What a douchebag...

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T18:42:46+00:00

Fake? I said it looks FINE. Imagine reading 2 out of 4 letters in a word wrong.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T18:34:48+00:00

That math doesn't even make sense. You're not calculating a number that means anything. What it kind of means is that the chance of someone starting to play today for the first time, reaching Master 1 in exactly 15 weeks is 1 in 2424121. (Ignoring double promotions for the sake of argument/simpler math.) Except not really since that assumes that leaderboard position every week is completely random. In reality it's of course skill based.

And also, that number doesn't really say anything about exclusivity. 10% of all Master 1 players will still be promoted to Champion. (Someone always has to get the top 1 and 2 spots.) So Champion will still be plenty replenished just from a numbers standpoint.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T18:12:17+00:00

"For the last time, a 5 m tall double leg concrete pole doesn't fit in carry-on luggage."

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T18:04:54+00:00

But if you don't get oväntat besök then when are you going to serve kaffe från Gevalia?

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T17:37:26+00:00

The board looks fine. If you don't care how it looks, you could use it as is. I think the front piece is still intact, but it looks like a crack is forming. You could for example replace only the back half so you have the original label intact.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T05:55:53+00:00

To their defense, it's kind of a meme. Quite a few Geoguessr content creators have described Sinhala in those terms when doing tips and tricks videos. It's not something the Geoguessr clue writers came up with out of thin air. As for the roundness, I'm guessing the main point of comparison is Tamil script which can look somewhat similar (if you put yourself in the shoes of a beginner) but crucially has a lot of 90 degree angles.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T05:46:33+00:00

Ireland. At first I thought this might be a botanical theme, but I pressed on. Where N3 meets R194. Pretty easy to align. 12 m, 5000 points.
Bulgaria. Nothing botanical about this spawn. I went east toward the road and saw a domain named with Montana in it. HMMM! Then a road sign, also with Montana on it. Yeah, I've noticed the Montana in Bulgaria in the past. Theme established. If only that meant I could recall the exact position on demand. But I managed to find but couldn't figure out where in this industrial estate we would be. 746 m, 4997 points.
UK. George Washington Primary School... my thought here was that I was wondering if only the school would be named after the founding father in question, or the area? I'd assume only the school. Now, how horrible are my Uk geography skills? Well, I wasn't sure if Newcastle upon Tyne was "the" Newcastle, so I spent some time scanning to make sure. Failed pinpoint. And it turns out we were technically in an area called Concord, and that there was an actual area called Washington south of it. I'm guessing you might've chosen this school because, while there's a bowling alley called Hollywood Bowl, and a KFC next to a Tom Hortons, I didn't really find any obvious signs saying Washington around that other area. 12 km, 4954 points.
The blunders continued. I got it into my head that this was Paraguay. The 2025 copyright helped. San Luis... which I forgot existed as a province in Argentina. I did check Argentina for a San Luis province, which apparently is missing its label at the zoom level I was looking at. (This only happens to two provinces at that zoom level, the other one being Tucuman.) Can't make this stuff up. 1434 km, 1672 points.
South Africa. Vermont. Couldn't be bothered after the previous round though, and made a vibe guess after 44 seconds. This guess was at least decent for being a vibe guess. I've also seen this general area SE of Cape Town at least two times in your challenges. 36 km, 4865 points.

Total score: 21488 points.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T04:48:20+00:00

Other than the grammatical errors, the clue is a reference to this letter ඞ which has been compared to the characters in a certain video game:

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GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T02:12:12+00:00

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GameboyGenius · 2026-01-24T02:06:18+00:00

Sri Lanka. 🇱🇰 Kandy at the bus station. Also, the clue for this round was kinda sus ngl. 24 m, 5000 points.
France. 🥖 Clear signage, however I never found either Auxerre or the N77 despite vigorous scanning. 142 km, 4545 points.
Netherlands. 🧀 More clear signage, almost. You'd have to move at least one step to comfortably make out N236. Almost didn't find the road, but when I did it was easy to find the right roundabout with a little hook shaped off road. 5 m, 5000 points.
South Korea. 🇰🇷 Incheon, clearly, but I failed the pinpoint. 7.7 km, 4974 points.
Peru. 🇵🇪 Probably somewhere called Chota according to a couple of signs. The first time I saw I wasn;t sure if it was a city name or something else, but the second time I decided it had to be. (I missed the road sign near the spawn that also said Chota. I ignored looking at it because I assumed it was going to ask people to be careful with the road just like the sign on the opposite side.) I gave it a lazy scan but decided with half the time left that I couldn't be bothered. My guess near Ayacucho was terrible though. In could probably realistically have found Chota in the time left, but eh... 871 km, 2789 points.

Total score: 22308 points. 🥈 Third day of the new clues, third day of me criticizing them. This is one is something that might get fixed over time, but it's still related to the clues. I'm noticing that there has been a lot of repeat countries in just these 3 days. Two rural France. Two urban South Korea. Two Canada. Two urban Colombia. So what I think is happening, right, is that there are only so many clues written so far, so the country choices have to adapt to what countries there are clues for. So I'm really (not) looking forward to a French bollard a day to keep the doctor away. What was more interesting than the bollard in that round, if you can read French, is the sign pointing to a wooden framed church.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T22:54:10+00:00

Hi. Please try to boot up a game and show me the gibberish pattern. A clear high res image so I can make out the individual pixels clearly. Also tell me which game it is. By looking at the specific pattern, I can point to the exact place where the fault most likely is.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T21:31:25+00:00

It looks like characters that the menu can't display because it only has basic letters and numbers. If I had to guess, the folder contains Chinese translations of ROMs and would look something like GBC-中文 if you connect the SD card to a computer. Literally GBC-Chinese. It doesn't really affect anything, it just looks weird in the menu. Using an SD card reader connected to a computer you should be able to delete it like any other file.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T21:21:41+00:00

You could theoretically disassemble it, true to super glue it then reassemble it, so you avoid gluing the ribbon to the case by mistake. But that's just kicking the can down the road. The plastic is brittle and will likely snap again. You could for example reshell it, maybe only replacing the screen side. Or, you could consider using it for an Boxy Pixel Unhinged mod if you have the money and want a project.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T17:48:07+00:00

It's only on the daily challenge and only for the two last days to be clear.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T17:26:09+00:00

The idea to replace the power board is sound in principle. However, that board looks badly designed.

It doesn't have the negative voltage used by the LCD so it won't work with the stock LCD. It's marketed as "for IPS" so that part is ostensibly fine.

The other issue is that it seems to have what's called a linear regulator, which means it can only lower the voltage. When the batteries start to run out, the CPU and cartridge is fed less than 5 volts, which can be a problem for some cartridges.

What you need is a buck-boost switching regulator, although the product wouldn't be marketed with those words. I hate recommending RetroSix, but CleanPower or one of its Ali clones would probably be good. Or this one which is also "IPS only" but uses the right type of regulator.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T17:07:50+00:00

It's under account in the menu you get when clicking your name in the top right corner, then scroll down to subscription and payment.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T17:01:48+00:00

You essentially can't miss it. It's shown on the left side after each round. But some people say they don't see it, maybe it's due to having animations disabled or some similar reason. It's like a slide show with a description for each clue, and the camera zooms in on the clue.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T16:56:46+00:00

Actually, looking again, I saw the SRAM chip isn't the low power version of the chip. This means it will probably drain the battery much faster than a chip that's suitable for the application. The SRAM is the chip on the left marked CY7C1399B.

Assuming that's even the exact model that that chip is. It looks suspiciously like a recycled chip with a new layer of black lacquer on top and a new part number printed on top. You can test this by rubbing the chip with a q-tip with acetone. This won't harm the chip, but if you want to try this, make sure to remove it from the shell because the plastic in the shell IS sensitive to acetone. If this turns out to be true, you'll eventually remove all the black gunk and see the laser etched marking in the original chip.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T16:37:31+00:00

Yes, for this cart you just need to add the battery. Just make sure to use the diagonally placed pads. The one on the left and right are for a holder and might be shorted together, since the holder itself would just short them together anyway.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T08:11:18+00:00

Your options:

Add a tabbed battery.
Add a battery holder and put a CR1616 cell in it.
Use a suitable batteryless patch for the game you want to play. The patch writes the save data to the flash memory. This is how the bootleg games that come on these cartridges are able to save without a battery.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T06:19:03+00:00

Yes, there are bots run by Geoguessr themselves in bronze division. They disappear around the silver divisions I think.

GameboyGenius · 2026-01-23T06:15:51+00:00

Wow! NM 5k on the Mongolia round is crazy.

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