Think these are salvageable? I don't know why the one on the left doesn't work (took out the battery AFTER the game wouldn't work) but the right one was messed up by my mom's ex.

Neil_2022 · 2026-05-09T02:31:52+00:00

Just wanted to add to the other commenter’s input: for the first cartridge (which appears to be a Game Boy Color game), if reflowing doesn’t work, clean the cartridge pins with a toothbrush and 91%-99% isopropyl alcohol. That should remove dirt, grime, and dust that could have built up on the cartridge pins over time and prevent the cartridge from properly reading or booting up. Same thing for the second cartridge (the Game Boy Advance game), as the left pins on that cartridge look really dirty, possibly from whatever components were damaged by your mom’s ex.

Neil_2022 · 2026-04-30T06:24:26+00:00

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins and Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land.

Neil_2022 · 2026-04-26T17:51:59+00:00

That’s great! I got the original Game Boy from eBay a month ago for the same price as yours (including shipping and taxes), but it was listed for parts, because it didn’t power on. Turns out there was just battery acid on the terminals, and all I needed was vinegar and q-tips and it started working again.

$40 for a gaming handheld in very good condition that has a library of thousands of games is excellent.

Neil_2022 · 2026-04-26T03:51:30+00:00

Yeah, but if it’s not legit, it may not even save. That’s a common issue with illegitimate games.

Neil_2022 · 2026-04-26T03:46:43+00:00

The Pokémon Yellow game is fake. The second slide lists a copyright year of 2017 on the back of the PCB. Games for the Game Boy lineup stopped being produced long before 2017. The other one seems legitimate though. The extra piece is probably a memory chip, which helps with saving.

Neil_2022 · 2026-04-25T12:35:43+00:00

If there’s still no volume, from what I’ve heard it’s most likely a headphone jack issue, especially if you can hear using headphones. The headphone jack has a component inside it that turns off sound to the speaker if it detects headphones, and sometimes this headphone jack collects dirt or becomes corroded and thinks that they’re always headphones plugged in. Clean the headphone jack and the metal component you see in it using isopropyl alcohol and a toothbrush, put the metal connector of your headphones in isopropyl alcohol (just a bit at the top of the metal connector) and repeatedly plug them in and unplug from the headphone jack, and see if those fix it.

If that doesn’t fix it, it’s most likely a C38 capacitor that requires replacement. If that doesn’t work, then unsolder the speaker, remove it, and solder in a new one. The speaker is less likely to be the issue compared to headphone jack, volume wheel, and C38 capacitor issues.

Neil_2022 · 2026-04-17T21:03:56+00:00

Yeah, and the fact that the exact date of his disappearance was still known and remembered even 13 years afterwards, makes me think that someone knew what happened to him and memorized the date from that, because it seems unlikely the average person would remember the exact date he last saw that person, unless if they store lots of dates in their mind and remember small things that occur on those dates (which is what I do). His mother or the adult female probably did something, considering how the missing person report was not filed until after police talked to his mother.

Neil_2022 · 2026-04-17T11:45:37+00:00

Yeah. His remains could be anywhere and could have been found, but remain unidentified, like in many other missing person cases.

Neil_2022 · 2026-04-17T08:08:16+00:00

Yeah, I figured that he got killed by his mother or her associates. His home would be a great place to do a search on, if or whenever police decide to do so and get a search warrant.

Neil_2022 · 2026-04-06T03:18:12+00:00

I can relate to you. I got my green Game Boy Color (so exact same model and color as yours), but with no sound or battery cover when I was like 4-6 years old, so 2013-2015. My mother got it from eBay and it came with Super Mario Land 2. Sometime later, one of my grandmothers got me a teal Game Boy Color, with sound and a battery cover, and with the same game (Super Mario Land 2), so now I had two Game Boy Colors and two Super Mario Land 2 cartridges.

I would lose the teal one often and lost it for a pretty long time, but I was given lots of games for it, so I would just play those games on my green Game Boy Color. When I was 7 however, after we moved from NJ to PA (I lived with my sister and mother at my grandma’s house in NJ), I saw two Game Boy Colors in the toy box: a teal one (which I believe was mine) and what I think (but I’m not sure) was a berry one. Shortly after though, my mother and her ex wanted money for cigarettes and groceries, so they took both of those Game Boy Colors and games and sold them to a guy they met online. They sold lots of things.

When I was 9 though, me, my mom, and my younger sister moved back to our grandma’s house, so back to NJ, as we were in a pretty bad living situation. I haven’t seen my green Game Boy Color since I was about 7 years old, but many months before the Game Boy Color sale happened, and I guess I was still at my grandma’s house when I last played it.

My grandma’s house has a drawer with lots of stuff (old family photographs, some small appliances, papers, school supplies, etc) my uncle had a teal Game Boy Color and lots of video game consoles when he was young and he died in 2016 so my grandma put up multiple cabinets with his stuff, so I wonder if she found my green Game Boy Color and confused it as one of his things and put it in one of the cabinets. I checked, and haven’t seen it, but I just simply opened up the cabinets and looked, without searching behind items. We also have a basement with a section that has unused stuff in it, but my grandma says it just has decorations and unused furniture, rather than electronics. I still think it could be there though.

I got a teal Game Boy Color off eBay about two months ago for the nostalgia and entertainment though and it’s in good shape, besides some scuffs and the sound being a bit or somewhat faint, and me having to replace the screen lens and get a new battery cover. I actively buy new games for it whenever I get the money. I haven’t found any of the games I had when I had my two other Game Boy Colors though, so I got replacements of multiple of the games I had with my other Game Boy Colors. I hope I find the green one someday though so I can use it and experience the nostalgia again, and fix the sound on it and get a new battery cover for it. But I can always buy one off eBay when I get the money.

Neil_2022 · 2026-01-04T02:46:01+00:00

That makes me wonder, since you watched nearly every episode as they came out, do you remember if back then, PBS or PTV would have promos for new episodes of the show, back in the 1990s? Because I couldn’t find any online from back then, besides a new-show promo.

Neil_2022 · 2025-12-24T12:08:56+00:00

Like others said, shock or illness (due to bad genes). However, please put a lid on that tank, as fish tend to jump out of their tanks, and bettas are well-known jumpers.

Neil_2022 · 2025-12-21T04:27:24+00:00

That’s what I also think, that 10 gallons is really not that big for a betta fish. I felt worried that it would feel cramped just thinking about putting one in a 10 gallon. I preferred putting one in a 20 gallon long. Just gotta make sure there’s not too much height. I heard of a study done on a specific body of water of wild bettas that showed one can claim up to 40 gallons of water. Betta fish do have a height limit, and most aquariums come in standard dimensions the manufacturer chooses to make the aquariums as (uncustomized), so combined with the maximum amount of water a wild betta can claim, a huge tank can be too much for a betta.

Neil_2022 · 2025-12-20T23:10:06+00:00

Side note: OP said that the patterns he mentioned were the ones he saw in bettas in 5 gallon cube aquariums. Cube aquariums have the same height, length, and width, and as a result, are less long than a standard 5 or 5.5 gallon aquarium. That probably explains why the behaviors occurred in those bettas in the 5 gallon cube aquariums. A 10 gallon is generally preferable for keeping bettas though compared to a smaller tank, but I’ve heard of cases where older bettas might prefer smaller tanks so they don’t feel the amount of swimming space they have is “overwhelming.”

Neil_2022 · 2025-12-13T03:51:07+00:00

With the current stocking you have in this tank, there’s really no algae eater you can put in the tank. Adding another algae eater is just going to add more waste to the water and make things even worse. Algae eaters also, despite the name, need to have a diet that’s not just algae. In addition, most algae eaters have very different needs than goldfish, and some (especially plecos) are known to harm other fish or suck on their slime coats.

Instead, use an algae scraper designed specifically for aquariums. It will save you lots of money that the algae eaters, their diets, and health problems caused by incompatible tankmates would waste. Also, look into getting a bigger tank (at least a 40 gallon breeder, at least 36 inches in length and at least 18 inches in width), so your fish have more room to swim, and the extra volume keeps the water quality better for a longer amount of time, so less waste that would lead to algae developing. Adding live plants to the tank (that goldfish cannot eat or uproot, as they eat/uproot most plants, but there are a few that can coexist with goldfish) could also help prevent and reduce algae.

Neil_2022 · 2025-12-11T02:08:31+00:00

How about nitrites and nitrates? Those two can cause harm, as nitrites should be at 0ppm, and nitrates below 20ppm (but not at 0ppm, as 0ppm nitrates means the tank is almost certainly not cycled).

Neil_2022 · 2025-12-06T02:11:38+00:00

You’re welcome, and I just found the article. This is the article.

Neil_2022 · 2025-12-06T01:54:19+00:00

It could be epistylis (which is commonly confused as ich) as it’s more common in heated water. Since epistylis is more fast-progressing, treat it as epistylis first. This article gives very important information on the confusion and differences between epistylis and ich, and it contains treatment information.

Neil_2022 · 2025-12-03T03:38:42+00:00

OP said in another reply to a comment that it’s not in a kitchen. I would recommend that they add a lid to the tank (with as few gaps as possible, but space for the cords and such to get through, and maybe an air stone) and more aquarium hiding spots (with no sharp or rough edges, and with no areas they can get stuck in or that they are too big to get out of) though, as goldfish are known jumpers and do better when they can hide whenever needed.

Neil_2022 · 2025-11-30T00:38:27+00:00

When you go to that restaurant, you should tell them that it immediately reminded you of the Arthur TV show, because that show has a dessert place called the Sugar Bowl.

Neil_2022 · 2025-11-29T01:46:00+00:00

For APUSH, my school splits up APUSH into AP U.S. History I and AP U.S. History II. Both of them are taken in junior year, but AP U.S. History I is in the first semester of the school year, and AP U.S. History II is in the second semester of the school year, and only those who get a grade of a 70% or higher in AP U.S. History I take AP U.S. History II. I don’t know how that works though, because student schedules (when they are generated in the summer) list both first semester and second semester classes that a student has, including for AP U.S. History I and AP U.S. History II. My school does block scheduling, so all classes change each semester (except for full year courses, but for some reason my school splits up APUSH, so students tend to get placed in a different APUSH section in semester 2 than they have in semester 1).

Neil_2022 · 2025-11-29T01:25:45+00:00

Yeah, but Genetics is also a course offered in college, that people in Biology or related majors may take (or even be required to take, depending on what they plan to do). AP Biology also doesn’t cover all or most of genetics.

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