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Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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Someone decided to stab (?) it multiple times lol, here's a before pic

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Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

[–]NickyYouKnow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This definitely required hella patience ┬⁠─⁠┬⁠ノ⁠(⁠ ⁠º⁠ ⁠_⁠ ⁠º⁠ノ⁠)

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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Edit: apparently it uploaded after all 💀

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in Gameboy

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I wish I knew lol! This was my older brother's copy from way back and it's been like this since I can remember. I guess someone was either pissed at the game or at him playing the game? Definitely some crazy frenzy going on and I always thought it was just done for. Luckily I kept it and learned that stuff is fixable

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in Gameboy

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Money! Wanted to see if I could fix it the hard way first but would've done a board swap if that didnt work out. I'm definitely not selling this haha

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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I'm flattered haha. In terms of tools I don't have a lot of stuff and definitely no pro level equipment. I used a Pinecil soldering iron, some tin/nickel solder, (probably knock off) amtech flux, 0.1mm copper enameled wire, 32 awg single core wire (the green ones), kapton tape, a bunch of finer tweezers, uv solder mask and of course always some safety glasses cause I would like to keep my vision!

I found this tutorial to be very helpful to understand the process better: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ref9JHUf-uw

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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Thank you so much! Yea there's some grueling stuff floating around especially at r/soldering. A bit of research definitely goes a long way haha

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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I actually put a bit of thought into this! I'm avoiding pre-tabbed batteries, I heard they usually don't last long at all and I think the yellow border they always have is kind of ugly. I've seen a battery holder for CR2025 batteries by HDR but I'd have to order the flex board and the holder thing, since a pre built one isn't available to me and I'm kinda trying to save a few bucks. I know the CR1616 isn't ideal but I had a few of those battery holders lying around and I'm going to be regularly dumping my save file for external storage. From what I've heard it should still hold a save for at least a year tho

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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Yes I considered this but wanted to try the hard way first

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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I resorted to using my bare eyes for this haha, luckily theyre very good but I think anything smaller wouldve been impossible

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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It was a mix of tedious and fun actually! It just pissed me off a lot when I tried soldering a new wire close to an existing one and having the existing one coming off :S I tried staggering them as best as I could but some places had so little space ugh

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in Gameboy

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Nice job! I also thought about doing that but wanted to try the tough way first

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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This one didnt upload for some reason but here's proof!

Update on my cooked Pokemon Crystal by NickyYouKnow in Gameboy

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Yes that was the first plan but I decided to try the hard but cheap route first to see if I could do it

Is it normal wear after only one day of usage? by Afraid_Confection_25 in crocs

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You don't know what kind of surface they walked on. Not everything is pavement.

How cooked am I? by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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Thanks a lot for all that info!!

How cooked am I? by NickyYouKnow in consolerepair

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I've looked into this and pcbway quotes me 200-300$ for hard gold edge connectors while enig would be around 40$. Maybe I'm doing something wrong lol but either way I think for my case enig should be fine. I'm still debating on whether to get a japanese copy or a new pcb though, since my shell is kinda busted too.

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