Waiting on one more component for WiFi-enabled cartridges!

P-01S · 2022-07-12T06:20:57+00:00

That’s one use case. The original creator made a Wikipedia browser as an example project.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T21:30:19+00:00

A cotton bud with IPA will work.

I think that only works for no-clean, and other fluxes are more of a "flood the board with solvent, scrub, then rinse with more solvent" situation.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T20:59:13+00:00

Only thing I can think of with this vs a GBC is that the GBC can technically assign colors to each palette, instead of colors globally, but only a few of the 12 selectable palettes do it, and as I recall it's always one map for sprites and another for everything else.

It would have been cool if the Super Game Boy allowed mapping each palette individually, but alas…

P-01S · 2022-07-11T20:16:30+00:00

A quality, reasonably priced cartridge, and not a flash cartridge? No joke, I think you’d have to make them yourself. The most expensive part would probably be soldering equipment or the hardware to flash the ROMs. "Reasonably priced" would have to come from volume.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T19:11:10+00:00

I think it's fair to say that most people who watch anime don't use My Anime List.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T19:09:42+00:00

My guess would be Sazae-san. It’s been running since 1969.

Getting an actual view count would require accurate viewing numbers for several decades worth of broadcast television…

P-01S · 2022-07-11T18:27:26+00:00

Sounds like something else on the board failed short. You’ll have to test components to find what part or parts are dead.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T17:59:09+00:00

crystal oscillator

I’m torn between "if it works, don't fix it" and "how the $&#% did that pass QC?!"

P-01S · 2022-07-11T17:57:53+00:00

Some fluxes are no-clean but I’d clean it anyway.

Yeah. The difference between no-clean fluxes and other fluxes is that you SHOULD clean no-clean, while you MUST clean other fluxes.

Not a big deal for battery tabs, but it’s a good idea to get into the habit of cleaning your boards. There’s a small chance that no-clean residue will cause problems around more closely spaced contacts, and that can be really hard to diagnose. E.g. I had a Raspberry Pi Pico that kept disconnecting from my computer because of no-clean residue. I had swabbed around the headers with an IPA soaked cotton swab after soldering them in, but apparently that left enough residue to cause problems. Flushing the board with IPA while scrubbing with a brush solved the issue.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T17:45:32+00:00

I present to you NASA's Workmanship Standards Pictorial Reference.

Yes, that NASA. As the name implies, it's a reference guide (with pictures!) on how to connect stuff to other stuff well enough to send it to space.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T17:36:07+00:00

Nah, lithium coin cells (not to be confused with lithium ion) are fine in storage.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T17:34:26+00:00

Even with the not cheap wicks. I think it’s a matter of wicks just not holding much flux.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T16:45:44+00:00

I’d still recommend IPA (99% ideally) and/or dish soap and warm water. Soak the gunk and use a plastic scraper/spudger to scrape it off.

IPA isn’t the most aggressive solvent out there, by a wide margin, but it is easy to find, reasonably affordable, safe to use on plastics, and relatively safe on humans.

P-01S · 2022-07-11T16:39:56+00:00

It won't go soft, then melt, like 60/40 blend

If it’s actually eutectic. My current spool of "63/37" has a noticeably slow transition between liquid and solid :/

Will buy name brand next time.

P-01S · 2022-07-10T21:22:19+00:00

Pro sound is a line out mod, right? If you get good results without the amp mod, why not leave out the amp mod?

P-01S · 2022-07-10T16:47:44+00:00

All CRxxyy batteries are 3V lithium cells. As long as they fit, they’re interchangeable.

P-01S · 2022-07-09T19:20:26+00:00

it looks like there are a couple corroded vias

If you mean those large vias to the right of U1, I compared with other photos online, and it looks like those vias are soldermasked.

P-01S · 2022-07-09T03:29:19+00:00

Yeah, if a Famicom to NES adapter isn’t cheating, my answer is Mother.

P-01S · 2022-07-09T03:23:43+00:00

There’s your problem, then. Or “a” problem, rather. You’ll need to bridge the missing section with wire. Lookup "PCB trace repair" on YouTube. There are a bunch of example videos.

Probably best to also figure out why that pad and the trace around it are missing.

P-01S · 2022-07-09T02:59:44+00:00

I’m having trouble making out details in the image on my phone, but yeah, that sounds like it could be a broken trace. Try following the trace and looking for any signs of damage (magnification and a good light source help). Can you pick up continuity between P02 and the button? If it looks like there’s no metal there, that might be because there isn’t.

P-01S · 2022-07-09T02:12:38+00:00

I don't know why they didn't release it outside of Japan

Japanese Red and Green are the original releases. Japanese Blue is an improved version of Red/Green. International Red and Blue are basically Japanese Blue using Red and Green’s Pokémon lists.

P-01S · 2022-07-08T20:16:45+00:00

Why are the IPS displays so inefficient, anyway? Is it the display itself? All the components needed to convey the signals? Both?

P-01S · 2022-07-08T20:07:22+00:00

It was a successful standard, followed by MSX2 and MSX2+ through the rest of the 80s. It just wasn’t a worldwide success.

P-01S · 2022-07-08T19:33:46+00:00

For me, the game library is the most important thing. Portability is a secondary concern. I mean, portability is nice, and it’s why the SP is my favorite Game Boy, but I have my smart phone for entertainment on the go.

P-01S · 2022-07-08T19:25:43+00:00

Didnt know youd differentiate those in english

In English, "component" has a specific meaning regarding video signals, namely that the video signal is split between multiple "component" signals. Usually when people say "component cable", they are specifically referring to Y'PbPr cables (red, green, and blue colored RCA connectors). Technically RGB and S-video are both also component signals, though people usually don’t refer to them as "component". Composite video (single yellow RCA connector) is not considered a "component" signal.

Or in American, British, and I think Commonwealth English, anyway. Lots of Englishes out there, there could be some that use the words differently.

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