Restoring 12 Faulty Gameboy Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มี.ค. 2024
- I bought 12 Gameboy Games to try and fix. How many do you think will survive? 😊
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Comment down below how many you think I'll fix out of 12 before watching the video :)
i think you'll fix 50 of em
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That one game that was completely bubbled up. Buy a aftermarket PCB and transplant the chips. Or, you can find another game with a similar PCB and transplant the ROM and RAM chip to see if you can get the game to work
I read that to late..😂
Joey you didnt blow on the cartridge, you forgot how to fix all of them easily
😂😂😂 it’s so true!
I like that you're trying to fix something a bit different, I'm definitely appreciative of the variety
Broken traces along where the shell touches the PCB is a very common issue. A dry pencil eraser is one of the best tools for cleaning the pins. You can also use a rubber polishing bit for a dremel without the dremel. Also, if the battery is so dead it starts acting like a resistor, that can cause the cart to fail. Considering the age of these games, all of those batteries should be replaced.
Thank you for the advice :)
@@JoeyDoesTech My pleasure Joey! I've really been enjoying watching your videos. Your enthusiasm and positive attitude is amazing. Whether you succeed or not, you always stay positive. You are a true inspiration to all of us hobbyists who try, and often fail, to repair things. Cheers!
Here's the names of the games I could find:
0:29 Pachi-slot Kids 2
0:59 Unknown white cartridge - possibly a GB Memory Cartridge (cartridges for the game rewriting service "NINTENDO POWER" developed by Nintendo)
5:07 Dragon Quest Monsters Terry no Wonderland
6:44 Bomber Boy
8:25 Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba
9:39 Game Boy Wars
12:03 Shikakui Atama o Maru Kusuru: Sansuu Battle-Hen
13:02 The King of Fighters '95
17:07 Shinkenzemi Chuugaku Kouza - Chuu 2 Eigo (or one in the series) - educational science game for the WonderSwan Color
17:25 Unknown grey game
18:29 Ganbare Goemon: Sarawareta Ebisumaru
21:04 Doraemon 2 - Animal Wakusei Densetsu
Unfortunately, my last night's comment providing the names and links to websites for some of the more curious ones got deleted, hopefully this one's okay.
Appreciate you Miro ❤️
@@JoeyDoesTech Right back at ya, Joey!
@@JoeyDoesTech You should be able to get the grey game's title from the ROM chip serial.
@dymardo_ I tried, but with no result, maybe someone could find it. Good shout, though, that's how I found the name of the white game.
the hitomi cartridge has the same width and cartridge pin out as a game gear cart so it might be for that, the fighting game is King of Fighters 95, also buffing the pins to an even shine and removing the corrosion is easy to do with melamine foam (magic eraser) and alcohol. great work joey! :D
Amazing! Thanks for the info :)
On the last game that you put into a new shell there was a broken pin next to the ones that where scratched.
I was just up on the top of it, really hard to see, but it was a small rip, you can see it if you pause on 24:27, it’s the last scratched trace on the right, the one that barely has a scratch.
Really good episode 😊
future reference, reflow all chips on a gameboy game they tend to come loose for some strange reason
This time on Joey Cleans Tech lol. As always a great Video JDT
Came straight from mymatevince's electric toothbrush fix video to joey on retro gaming
lol, from here, Vince is my next stop ;)
Good to see a different kind of video! I love watching you fix stuff, but was starting to get tired of all the Switches and PS5s.
you should do more broken games as its quite interesting and fun to watch
Okay thanks :)
Bit of variety keeps things spicy!
Maybe I should send you a broken ZX Spectrum. 😂
17:19 - that's a Benesse Pocket Challenge W game, which is an educational game. I believe it translates to something along the lines of "Shinken Zemi Junior High School Course Junior High School Science Pack".
Thank you :)
The white game does look like a "Nintendo Power Cart". You can rewrite them using a GBxCart RW. It's fun finding working ones and see what was the last game someone put on there when the kiosks were active in the 90s.
Awesome, Joey. You did great on those games. I want more videos like these. Cheers from Brazil
Okay good to hear! Thanks Segur :)
really appreciate that you got actual faulty carts and were honest about the non-working ones. There's so many fake restoration videos on youtube so it's nice to see a legit one.
0:19 from left to right I see: Pachislot, Bomberman, Dragon Quest Monsters, a Nintendo Power rewritable, no label, head improval battle, GB Wars, Yaiba, Goemon, Doraemon, Benesse Pocket cart (educational handheld) and King of Fighters 95
Thank you for the info :)
5:02 possible damaged trace. Could just be a blob of something on the PCB trace.
Quick tip: you should never put a bad condition game in your gameboy without cleaning the contacts first. Through the scraping of the game boy contacts, you will get the dirt and rust particles in your game card reader reducing its overall success rate in reading games. And its definitely harder to clean the gameboy cartridge reader than a cartridge.
Nice video though, i like seeing old stuff being repaired even if there is 0 market value for it.
Dip a pink eraser in ipa and scrub those pins on the carts it cleans it the best, i don't use any other method and all of my games play first try every time.
This is very under rated haha. Done this on the livestream shortly after :)
@@JoeyDoesTech it is very effective
Broken traces are sometimes not really good to see, so it's best to test every single one for continuety. Thank you for the good entertainment.
You're welcome Leon, hope you're well!
@@JoeyDoesTech I am. Thank you! Hope the same goes for you and your family. Not as active as I'd like, speaking of Discord and YT, but moving Flat is over.. just some boxes left to unpack, so there’s light at the end of the tunnel😂 Happy Easter to you and your family.
bro doesnt know king of fighters 😭☠️
much love, joe ❤
Tip an old timer showed me - regular A4 office printer paper is pretty good at cleaning oxidation off pads like that. It's actually mildly abrasive, just enough to remove the oxide layer without doing any damage. Just rub it on the pads as if it was sandpaper.
Sounds silly but definitely works!
Nice video, Joey :)
I don't know if Magic Eraser is available in the UK.
That usually helps with cleaning the pads more easily.
Thank you!
I think that green cart is for the Benesse pocket challenge handheld. There are a couple of versions, but one has carts that look like that.
Yeah like everyone else said use eraser magic eraser or a cleaning pen like a fiberglass pen and deoxit to clean contacts, and also make sure you do continuity tests between the end of each contact and chips connection to make sure the traces are all working
0:59 Nice find! That would be the re-flashable GB Memory cart. People in Japan could bring them to a machine at the Lawson convenience store chain and pay money to get new games flashed onto the cartridge. The board is completely different from the other Gameboy carts, and it's a very cool specimen. If you can fix it you'll find out what game (or games!) the previous owner had put on.
Perfect thank you! :)
even if the pins are solid a good reflow never hurts it may be cracked solder underneath
Joey would you perhaps sell the ones that you couldn't fix ? I would love to have replacment parts. Cheers
Gameboy game #3 is Dragon Quest Monsters. The Dragon Quest and Dragon Quest Monsters series rival Pokemon in popularity in Japan. Dragon Quest V's monster taming feature can be thought of as Pokemon's grandfather in many ways, and likely inspired many of the mechanics in the original Pokemon Red and Green versions. Really cool bit of history on that cart.
Never forget always check all the legs on all the chips
Fiberglass pens with IPA work wonders for cleaning corrosion off game cartridge contacts.
9 out of 12 is my bet. Good luck!
the 2nd to last gameboy game, is based on an anime that started in the 70s and still running on and off today and most of the early stuff is also lost media. today they are only making movies
The batteries that are low could cause save memory to be corrupted. Depending on how the game is written, that could result in the game checking for corruption, figuring out something is wrong and not starting. Taking the battery off and replacing it in theory could set the save game memory to a "regular" empty state. I personally would not condemn a game before having replaced the battery. The one game with the deep scratch on the contacts might have the ridges on the scratch push the game reader pins out and prevent proper contact. Maybe get the ridges down so the chances of the reader making good contact bigger?
You could do with a Gameboy Breakout / Passthrough Cartridge so that you could check the data and address lines with a scope!
Yep capacitors... The symbol above them and the label C1 are the giveaways
1st one you need to tin the gold pads on the bottom.. they are too worn to make a solid connection. the plastic of the case also rubs on them and can create small cracks in the pads
Wait is that white cartrdige one of the GB Power cartrdiges where you could download games onto the cartrdige ?
yes it is
@StezStixFix had a similar video and he found a lot of them just had old solder joints
Pencil rubber is great for cleaning them. Also I tend to clean any new games before putting them in one of my consoles so the dirt doesn't get transfered to the console pins. Doesn't make a good video if you fix them before testing though haha
After looking into older cartridge games I was surprised how many fake ones are out there
Zedlabz amongst others sell replacement cart shells, not sure on stickers for them though
can vouch for zedlabs. i accidentally bought one of those aftermarket shells that just says "game" off ebay before realising it wouldnt fit actual gameboy pcbs. i found out zedlabs makes shells that actually fit real pcbs and they work perfectly. as for stickers? idk your best bet would probably be to print em off yourself
Pencil eraser was a savior back in the day
wished you were able to fix that copy of Bomber Boy, since that's the first ever Bomberman game in the series to feature a battle mode
even has a remake of the Famicom/NES game too
I actually managed to fix it in a livestream yesterday :)
@@JoeyDoesTech very cool, do look into getting a second copy for link cable play
wish you'd been able to figure out some of the more challenging ones as I have a similar hard to solve issue with a copy of Tetris (Japanese version). I picked it up for $10 Australian and so far all I've got is my money's worth in soldering practice. Trying to figure out how I can prove if its a dead chip or not.
Deoxit and Magic Eraser is the way to go here Joey.
I really had an "itch" for a new video 🤣🤣👍💪
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Thank you Joey, I like your content SO MUCH!!
Thank you!
Just did a lil' google picture translate and the sticker on the hitomi cartridge translates to this: "Hitomi Pocket Challenge - Shinkenzemi Junior High School Course - Junior High School Science Pack - Benesse". If the other comment down here is true I take it it's some kind of educational exercise game for the game gear? Considering mcdonalds japan did employee training with a nintendo DS i'm not totally surprised.
It's weird to try and figure out the value of something like that but maybe it's good?
Some of those looked like “official” releases. I say that with heavy sarcasm. I wouldn’t have wasted time trying to fix those tbh because even collectors might pass them by.
Could get 5 or 10 bucks for Dragon Quest Monsters. That's a pretty fun game. Though you'd probably need to sell it in Japan lol
I believe those last 2 games were Legend of the Mystical Ninja. I've only played them on SNES, but they're great.
Or Goemon as its called in Japan.
Looked like a Game Gear game possibly. They had that bump at the top and were wider.
yo joey, for a video, you should get a broken gameboy, get it working, and mod the crap out of it.
Magic eraser works well for cleaning pads.
I know that this is Not really your Thing, but I freaking LOVE fixing Videos of old Video Games. Please, if you ever feel the urge to do so again, do it!
Maybe there are NES/SNES or even N64 Games in need of fixing?
Appreciate that! Maybe :)
Should have a P.O. Box to get some try repairs of stuff people no longer want
That second last game is Doraemon. Never played it but I know the character.
Should really give all the chips a nice reflow.
Last one its Doraemon!! Well known in Spain, one of our regional tv channel uses to show this series since 2005!
Gg Joey
it also aired in the uk on boomerang for a short time in 2015
The game you said has a pokemon like menu is a Dragon Quest Monsters game.
Im sure you can buy replacement PCB’s and just move the chips over to salvage a game from PCB damage
Joey, I have a PS5 that needs repairing if you are interested?
It's a shame Game Boy Wars couldn't be fixed, there were a bunch of games we never got before we were allowed to have Advance Wars in English.
How come you don't know King Of Fighters, Joey? 😱
bruh, get some 1500 grit sandpaper or emery boards to clean contacts
I'm sure it has been said, but the green game looks like a gamegear game
The King of Fighters, Goemon, Doraemon....all great games
9! Also, peas!
I love Gameboy game repairs, too bad that the only fixable ones are usually Japanese lots
16:11 King Of Fighters 95
16k views?! Bet you’re glad you quit you’re day job! Smashing it.
Those arent capacitors theyre resistors and the different colour lines tells you the resistance
use a pencil eraser to clean the pins
The game with 95 on it is king of fighters
reflow all chips on a gameboy game that some times fixes it.They come lose over time.
There's no Doraemon on that part of the world?
Give us a Chair-Cam too
Chef thank you so much! massively appreciated 😊
no. 3 dragon quest monster
no. 9 box say science for junior high school ... not a game more like a e-dictionary expantion
no. 11 Mystical Ninja Goemon (Ganbare Goemon: Sarawareta Ebisumaru!)
no. 12 Doraemon 2 Animal planet (Doraemon 2 Animal Wakusei). it's base on Doraemon movie
In my experience repairing Gameboy games, it’s 99% of the time dirty or broken/cold solder joints on the chips. Just touch everything with an iron and it should work.
Hopefully you paid $20 for the fun of trying to fix those and not to resell. Those games are not worth the cost of the pstage.
Last game is Doraemon
youve been mostly finessed and paid way to much but interesting video
20 quid for that load of rubbish lol . Guessing u not trying to make any money on them lol
But as always enjoy watching and seeing how many u could working
Keep making the great vids joey
Guessing u fix 7
you should just reflow all the chips on all the games.
I don't believe you don't know anything about these when you went straight for the loose legs.
It's called editing 😉
If you want a challenge. Go online and buy custom PCBs for game boy games. Say for instance like on the one that's completely bubbled up. Transplant all of the components onto that board. Just for the giggles and for the challenge
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Cart 2 doesn't look right. Either a fake or one of those 40 in 1 games.
Joey get a fibreglass pen for those contacts, the proper tool for the job
Actually, that's where you're wrong. Several Gameboy games require the battery in order to boot just to let you know.
These contacts would be worth cleaning with very fine sandpaper....
Please change your cloves, they are very dirty and distracting
7/12
Joey my face isn’t feeling welcome again. 😢
Those blue things at the top of the boards you kept calling caps are resistors. 👍
Japanese games? My guess is you won't even know they're fixed unless you have a japanese console
Most of the time Japanese games won't work in regular games boys unless u have the game boy that plays all country content
No the Game Boy is region free.