I like this channel more than other repair channels I've seen. watching your stuff feels like just sitting in a room with your mate talking as you work on stuff. other channels cut out all the good stuff. lol
The TH-cam algorithm recommended you to me and I've been loving watching your vids. You have such a great personality for this, and I never thought I would enjoy watching someone repair electronics, but yet, I'm on the edge of my seat with you! Thanks for brightening my day!
Your videos are really well made, its not about having a totally fleshed out lab or some fancy stuff but more about the basics. This makes the videos really enjoyable, something I can easily subscribe to.
Nice one, Steve! You are truly developing skills in micro soldering! Amazing! And the now traditional/classic "stupid game!" at the end, with the right soudtrack song! Nice show, buddy!😁😁😁
Man I love the clack when the cartridge slides in and out of the cartridge slot. It's so mechanical, so visceral. So satisfying. Nice fix btw. I'm surprised the game boy still worked even with a big hole in one of the nodes
I just recently stumbled onto this guy's channel; uh in before he blows up. That moment at 10:26 after going on that journey with you...... *chefs kiss* so satisfying.
For some reason TH-cam recommended your videos. Now I'm oddly addicted to watching them. I'm glad some body has a steady enough hand to solder like that.
Hi Steve, Paul from Littleborough here. I watch you most days and you have spurred me on to start again with the odd thing. Brilliant what you do.. Better than Factory! I also watch My mate Vince and 12 voltvids. All the best, P.
TH-cam recommended me this video and I'm starting to feel like youtube knows me better than I know myself cause I enjoyed every minute and even gave a sub 🤣. Wish I could get my 1080 looked at and possibly fixed by someone sent it in for RMA and they wouldn't fix it. It was still under warranty so I refused to pay for the fix. Now it just collects dust cheers going to go binge watch some more of these.
These consoles are so cool! A concrete brick of a console. I have got 2 of those:) The earliest, produced 89 consoles, have philips screws, not triwing by the way.
Again. Your work is so tidy, and your videoes are so well produced. Just a joy to watch:-) A giant shame that you don`t have more subs, but it will come:-)
I love watching you fix stuff it's so satisfying when you get them working again, especially because game boy is still my favorite hand held console, wish I could do that fine soldering you can the components are just too small for me
Nice fix, thankfully there was a lot less wrong with my NES. Someone had cut the IRQ line and rejoined it, but was unaware they had cut the next line. Once I realised the extent of the damage, I just added another wire and it booted a game just fine.
Another great job there Steve your fixing skills have came along way and i enjoy watching your fixes on all items you get so well done mate - nice 1 👍🏻
Recently found this channel. Love your work man. Youre so calm and easy going in your vids And i learned a lot from it. Only thing i should adjust if i were you (if possible) is the volume of the *PEEEEEEP* currentmeter. Keep on the good work!
I would suggest, when you come across high levels of corrosion on solder pads or vias, to reflow them using new solder and even suck the old solder using a solder pump. I mean you get into all this trouble to repair the stuff and you are doing 100% great. Why don't secure the retro stuff from further corrosion. On the video you repaired the GB carts from ebay, almost all of them had the same pins not soldered correctly by the factory. This would suggest their solder might be problematic. I thing it would be wiser to re solder them instead of just reflowing the old solder. Really great vids! Keep it up mate!
Hmm.. Interesting Brother Steve! Toy story 2 was made by Mintendo - Mario-land was made by a bunch of mixed up, garbled pipes & tubes. I see what you did there & if you pause around 0:56 Steve! Tells us what the GB is going to do' John travoltage style - Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive 😂🤣 Oh Steve! Dr. Bunsen Honeydew got in touch, He wants his' Beaker back when your done with it 😂 That GB screen sucks! now that doses need changing 👍🏻
🤣 Thanks brother Steve! Glad you noticed the deliberate stayin' alive dance! I should've done that as my outro song 😁. Yeah, the screen is awful. Will be trying to pick up an IPS for it, for sure! 👍
I've still got mine in the loft sadly water damaged ... As a little kid (probably 89/90s I dropped it in the bath whilst playing it To my surprise it actually worked So, silly me assumed (aged 7 or so) though, "oh, they are waterproof" 😔 Yup, found put the hard way that they aren't. Didn't have the heart 💔 to tell my parents as it was only months old at the time.
Glad that you managed to fix that Gameboy :) Though some times I wonder what people do to their consoles for them to end with such damage =/ By the way nice ending with that classic ABBA song :D
Thanks John. Not sure if it's a generic one, but it's from repair outlet. This one: repairoutlet.co.uk/collections/uv-lamps/products/qianli-portable-iuv-intelligent-curing-lamp
Great fix Steve! We love your channel and let's hope we get a chance to insult sword fight and beat the sword master again in the new Return to Monkey Island!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!
Is the copper colored sheet to protect from EMI? Is it conductive and is the sticker layer protecting it from short circuiting some contacts? If so then having some of the sticky layer removed might cause problems.
I've currently got two Gameboy Advances that had fairly bad battery leakage. Cleaned both and one now works but the power switch is finicky and the other still doesn't work but the power switch pins look bad so hopefully I can get both working again by re-flowing the pins.
@@StezStixFix Little update. Reflowed the power switches on both GBA's and the one with the finicky switch now works perfectly. Was pretty pleased seeing it power on as it's my first proper console repair. Unfortunately couldn't get the other one working, I think the corrosion may have just been too bad as I gave each joint on the switch a decent amount of time with the soldering iron.
You should consider an ultrasonic cleaner, would save you a lot of time cleaning. Once you give the boards a look over for problem areas, it would blast off the surface grunge in no time and would get down into those vias really well too. Could throw all the plastic parts in too.
@@Billy-ww3uv if all you need to fit is small boards, that would work. I use a bigger 3 liter one for larger parts, and it also has more ultrasonic power for faster cleaning than the smaller ones will do. *you'll have to use something like alcohol or ultrasonic solvent and make sure its thoroughly dry afterwards too
Never seen a damaged gameboy like that ! You are not lucky with your purchases but we are lucky to have a video on it so keep buying junk consoles for our pleasure 😜😂
Thanks KoSlow! I really like doing these trace repair ones, so I'm pleased with the purchases. Obviously I don't know what I'm gonna get when I buy them, but that's part of the fun! 😁
I got 1 at my local carboot this weekend for £20. Missing the outer screen, has some dead screen lines on both sides and needs a good clean. But other than that it turns on and plays games fine, so I’m happy.
Really is nuts how much they've gone up even not working fully. I bought a DMG years ago for 50p from my high school's indoor car boot sale. Was missing lines on both sides of the screen. Have no clue where it went which of course I now regret seeing how much they go for now and the screen would have been an easy fix.
@@TheAlphaWolf2013 I got it fixed up really nice. Since then, I’ve been buying up loads of broken non working Gameboys from eBay, and fixing them (I really love Gameboy colors). I’m currently working on an IPS screen upgrade for a DMG which looks amazing compared to the original screens.
I got one two years ago from a consignment store for $10 USD. It had corroded contacts. I bought some replacements online, soldered them in, and it worked, but the screen is missing some lines. I was planning on getting an upgrade backlit screen for it, so I probably won't bother with trying to repair the connection to the screen to fix the missing lines.
Had an original gb years ago,collected 98 games altogether when I sold it but recently got a fb colour to add to my collection of handhelds and consoles 🙂
I played the heck out of super Mario land on my original game boy as a kid, hearing the game music brought back memories. I still have the game boy with games and accessories stored away safely, all in great condition. Now I want to take it out and play it some 😂
My favorite thing about this channel is that, you show how easy it is to do everything right and still have it not work.
When I get my own job I'll try to fix so many things!
Spoiler alert....
I like this channel more than other repair channels I've seen.
watching your stuff feels like just sitting in a room with your mate talking as you work on stuff. other channels cut out all the good stuff. lol
The TH-cam algorithm recommended you to me and I've been loving watching your vids. You have such a great personality for this, and I never thought I would enjoy watching someone repair electronics, but yet, I'm on the edge of my seat with you! Thanks for brightening my day!
'That should work now' ... 'I made it worse, HOW!?' So relatable!! Glad the algorithm recommended you to me. Loving your content!!
These fixes are so satisfying! Thanks for bringing life back to these devices.
Your videos are really well made, its not about having a totally fleshed out lab or some fancy stuff but more about the basics. This makes the videos really enjoyable, something I can easily subscribe to.
Nice one Steve, so much blue! Lovely colour though. Also sporting a new UV light, very fancy 👍👍👍👍
Thanks Vince! Yeah, the UV light is cracking. So much better (and quicker!) than the torch 👍
Where did you get the uv light from?
I hated electronics back in college, but you made me wanna go back and study it all over again, salute!
Nice one, Steve! You are truly developing skills in micro soldering! Amazing! And the now traditional/classic "stupid game!" at the end, with the right soudtrack song! Nice show, buddy!😁😁😁
🤣🤣 thanks Pedro!
Man I love the clack when the cartridge slides in and out of the cartridge slot. It's so mechanical, so visceral. So satisfying.
Nice fix btw. I'm surprised the game boy still worked even with a big hole in one of the nodes
Missed opportunity.... "I'm blue daba dee daba da"
Great video, can’t beat watching old tech getting fixed! This Gameboy was the first model I ever played, So it was even better to watch!
I just found your channel about three days ago, it's so relaxing to watch your videos, have an awesome day!
I just recently stumbled onto this guy's channel; uh in before he blows up. That moment at 10:26 after going on that journey with you...... *chefs kiss* so satisfying.
Crazy how I am watching someone fix stuff but still enjoying it and keep watching it.... never would of thought it
I cannot describe how appreciative I am for discovering your channel lately!
For some reason TH-cam recommended your videos. Now I'm oddly addicted to watching them. I'm glad some body has a steady enough hand to solder like that.
Hi Steve, Paul from Littleborough here. I watch you most days and you have spurred me on to start again with the odd thing. Brilliant what you do.. Better than Factory! I also watch My mate Vince and 12 voltvids. All the best, P.
One of the best choices the youtube algorithm has made so far ! Appreciate your fantastic work. : )
TH-cam recommended me this video and I'm starting to feel like youtube knows me better than I know myself cause I enjoyed every minute and even gave a sub 🤣.
Wish I could get my 1080 looked at and possibly fixed by someone sent it in for RMA and they wouldn't fix it. It was still under warranty so I refused to pay for the fix. Now it just collects dust cheers going to go binge watch some more of these.
The ONLY problem i have with this channel is that i need more vids! As always, great stuff
I had never seen this defect on the Gameboy DMG. Excelent video. I love the soundtrack!
Thanks Sabrina! 👍
These consoles are so cool! A concrete brick of a console. I have got 2 of those:) The earliest, produced 89 consoles, have philips screws, not triwing by the way.
Again. Your work is so tidy, and your videoes are so well produced. Just a joy to watch:-) A giant shame that you don`t have more subs, but it will come:-)
Thanks Willy, really appreciate that! 👍
So satisfying to watch these repairs! Job well done!
You know, you offer a lot of humility in your videos. And you do yourself down. But what you do is incredible. Well done!!
🙂 Good repair work. 🙂 11:21 - I've got that game and I've completed it after many months of practicing.
You are a braver and more patient man than I. I just go to my Gameboy parts drawer instead of fixing a board.
I love watching you fix stuff it's so satisfying when you get them working again, especially because game boy is still my favorite hand held console, wish I could do that fine soldering you can the components are just too small for me
These videos being recommended to me I don’t know how or why but I’m loving them lol
The closing music, the only reason I give it a like!
Nice fix, thankfully there was a lot less wrong with my NES. Someone had cut the IRQ line and rejoined it, but was unaware they had cut the next line. Once I realised the extent of the damage, I just added another wire and it booted a game just fine.
GET IN THERE!! 😁😁😂
Great fix. Looked like a very satisfying one to work through.
Loved the video!
😁😁 Thanks Lee, much appreciated! 👍
Great video Steve! I love to see old retro systems get fixed! 😊
Thanks Rachel, I really enjoyed working on this one! 😀
Awesome Steve! You're getting so much better every time I watch. Unlike the English test cricket team.
😂 thanks Chris! Yeah, they are definitely going the other way. The "reset" button doesn't seem to have been pressed properly yet.
New to the channel and blown away with the level of fault diagnosis and nano surgery taking place 👍 amazing skills man 😎👌
Love all of your videos! and the music you use in them!...especially - Don't Leave Yet! (feat. Lil Demi') love the instrumental
This channel is the definition of 'hidden gem'.
"I made it worse by trying to fix it"... Incredibly relatable.. Consider me a new subscriber!
10:25 best laugh ever . Keep the good work :)
😂😂 thanks Froz!
Another great video, o how I do miss my old GB, have to try and convince the wife that the kids really need one
🤣 your kids definitely need one, Morten! 😁
I'm just binging vids now... Love your work!
whats the little black box with the chinese letters and red numbers do? 11:11
Another great job there Steve your fixing skills have came along way and i enjoy watching your fixes on all items you get so well done mate - nice 1 👍🏻
Thanks Chris, much appreciated! 👍
Great videos that are even better with your quirky sense of humour..'d llike to know how much you're able to sell the fixed items for
I have literally no interest in game boys. Or electronics. But I am now finding myself binge watching all of your videos.
Recently found this channel. Love your work man. Youre so calm and easy going in your vids And i learned a lot from it. Only thing i should adjust if i were you (if possible) is the volume of the *PEEEEEEP* currentmeter.
Keep on the good work!
I would suggest, when you come across high levels of corrosion on solder pads or vias, to reflow them using new solder and even suck the old solder using a solder pump. I mean you get into all this trouble to repair the stuff and you are doing 100% great. Why don't secure the retro stuff from further corrosion. On the video you repaired the GB carts from ebay, almost all of them had the same pins not soldered correctly by the factory. This would suggest their solder might be problematic. I thing it would be wiser to re solder them instead of just reflowing the old solder.
Really great vids! Keep it up mate!
i love this channel so much, you make it so easy to understand what's going on
Hmm.. Interesting Brother Steve! Toy story 2 was made by Mintendo - Mario-land was made by a bunch of mixed up, garbled pipes & tubes.
I see what you did there & if you pause around 0:56 Steve! Tells us what the GB is going to do' John travoltage style - Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive 😂🤣
Oh Steve! Dr. Bunsen Honeydew got in touch, He wants his' Beaker back when your done with it 😂 That GB screen sucks! now that doses need changing 👍🏻
🤣 Thanks brother Steve! Glad you noticed the deliberate stayin' alive dance! I should've done that as my outro song 😁. Yeah, the screen is awful. Will be trying to pick up an IPS for it, for sure! 👍
I also noticed the use of the Muppet! throughout the lovely video content ☺
@@StezStixFix ❤🩹
I've still got mine in the loft sadly water damaged ...
As a little kid (probably 89/90s I dropped it in the bath whilst playing it
To my surprise it actually worked
So, silly me assumed (aged 7 or so) though, "oh, they are waterproof"
😔
Yup, found put the hard way that they aren't.
Didn't have the heart 💔 to tell my parents as it was only months old at the time.
Glad that you managed to fix that Gameboy :)
Though some times I wonder what people do to their consoles for them to end with such damage =/
By the way nice ending with that classic ABBA song :D
stupid game(boy)
Just recently discovered your channel
Love your energy and the way you go about these repair projects.
Nice tee shirt By the way
"GETTIN THERE LEWIS!" thats what I heart everytime he says get in there haha
Really enjoy your well produced videos showing your repair journey. The added songs at the end are a lovely bonus!
😁 thanks Mike!
Oh finally a restore without a MOD! xD Nice job
Great work Steve. Your repair skills are growing fast.
What is the make and model of the UV timer light.
Thanks John. Not sure if it's a generic one, but it's from repair outlet. This one: repairoutlet.co.uk/collections/uv-lamps/products/qianli-portable-iuv-intelligent-curing-lamp
I was wondering what that device was, so thanks for saying :)
Steve is the type of guy you love for his singing skills and just appreiate he can fix about anything.
Great fix Steve! We love your channel and let's hope we get a chance to insult sword fight and beat the sword master again in the new Return to Monkey Island!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!
Yep, genuinely can't wait! It's gonna be awesome! 😍
Bit late to this one, but really enjoyed it :) Fantastic work Steve!
Thanks dude! 👍
Is the copper colored sheet to protect from EMI? Is it conductive and is the sticker layer protecting it from short circuiting some contacts? If so then having some of the sticky layer removed might cause problems.
is there a link to the background music (around 6:00) ? It's really good
Ahh. At the end you wanted to say "stupid game!", but it was so soft because of the nostalgia. :)
I've currently got two Gameboy Advances that had fairly bad battery leakage. Cleaned both and one now works but the power switch is finicky and the other still doesn't work but the power switch pins look bad so hopefully I can get both working again by re-flowing the pins.
Thanks Matthew, good luck with the fix! Hope you get it working 👍
@@StezStixFix Little update. Reflowed the power switches on both GBA's and the one with the finicky switch now works perfectly. Was pretty pleased seeing it power on as it's my first proper console repair.
Unfortunately couldn't get the other one working, I think the corrosion may have just been too bad as I gave each joint on the switch a decent amount of time with the soldering iron.
Like your videos ! Subscribed, keep up the nice work ✌️
Cheers from Marseille - France
Thanks Bruno, much appreciated! 👍
You should consider an ultrasonic cleaner, would save you a lot of time cleaning. Once you give the boards a look over for problem areas, it would blast off the surface grunge in no time and would get down into those vias really well too. Could throw all the plastic parts in too.
Can a Gameboy motherboard be submerged like that? Sorry if I'm off-base here, I'm picturing something like a jewelry cleaner right?
@@Billy-ww3uv if all you need to fit is small boards, that would work. I use a bigger 3 liter one for larger parts, and it also has more ultrasonic power for faster cleaning than the smaller ones will do. *you'll have to use something like alcohol or ultrasonic solvent and make sure its thoroughly dry afterwards too
I like .... Your star shaped screws.. to the right ...Solid!
Never seen a damaged gameboy like that ! You are not lucky with your purchases but we are lucky to have a video on it so keep buying junk consoles for our pleasure 😜😂
Thanks KoSlow! I really like doing these trace repair ones, so I'm pleased with the purchases. Obviously I don't know what I'm gonna get when I buy them, but that's part of the fun! 😁
The fact that your boy dave is still there is what i check about every video you make like this lol.
OMG!!! This is the first game I played in my gameboy when I was a kid!!! Good job~
I got 1 at my local carboot this weekend for £20. Missing the outer screen, has some dead screen lines on both sides and needs a good clean. But other than that it turns on and plays games fine, so I’m happy.
Really is nuts how much they've gone up even not working fully. I bought a DMG years ago for 50p from my high school's indoor car boot sale. Was missing lines on both sides of the screen. Have no clue where it went which of course I now regret seeing how much they go for now and the screen would have been an easy fix.
@@TheAlphaWolf2013 I got it fixed up really nice. Since then, I’ve been buying up loads of broken non working Gameboys from eBay, and fixing them (I really love Gameboy colors). I’m currently working on an IPS screen upgrade for a DMG which looks amazing compared to the original screens.
Great video, love your comments. Have a game boy with exact the same fault. Now i now where to look!
Great repair my mate Steve 😊
😁 thanks Cuthbert!
Just found you...ninused to repair and modify the Nintendo NES. Great fun!
So much nostalgia watching you play Mario world on there. That was my childhood from 7-9 until my brother threw the game boy off a bridge.
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Fun to watch you bud and see things been fixed
I love your videos. Keep up the good work 👏
Another brilliant 👏 video but where did you get that uv light for the solder mask?
I got one two years ago from a consignment store for $10 USD. It had corroded contacts. I bought some replacements online, soldered them in, and it worked, but the screen is missing some lines. I was planning on getting an upgrade backlit screen for it, so I probably won't bother with trying to repair the connection to the screen to fix the missing lines.
Nice find for $10! Yeah, i think I'm gonna upgrade the screen in this one too 👍
Coper oxide is blue. This baby got some moisture on it
The maniacal laugh cracks me up, I do that all the time when I unexpectedly fix something :D
Steve I didn’t think you were going to fix this game boy but I was wrong well done sir get in there 👍👏👏thanks for your video see you next time 👍😊
This next period for me is all about studying GameBoy, I want to write an emulator for fun. So this gives a nice hardware view as well :) thanks!
Never been much of an ABBA fan myself, nor the Gameboy, for that matter. But excellent video nonetheless :) Merci Steve!
😁 thanks esseferio!
Hello, I have the same problem in my nintendo game boy. I think that this video will be a great help. Thanks.
Good job. Love the MI shirt!!!
Great job Steve
Thanks Jon! 👍
niiicccceeeee!! great work again Steve.
That was mad. I was just thinking I’d poke my 3D printer nozzle cleaning thingies through that hole and you immediately said it!
You can also get new slap on plastic covers for the display from eBay.
Had an original gb years ago,collected 98 games altogether when I sold it but recently got a fb colour to add to my collection of handhelds and consoles 🙂
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
❤️ great vid as always
Good repair Steve
Thanks Oz! 👍
Ooh gameboy restoration tried restoring mine a while back but sadly no joy I replaced a power cap as well
You should give it another go! 😍
@@StezStixFix Think its a chip that's failed sadly it was in the family loft for probably 15 years but it worked perfectly until not long ago.
Nice work mate 👏🏻👍🏻
Cheers mate! 👍
I played the heck out of super Mario land on my original game boy as a kid, hearing the game music brought back memories. I still have the game boy with games and accessories stored away safely, all in great condition. Now I want to take it out and play it some 😂
hi mate it's great what you do do you think you would be able to fix a night vision scope it's a digital camera not a tubed night vision cheers
man do i enjoy your videos.
@10:27 laughing like Palpatine... something's going on here...
Great Video but I thought the song should of been "I can see clearly now" Haha Love it anyways!! :}