Unmod Game Boy Pocket Flashcard Boot Issues Fixed with 5V Power Regulator via Soldering
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- The Game Boy Pocket is known for its poor power management, which can cause issues with booting flashcards. Although an unmodified Gameboy Pocket can start regular cartridges, it often struggles with flashcards that require additional power to boot properly.
In this video, I demonstrate how to use an unmodified Game Boy Pocket with its original display and improve its performance by soldering a 5V power regulator. This minor modification stabilizes the voltage and allows the Game Boy Pocket to boot flashcards properly, ensuring the complete battery can be used.
Although this addition modifies the Game Boy, it remains close to its original state.
GBP 5V Power Regulator for Game Boy Pocket:
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Ez Flashcard junior:
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Original cartridge: Catrap
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AAA Rechargable Batteries:
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I followed every step and my Gameboy pockect still cant read the flash cart is that normal?
In most cases these flashcards are delivered with an almost dead battery (top right corner inside of the flashcard). Replace it with a fresh one (CR1220). The boot process of this flashcard requires a lot of energy, which is drawn from both the flashcard battery and the Gameboy Pocket batteries.
@@Exus_Games thanks for the quick response, i Will try What you just Said and see if it fixes the problem and follow up with a reply
@@Exus_Games didnt work and the Gameboy is starting to make wierd noises maybe the caps and becoming bad idk
@@carlosramone40 the 5V regulator leads to increased noise, but rather subtle. Make sure that the cut pin 6 don't touch anything as well as the soldered connections. Turn up the contrast at maximum (resulting in normal contrast as the power is now regulated differently). Also you battery connections should be clean. Have you tried a regular cartridge? Sorry that I can't help you further :( I'm not professional, only a fanatic
@@Exus_Games i noticed that i can no longer make the screen go full black, and i have only left the bit of the pin 6 that is conected to the regulator, the noise problem happens even with volume at 0 do you know if thats normal?
It works just fine with a regular cartridge only does the noise tho
No problem at all your video was awsome to figure out where to solder what