Repair Tutorial: How to Fix Screen Lines on Original Nintendo DMG and Game Boy Pocket.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2020
- Get rid of those horrible dead pixels making lines on your screen for good! Your GameBoy deserves better and this video will help you bring it back to life! All you need is a soldering iron and tri-wing screw driver.
Don't forget to enter the giveaway for a free Silver GameBoy pocket which ends on July 22 at 8pm!
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This has just ruled out 75% of most people seeing it involves soldering
I like the style of your videos and the way you present your work. Quality content. Keep going!
Thanks for the video friend! Really useful, I hope to get a chance to fix my old gameboy soon and I will definitely use this video as a guide : ) good luck with your channel!
I’ve just began my journey into repairing these older consoles. Thanks for the tips!
I had a dream I was fixing the lines on a gameboy last night :/ Actually more pleasant than my normal scary dreams, so thanks.
Glad I could help, fixing screen lines is kinda zen
@@gameboysinthewild do you know if something like this works on a gameboy color?
I haven’t had this issue with a GBC ever, but if it did happen you would need to figure out which pixels were dead and find the right traces to reflow (the GBC has got a lot more going into it than a DMG or Pocket)
@@gameboysinthewild yeah it is weird. A block of lines are black and another block is slightly orange tinted.
Interesting, I’ll have to look into getting one with the issue myself so I can try to figure it out
Weird but I like the sound of the batteries popping in to a gameboy
Thanks for saving another good boy
Thank you so much for this tutorial I could revive my GB Pocket's screen.
Now let's celebrate with a little Tetris game.
Nice vid also ur almost at 100 subs
Thanks! We are almost there!
Nice tutorial, does not work for me but with some pressure and some tape works also good. Just one question: What about screen cancer? That bleeding that appears on the edge of the screens.
Another question. Could it be a difference between a us and European released pocket? I have an additional protective screen that covers the connections so I can't go in and solder them 😅😑
Thanks a lot :)
Do you know if this would work on a Gameboy light?
I have dmg01 and 4 pockets I'm in the process of fixing before selling. Hopefully I'll be able to fix all of them.
Have you ever come across a dmg01 screen that looks like it's shifted to the side? Is that just a dead pixel?
Well, that's neat. I figured I need to reflow my screen, but I reflowed the wrong contacts,the bottom ones on the brown ribbon cable, which had no effect. Then I realised that pressing on the back of the ribbon cable makes the black lines disappear and ended up putting three layers of double-sided foam adhesive tape on the mainboard below the screen, which bends the ribbon cable upwards in a way that makes all those traces connect again.
So far, it's been working perfectly, but I'll save this video in case any line shows up again. I guess a heatgun would work even better for reflowing those tiny contact, right? My soldering station has one.
Do you know what the contacts on the bottom ribbon are for?
Good job🙃🤪
As a kid my DMG had this problem and I never knew to fix it until I became an adult
you still have your DMG?
Ok so I have the same thing but the lines are running horizontally? How do you repair that???
You can't
Mines that bad, thanks for this.
bonjour, l'ami moi j'ai une game boy pocket , suite s 'en doute a un court circuit en voulant teste un ecran d une autre console, le contraste s affiche! plus l' ecran reste vierge la console s'allume bien ( led ) son ect.. mais rien a lecran lcd ! ca m ennuis beaucoup si vous avez une idee merci .
hello, it's all the screen that displays nothing anymore, do you know where I can go to the motherboard to repair it, I only have the sound without a screen image??? thank you good luck
I was trying to remove the screen to reflow it like this, and asked my wife to help. She accidentally twisted it the wrong way and there was a sudden sharp POP! and the screen went completely black. I thought it was ruined, but when I backed off the contest wheel, the streaks were gone from the screen and it was displaying perfectly
Does it work on an Gameboy light screen?
how much this fix last working?
So after you reheated everything you had a screen with a horizontal black bar. How did you get from that to it working properly? When I power on my Gameboy it goes to that screen. Thanks for any help.
Insert the game.
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Celsius or Fahrenheit???
How do I fix horizontal lines??
The lines come back after a few seconds, no matter how many times I do this
OK, I just got a GBP. The screen appears to work well. The Nintendo logo comes down but it's a solid black bar like was showing on this one at around 4:56. But after you put this one back together, the Nintendo logo appears normal? I've been out of gaming for a long time, so please be gentle. Maybe I'm doing something stupid, but my GBP never seems to get past the solid Nintendo logo. It does make a sound when the logo drops. That's about it. I've tried multiple sets of batteries, BUT they are all from the same pack, so that could be an issue. Thanks for the great video!
Another clue: I got a dc adapter for the car with it, so I tried it. The connection seems iffy at best. Now the black bar logo is a random mix of characters and then continuously reboots. I'll go buy some brand new batteries tomorrow morning and see if that helps.
An update in case anyone has any ideas: fresh, brand new batteries and it's still showing a black bar for the Nintendo logo and just reboots if you hit any buttons. Sure the previous owner could have lied about it working, but it seems like it should be something simple if there are any ideas out there! :)
Stupid question. Did you insert a game cartridge? If so, you might need to clean the contacts on the cartridge.
@@nightwinn I did, but I'll clean the contacts anyway. I only have a couple of games for it. Thanks!
I wish you luck. I spent 3 hours last night trying to get my gbc and gba game sharks to work. After reflowing them, pretty sure the cartridge connectors are worn.
@@ljwhitmire200 if you're struggling you can use a card to stick paper or fabric into the connector slot, or clean a cartridge super good and slide that in and out several times to clean it
Would a lighter work instead
You crazy! No, you’ll ruin the display
It didn't work for me, and it looks worse, by the way, horizontal lines came out :(
Just replace the screen with a backlit one at this point, I guess
next step: how to fix horizontal lines