Restoration and repair of a DEAD Game Boy Color
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- he's gonna take you back to the past
to fix a s̶h̶i̶t̶t̶y̶ pretty good game console that happens to not work
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Omg my gameboy is back!! Thank you dude. It’s so great to see it functional again!! And for everyone in the comments wondering, it was pancake syrup. That’s what I get for eating eggo waffles while playing. In my defense, I was 9. Thanks again dude!!
Man, when I go out, I hope it involves pancake syrup too.
"it was pancake syrup"I thought it was that or soda. I'm glad you have your GBC back
Ngl i thought it was vegemite
thought it was bbq sauce lol
How in the world did it get so covered???
i love how you censor yourself using the windows 98 error sound effect instead of using earrape bleeps
my ears cannot thank you enough
VideoGameSmash12 or the roblox oof, i like the win98 sound way more ^^
Just apologize after saying a bad word, youtube will understand, it's way better than wasting time on editing a video.
@@sharkpetro2288 youtube isnt like that. they just demonitse people for nothing
That entirely makes it better for the video and the viewer too
To be honest it sounds kinda nice
@@sharkpetro2288 RUclips will *_NOT_* understand, you clearly do not know how google runs youtube. Even if you apologize, the bot won't pick that up so still, all of your ads, *_GONE_*
I like the part where he was fixing the gameboy.
where was that? timecode pls?
@@MattKC 0:00 - 14:06
Omg same!
I like you.
I liked the ads
Well, I can tell what happened with that continuity. The pressure from buttons bent the pbc and the track communicating battery got cracked. Same happens to some nes joysticks.
I kept looking in the comment section to see if anyone had figured it out. Now I can rest in peace
I'm thinking the trace just to the side of the pad got corroded and if he just scratched the PCB a little and put some solder on there it would be fixed
@@ErimlRGG 100% correct. The mask looks a little funny to the left of the battery terminal pad. I would have scraped it off.
Why does NES joystick sound like an oxymoron?
so the owner pressed the buttons so hard that they cracked the traces?
8:38
"Dude, sex is good and all but have you ever brought a Gameboy Color back to life?"
Well that explains why I can't get a girlfriend....I've never brought an old console back to life.
Ive repaired a Xbox, GBC, N64, and a PS2 but I have no girlfriend! Shocking
Repair Gameboy not other consoles
@Samuel Chertoff In short, I was making a Google account and they allow me to put any name, so my immature self did the rest of the work. ;)
Ive repaired those phone toys from china
@@YoshiLikesFate lol
I used a power cord half the time for my gbc. Mostly because my mom didn't want to buy 50 batteries a week.
yea we always used rechargable batteries but it comes down to the same I guess
Rechargeable assholes
We had a ton of rechargeable batteries, but at home it was common sense to use the cord. The batteries where for everywhere else.
@UCB1hl3WnyHmf0VasRNfUFTQ You had to buy it from a third party, I don't think nintendo actually sold them.
There's a little jack next to the headphone jack for it.
that goop could likely be soda syrup. I've had a kid spill soda on my controller before. also had to wait awhile for a screwdriver to come, and lo and behold, the soda turned into the goop similar to the one you saw
It's pancake syrup! (as confirmed by the owner of the gameboy)
So he DIDN’T shit in the game boy!
@@zombibit4485 it actually a woman lol
@@dominics.4474 so a gamegirl
@@Oh_the_humanity thank you dad, very cool
3:39 The censor sound effect just made this moment way funnier than it had any right being
Ikr
3:32 I was expecting a brown bricks joke there and I'm not disappointed with what I got instead. Reminded me of an old ChipCheezum RP.
Dammit now I wish I made a brown bricks joke, where were you when I was writing this video??
qwop! tf?
I love it when you repair and open up tech! You should do more of this kind of stuff! Great vid!
Same I enjoy watching these videos.
looks like your friend spilled some coke in their gameboy in just the wrong spot
it was syrup lol, theres a pinned comment
wasn't there when I wrote the comment
it was baked beans
From now on when I have beef with my friend I can make the thread that I will shit in their Gameboy so it will get corrosion
idk, could be "ketchup"
The analogy to nursing a puppy is so accurate. I love seeing old electronics be salvaged and repaired. Great work Matt!
8:39 Same thing cannot be said with the s*x analogy
"Sex is good and all, but have you ever brought a gameboy back from the dead?"
Now he's speaking my love language.
Ayo what 🤨
@@magicdippyegg why are you bringing to 3 year old post?
woah, a gameboy with all the original stickers on the back, that's a rare sight.
I found one for a buck at a yard sale with box and everything, as I ran to my house to get my dollar they gave it to me
When you become a teenager and you can't really wake up early anymore...
This is too relatable, especially because I'm watching this at noon right after waking up.
Being an adult sucks too lol
7:13 Maybe the DC input is for when your batteries are low and you are in the middle of a fight, or otherwise can't turn it off and replace the batteries.
I used it on my gameboy pocket connected to a USB cable from my tablet to keep my Oracle of seasons cartridge powered for a couple weeks until i could get my save files pulled off the cartridge onto a PC and the battery replaced with a new cr2025 by someone who knew how to do it right and after the battery was replaced i put my save from the PC back on and it has been working fine since then on my GBA SP and the new battery should last for years before needing replacement again
So that's something else it can be used for
"MOM, MOM GIVE ME THE CABLE I'M ABOUT TO BEAT GARY, THE BATTERIES ARE DYING HOLY SHI"
@@HaxAras You had a power adapter that fit but provided the wrong voltage. If the LED was brighter than normal, then it was probably over 3Vdc output. Lucky you didn't burn it up.
Opening up and replacing parts on gameboy colors is like one of my favorite things to do since everything for the most part is easy to clean and not too hard to work with, especially being that parts are still being made and they're stupid cheap.
RUclips kept recommending this video to me for a while. Little did I know how full of cool stuff this channel was going to be. Amazing to see old stuff fixed up nicely. I can’t even fix the shoulder buttons on my broken PlayStation controllers 🤨
"Sex is good and all but have you ever brought a Game Boy colour back from the dead?" New hobby right there
Imma be honest, this actually taught me quite a bit more about reading schematics than most other vids. They either teach you super simple schematics or they expect you to be able to follow along with a hyper complex one. Through watching this video, I learned a lot about how this particular schematic worked, and how everything is brought back to the negative terminal through the grounding plate. Thank you!
Nice Sunday upload to watch while having lunch. Thanks MattKC!
Rick....rick....rick.....
I’m Rick James bitch!!!!
All the demoscene music you use in your videos takes me back to the 2000s and I dig it.
Me: reads thumbnail
Oh, just charge it
Battery: No, I don’t think I will
That Pokemon game was the first ever game I played in a console, in a GBA instead of a GBC. The soundtrack brings back some very nostalgic memories for sure.
That gloop looks like the residue of some kind of cola soft drink.
Look at the first comment.
This is like the tech version of those addicting painting-restoration videos
For some reason I legit almost cried watching the Game Boy being totally functional again 😭🙏✨
Great work!!!
As a Game Boy Color owner myself, I’ve really enjoyed watching the video :DD
Yeah, Game Boys are great. I own an Advance SP handheld, the one from my childhood with a cart of Sonic Advance 3 stuck inside it.
How to resurrect a Game Boy Colour: S O L D E R
1:05 oh boy, me and the other carykh veterans know what is coming next
knee hurt
i mean I left my GBA SP outside for days on end, sometimes out in the sun, left it in a plastic bin for a long while... It's still alive and kicking. Though the battery wasn't as strong as it used to be. I ended up replacing it after 15 years.
1:35 that clip will never fail to at least make me forcefully exhale
Nice vid!
I used to use qtips but now i just squirt isopropyl all over the board and go to town with a toothbrush. So much faster
Geart vid Matt! You should definately continue with backlit, battery and replacement housing mods. 👌
Hey wanna hear a secret? If you watch enough of his videos you just become an engineer.
I went through a faze of cleaning some of my old retro controllers which came from eBay, Facebook and assorted flea markets recently. Some of the stuff inside was truly horrid! From gloop, to what I’m pretty sure was cockroach poop, to (and I shit you not) a fingernail, which was both repulsive and intriguing. Still don’t know how it got in there.
You beautiful magnificent bastard, being able to logically deduce the root cause of the issue and making an inexpensive workaround is truly something worth admiring.
Every time I see a video from this channel I end up watching almost all of your videos
This gives me hope that I might be able to fix my old gameboy
crude, i wanna fix my GBC!! its been dead 19years in my shoe box 😭😭😭
Now that powerbanks and USB cables for the Game Boy line are a thing, that DC port is actually a great way to power it without having to worry about buying new batteries.
The goop is probably Coke residue.
Following your video and the iFixit guide I was able to get the dpad working again. Just needed a bit of clean up. Thank you :)
I wish your channel grows and you get the recognition you deserve. I love your content and humor. Please keep doing what you do! Cheers from Mexico.
3 months international shipping? Man, I wish I already got my tri-wing screwdriver. Anyways, nice job on the repair.
1:02 I felt very uncomfortable
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your pfp makes me feel very uncomfortable
isn't that what fnf fans feel 24/7? they have to try so hard to not get groomed lmao
@@S0meb0dy728 ion even play that bum ass game nm😭🙏 bro js yappin tf up
Petition for him to make merch that says ill fix it later
I don’t know anything about electronics but I find stuff like this so interesting and I love how your style is really starting to shine!
I have absolutely no idea what's going on, but find it fascinating
8:39 well, you tell me!
Ahhh ahhhh i'm getting close i..i.gonna..AHHH IT WORKS! IT WORKS!. aaahhhhh...
Hello RUclips Algorithm, I really think you would like this video, just putting that out there, ok, cool, thanks, bye
When i wake up i lay in bed until its dark then i get up to go to bed
I hope you weren’t Negligently inhaling those fumes in lol
So I was playing with my gameboy color like i often do and while readjusting my Wormlight, the system crashed. (I noticed earlier that the led indicator wasn’t as bright as usual so I suspected dying battery). So, in my hope of resolving the crashing problem I changed em and it worked for a while (about 1 hour). While playing, I re-ajusted my wormlight again and suddenly I hear a pop and it died again except this time I wouldn’t power on anymore… anyone has a clue of potential issue ? Is it because it’s not an official Nyko one? I’m terribly sad since it was my most prized possession since I was 10 years old :((
While I wasn’t around when the Game Boy was in it’s prime, I still do enjoy getting mine out and playing it, even if it’s only for a little while.
Also, it’s great to see you back at it again with RUclips, I was in great anticipation for your next video!
You can open up those triangular screws with hexagonal star shaped screwdrivers
"Dude, sex is good and all, but have you ever bright a Game Boy Color back from the dead?" 😂😂
1:34 Yep I remember seeing that on TV... man why did we start acting so stupid when Covid started???
I feel the same way about cleaning the case, those stickers looked great for whatever 'gloop' was in it hahaha
I like how the description references AVGN
Hey mate. Du you maybe have a link to the scheme you showed? I can't seem to find a decent circuit diagram for the GBC and I really neet one to fix mine. Thanks in advance! You video was great!
Gameboy: I WAS IN HEAVEN WHY DID YOU BRING ME BACK TO THIS SUFFRAGE?!
i have the same g,oop on my gameboy advance. Always was wondering what that is, never spilled choclate or anything similar on it. But now i better clean it up before my nintendo is as broken as this one was,
Matt I found your channel ab two weeks ago and it has made me so happy, your channel is an excellent blend of restoration knowledge, humor and personality. I restored a wii last year and now I am hoping to find an og Xbox to restore based on your videos. Thank you for getting me through a stressful period and keep up the great work!
Aproveed by Mexs! Thanks for using my music!
Who’s watching in 2999?
👇
One look at the gloop on the metal plate on the back and I have a pretty good idea what it is: syrupy dried cola.
ground zero for the gloop infestation 😂
guys... i have a question.
70% or 99% Isopropanol / cleaning alcohol for cleaning PCBs?
2:17 one look and i'm almost sure that is fruit juice. were you a fan of apple and black currant juice growing up?
Good old Coca Cola strikes again.
omg gloop look slike blood
like how someone cut them selfs and some blood got inside
It's brown,it's sticky, it's corrosive -> It's coke.
wrote this down to sound cool sometime
thx
It's actually pancake syrup.
Wanna know something funny? My Original gameboy is still alive to this very day!
You should buy an ifixit kit, or get sponsored by ifixit, also nice.
I have a gameboy color, same color, similar brown crap and gummy buttons. No corrosion though.
I was thrilled, I have a green that is also dead, I have him since I was a child and I was really sad when it stopped working, 16 years ago I got him from my mother, my whole childhood he was by my side, and out of nowhere he died. Press F to pay respects.
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Would've loved to see a closeup of the wire between the terminal to EM7!
Hi! Great video! Ive watched it like 30 times so far xD
What do you use to whipe the goop off the motherboard? Is it vinegar?
Maybe try a toothbrush instead of q-tips. I would say its way more comvenient
Thanks now i wanna play Pokemon yellow again, what should i do i don't have a copy...
What did you use for that TLC bit? I’ve been interested in using modern hardware on my CRT for a while
PS3 with composite cable. It even has a RUclips app you can use, but I wanted to crop it to 4:3 beforehand so it's playing an MP4 from a flash drive.
Something I’ve done to fix trace continuity problems in the past is to scrape away solder mask until you get to some bare copper on the trace and then just make a solder bridge from the pad to the bare copper nearby
Dissapointed that this video does not include a full playthrough of pokemon blue. Big missed opportunity.
My boi got that jaycar analog temp-controlled mains iron and the legit goot wick. The circuit behind that iron is pretty strange, if you’d found intrigue in opening it up to take a look earlier then you’d already have a tri wing screwdriver, because that’s what the iron uses! Anyhow, nice job repairing, a badge wire is exactly what I’d have done too. I somewhat recently upgraded to a more standardised soldering station (STM32 T12 OLED) and find the different tips a huge help for soldering small stuff. I’m never using a conical tip again if I can afford it, those things only make good thermal contact on their edges which means the iron has to be on a steep angle. I use a K tip (45 degree knife edge) for THT work (less of an angle required, good thermal contact) and a D12 (1.2mm flathead) for SMT work, as it’s nice and small and the small flat at the tip makes good thermal contact along the edge of an SMT pad. Bevel tips are apparently quite good for drag soldering, if you do that a lot.
That strange analog temperature control circuit only uses like 2 op-amps total for reading the thermocouple/thermistor and PWMing/TRIACing the element, and I don’t understand how.
I did something similar with a GBA. I also ended up modding it later.
aren’t triwing screws just in normal screwdriver kits though lol
I don’t think my friend shi_ on the game boy
Hearing 13:21 again after a long time made me tear up a bit. Its been so long since I last heard it. Reminded me when I was still a kid.
“Hopefully my friend didn’t shit in his gameboy”
The gloop looks like dried up cola goo
I'd throw it in the sink, also you could have just scratched off some of the silk screen and soldered it to the negative terminal.
I was going to say the same. Scratch away some to reveal the intact trace and bridge it with some wire if needed.
I'd bet $20 that brown goo is coca cola
This content relaxes me so much and I have no idea why
It's just so chill
Why does this dude only have 350k subs.
Y not sand PCB to look at the corroded tracks
I have no idea what any of that meant, but oo gameboy work yay
YEEEEAH ANOTHER MATTKC VIDEO! LET’S GOOOO!
don’t worry, I left a like, per usual!
@@callaco3176 ok boomer
Polifeet no u
Its always a good day when Matt uploads a video.
Me who spilled Soy Sauce on my GameBoy: 🗿
If I may make a recommendation if you want to regularly fix old game consoles and such. Pick up an iFixit kit. They are built really well and have all the bits for the old game consoles. Really nice thing to have around, even if it is a little pricey.