You can press any of the face buttons to pass the "touch the screen to continue". Also the DS Lite has a function to autoboot GBA carts if one is present at boot.
I had a GBA cart that didn't work. I finally opened it up and ran an eraser along the contacts and now it works great after years of it sitting there broken. The hardest part was getting a triwing screwdriver.
This is why I always look at what else a seller has for sale. A lot of times, they are people who hit thrift stores and estate sales and just buy everything cheap and have no idea how these things work. I got a DS lite listed as not working/parts and apparently the battery just needed charging. Works great, screens are in great shape (never took off the plastic from the screens) and plays DS and GBA just fine.
Nice bro, yesterday i stopped by a pawn shop and seen a Nintendo DS Lite for $24 "as is". And the lady told me it wont power up. I said i will give you half that price for it. So i bought it for $12. Took it home and messed with it for a few seconds. It powered on without taking it apart. I think she was trying to turn it on with the volume lol. However, it doesnt read any DS game. I dont have a Advance game to try on the other side. May go find one to try on that end today. Im halfway there since it powers up and charges. So now some cleaning to see if it will read. If not, its disassembly time.
Haha, I feel your pain! I had to go thru three NES' to find one I wasn't easily able to fix to use for an upcoming project. It was an odd feeling to be saddened at my skills of being able to successfully repair one. Haha. I felt it was my Hippocratic Oath as a retro game enthusiast and background as an electronics repair tech to fix them if I could!
This reminds me of this time I wanted Mario Advance 1, so what I did was I wrote "Super Mario Advance, SMB2" on it with crayon hoping it worked, it did'int. I used one of those dummy GBA carts that came with the DS Lite consoles as I never had a Gameboy Advance until two years ago. Also in my experience the DS Lite tends to be finicky with reading GBA Carts, I'd use something like a GBA, or a Gameboy Player if you can.
This reminds me of one GBA game I purchased off eBay (that was a legit copy, I must add) that wouldn't read, or have that staticy Nintendo symbol (or solid). Decided I could just take my 90% rubbing alcohol to the contacts and bam! works like a charm. Clean contacts are so nice.
Some of them may have a faulty saving function as this could be a really common fault of this kind of cartages. Some of them may use a battery to save data and as the battery dies, it loses the ability of saving, others may use a battery to run a clock and that can also be faulty.
Spider Mcgavenport If you can get one of those triangle shaped white erasers they’re the best. Doesn’t leave too much eraser dust in small shreds like some erasers can. 👍🏻
Since the carts all worked you should've ended the video showing how to clean the contacts on the DS lite. I'm sure after putting all those dirty games in there it's at least a little dirty.
The sad thing is that there's no real point for the seller to try and clean the carts. I don't think any of these except for MAYBE Mega Man Battle Network 5 (as this series went on, production for the games was dwindling, I guess due to reclining sales, so copies of the later games are harder to find) were worth much (would love to be proven wrong, despite growing up in the GBA generation I've little idea on what the big non-first party games were) and had to be included as part of a lot. If they just needed to get rid of the carts for space or whatever, they did it the best way, brand it all defective and sell it to people like you who do repair work.
I picked up a crash bandicoot gba game from a local secondhand game store and at first it wouldn't show up on my ds but then i tried inserting it and taking it out rapidly, similar to what people did with snes games, and then it said there is a ds option pack inserted, to which i knew that there was residue on the traces, and sure enough, more of the inserting and removing made it work.
I still have my Gameboy Advance somewhere, and some games. One thing I can say is that The Sims is a great game. Its nothing like the PC version, where you endlessly manage the life of your sim. I also loved the sequel called The Urbz. Sims 2 werent that good, and Sims 2 Pets was a huge mistake. What else can I say about the games. Harry Potter is a good title as for the early GBA games (btw this one you have its an Euro version). Pacman and Tetris you know the drill about them. I also see you got doubled TMNT, Im not sure if those games differ, but both of these are probably beatem ups. Cars is another movie based game, and I think it had pretty cool graphics, as for a GBA game. Dogz is basically a game for girls, where you take care of the pet. Megaman 5 is another Megaman game, so quite cool. The rest I have no idea. Unfortunately Im not sure how those games are priced, only from what I know Pokemon and Zelda games are pricy. Same goes with GBC, some games like Shantae are ridiculously expensive, while others arent worth that much. I think Megaman would be the best one from the collection in terms of value.
gba games were pritty much the last gen of still works by blowing on them, so i guess they have just been sitting for years and well they just don't work but then a quick blow and boom working,
It's weird, I got it for free, because the seller told me it was fake. I honestly cannot find anything indicating to me it's not a genuine Nintendo DS. If it's fake, this particular manufacturer has really upped their game.
I bought one of those 369 in 1 GBA carts on ebay. For some reason, it won't boot up on my DS lite or GBA SP AGS 101. Tried cleaning it & still doesn't boot up:(
I have a Game Boy Advance cartridge that doesn't work due to corrosion on a few pins that I tried to clean up. After cleaning the two of the pins are partially missing. Would you like to do a video with that game?
If it has a battery in it, it will need replacing. Lots of gba games didn't use batteries so it could be that you'll need to reflow the chips or fix a bad trace. What game?
Try what i did here to all the chips. Also inspect for missing capacitors or resistors. Sounds like there could be an issue writing save files to the flash memory. Most carts with batteries don't even use the battery for saving (ie. Pokemon), it's for an internal clock. ruclips.net/video/oaQ1JBgH4fk/видео.html
I don't recommend it. Peroxide is very watered down and will leave alot of water residue. If you do try it, make sure it's completely dry before testing it.
@@Jonnynot1plate As Adam said, it's not recommended. Chemically it is just water with extra oxygen in it, so I wouldn't use that if I were you. Some stronger solutions of the stuff is even considered corrosive (and is used for bleaching hair) so it probably wouldn't play to nicely with electronics.
@@Geeksmithing appreciate it. Starting to learn about this stuff. I. Clean with peroxide because was told to wait days after it was dried. Wont be doing that again. Thanks
Problem is just not what i thought it would be. After ordering a replacement drive it still doesn't work. Now I've got the tedious job of tracing all the connections to find the problem
@@RetroRepairs thanks very very much for that quick reply....I really want to play the game and being able to save it....thanks again for the advice...😀👌👌👌
@@RetroRepairs actually, I think the baseball game is a counterfeit. It's a bit hard to tell by the video but I'm sure the "Gameboy Advance" imprint over the label is not exactly right. The used GBA games market is infested with fakes. It's really really bad. Some of these fakes git to the point where you can just barely tell by the plasticky feel as they got really close. I have come across half a dozen fakes online while hunting for the pal version of final fantasy 6 alone. And i check the pictures really closely nowadays which doesn't always help. I'd open them and look for glob tops. Maybe there is a video just waiting to be made about that. :)
Worth a check. I just have a hard time seeing somebody justifying making fake baseball games. I understand FF or Pokemon or other big titles, but that's barely a $3 game, not even worth the cost of a board
@@RetroRepairs That's what I used to think as well but apparently no game, no matter how shitty is safe from counterfeiting. I have seen so many bad sports game fakes... I really wonder what's wrong with people that something like this is even a viable "business" to some
1 star eBay review "very dissapointed, games were not as described, they all worked."
You can press any of the face buttons to pass the "touch the screen to continue". Also the DS Lite has a function to autoboot GBA carts if one is present at boot.
I had a GBA cart that didn't work. I finally opened it up and ran an eraser along the contacts and now it works great after years of it sitting there broken. The hardest part was getting a triwing screwdriver.
Oooh a Mega Man Battle Network cart holy shoot
Remember everyone this is why you always clean you carts before selling them.
This is why I always look at what else a seller has for sale. A lot of times, they are people who hit thrift stores and estate sales and just buy everything cheap and have no idea how these things work. I got a DS lite listed as not working/parts and apparently the battery just needed charging. Works great, screens are in great shape (never took off the plastic from the screens) and plays DS and GBA just fine.
Nice bro, yesterday i stopped by a pawn shop and seen a Nintendo DS Lite for $24 "as is". And the lady told me it wont power up. I said i will give you half that price for it. So i bought it for $12.
Took it home and messed with it for a few seconds. It powered on without taking it apart. I think she was trying to turn it on with the volume lol. However, it doesnt read any DS game. I dont have a Advance game to try on the other side. May go find one to try on that end today. Im halfway there since it powers up and charges. So now some cleaning to see if it will read.
If not, its disassembly time.
Laby 70 they sell cartridge slot for cheap
Nice find. Hopefully just a cleaning is all it needs
@@odaddy47 Yeah, i bet you it just has chocolate and cheeto lint in it lol.
You need to find a better cheetos supplier if yours are linty!
tell us how did it go!
My guess is that that the seller thinks their broken because they ran out of batteries for saving...that is if any of the cartridges have any.
Most gba carts don't use batteries anymore.
The only one I can think of that does is Wario Land 4, and maybe Metroid Fusion.
@@RetroRepairs Ah, okay.
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hey man, your music is way to loud in the speed up part :p nice megaman tho :)
gameboy advance games and ds lites, takes me right back to middle school lol
Was a much simpler time then. Still remember trying to move that damn truck to get Mew in the original Pokemon games.
Those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games are actually pretty good
Haha, I feel your pain! I had to go thru three NES' to find one I wasn't easily able to fix to use for an upcoming project. It was an odd feeling to be saddened at my skills of being able to successfully repair one. Haha. I felt it was my Hippocratic Oath as a retro game enthusiast and background as an electronics repair tech to fix them if I could!
This reminds me of this time I wanted Mario Advance 1, so what I did was I wrote "Super Mario Advance, SMB2" on it with crayon hoping it worked, it did'int. I used one of those dummy GBA carts that came with the DS Lite consoles as I never had a Gameboy Advance until two years ago. Also in my experience the DS Lite tends to be finicky with reading GBA Carts, I'd use something like a GBA, or a Gameboy Player if you can.
This reminds me of one GBA game I purchased off eBay (that was a legit copy, I must add) that wouldn't read, or have that staticy Nintendo symbol (or solid). Decided I could just take my 90% rubbing alcohol to the contacts and bam! works like a charm. Clean contacts are so nice.
6:11 my ears 😭
"I sure hope these don't work" --RR 2019 :D
Some of them may have a faulty saving function as this could be a really common fault of this kind of cartages. Some of them may use a battery to save data and as the battery dies, it loses the ability of saving, others may use a battery to run a clock and that can also be faulty.
Damn it! I’m cooking ribs and i needed a longer video. Short but sweet I guess! Lol!
Sims Bustin Out is a great game
I had the ps2 version, it wasn't bad.
I kind of want that Megaman game!
Thanks for implementing the pencil eraser contact cleaner, the softer erasers work best.
Spider Mcgavenport If you can get one of those triangle shaped white erasers they’re the best. Doesn’t leave too much eraser dust in small shreds like some erasers can. 👍🏻
Love your videos dude! Keep making them! Shout out from a fellow Canadian - recognize that Shoppers brand rubbing alcohol haha
awsome score just sell/trade those for 2x or 3x more broken ones great vids
Using an eraser is a trick I used in the US Army way back in 1970, and it is probably older than that.
The sound of the scraping of the cartridge ahhh! Lol be gentle!
Since the carts all worked you should've ended the video showing how to clean the contacts on the DS lite. I'm sure after putting all those dirty games in there it's at least a little dirty.
That is why I always clean my carts before putting them in the system. I was thinking the same thing when he was putting those dirty carts in there.
Probably a good idea.
The sad thing is that there's no real point for the seller to try and clean the carts. I don't think any of these except for MAYBE Mega Man Battle Network 5 (as this series went on, production for the games was dwindling, I guess due to reclining sales, so copies of the later games are harder to find) were worth much (would love to be proven wrong, despite growing up in the GBA generation I've little idea on what the big non-first party games were) and had to be included as part of a lot. If they just needed to get rid of the carts for space or whatever, they did it the best way, brand it all defective and sell it to people like you who do repair work.
Mega Man Battle Network 5 is great game.
I picked up a crash bandicoot gba game from a local secondhand game store and at first it wouldn't show up on my ds but then i tried inserting it and taking it out rapidly, similar to what people did with snes games, and then it said there is a ds option pack inserted, to which i knew that there was residue on the traces, and sure enough, more of the inserting and removing made it work.
I still have my Gameboy Advance somewhere, and some games. One thing I can say is that The Sims is a great game. Its nothing like the PC version, where you endlessly manage the life of your sim. I also loved the sequel called The Urbz. Sims 2 werent that good, and Sims 2 Pets was a huge mistake.
What else can I say about the games. Harry Potter is a good title as for the early GBA games (btw this one you have its an Euro version). Pacman and Tetris you know the drill about them. I also see you got doubled TMNT, Im not sure if those games differ, but both of these are probably beatem ups. Cars is another movie based game, and I think it had pretty cool graphics, as for a GBA game. Dogz is basically a game for girls, where you take care of the pet. Megaman 5 is another Megaman game, so quite cool. The rest I have no idea.
Unfortunately Im not sure how those games are priced, only from what I know Pokemon and Zelda games are pricy. Same goes with GBC, some games like Shantae are ridiculously expensive, while others arent worth that much. I think Megaman would be the best one from the collection in terms of value.
Thanks for the info. I looked up Mega Man, and that's even still a pretty cheap cart, only about $10. I suspect they're all pretty cheap here.
gba games were pritty much the last gen of still works by blowing on them, so i guess they have just been sitting for years and well they just don't work but then a quick blow and boom working,
I had good times playing with PAC-MAN Collection on long car rides. :) Luckily I still kept my cart, which works every now and then.
Also to answer your assumption that those are crappy carts, some of them actually aren’t! I also grew up with a GBA SP.
Nice DS Lite same as mine just a beautiful console.
It's weird, I got it for free, because the seller told me it was fake. I honestly cannot find anything indicating to me it's not a genuine Nintendo DS. If it's fake, this particular manufacturer has really upped their game.
Got a recommendation on a mini screw driver set like yours? Thank you!
That TMNT game is pretty decent I have it.
This was an easy and fast repair, good tips anyways!!!
What's with the music suddenly going to a high volume?
I love your channel will be watching every video
I bought one of those 369 in 1 GBA carts on ebay. For some reason, it won't boot up on my DS lite or GBA SP AGS 101. Tried cleaning it & still doesn't boot up:(
The trouble is reproduction carts like that often aren't repairable as they encase the whole chip under epoxy.
Well that was a good buy hehe, nice video.
I have a Game Boy Advance cartridge that doesn't work due to corrosion on a few pins that I tried to clean up. After cleaning the two of the pins are partially missing. Would you like to do a video with that game?
I'd love to take a look. Email me at retrorepairsca@gmail.Com and Let's chat
Have you ever tried a DS cartridge?
Time to relax
👍👍
Isopropyl alcohol shouldn't cost $5-6 at all unless it's a huge bottle.
Canadian prices.
The purer to 100% it is, the more it costs (55-70 is dirt cheap at 99 cent stores).
I have a GBA cart that doesn't save anymore. Any suggestions on how to fix something like that?
If it has a battery in it, it will need replacing. Lots of gba games didn't use batteries so it could be that you'll need to reflow the chips or fix a bad trace. What game?
@@RetroRepairs Kirby and the Amazing Mirror. It doesn't have a battery, which is why I didn't really know what to do with it.
Try what i did here to all the chips. Also inspect for missing capacitors or resistors. Sounds like there could be an issue writing save files to the flash memory. Most carts with batteries don't even use the battery for saving (ie. Pokemon), it's for an internal clock.
ruclips.net/video/oaQ1JBgH4fk/видео.html
@@RetroRepairs I'll give it a try! Thanks
Would peroxide work as good to clean cartridges or is Isopropyl much better for it?
I don't recommend it. Peroxide is very watered down and will leave alot of water residue. If you do try it, make sure it's completely dry before testing it.
@@RetroRepairs thanks very much! Just found your channel and hoping to learn a lot from your videos!
@@Jonnynot1plate As Adam said, it's not recommended. Chemically it is just water with extra oxygen in it, so I wouldn't use that if I were you. Some stronger solutions of the stuff is even considered corrosive (and is used for bleaching hair) so it probably wouldn't play to nicely with electronics.
@@Geeksmithing appreciate it. Starting to learn about this stuff. I. Clean with peroxide because was told to wait days after it was dried. Wont be doing that again. Thanks
@@Jonnynot1plate Anytime! It's good to hear other people are picking up the hobby as it can be very rewarding! Best of luck!
I bought a PlayStation 2 off eBay and found a copy of the Simpson's hit and run for ps2
Nice, solid game
That's cool. Every time I buy a PS2 off someone, I usually get another GTA game:( Ah well, a few bucks on ebay for em:)
We demand more Kona
Maybe next video
When are you doing sharp twin famicom part 2
When my replacement fds comes in to harvest a part from
@RetroRepairs I've been waiting for that, is it taking that long to get the replacement FDS?
Dose fds mean famicom disk system
Yes
Problem is just not what i thought it would be. After ordering a replacement drive it still doesn't work. Now I've got the tedious job of tracing all the connections to find the problem
I have a gba game that won't save .....and it doesn't have a slot for a battery ....now what?
Need to reflow the connections and check for bad traces. Ive got a couple videos where i fix GBCor GB games. Pretty much the exact same idea.
@@RetroRepairs thanks very very much for that quick reply....I really want to play the game and being able to save it....thanks again for the advice...😀👌👌👌
I want those carts lol
8:25 , face reveal guys !!!!
Ha! That underchin view!
Most of those games are garbage however the two turtles games are actually quite good
The gba game works perfectly...but it won't save
"Skip to 8:15 if you dont want to watch me clean carts".. skipping .. watching him cleaning one more cart... wtf.
I wonder if there's any fakes, the one you opened is genuine.
I doubt it, not many gems in there
@@RetroRepairs actually, I think the baseball game is a counterfeit. It's a bit hard to tell by the video but I'm sure the "Gameboy Advance" imprint over the label is not exactly right. The used GBA games market is infested with fakes. It's really really bad. Some of these fakes git to the point where you can just barely tell by the plasticky feel as they got really close. I have come across half a dozen fakes online while hunting for the pal version of final fantasy 6 alone. And i check the pictures really closely nowadays which doesn't always help. I'd open them and look for glob tops. Maybe there is a video just waiting to be made about that. :)
Worth a check. I just have a hard time seeing somebody justifying making fake baseball games. I understand FF or Pokemon or other big titles, but that's barely a $3 game, not even worth the cost of a board
@@RetroRepairs That's what I used to think as well but apparently no game, no matter how shitty is safe from counterfeiting. I have seen so many bad sports game fakes... I really wonder what's wrong with people that something like this is even a viable "business" to some
Face reveal at 9:04 lol
Pac-Man is not crappy! >:(
Jealous >_>
Good video.. New sub.. =)
U helpmealot
can you give me a game boy pls