20 Most Recent
Nintendo Gameboy Color Console Questions & Answers
Can the horizontal lines on an original Gameboy can be fixed or not yes or no then?
I've stumbled across your site by simply googling "attaching ribbon to lcd glass", and now that I see the work you are doing here, I have an advice that may help you with this white ribbon cable: It is a special cable indeed, and not of the same type as the brown one. I have successfully repaired dead lines on LCD displays in some devices, including my collection of vintage Motorola StarTAC GSM phones, for which the LCD modules are no longer available anywhere.
The trick in "resoldering" this type of ribbon without damaging it, is using an iron with temperature control. The bonding material on those cables melts at 190 degrees Celcius, and I had good success reflowing the glue when I set my Weller soldering station to 205 degrees. Simple soldering irons without temperature control heat up to more than 300 degrees, and this will destroy the cable by completely melting it, when I first tried doing this with a regular iron I had the same results as you are showing here.
Anyway, I won't be digging into the subject here, but if you would like more info or any tips, feel free to send me an email, I would be glad to help.
Take care. alt="How not to fix dead horizontal lines on a DMG-01">
What is the difference between original Gameboys made in China vs being made in Japan?
Well I have 2 original Gameboys one that is made in China and one that is made in Japan. I have noticed that the power lights are different styles from one and other and the screens are different too. The one that is made in China the screen looks a little brighter and the screen is a little bigger too and a little more of a bigger square too one that's made in China and they are made in two different contries then.
Game boy color buttons won't work?
Well I think that the mechanics that allow the buttons to work and controls them to be allowed to work is probably broken my best bet would just to be to buy a new Gameboy colour then,
Gameboy color
Well it might be that the capacitor is broken or is leaking or the fuses might be bad then. Like one of the fuses is not working right then. Or it just might be broken then. So buy a new one off of ebay then or kijiji.
I dropped my gameboy original on the cement ground
It's dead. You might want someone who knows how to fix or work on those take a look at it. Something might have been jarred lose as in connections or something. That or you could open it by yourself.
Not finding what you are looking for?