Repairing a DEAD Game Boy Pocket [Part 1]
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Published 2021-10-26
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"Restoration and repair of a DEAD Game Boy Color" - MattKC
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All Comments (21)
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Those pixels lost their capacity to twist the liquid crystal inside of them in order to change the orientation of light that passes through them. Thats how you polarize light so it wont pass through the filter layer, which makes the black pixels. In short, its dead.
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In the user community they tend to call this mark on the LCD "leakage" or "screen CANCER." They might be on to something... Something that sadly can't help the faulty screen itself. Also if you put the backlit screen, be aware that the power regulator is taxing itself quite a bit coupled with the small batteries. So even if the Pocket is stable after the screen mod, battery life will be absolutely wrecked.
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That LCD is dead, Jim. You usually see this in cars where the cold/warm cycling + humidity does a number on lcd panels.
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No matter how exhausting your day, seeing my favorite Discount Markiplier and Lego Island-afficionado work some tech magic with his soothing commentary, always manages to brighten my day. Thank you for the entertainment, sir!
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Tip for future desoldering: Be more generous with the desoldering mesh! Don't only work with the tip of the mesh. If you use the middle of the mesh, it can absorb the solder in two direction instead of only one ;)
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I'm not missing out on education-aiding sleep. This IS my education.
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Not sure if anyone has commented this yet but it looks like to me that the LCD itself is damaged. The pixels themselves have somehow been damaged and when that happens with LCDs there is no saving them, it’s just e-waste now. Sorry.
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I've seen marks like that in old black and white LCDs before, and even some new ones after they've experienced a physical shock (been dropped, etc). So maybe it's some kind of damage to the LCD itsself cause by physical shock?
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I'm glad you took apart the switch to clean it and make it work. The whole time I was like "just clean it!" I had to fix a PSP like that once
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I've normally experienced that kind of damage on LCD screens when they're exposed to shock, it's happened to a few of my multimeters, doesn't show straight away happens a few months to a year after the impact, it's like a microfracture that just grows a crystalline structure over time especially in cold conditions, sometimes by warming up the display to 60-70°c the marks will go away but then they reappear after a couple of weeks to a few months later.
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In my experience, moving parts such as switches are the first things to break, because the contacts get gunked up and corroded. This actually good news cause it’s pretty to easy usually, just clean it really well, you can buy anti corrosive contact spray, which is really useful.
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I'm a complete newbie to this stuff and I managed to fix an old NES power switch by just taking it apart and cleaning it. That seemed way easier than trying to replace it!
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A dirty switch is pretty common in GBAs as well. Sometimes, you don't even need to take it apart (the switch), just spray some IPA inside and keep moving it for 1 or 2 minutes.
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Can't wait for part 2! This is already an interesting journey!
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Im, really glad that people like you make these videos where it seems to be unrepairable but end up repairing it This videos pbly helped at least one person and it makes me happy
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i'm always hyped for a new MattKC video, especially of this sort
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I can’t wait for part two! I love seeing old stuff restored
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this is the MOST technical video of a gameboy restoration, well done!
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@MattKC Thank you for making these videos. You've motivated me to self repair my broken hardware, and thanks to that my XPS 13 laptop and my ZOOM audio recorder live to be used another day!
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These kind of damage to the LCD is called „Screen cancer“ and it renders the screen useless. I had this on my Pocket too
