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How To Replace a Gameboy Cartridge Battery
How do you replace a Game Boy cartridge battery? The maker solders in a fresh CR2025 cell, using flux, a 3.8mm bit, tweezers and isopropyl alcohol for tidying the joints.
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The Retro Station
8 chosen videos. Channel on YouTube
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Fixing an Original Xbox DVD Drive Stuck Disk Tray (Samsung SDG-605B)
An original Xbox has a stuck DVD tray on its Samsung SDG-605B drive, and the maker's repair stretches beyond thirty minutes of video.
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PlayStation 2 Not Reading Discs? Here's a Cheap and Easy Laser Fix!
PlayStation 2 disc read errors are tackled on two consoles by cleaning the lens on the laser, which the maker says was all these units needed.
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Diagnosing and Repairing a Non-Booting Gameboy Color
Diagnosing a non-booting Game Boy Color comes down to one damaged via here, repaired with a length of wire while the maker talks through the steps.
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Fixing Someone Else's Gameboy Color Repair Attempt - Polarizing Filter, Capacitor and Trace Repair
A Game Boy Color that someone else failed to repair is redone, with corrosion cleared, a capacitor and battery terminal replaced, a broken trace mended and the polarising filter swapped.
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Gameboy Capacitor Replace Quick Guide
Game Boy capacitor replacement is walked through with several ways to take the old parts off and two ways to fit new ones, plus advice to practise on scrapped boards first.
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Gameboy Color Power Switch and Corrosion Repair
Cleaning the battery terminals and the power switch revives a yellow Game Boy Color that would not start, make sound or show a picture, according to the maker.
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2x Gameboy Advance eBay Easy Repair! 'Dead Board' and 'Flickering Screen'
Two Game Boy Advance consoles bought as faulty are opened up, one with a flickering screen and one with corrosion spread across the board, which the maker says stopped it booting.
