This has just ruled out 75% of most people seeing it involves soldering

Weird but I like the sound of the batteries popping in to a gameboy

I’ve just began my journey into repairing these older consoles. Thanks for the tips!

I had a dream I was fixing the lines on a gameboy last night :/ Actually more pleasant than my normal scary dreams, so thanks.

I like the style of your videos and the way you present your work. Quality content. Keep going!

As a kid my DMG had this problem and I never knew to fix it until I became an adult

Ok so I have the same thing but the lines are running horizontally? How do you repair that???

Thanks for the video friend! Really useful, I hope to get a chance to fix my old gameboy soon and I will definitely use this video as a guide : ) good luck with your channel!

Thank you so much for this tutorial I could revive my GB Pocket's screen. Now let's celebrate with a little Tetris game.

I was trying to remove the screen to reflow it like this, and asked my wife to help. She accidentally twisted it the wrong way and there was a sudden sharp POP! and the screen went completely black. I thought it was ruined, but when I backed off the contest wheel, the streaks were gone from the screen and it was displaying perfectly

The lines come back after a few seconds, no matter how many times I do this

Thank you thank you thank you, this is so helpful! Gonna acquire a practice gb then tentatively try tinkering with the first nintendo toy I got as tot. As an aside, my gameboy's whole screen has acquired a flicker that's absent with new batteries but sets in worse and worse as the battery life goes, and now its started happening even with mostly full batteries. Do you know if this sounds more like a screen or a power supply issue, and how to approach fixing it if you're familiar with this kind of thing? Your tutorials are amazingly helpful and learning from them is giving me the confidence necessary to dig in the guts of a living gameboy, gently remove contaminants and then stitch them back up good as new!

Thanks for saving another good boy

Well, that's neat. I figured I need to reflow my screen, but I reflowed the wrong contacts,the bottom ones on the brown ribbon cable, which had no effect. Then I realised that pressing on the back of the ribbon cable makes the black lines disappear and ended up putting three layers of double-sided foam adhesive tape on the mainboard below the screen, which bends the ribbon cable upwards in a way that makes all those traces connect again. So far, it's been working perfectly, but I'll save this video in case any line shows up again. I guess a heatgun would work even better for reflowing those tiny contact, right? My soldering station has one.

Nice vid also ur almost at 100 subs

Nice tutorial, does not work for me but with some pressure and some tape works also good. Just one question: What about screen cancer? That bleeding that appears on the edge of the screens.

Another question. Could it be a difference between a us and European released pocket? I have an additional protective screen that covers the connections so I can't go in and solder them 😅😑

I have dmg01 and 4 pockets I'm in the process of fixing before selling. Hopefully I'll be able to fix all of them. Have you ever come across a dmg01 screen that looks like it's shifted to the side? Is that just a dead pixel?

bonjour, l'ami moi j'ai une game boy pocket , suite s 'en doute a un court circuit en voulant teste un ecran d une autre console, le contraste s affiche! plus l' ecran reste vierge la console s'allume bien ( led ) son ect.. mais rien a lecran lcd ! ca m ennuis beaucoup si vous avez une idee merci .

hello, it's all the screen that displays nothing anymore, do you know where I can go to the motherboard to repair it, I only have the sound without a screen image??? thank you good luck

Celsius or Fahrenheit???

how much this fix last working?

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Mines that bad, thanks for this.

How do I fix horizontal lines??

Do you know if this would work on a Gameboy light?

So after you reheated everything you had a screen with a horizontal black bar. How did you get from that to it working properly? When I power on my Gameboy it goes to that screen. Thanks for any help.

Does it work on an Gameboy light screen?

It didn't work for me, and it looks worse, by the way, horizontal lines came out :(

Good job🙃🤪

Thanks a lot :)

OK, I just got a GBP. The screen appears to work well. The Nintendo logo comes down but it's a solid black bar like was showing on this one at around 4:56. But after you put this one back together, the Nintendo logo appears normal? I've been out of gaming for a long time, so please be gentle. Maybe I'm doing something stupid, but my GBP never seems to get past the solid Nintendo logo. It does make a sound when the logo drops. That's about it. I've tried multiple sets of batteries, BUT they are all from the same pack, so that could be an issue. Thanks for the great video! Another clue: I got a dc adapter for the car with it, so I tried it. The connection seems iffy at best. Now the black bar logo is a random mix of characters and then continuously reboots. I'll go buy some brand new batteries tomorrow morning and see if that helps.

Would a lighter work instead

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