🤔 For some reason, some of my replies to comments aren't showing up. I definitely went through and responded to everyone... Hmm. Good old KZfaq.

you can set your multimeter to the Hz setting to generate a tone. it's useful for testing speakers w/o desoldering them

You are a blast to watch. I feel like we’re best friends and I’m sitting there with you fixing stuff. You are a great mechanic and seem very humble about your knowledge. Thanks for all of the great content.

As an old school game collector and fellow tinkerer I'm so glad I've found this channel. Keep up the awesome videos

Steve, just wanted to say thanks for making all of this feel so much more approachable. Best I'd done before watching your videos was splice some wires back together to fix an old PS2 controller., and every step of the way I was sure I was going to break the thing. Seeing how simple some basic component swaps are though gives me a lot of hope I can maintain my old consoles for no other reason than to say I did. Today I ordered a new speaker for my own Gameboy Color ( I think it had the same rust issue yours did) so fingers crossed I can manage to solder 2 wires without destroying the board.

Man watching these older videos after your earlier ones are exciting. "I wonder if I can fix this?" It's an adventure! I'm excited!!!

The audio chip is the IR3R53N next to the volume control. The speaker you replaced, from a Switch! They are popular for use with the sound Mod! 🖖😁👍🏻 All this time I wondered were my T-Shirt went. You robbed it from my wardrobe. It's OK brother Steve you can use any of them, just not! when I'm wearing them 🤣

I love watching you fix things that most people would throw away. Some questions StezStix, how did you learn this electronics stuff? What do you do with these gadgets when you’ve fixed them?

Oh silly Stez, you forgot the Barbie games again. The best video game franchise ever

Nice video - if you didn't know, you could've checked the speakers resistance to determine if it was dead, though I can't tell if the ohms are even written on the thing so may not always be useful. Also, always upload easy ones - lets people know things aren't always hard to fix and they may try it themselves... plus I enjoy them regardless :D

I’ll tell you what Steve, whenever you get that de soldering gun out I hate the look of it and want it to fail….. But alas, it seems pretty good lol !!! Nice quick fix my friend - nothing wrong with that!!

Another great video mate

Hope you’re feeling better! Don’t worry about the simple fix, it was still interesting to watch! A nice and practical one that I could do at home. Keep up the great work Steve! Loving the videos!

I too have the same t shirt. Nice fix Steve,now back to making my 36v Li-On scooter 10S 3P battery pack with cheap Chinese bms. The fire station is quite local to my home 😂

Another good way to confirm sound would be to connect headphones via the jack.

I've grown to love Saturdays on YT. And you haven't disappointed!

I think I'll be investing in a de-soldering gun too. Looks super easy. It was a simple fix and an enjoyable video to watch. Thanks.

Love it! Nice to see you do an easy one every once in a while, you make it look effortless. 😍

That was the most perfect "Hello" I've heard

It's always interesting listening to a Brit pronounce R's.

My wife thinks your de-soldering gun sounds like a cow 🐄

Nice and easy fix! That desoldering gun is quite awesome. The hand pump often fails to unclog the hole fully. Might have to invest in the future.

This one especially makes me happy - my Gameboy Colour was THIS green one! Brings me back.

Love the video Steve! You're better in each new video. I look forward to all your new ones, keep it up! Cheers

This video deserves a like for the Ace Ventura line alone! 😂

I like watching these B.D. (Before Dave) videos.

was just wanna say im addicted to your channel now, i doubt ill ever use what youve taught me but if i do!!!

Love it bro, I've had nothing but easy fixes on GameBoy Colors, one of my top 10 gaming items to buy broken!

the "tough" at the end made me subscribe!

I really like how i had a very similar experience with a gameboy color. Audio was not working, a copper wire was loose in the speaker. It looked so easy to fix, but after nearly an hour of swearing (being french give me an edge with that), i just ordered a bunch of speakers on ebay... Anyways great video as usual!

Another excellent fix - never hide the straightforward ones or you’ll make folk think this game is hard 😀... ps, was there a headphone socket to check when the speaker failed? Sometimes it points the finger from the chip towards the speaker itself if the headphone is getting some audio. Keep up the great work 😀👍

Nice fix, Steve! Every fix is an interesting one. Even a simple fix makes a good learning video for someone who doesn't know how to fault find or where to search. And the gun, OMG, the gun! 😂

I had an issue with my old gameboy color that had no sound from the speakers replacing the speakers did not fix it but it turned out the issue was with capacitor c38 near the speaker was dry and needed replacement. Due to how old gameboy colors are now people should heavily consider recapping the boards to ensure longevity of the systems life.

Always wanted to try fixing stuff and I mean this in the best possible way your videos make it seem possible

Great vid as usual. What make and model of desoldering gun is that please?

9:18 cracked me up 😂 I can remember getting one of these lime green GBCs from Argos not long after release! Lasted me years!

General GB sound issue tip: If your gameboy doesn't make any sounds through the built-in speaker, try a headphone. If the headphone works, then it's just an old crusty speaker you have to replace. The headphone jack is also a switch, when you plug in a jack it disconnects some lines (disabling the built-in speaker) and reroutes the sound to the jack (or maybe the jack is always connected, I don't know). When corrosion gets to this switch part it can easily disable the built-in speaker without having a jack plugged in. Clean the contacts and it should work in this case.

8:31 Didn't you forgot the plastic membrane on the speaker? I can see it chilling on the blue mat. I guess you not gonna hear anything without it.

Man dude idk what it is but I am loving your videos. I like repairing boards too, maybe that has something to do with it. There's a strange satisfaction in fixing something that is broken, even if it costs more to fix it than to buy another one, at least that's how I feel. Keep it up bro!

I really enjoy your videos, I don’t do a heck of a lot of electronics repair, but I do find the videos very interesting and helpful.

Hi Steve good to see you fix this Game Boy Colour also your desolder gun is a great tool - Nice 1 mate 👍

Nice fix Steve, that will free up some time to fix the MicroVision keypad!!! Only joking, it is inhumane for any living being to spend that many hours working on them. Would make an interesting video though 😂

When you tried to fix the wire around the voice coil and test the speaker - you neglected to put the cone back on the speaker. It would not have made a sound even if it was working. I think It would have worked!

I have my GBC, same exact color as this one. Mine looks brand new and 100% working. Did not store with batteries installed. That color is Kiwi.

It looks like the same size of speakers you'd find in those cheap old crapoy headsets with just a flimsy foamy stuff as padding. The kind of speakers we had in the headphones for Walkman in the 80s. It's the same type used here.

Always a pleasure to work on a GB Color!

"So, it does have another problem...fantastic! 😃

Certainly about time you, and Joey for that matter, had a lemon squeezy one. The lime green Color is pretty nostalgic to me as my grandparents bought me one in that colour for Christmas. T' tree 'Ouse 'Er Orrr-Rorrrs. As tie-ins go, it looks like it could be a decent game. Kinda surprised the Switch speaker worked - not sure what the wattage and impedance (ohms) differences are. As Chris has already suggested, I'd have tried the headphone jack first; either on headphones or some 3.5mm stereo jack speakers such as PC speakers. But meh, you got it working. 🤘😎 Pretty cool to see inside of the speaker part itself though; cheers for that Stez. You rock! Hope you're feeling better.

I think nowadays it's quite hard to get broken Gameboys for a good price. Feels like everyone wants to buy broken devices nowadays to make some money with it. Retro-Gaming / collecting, Modding and all this stuff is great, it's a huge trend and I really appreciate channels like this one. Great entertainment. Thanks for that! But unfortunately that's very bad for the prices :( For example I started collecting Masters of the Universe figures I think 5 years ago or so. It was already expensive, but still acceptable. Now the prices of some figues have tripled or even quadrupled (if you find them at all). Nowadays many people just can't collect this stuff anymore. That's a pity.

Excellent work Steve

Ah yes, the old voice coil detachment syndrome, it seems that some models were affected by this, I had to repair my daughter's GB color as well as my nephew's GB color because of this exact fault, I was able to repair the speaker on my daughter's GB by re-glueing the coil to the diaphragm ( which you didn't do so that explains why it was still not working, it needs the coil attached or it will not make sound...) on my nephew's GB I had to replace the speaker, because the voice coil had come apart, the coil is held together by by a thin enamel coating. But now I know that a speaker from a switch is the same impedance as the GBc, good stuff.

Nice fix!!! Cool you got it working again.

Mingin 🤣😂🤣, I don't know why that word is so funny but I laughed out loud! Cheers 😄

Kind of surprised you didn't check with the headphone jack first... It'd be a quick, safe way to verify that it was the speaker that was the problem.

In your experience- which one console has the most useful parts for Frankensteining other consoles back to life? Like if you got a great deal on an absolutely unfixable lot of one particular console.. ?

I don't think the speaker will be audible enough to hear without the diaphragm attached, so that was likely the main fault toward the end of the video. But even if you put the cone back in place it would probably be pretty quiet/distorted since the diaphragm is likely meant to be permanently attached to the rim of the speaker. You might have been able to fix it with careful application of glue but I doubt the sound would be "as good as new" if you did, so yeah, best to just replace the whole thing.

The moo gun is sweet

I always watch your videos to help me fall asleep... wait.. that sounds wrong... oops.. anyway great shit

After watching enough of your videos, I find myself longing to know about Tidder....

I love my GBC (teal) and my copy of that Simpsons Treehouse of Horror game. But damn is that Simpsons game hard!

I just fixed mine now I’m trying to diagnose the sound

Great vid, thanks! Membrane should be attached to the coil inside the speaker, I think this was the main problem with it.

Love you Chanel. One of best on youtube.love to see a dream cast video but I'm new

I find there's always easy fix for the game boys. Btw, new GBC speakers are very cheap online tho. Hope you get to replace it with a new GBC speaker later on. Thanks for the Video :D

For a second I thought you had a bestbuy shirt on

I was seller some years ago of retro consoles and videogames (i am programmer now), used to buy a lot of Game Boy Consoles from Japan in bulk broken, with broken buttons or very damaged to sell as used, because were very cheap, and in most cases the screens were good and were sold as parts (i sold a lot of parts of other consoles too, and kits of new replacements as capacitors, rubber contacts, etc.), and sold a lot of them, and the boards, well the problems where almost always, but always the speaker, i dont know but the speakers of the Game Boy consoles were very bad, because always were broken or almost muted, other times were the capacitors, some corrosion here and there, a dirty internally power button (i open them with the solder, clean the internal and close it after a common problem in all the Game Boy familly, from the original to the SP and Micro, that little one is a pain to open carefully to repair the power button) but only found a couple of times a mayor problem to have to discard the board, and the boards were sold very good too, and always were sold with a new speaker.

It does have another problem, fantastic! lol

Great job mate 👍 👏 👌 so enjoy your videos 📹 👍 please keep them coming 🙏 👍 and here to help get your videos 📹 😉 out to everyone to enjoy 😉 😀 cheers mate 👍 👌

BTW, the black screen is more fun than Fifa '98. Just saying.

When do you buy that liquid that you are using to clean the speaker

Fantastic job, I have a game boy color that stopped turning on, I soldered the switch connections, it worked again, until it stopped working again. If deep cleaning doesn't work either, do you recommend the fuse bridge?

When you repaired the speaker, you didn't put the clear diaphragm back on. Did I miss something? Which seems more likely lmao

What cleaning fluid would you recommend ? Thx

What was the desoldering gun you used?

I broke my DSi XL trying to replace the touchscreen. I couldn't see well and I broke a pin. Unfortunately I don't have a magnifier. I had to send it off to a motherboard repair person. :(

Great little fix, you definitely got lucky with the screen.

Dude I used to bang out that simpsons game!

I'm curious, Steve (anyone) would that switch speaker have any higher sound output or clarity over the original (in an ideal world where the GBC one doesn't have 20 years of wear) as I'm curious if it's any kind of upgrade. So many mods now for cleaner audio and better video(IPS panels) it seems worth while asking.

I used to have a green Gameboy Color

Well without the membrane the „fixed“ speaker won’t make any sound ;)

0:00 hi

I wonder if this would be a similar fix for a fat Gameboy.

Do you still have the Game Boy Color and maybe a Samsung phone ear bud or another one with multimedia buttons? I was looking at a used GBC today and heard a clicking/popping noise every 250 to 300 ms. Now I'm not sure if this is expected with these types of ear buds or the headphone output is faulty.

I would have tried headphones to see if it's the speaker or cpu

Which one?

Now backlit Screen mod when?

Got this GBC for my birthday. Brought it to school one day and then it got stolen

If you ever open one of these up and fix them up, I recommend replacing the plastic lens with a glass one. I got mine on Ebay. www.ebay.com/itm/193536256960

Some times the headphone jack is making problems

I long to be a grapefruit swapper

where art thou mister

Would have been a lot easier if you just tried measuring the resistance of the speaker. With the coil obviously disconnected, you would find out in less than a second.

Can I fix it? That's rhetorical right? I haven't watched this yet but I bet you fix it don't you. I'll bet my monster munch that you fix it, deal?

looks a lot like Russell Crowe but what about his brother?

You should buy something new and intentionally abuse it and see if you can fix it after!

"stupid game" I recon

Console5

Gadgets back that time were all "screwed" and not "glued", because the companies wanted their customers glued and not screwed. Fu"# Apple, who's made repairs way difficult and hardware locked with manipulative softwares.

You are too cute!!! Ahhhhh! 😍😘

Nintendo really love that ugly baby poop green don't they?