Can we take a minute to appreciate the rap at the end?

I never even acknowledged that the gba sp didn’t have a wheel. Im surprised.

Pro tip: for replacing ripped pads just use solder wick cut into small squares, scrape back the conformal coating and attach the wick into the area where the pad was, then you have brand new pads to attach things to

You'd do the PCBs and components a great justice if you start using a hot air rework station. The temp can be set so that it won't burn the pads off the board, and you can lift the whole component off at once. A desoldering pen or gun would also help, and no-clean flux will help to neaten the soldering. I think Nintendo makes their soldering pads delicate on purpose, lol.

The length and risk you went to in order to ensure that an SP had a wheel. It's rather admirable, and now this chapter of volume wheel handhelds is accomplished!

There are ways to repair trace damage such as torn pads. It's a pretty involved repair tho.

Love the line "questioning everything", while you cut to Call Me By Your Name lol

You luckily only ripped a ground pad, which isnt the end of the world. I recommend on getting a better soldering iron, like a Hakko FX888D. They also have fume extrators.

I love the new videos. Seeing you just go with it and have fun really shines through. ❤

If you want to go the extra mile you could paint the wheel in color red, so that it matches the rest. Then it would be 100% perfect

That's a pretty sick part! You might have more luck with a hot air rework station. I know I struggle with soldering stuff like this, and I have heard that a hot air rework station would do me a lot of good.

What a trip that was! I'm glad you pressed on, if that was me I would have given up immediately

You really should use a hot air reflow. also the pads can be repaired using copper tape and or simple hotwiring the damaged pads to the correct pins

Hi Elliot Coll. I really really like your videos on modding Retro consoles. It really puts a smile on my face. Especially the GBC mods that you have done in the past. There's just one thing that has peaked my interest with a particular GBC mod that I would love to get and add to my GBC.

As always, very good video and loved the rap at the end! Gives the perfect final touch! :)

Love your humor and very fun video!

I absolutely love the new style of video mate

keep up the great stuff elliott! the content just keeps getting better! :))

haha so nice, I love it! Great outro song :)

Brilliant video, l love your channel!

You are so talented it is amazing what you can do

Wow this was uploaded right when I’m looking at parts to build a new SP lmao

Damn dropping bars at the end

mate when u stood up at 6:20 i thought you had NO TROUSERS ON LMAO, got a good laugh regardless. Great work legend!

You need to practice soldering a little more. I use the tip of the desoldering wick and cut it when it's filled. A solder sucker can help too. Tin is not supposed to touch directly the soldering iron tip. Tweezers are used to just make a little pressure without pulling the component.

I love your GBA SP content. I’m obsessed with the system. Thank you

Had me cackling at the end. Good work!

Thank god it works!! 🙌🏻 Love this video and hope u r well.

Elliot I gotta say the cinematic parts you include really up the total quality keep doing what you do much love

“Questioning everything” with call me by your name got a good laugh out of me hahaha

Ma man made an epic movie edit AND rapped at the end? Legendary.

Nothing beats a retro future video😮‍💨

Lol I loved the rap at the end 😂! But glad it was all good and worked out!

I do love your very specific style of nerdyness.

I messed up some pads when working on an original GameCube controller. They were for the C stick. Had to bridge two or three connections with bits of copper wire. It did work in the end, which was a relief.

This is a top tier video, can't believe i didn't see it sooner! I recommend reinforcing the wheel pcb too! It might sheer the remaining trace, barely holding on. Not sure what glue would be best in this case.

I gather pad 4 is just there to keep stuff in place.... Nice video, this. Inspires to do stuff!

A good example of the perils of modding and how you should never lose hope if something goes wrong!

Looks like the pad that came off is just a mounting pad, so it doesn't affect the function of the wheel (as shown in the video). You can simply apply hot glue if the volumn wheel becomes unstable, but I doubt it.

That's an interesting idea. Love the way you put the wheel on top as Pikachu's nose, but you must have been in Extra Clumsy mode filming that day - what a moment when you nearly solder your arm!

That was incredible. The definition of never give up.

Best mod I ever made to an SP was when I put a DS phat battery in there. Holy nuts the battery life! Also, lifted pads are entirely repairable.

I really enjoyed watching this video. It's one of the best you've made 🤣

I love the dramatic, narrative driven production of the recent videos😂

Your humor... 10/10! Instant like!

"i found myself ... questioning everything" with the copy of call me by your name was such a good visual gag

Sliders are both more durable and actually show the volume relatively to the highest and lowest values, it's way better than a wheel

Could you add a low battery alarm to the Gameboy? Something that beeps.

Wheely cool video, man!!!

Hey, sorry if this has already been answered, but what soldering iron are you using?

Silly question, but what headphones are you using at 0:18? They remind me of the Koss Portapros, but even more portable.

The wheel is not for me, but I love that it turned out! Looks great! SP was my first GB, so a slider seems natural... Anyway, I've recently been wondering if there isn't a way to add a second speaker to GBA or SP (or any other GB; the DMG has the most cast room for jamming one in there somewhere...).

spittin' (slidin') bars, innit

2:03 what Ifixit kit is that? I have one of the same size but it’s not metal

I would put some hotglue down on the side of the wheel with the lifted pads so it's less likely to flake off over use.

The “little bit of flux” has the same vibe as the “a shot of vodka” clip

Wheel. Wheel. Wheel. Another great video from Mr EC. Who’d have thunk it!

The rap at the end is why Eliot is my number one top g hahaha

This video was incredible from start to finish 😂 did anyone else think Elliot was going to drink the IPA when he grabbed the bottle at 5:18?

Looking at pad 4, I can't see any track connecting to it. So probably not part of the circuit. That's why it worked. From experience these pads without tracks connecting to them do come away from the PCB easily, especially if the soldering iron temperature is too high. Great mod, never liked the slider!

I remember the first time I stumbled upon your channel I was on house arrest November 18 and your video of the pocket go came up and man ever since I’ve been collecting handhelds 😂 my favorite handhelds to collect rn are gameboy micros so far I have 10 of them and I still want more 💥

Brilliant. Volume wheel. Love it.

thankfully, pad 4 is just an anchor, its literally not connected anywhere shame pad 3 also lifted up a bit when i changed the shell on my SP i didn't know there were some SPs you could take the volume cap off and some that you can't, so i ended up snapping it and had to replace the whole thing, my pad 4 also got screwed

This is a genuinely nice upgrade!

I kinda learned to live without sound on my Game Boys. My GBC sound just stopped working one day (I think it was an issue with a capacitor leaking?) and otherwise i got told to keep the volume down by my parents when we were in the car or I was playing in the family room with everyone else.

Can you build in a ambientlight? Maybe into the slot? If there is no game in, it should light up for 20 sec.

I design PCBs as a hobby…. Those Four contacts on the sides (with the two you ripped) are all connected to the same line for those packages. They are all connected to ground, which is why it still worked. Also… you’re putting so much solder on those pins. You can just touch your iron to the solder to pre solder the tip of the iron and then touch the pads with your pre-soldered iron tip.

Game boy color user over here with an old advance hiding away somewhere (top lit light on top shells “latch?” One) my question is what’s the easiest color upgrade

I can never get my hands on the screens from this website. Can anyone give me another site?

Great content as always.

Is there any workaround when tha pad is gone?

This had no business being this good of a video while watching something I would normally have zero interest in. Bravo

From that first minute, I thought the video be about adding a second speaker to make it stereo without needing headphones.

Another great video from The Retro F 'mew' ture. 🎉

you can repair the pad with either copper wire or idk what they are called but basically they are flat copper strips aka replacement pads, and you can scrap the soldermask to the left and top near the missing pad and solder the wire or copper strips down so its solid and then solder the joint of what needs to be on the pad down to it, just need to make sure the area your scraping is part of the same trace or ground for the pad thats missing, its really not a problem for most instances, only when there is barely any room is it a problem but still fixable. other ways to fix issues like this would be to connect a wire and solder the wire to the pin and then the other end of the wire to the next part in the connection wither its scraping solder mask on a trace or to another component, and then just apply some soldermask either to the end of the pin to hold it down or to the entire wire just to make sure the wire is held down and secured.

We haven't seen you use your electronic screwdriver in a while. Is the manual one better?

How long do you think until we have a Bluetooth audio mod for GBA?

That Call Me By Your Name joke is amazing

Didn’t they gba also have a wheel? I haven’t owned one in like 15 years so I’m not sure

Okay but can you put stereo speakers on a gba sp

Do you know any place I can buy a new Gameboy cpu ?

Nice! Always felt like the slider was out of place.

Elliot spitting bars at the end

it can be solved by soldering a tiny wire from the pin to the other side, i did that while replacing a transistor on a stereo

Lol. Was pad 4 just to keep it in place? Didn't look like it ran to anything so you were lucky.

Am I missing the point? What is the real difference between a slider and a wheel? Seems too risky for some benefit?

looking at the PCB traces, #4 the one that got ripped off was probably just to keep it in place as it doesn't seem to be connected by any trace

what is the gameboy game at the start? also eliot you really need to get a hot air station you'd have the thing off in 20 seconds easy

lol, the volume wheel is not neccesary but a "must have" for the collection

ah love the Miniware TS101 USB powered soldering iron is the bomb... doesnt surprise me Eliott that youd use one! 👍🏽👍🏽

Most genius idea to mankind: volume wheel on gba sp? PERFECT!

@TRF I know gaming and systems I also no knives nice little CRKT Snap Lock are you a blade guy too?

How often do you actually sit and play your Game Boys?

Get yourself a nice hot air rework station buddy! I've replaced many a volume slider by removing with the rework station, and then adding a new with an iron.

I did this with a power switch on an original GBA. Lifted a pad, swore a lot, put it back together, and... it worked!

The cheaters way to handle this is to clip those legs with some flush cutters first, then desolder the remaining legs.

The fact that the sp out puts stereo but only has one speaker blows my mind

Elliot, you oughta have a look at SOLDER IRON TWEEZERS They let you grip surface mount components with two full powered irons and just lift it off the board

0:49 "questioning everything" bro has got some emotions to go through

I love your vids :) what is the best gameboy dmg game?