Very sorry for the long delay, I haven’t been able to work on my VB for a while due to work. So this is what the left-eye of my VIrtual Boy looks like. There is a single horizontal like going through the middle of the lower half of the screen, which in most games you can’t see, but in some with reds all over you can see pretty clearly. Due to the max file-size limit, I have to split the images up into a couple posts:
1: The first one is where I first noticed the line, which you can see on the lower half of the bumpers. The other lines are just from the camera.
2: You can see it in the bottom of the text box right under the shadow, it’s harder to see in the darker reds.
3: you can clearly see it next to the box, it’s always in the same spot, just sometimes more noticeable than others.
4: and you can VERY clearly see it here on the clouds, when the whole screen is red, it’s bright as day.
Now the cause of just a solid line could be a couple things, but it’s not the ribbon cable. The cable has been soldered many times, and the problem always persists, plus a loose cable would result in multiple thicker lines or glitchy display, not one solid line. It could be a cracked mirror, or a line of dirt on it, but that’s been cleaned, it could be the glass in between the LED’s and the mirror, but that’s perfect as well, so the problem for me at least must lie in the LED’s themselves. The casing around the LED’s is firmly attached to the board, so that means nothing’s getting in or out, so the likelyhood of dust or other particles entering in and sitting on an LED are slim to none. So either one if the bulbs is bad, or one of the connections is, and seeing how microscopic the connections are to the LED, it’d be almost impossible to replace a bulb or re-solder it. The only option is to replace the whole LED-unit/board altogether, which are hard to come-by unfortunately, so I’ve just learned to live with mine. I don’t know what yours looks like, but I’m guessing the issue is the same. Hopefully I was able to answer some of the questions you’ve been having problems with.
