This is a great thread here. I’ve managed to isolate the regulator as the problem. I would have been replacing the board had I not read this, so thank you immensly!!!
I know this thread is 7 years old lol, but does anyone by chance know where I could acquire the components to replace the faulty regulator?
Is there any home brewed link play games available? If so then it would be worth an attempt for sure. I was already going to buy a flash boy… better make it 2???lol
I put 6 hours into soldering the ribbons. It was my first go, so there was a lot of back and forth between testing and soldering. I was about to give up but gave it one more attempt and I finally got it. Lots of patience required for it. pretty delicate stuff. I lost a couple of the tracer wires, but filled the voids with solder to ensure some conductivity. I’m ready for round 2 with my vb that is in transit at the moment. Feels good to have salvaged such an awesome piece of Nintendo.
Alexander wrote:
Welcome. What do you have so far?
So far I have:
-Mario tennis
-Mario clash
-pin ball
-red alarm
-bomberman
– nesters bowling
– teleroboxer
-wario
I’ll be purchasing a flash boy in the near future as well.
I actually scooped a complete virtual boy console for $85 Canadian bucks today. It needs the soldering fix for the ribbon, but I have already educated myself on the repair, and have already salvaged my current virtual boy with method. I plan to give the other one to my brother in law for Christmas, or hold onto it in anticipation for the VB link cable (if that’s still in the books).
I am looking for tetris, waterworld and jack bro’s, but who isn’t lol
TheForce81 wrote:
Welcome! You will find that this is a great community overall, very helpful and insightful most of the time with a rare heated discussion only once in a while 😉
Excellent! Heated discussions involve multiple opinions and views. It’s always nice to see people using their noodles, not just following what the last guy said. More than one way to skin a cat.
