Vince's Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)

Emlyn_Dewar said:
Definitely got your work cut out there.
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Oh for sure assuming I can fix it based on what I see leaves nothing left on the bone, needs a new digitizer £15, m92 chip £5, screws and fixings £5 that makes it a 80/90 switch before it's even fixed.
 
Got home from France to a few packages :) But only one would be interesting to the thread the Game Boy Colour turned up and it kinda works!! I dunno how but it does! Let's have a little look at what we have:

This is what it looked like straight out of the package:


Turn it on and we get something so that is promising...


Lets have a little look inside, open it up and straight away the speaker is missing and those wires don't look factory to me...


Didn't spot this but after I took the board out looking for any electrolytic caps, I started spotting where they should be :cry:


Oh and the main power cap is missing as well.


Apart in all its glory!




I don't have any games again so I guess ill just explore and find out what value caps etc it should have, find a speaker and go from there. I guess some of these repairs might cross over a bit as I have quite a lot of random stuff coming and ill need to order parts etc in so i'll just kinda update a bit at a time as we progress. Unless you guys would prefer me to update a single post per thing I am fixing. I really want to bring that Atari ST in from the garage as well so thats getting higher up the list!

So far on this one I have spent the following:


And in parts and the cheapest buy it now cart on ebay to test with:


So total so far is £42.28 to get it working how it should, if I want to reshell, power mod, and add an lcd you can add

Larger LCD: 54.99
CleanPower Regulator: £7.19
RetroSix Shell: £8.39

So you are looking at £112.85 for a properly sorted gameboy colour before even power modding batteries and stuff, Some 3d printing of a bracket is also needed. So what I thought would be a pretty cheap console is actually pretty expensive if you go the full hog. Ill get it working and see what we think :D If you put the smaller backlit lcd in you can knock £20 off of that but that lcd is slightly smaller than the stock one.
 
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I think I have a real problem this came up on a buy it now last night and I couldn't resist:



I think all I need now is the coral and the new blue one and ill have one of each colour :cry: I now have a pretty big stack of stuff to fix so should hold off buying anything for a while until a few more of these are fixed. I might just show working items unless it's interesting as I am sure the thread doesn't want to see me fixing 20 switch lites :D
 
Green switch sold today :) All gone for £130 cash so a decent £65 profit on that fix. Happy with that.
 
These GameBoy screens really were as bad as I remember them being!





Q5 (larger backlit screen) has been ordered, It is also going to be white! watch this space.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Some of the Color games with the newer IPS screens look great.
Hell, even the palette options make some of the non-Color games look good.
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I am looking forward to finishing it. I did all the caps and played with the potentiometer but the screen is still terrible as is the game I have, I played it for 5 mins or so but should probably think about investing in a decent game... The speaker for it turned up after I put it back together but ill just wait for the new power board, lcd case etc to turn up and put it back together all done. Some of it is coming from china because it keeps the price sub £100 for the whole device but hopefully it all turns up this side of christmas.
 
@Vince What do you find best for cleaning plastic? Slowly restoring an old laptop, want to try and get the palm area clean/better looking. Rubbing alcohol?
 
Dyson said:
Is that more for scratches? It's the "deep down" ingrained dirt I'm looking to clean. If this does that too, I'm in!
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It can do it all... 1,2,3 are just different grades of the cleaner. works really well removing dirt, scratches etc.
 
I got fed up of using eye loops and a magnifying glass...



65 quid from China.. total bargain!!

The grey switch lite is missing a whole bunch of components, so far I've worked out its missing M92T36 (power IC), and around it 4x 100k 0201 resistors as well as 3x 0204 1uf 6.3v and 1x 10nf 25v 0201, then it's also missing MAX17050 and a 10k 0402 below it. The device only really has one issue and that was a shorted charge port that will blow m92t36 but somebody went ham on it :D I do think I can fix it though and have all the parts on order. Luckily I had a switch board laying about so removed everything and measured it all.

Everything else measures good. I also got another normal switch in and somebody has tried to replace the charge port on it really badly and it appears to have a shorted video IC. Still waiting for a bunch of charge ports so I guess I won't know what I can fix until all my parts arrive.
 
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pingwing said:
We've been promised 20 switch lites and we expect 20 fixed switch lites :p
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Well so far we have just 1 switch lite fixed :) one is here (the grey one) but I am waiting parts and I will add some pics to the thread because I have my cool new camera/scope thing :cool: The yellow one still hasn't turned up, but the OG switch has and is already in pieces but needs a new charge port (somebody had a go but its not pretty). Ill update the thread once some progress has been made. I'm quite looking forward to sharing if I get the grey one working because there is quite a lot broken/missing on this one, some of it was my doing though :cry:.
 
.Lethal said:
Man what a great thread.
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Cheers dude, I am having fun with and so ill keep fixing, buying and modding stuff until I either run out of money or get bored. I'll just update things like the cost and how much it cost me to repair/mod each one :D I've got another one to add to the list, a megadrive mini that wont power on :(
 
Thought it was mymatevince from YouTube for a second, good stuff.

not done any switches myself the USB port with hidden pins puts me off.

done a PS4 hdmi replacement, quite a few USB ports on controllers and other various things.

been trying my hand on laptops lately, had a super satisfying fix on a dell laptop that was stone cold dead. Bench power supply was showing there was a short. Raised it up to about 3amps and just felt around the board until I found a tiny bypass capacitor burning up that was shorted right next to the input jack. Just flicked it off and viola kicked into life.
 
Craterloads said:
Thought it was mymatevince from YouTube for a second, good stuff.

not done any switches myself the USB port with hidden pins puts me off.

done a PS4 hdmi replacement, quite a few USB ports on controllers and other various things.

been trying my hand on laptops lately, had a super satisfying fix on a dell laptop that was stone cold dead. Bench power supply was showing there was a short. Raised it up to about 3amps and just felt around the board until I found a tiny bypass capacitor burning up that was shorted right next to the input jack. Just flicked it off and viola kicked into life.
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Can confirm that I am not a youtuber :) - Although I do put the odd video on there but mostly only for this thread. Am hoping some more consoles / parts turn up today so I can get on with fixing stuff :D

Love the dell fix, so satisfying when you manage to get something that is totally dead to fire back into life!
 
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