Drag and Derp cartridge won't boot on DMG?

My newer derp has a similar issue. On certain DMGs I have to wedge a folded piece of paper between the cart and the gameboy.

I had the same problem when I got mine. Then I opened the cartridge and put a piece of card under the contacts .
Working flawlessly ever since.

pic:
https://instagram.com/p/1B6P6svSre/

putting cardboard underneath the board seems to be sorting out the issue, dealt with this in an email today and that worked for them as well.  thanks for the tip!

its awesome to not have it end up in the trash    someone had saved up the cards from a few orders and did an origami flower and sent me a picture once.  that was sort of awesome.  other people collect them even, like stamps i guess.  i get requests for a specific color sometimes to 'complete the collection' or replace a bent one   hmmmm.  i could get super kitsch with this, hmmmm

anywho, glad to hear it sorted out the issue for you!

try card-in-case trick, and don't hotplug the cart while it's writing
fwiw i've never had any problems with my DnD but i think it's one of the first batch that was made

These clones:
http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6397 … 4319627836

Other than that, they are really great with EMS carts. The screen is great, the sound is loud and mostly faithful
but some notes get cut sometimes.

Last edited by cyberic (Apr 5, 2015 9:00 pm)

yeah, ditto def the newer batch.  emails are trickling in.  didn't have any before this last batch that i can recall, and they are all the same issue (the DMG stuff) currently.  the only commonality is the cart itself and it being DMG guts.  shells vary, types of mods vary, but its only in the DMG afaik.  because they are all working in peoples other consoles, and even in other random DMGs but not some particular one (someone had a few consoles to try with).

however, the good news is that the business card trick is so far undefeated...  i think double-sided tape might work too, to borrow something EMS did some years ago with a similar issue.  i'll suggest that if i get any future emails about this.  it will give it a little lift but also 'disable' any wiggle

will also shoot abrasive an email right now and make sure he's caught up.  i only have one cart from the last batch, and one from the first, so me testing them doesn't reveal much.  however, the PCBs are measuring the same on these two (doesn't mean the batch wasn't a mix of different runs of the PCB, though).  there are manufacturing tolerances in anything, so it could just be an unhappy mistake where the tolerances on the shell and PCB *in a particular cartridge* are both very slightly shy and just make a difference.  there are a whole slew of factors really.  even the edge finger treatment.  who knows...  but i can't tell squat on just two carts, so i'll see if abrasive will check his batch and we can see whats up.

but, like i said, the card stock is working fine.  the fingers just need raised a hair.