Look at the right side of the cartridge circuit board if you get a chance. wink

Bugs and requests means requests about the site. kthx.

803

(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Groovemaster303.
Utabi, though he actually composes on a x6800, I realize. Still Yamaha FM. More IDM-ish sound.

Find a better way to bring attention to your videos than a shocking, unrelated title.

Oh sorry, more nit(ro)picking. The rules state that you must specify prices for the things you are selling.

Oh. Open the Gameboy and take the contacts out so you can rinse them afterwards. Obviously that's more work if the problem is with the one of the contacts that are connected to the motherboard, but I've found that in most cases people have apparently stored 'boys in a position that makes the battery acid run down to the bottom contacts only.

There's only one way to find out, right?

808

(11 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Speaking of the devil.
http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10079
He's selling off all his Sega stuff.

809

(11 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Agent Shhh was both annoying and entertaining at times, but you can't come around the fact that he (the persona) was a troll.

810

(15 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

If you have continuity between the pad and and via near the CPU, how could the trace between under the cartridge slot be broken?

You may want to use this btw:
http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/01/28 … lcome-rom/
It can be used to check the buttons if you want to experiment with things. It also plays notes (a different one for each button) so you don't have to have access to the screen to use it.

811

(11 replies, posted in General Discussion)

XyNo wrote:
Alley Beach wrote:

thanks everyone smile i thought he disappeared with 8bc... tongue

like agent shh ? wink

I don't think I ever saw Bibin troll, though.

812

(15 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Time to be a little condescending but hopefully right, then!

sirhcman wrote:

I don't believe it is related to the corrosion issues because that seemed to be isolated to the other side of the board.

Incorrect assumption. It's not actually just the area around the D pad that matters. If the connection is severed at any point on the way, the button will not work. The copper pad under the down button has two connections. The right one pad goes to ground whereas the left pad has a trace that goes up to the CPU. The right pad should have a solid connection, and is probably not where the problem lies.The left pad has a trace that goes up and changes side a couple of times. Here are two images where I've traced out the path of this trace. Note that the trace is covered by the cartridge slot on the front side.

Back:


Front:


Try testing for continuity using a multimeter between the left copper (actually probably gold plated) pad of the down button and the topmost spot on the same side. Ie, the via (as the connections between the sides are called) above the 03. You may to wiggle slightly with the probe to get contact.
If you find that this connection is broken, do not solder a wire directly to the pad where the button goes, but instead to the test pad named P03 near the button pad. Do this using as thin wires as you can get and route it all the way to a point along the indicated path which has a good connection the rest of the way to the CPU. Route it in such a way that the wire doesn't block any of the other buttons.

Good luck. (Hey wait, I'm supposed to be condescending.) Yeah, "good luck", I guess.

813

(11 replies, posted in General Discussion)

http://www.youtube.com/user/bibinson

Yes. Don't do the mod exactly like this. smile
Use a jack with a nut like the one Apeshit posted a pic of, so the force is applied there instead.
Or find a connector with only one jack, so the back is metal and the pins are on the bottom.
Or, if you want to fixate the jack using the current method, you could maybe put hot glue behind the jack. But then you may still have the same problem, and it's also harder to bend back the pins if there's a problem.

Out-Line wrote:

Criticisms are accepted.

Well, if you insist. It seems like you're putting the connector in the space on the side without being fixed to the case in any way. Every time you insert the plug, you apply a small bit of pressure to the pins on the back, and they might bend and short in the long term. This is not an immediate problem, but worth keeping in mind.

kitsch wrote:

since youtube is a google company now, is otromatic[at]gmail[dot]com not linked to him somehow just by some default process?  (at the least, a working email he would be able to access, hopefully forwarded to one he checks)

Nope, not necessarily. While all YT accounts have to be linked to a Google account nowadays, there's no guarantee that the names match.

This may just be a DNS configuration error. The domain doesn't have any entries, but the page is still online on the IP address 194.150.236.81. You could add

194.150.236.81    ilbm.info www.ilbm.info

to your hosts file to be able to access it. However, it's only a front page with some of his art and... a contact address. ink at ilbm dot info. However, this address will also be dead as long as the domain is misconfigured. However, he still owns the domain, and looking at the whois records, you can find a contact e-mail address.
http://who.is/whois/ilbm.info

Full stop.