2 Nov 11, 2015 9:12 pm
Re: For Sale: Nanoloop 1.3, BleepBloop USB and MORE! (5 replies, posted in Trading Post)
Bump with Bleepbloop price drop.
If any of the other prices are a bit mental, let me know. I'm out of touch af.
3 Nov 9, 2015 7:54 pm
Topic: For Sale: Nanoloop 1.3, BleepBloop USB and MORE! (5 replies, posted in Trading Post)
4 Apr 9, 2015 1:10 pm
Re: Botching Gameboy Color Frontlights (10 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I don't know of any illustrated tutorials for that. But I would disagree that they're miniscule, they're big enough. You could even solder them with enormous radioshack stock tip. Don't give up!
Worked out great, actually. Thanks man!
Here's a wee pair of pictures as far as scraping goes for future use.
A spot of solder and a ton of tape and everything's working just fine.
5 Apr 8, 2015 9:51 am
Re: Botching Gameboy Color Frontlights (10 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Either your soldering iron is too powerful or you're keeping the tip on the contact much too long.
All you need to do to make a good contact is to tin the tips of the wires, then use that solder on the tinned wire tips to make the connection onto the tiny contact pads. Just enough to melt the solder. Should be like no more than 2 seconds.
I thought that originally, but I did a small tinned connection second time (the one pictured) and it was all good. Closed the GB up and played with it fine for a while.
The connections snapped within the gameboy while it was closed. Perhaps the wire in using is too stiff and causing too much tension on the connections when being bent into place?
Unfortunately the panel is shot I think. No amount of scraping or salvaging will save it. It only cost a fiver off ebay so it's no big loss. I'll use any advice you guys can give me for the next SP i butcher. Frontlight kits are sold out everywhere.
I hope you haven't thrown the panel away. It still can be saved. All you need to do is scrape the surface of the metal panel the ribbon cable was attached to. Scrape until you reach copper to solder to. Track which is + and which is -
Any examples of that procedure I could look at?
The copper trails are fucking miniscule though so I doubt I could solder to them.
6 Apr 7, 2015 8:40 pm
Topic: Botching Gameboy Color Frontlights (10 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Hey guys,
I've botched a few mods in my time, but right now I seem to be having trouble with GBC frontlighting.
I've used an official SP frontlight and an aftermarket chinese frontlight (which seems to have vanished from the market since I ordered one 2 weeks ago) and the same thing keeps happening.
Both accounts, after closing up the GB. The second instance, the contacts held up for a while and then suddenly the connection broke.
No amount of trying to resolder to the remaining microscopic connections has worked.
Where am I going wrong? Has anyone else had this problem?
7 Feb 28, 2015 4:40 pm
Re: Question on the EMS64 cartridge (14 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
If it puts your mind at ease, I've been using the same EMS32 cart since 2006, with no means to back it up, and it has not failed me yet. The batteries last longer than you think.
There were more hoops to jump than I liked with a USB EMS than say, a bleep bloop or drag n derp when it came to flashing. But if that's not much of a concern, an EMS is fine. You can always upgrade in the future if you feel like investing more money.
8 Feb 28, 2015 2:00 pm
Re: Bleep Bloop USB LED cartridge (6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
20mA or less on the DMGs 6V? I'm not sure what leds the bleep bloops use though.
Not really worth worrying about.
I could be wrong, I know shit about voltage.
10 Feb 25, 2015 6:58 pm
Re: Bleep Bloop USB LED cartridge (6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
You can just unsolder it from the board if you're confident with a soldering iron.
11 Feb 25, 2015 6:52 pm
Re: Welcome to CM.O! (Introduction Thread) (676 replies, posted in General Discussion)
HEY GUYS, REMEMBER ME?
So I'm back after a long time of not being back, due to life's many ups and downs. Even through the hardest times I managed to keep a hold of all my chip gear (bar a duplicate cart of two I sold to some lovely people here, thank you, you got me through college).
With some heafty pressure from my Uni lecturer, I found myself back in the chip game and back here. Fate is a mysterious force.
What have a missed?
Where my local homies?
13 Mar 5, 2012 4:05 pm
Re: Wanted: Bleep Bloop cart, or smartboy cart (8 replies, posted in Trading Post)
If anyone wants it, it's there.
14 Mar 5, 2012 1:11 am
Re: Wanted: Bleep Bloop cart, or smartboy cart (8 replies, posted in Trading Post)
15 Feb 1, 2010 3:09 pm
Re: Bunch of stuff: Padkontrol, Blueboy, MONSTER MOD (82 replies, posted in Trading Post)
I'd go nuts for a clearboy... but $90 is teetering on too much for me right now.
Would you accept some unmodded DMGs for part trade?
16 Jan 30, 2010 6:35 pm
Re: Bunch of stuff: Padkontrol, Blueboy, MONSTER MOD (82 replies, posted in Trading Post)
They are stunning!
Blue backlighting on yellow looks intense!