So I recently wired in a front light on a Game Boy Color I had been putting off and I finally did it and put it together and now it wont turn on. I followed this guide:
http://www.choochoobot.com/builds/gameb … d-005.html
and the Gameboy currently won't turn on at all. This includes no red light with fresh batteries, no screen, no sound, nothing.
Is there something I should've watch out for in wiring? Is there some way I've burnt out a piece of the chipset?
If anyone could help me troubleshoot I would appreciate the help. Thanks!
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Orange County, CA
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Detroit, MI
I had a similar thing happen to me, but I'm pretty sure it was because I used the wrong resistor. You used a 47 ohm right? I had used a 470...
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Milwaukee, WI
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/7153/dont-frontlight/
BitBlocker wrote:
Okay, so it turns out that the board isn't fried. Instead, it was just the screen that was shorting it out.. which is weird because I didn't even have the thing soldered on my second run to see if the board still worked, not to mention I had the exposed wire wrapped in electrical tape. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ When I took it completely out, it booted up and played a game just fine.
Perhaps this helps?
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Orange County, CA
thats interesting. I did get 47 ohm resistors from radioshack. is there a way to prevent it continuing to short, assuming that this was the cause?