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Nice stuff. I've got a 'virgin' OG Xbox that I bought new for Christmas, not sure if it was 2001 or 2002. It's never been opened, and your posts have got me thinking about doing something about that lol. It definitely needs some of that preventative maintenance, if nothing else.
 
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Had this dead GameCube sitting on the shelf for a while, and decided to take one last go at it before writing it off as a lost cause.

The problem was that near one of the RAM modules, one of the vias had corrosion on the inside. This made the via on the back side of the board not have connection with the pad on the other side of the board.

I've already tried to fix this in the past and could not solder to the pad on the front side of the board - it was under the memory chip, if only slightly. Today I looked up some pictures of the an exposed GC memory die to see if I could scrape off a bit of the corner of the chip to get to that particular pad.

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I wasn't entirely sure, but it does look empty there (top right corner), so I chipped some of it off, just to find the pad I was trying to blindly solder to to be completely rusted away.

So, in a last ditch effort I tried to scrape away at the board to expose the trace.
I managed to solder to SOMETHING

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And, to my complete astonishment, the GC fired up.

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...the reliability of this connection is dubious at best, though, unfortunately :v
 
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skawo said:
Had this dead GameCube sitting on the shelf for a while, and decided to take one last go at it before writing it off as a lost cause.

The problem was that near one of the RAM modules, one of the vias had corrosion on the inside. This made the via on the back side of the board not have connection with the pad on the other side of the board.

I've already tried to fix this in the past and could not solder to the pad on the front side of the board - it was under the memory chip, if only slightly. Today I looked up some pictures of the an exposed GC memory die to see if I could scrape off a bit of the corner of the chip to get to that particular pad.

Gamecube_RAM_Exposed.jpg


I wasn't entirely sure, but it does look empty there (top right corner), so I chipped some of it off, just to find the pad I was trying to blindly solder to to be completely rusted away.

So, in a last ditch effort I tried to scrape away at the board to expose the trace.
I managed to solder to SOMETHING

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And, to my complete astonishment, the GC fired up.

View attachment 434712

...the reliability of this connection is dubious at best, though, unfortunately :v
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Did something similar some years ago to restore connection to a chip leg I pulled off on my SFCjr. (SFCjr has the best video output of all SFC/SNES, but needs modding to get it) A connection to that chip leg was only needed to get the S-video output working, wasn't necessary for RGB. And the RGB mod I did at the same time works great so I'll probably never even use S-video again. But it just irked me that I had screwed it up, so it had to be done.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/repaired-my-own-f-u-on-super-fami-jr.460319/
 
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Once again, good for nothing BLuEtOoTH earbuds turned to regular earbuds because I fucking hate wireless headphones and whatever.
These sounds good. but not as good as my big headphones.
I'm surprised at how comfy these are.
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The back shell of my phone had come unstuck (might have been unstuck by me, who can remember), so I got some replacement adhesive for it. Getting the old glue off was tedious af tbh, the solvent I used was not great, should have got some IPA. But it's gone back together nicely so I guess it was worth the effort.
 
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NOW I'M PLAYING WITH POWER. PORTABLE POWER.


Not satisfied with the short length of the cable. Must replace it later.
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I want to make a DMG Color Palette for GameYob and I need constant power. Although I have rechargeable DURACELL AA batteries, my GameBoy doesn't has a battery cover, so batteries must be held in order to keep it turned on... and I simply can't.
 
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