Pokemon Red GB Repair?

Maybe someone could help me.
I got Pokemon Red from a friend of mine.
Problem i that the game does`t "boot". I testet it in diffrent GB/GBC/GBA`s and everywhere the same failure.

Here is the failure hope u can see what i mean.


Pictures of the "board"



Hope someone has an idea.

 

Using a multimeter, check for continuity between vias, you can put a probe on a via and the other probe on another via connected with a trace, if there is no continuity and there is a trace clearly connecting the two vias then you have a broken trace. bridge the trace with a piece of wire and add some solder. I am betting there is a broken trace preventing it from booting. Fixed a pokemon silver that had the same problem that way recently.

 

Thx for your reply But a question , what`s a via? My english is not so good and i don`t know what u mean. Maybe u could mark it on one of my pictures?

 

Those tiny holes in the pcb are vias.

 

Otherwise known as through-hole connections. See here.

 

Thx That would help I`ll test it tommorow after getting a multimeter from my dad

 

You're welcome. I found a broken trace near where the screw goes through the pcb on mine. Somebody had spilled pop on the cartridge in my case and it had eaten through a trace, a magnifying glass is also your friend to find broken traces. Good luck.

 

Take a pencil eraser to those dirty contacts!

 

Yes it might work just after cleaning the contacts on the cartridge. If they are dirty enough, it won't work at all. Pencil erasers can do a decent job at cleaning up cartridge contacts. The contacts are the gold part that goes into the gameboy, at the bottom of the pictures.

 

Eraser works like a charm.

 

While you have it open I'd replace the battery after backing up the game I've been hearing a lot of reports saying they only last 15 years from being made and thats coming up in the next year or so.

 

Currently, Most of these batteries are still working, but they will bite the dust quite soon... Very soon...

I need to get myself a GB Transferer...

 

Thx for all ur tips doesn`t try them all atm, but the eraser trick doesn`t work The contacs are blank now and nothing changed so i must try it with a multimeter

 

I have a gameboy cart that would not work at all,even after cleaning the contacts didn't do anything so I took some sand paper and gently sanded until the contacts were shinny,it worked a treat.

 

I've got a Pokemon Sapphire cart I attempted to (extremely stupidly I might add) swap in a CR2032 battery to get the RTC working again. Thing is the CR2032 is much larger than the stock battery and it fit and bulged the cart a bit.

Now it doesn't boot at all and in the process of reworking some of the solder joints in hopes one was cracked I knocked a surface mount resistor off the board. Assuming the resistor near it is the same value its a run of the mill 100kohm resistor but I don't have any that small nor can I do it easily with the equipment I have. Maybe I'll destroy my eyes and try using a multimeter to check every connection for kicks.

Thing is a GBA save dumper that is booted from a DS flashcart can still recognize the cartridge as being Pokemon Sapphire. It can't dump the ROM or the save but it is a good sign either way.

 

Here's a pic of the pokemon silver I repaired, not sure how useful this will be but, thought it was relevent. I was getting a glitched nintendo logo and it would not boot the game. I found the broken trace and jumpered it with some wire. I had trouble soldering the wires down so I i just covered them with nail varnish. It works now.