So I recently bought a Super gameboy on the cheap off ebay that turned out not to be working properly. It was only 7 bucks, so it wasn't worth disputing, plus I like the thrill of fixing things and learning new skills. What happens is that it is very difficult to get it to display anything, and when it does, it's just the gameboy border with a black screen, no startup sound or anything else. I cleaned the crap out of the pins, I took it apart and cleaned the insides too. None of this helped. At this point, all I can assume is the capacitors are bad. Could this be the case or am I down the wrong path?
Yes, I have a big stack of games. I've tested it with Blades of Steel, Donkey Kong Land, Kirby's Block Ball, and Zelda DX
The cartridges too, even if you have a clean clean cart slot, often it will mean nothing unless the contacts on the carts are clean too.
While my games are super clean and fully playable on my gameboy pocket, I'm not sure how much cleaner I can get the gb slot on the super gameboy. Usually when a slot is dirty on one of my devices, I can still get things to work occasionally, but this never works, which is why I'm worried. Maybe I will try a deep cleaning, if I can find something proper to use to clean the tiny slot.
I clean the gameboy slot by wrapping a credit card with some cloth and put some alcohol on the edge then insert / remove a few times, move to a clean piece of cloth and repeat until the cloth comes out clean.
