Fixing Up Some Game Boy Micros 

Your theory is certainly consistent but having seen one to many Rossmann videos I just assume moisture sensors give both false positives and negatives and are mostly there for the manufacturer to deny warranty.

Oh yeah, first time you try a genuine JIS driver it's a REVELATION! Chewed out screw heads become a thing of the past. Almost all Japanese manufacturers use JIS and almost none of them use Philips. Anyone doing this type of repair should do themselves a favor and order a set of JIS drivers online, they are hard to find outside Japan.

No one makes JIS screw drivers anymore www.webbikeworld.com/hozan-jis-screwdrivers-review/

What you guys talking about? I use regular smallest tip no problem but thanks for that JiS info

They don't use Triwing screws either but everybody fuckin' calls them that because they're brainlets.

Good advice but some screws just suck. My laptop came with horribly stripped screws that even the rubber band method can't remove. So I have a time bomb, damn heatsink can't be repasted and the fans can't be cleaned.

Too add on to that: I've found Torx (both without and with rubber band) to get a way better grip than any other bit,

@@acumenium8157 This actually happened to me in my laptop and it turns out there was loctite in the screws that needed to be heated REALLY well (the screw has to literally burn you when you touch it) in order for the screw to even move a bit, after heating the stripped philips screw quite a bit i was able to remove it with a flathead, flatheads grip really well on stripped philips.

@@firasbajjar I can't help but wonder if loctite or something similar was used as well, but the screws are stripped too. The metal is WAY too soft. I made one of the screws (that doesn't remove anyway) worse than it was, but it doesn't really matter since it never turned to begin with. If a screwdriver is warping the shape of a hole it fits in, the screw (which is a BIG screw, it's a heatsink one!) shouldn't be so malleable. One of the screws, the worst one right now, came pre-stripped with, instead of a plus/+ shape (Phillips?), it's more like a ding-dong. -D Phillips "fits", but won't turn, and will instead eat away at the really soft metal of the screw. I fear a flat-head would be much the same.

@@acumenium8157 Yep that’s exactly what happened with my laptop. Like all i did was apply a small force only to end up with fine metal dust on my hand. I also encountered the same problem when disassembling a friend’s laptop where the heatsink screws were seriously stuck with loctite that i had to heat the thing for 10 mins. Flat head should work really well in terms of grip provided that you have the correct size that slots well into one of the philips’s cross lines. This is what i found working after months agonizing how the heck im gonna open mine, a lot of heat and a good flathead.

Doubt it unfortunately and with rise of portable emulation devices with more widely appealing form factors I think the most we will continue to get are parts for the AGB-001.

Are you a time traveler?

_could_ 've worked

@@DisguisedPigeonLOL No, just a patron

Same reaction here, I'd love to try and clean the board just to see the result. Having had some prior success from corroded boards before leaves me with a small bit of (possibly misplaced) hope.

That would be amazing

That would be amazing, they'll have to figure out the clips tho.

I would doubt it. They'd either have to make the entire faceplate out of glass, or find some way to bond the glass lens to the plastic faceplate. Then again, you could also keep the lens permanent above the screen, and make a cutout in the plastic faceplate so that the glass would fit in. But that would also stop compatibility with other faceplates that aren't modified.

@@thepibbster1130 I doubt it to, think they would have to make it permanent if they did. Someone just need to make high quality plastic ones.

Some solder works better.

@@fearofchicke I've heard this as well

have you actually tried it on tri-wing screws that are the size of a game boy micro's screws?

@@nextlvlroy :o I have not but I would imagine you would need a very thin/small rubber band

Nevermind, that thing is busted

have you actually tried the rubber band trick on tri-wing screws that are the size of the game boy micro?

have you actually tried it on stripped tri-wing screws the size of a micro though?

I have my suspicions that water or soda went inside the game cart slot, but stayed away from the edges of the case with the water stickers… instead of being itself submerged.

@@kaitlyn__L If you get one the original EZ-Flash omega (not the new "definitive edition" version) is pretty good, I've had mine for a couple years and it still works perfectly, the only data that it has corrupted is my pokemon sapphire save but that might be a problem with the ROM I have, it has emulators for the NES and Gameboy/Gameboy color built into the firmware so they don't need to be downloaded, it can take a 128GB micro SD card (mine has a 32GB microSD that I got for $20 at wallgrens with a couple hundred games and a few GBA video ROMs on it and it's only using about 700MB of space) and there's a replacement shell for it that should come in the box (if you get a brand new one like I did) to put it into a DS lite without the top part being outside the cartridge slot.

@@nathanmead140 Super-late to the conversaion here, but if you can find an Everdrive Mini, they blow the EZ-Flash out of the water. Sure, technically it has less features - but you get better battery life and zero problems. I see a lot of failed ez-flash complaints on forums these days.

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