Nice video, I bought a super smash bros cartridge too for just 8 dollars and successfully repaired it (had 2 broken traces) and its my first time using a soldering iron :') thanks for the tips
Nice video, man! I'm restoring my copy. First I disassembled my N64 but it worked with other games. Then I went for the game itself and it seems I need a voltmeter xD
That is a very good strategy as well! I do that quite often and it works great with N64 games as there are basically 2 different kinds of boards. I have been meaning to make a video on how to do that. Thank you for reminding me!
Hi! First of all, thank you very much for your video. I have a Super Smash Bros that was broken for many years (more than 15). The fact is that I decided to do the repair based on your video and I successfully achieve it! But (!), after some minutes playing (not more than 1 or 2) the game start rebooting. Could it be because of the battery??(was really low(around 0.2V)) or do you think it is because of the soldering? Also, I cleaned the pins and the board with alcohol (91%) and a toothbrush I think that's good, right?
This video was helpful, I had the same exact cart with the battery and the same #15 broken pin. My soldering job was ugly and I got some solder on the pin but it works now! W
I cannot hit the "Like" button enough! I was so drawn into every second of this! I only have two complaints--I really, really want to be so ridiculously close to what you're doing exactly--I kept wanting to zoom in. Two--maybe speed this up a bit--I don't think I blinked until the end of the video. (Just kidding on that one!)
Thank you very much!! I appreciate the feedback! For sure, at some point in the future, I would like revisit this video! I am working on a similar guide for the SNES so the feedback is much appreciated and I can absolutely factor it into that video!
My ssb cartridge won't hold a save, even after replacing the battery. You think it could be a bad lead? I've also read around that it could be a bad sram chip but I don't know how to tell what the issue is.
@@RockerGaming I have One Question though. For your Next FUBAR Session If you Will, Can you turn a Broken Down lump of Coal of a GameCube Console that No Longer Works and Turn it into a Diamond that will no doubt make any gamer jaws Drop??
I have a Conker's Bad Fur Day that I just bought and doesn't boot up. It looks like a couple traces are broken, but my multi-meter shows they all have power. Any thoughts? The broken traces are also on the other side of the board, so I can't test those ones and also don't know how to solder the wire to it? Help!?
I wonder when people would start fixing the broken games themselves and selling them for more or charging a lot for broken games when they realize how easy it is to fix them
Place your meter on continuity than one on ground and the other on your target point. If the connection is good it’ll beep if you hear nothing. There’s a problem.
i have a problem, i recently bought a shadows of the empire used game, the game boots, but when im about to play the 4 level the game doesnt load just black screen, and it happens with any other following level the game just stays dead with black screen, how do i fix that?
I bought Super Smash Brothers n64 from a retro game store that didn't work and payed $50 turns out the board was cracked lot of soldering never going back there again to buy games obviously they don't test them and try to accuse me of swapping the board I got ripped off bad it works fine now but I was wondering if anyone knows what cheap game has the same motherboard
So as funny as this sounds I did have one when I was a kid but it gave me headaches so we returned it. At some point I will get another one, but currently I dont own one
No problem and thank you! Feel free to sub if you have not done so already I put out tons of video game related project videos, restorations, mods, reviews and unboxings. Some good stuff in the pipeline which should be out in the next few weeks!
Hey Allison, I appreciate the comment! This was a pretty early video I made, but in the end I soldered a wire from the top finger of the cart pin to the rom. The trace that ran from the cart pin to the rom had worn away over time and that was all it took to repair the cartridge. Sorry I didn't do a great job showing that, I think if you take a look at my more recent videos you shouldn't have that issue :) Thanks again for the comment!