Oh I am ordering some of that low melt solder! I had some junk boards so I practiced various ways of removing smd's and wasn't getting consistent enough results for me to comfortably attempt it on my GBA motherboard. Thanks for the tips!
@@yocacola You are right how it flows strange, almost turns to the texture of peanut butter as it hits the iron haha. The project was a success because of it that stuff. I did almost botch a pad since I didn't realize the biggest capacitor had a couple globs of glue affixing it to the pcb as well, the small ones came off with zero issue though!
Nice job. I've had to repair a lot of ripped off pads from people removing those smd caps. The ground plane can sometimes sink a lot of heat and it takes a good iron to remove them. I use two soldering irons and lift them off.
People don't talk about it enough but those pads on the Gameboy Advance rip if you look at them wrong. Especially that big one since it looks like there's some kind of red glue holding it down
Good job! Did you notice an improvement in the sound of the video game after changing the capacitors? My console makes a hissing noise when there is no background music playing. I'm thinking about changing the capacitors to see if that helps.
Changing the capacitors definitely might help, especially that smaller one by the volume wheel. There are other solder-in mod solutions specifically for cleaning up sound. Check out the Gameboy section on retro game repair shop or on helder tech, I can't remember what it's called but it's under the sound category.
This video was mostly about doing cap replacements - and demonstrating a way that doesn't involve snipping them off with flush cutters or using a hot air gun. The board from this device ends up getting an aftermarket shell and ITA screen upgrade in my most recent video. Glacier shells are absolutely my favorite, but sadly this one has a broken screw post right in one of the corners, which made a fairly loose edge on the shell so I didn't bother cleaning it.
