Vertical Lines on Game Boy Screen - EASY FIX! - Fixing Ebay Junk 

I know it may be tough sometimes but I do wish you would upload more because I absolutely love your content! Thank you

My Gameboy would display almost nothing, maybe 5 little lines. This worked like a charm. Used my crappy soldering iron that I use for plastic, low at around 400f. Applied pressure and slowly dragged it across the ribbon like a loading bar and all of the black came back gradually. It was a pretty extreme case too. And when I took the rubber pad off, it took the adhesive off with it. That's lucky :)

Great video!! I actually used my hot air rework station at 600 degrees, moving back and forth quickly from one side to the other. I quickly put the rubber strip back in place after removing the heat and held down pressure on it for 10-15 seconds. It worked amazingly well!!

Thanks so much for this. Worked like a charm. First time I've tried a repair like this and this video was super helpful and had me enjoying the experience.

First time I've ever subbed and actually turned on the notifications. You have helped me immensely over the past couple days fixing my childhood GBA and my dad's OG gameboy. Thank you so much!

Good to see back on RU-vid again Adam. Always enjoy your videos, I learn some fantastic useful stuff from yourself. Love your Canadian accent. Big up mate from the UK

Best channel on youtube. You're such a genius, and you always deliver great content, love you Adam.

Great reference for if/when my DMG decides to start doing this and as always quality content!

Beautiful lighting, Good calm voice, Nice Warnings. Great Video. Please Do More.

For BEST results use a Qtip to massage the area after applying the soldering iron.

I had no idea you could do that! Awesome! You just saved me money and frustration on my repairs!

Very helpful. Thank you! I'm refurbishing an original Gameboy right now to give to my son and this is the only part I have left to do.

Great content as always Adam, Did you get a new camera? Your playback looks cleaner, or is it just me?

Great video man, as always. Regards from Mexico!

Hey Adam! Just saying happy to see a new post and hope everything is going well for you up in Canada right now!

"Were gonna put this piece of rubber back on" Bro... lmao. You gotta tell us to keep it first... 🤣

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

Well done. You made it look easy. Other guys on RU-vid said it took them up to one hour. I hope I can do it the way you did. Thank you for mentioning the temperature. Maybe that's the secret.

The screen from the GBP got black after I cleaned it a little bit... Turns out there was a contrast wheel on the right side and that was the culprit LOL The same thing happened when I got my hands on a Wonderswan for the first time, I had no idea that they had these Contrast Wheels

Thanks for the repair video! I saved it to watch later When I have the tools!

Oh my god BLESS this video! I can finally play Pokemon Yellow again without the lines ;_; Thank you!

Simply love your videos. They are always interesting.

Very nice video there was something weird on mine it used to have those lines but now there gone

What temperature did you set the soldering iron to ?

very nice to know this since im about to fix three of theese myself thank you for this tip

Mine has worked perfectly with the exception of one line which doesnt seem to want to disappear, is it knackered or do i just need to persevere

Today I learned the lines on the side of the screen were not a deliberate stylistic choice by Nintendo

This method works with just about any solder on displays.

Thanks bro...i just picked one up today for 40 bucks and it's having the same little problem

I bought one of these yesterday from a guy on gumtree. It had horrible lines. Couldn’t see the selector for Pokémon in the menu in Pokémon Red. I left it on a lower shelf on my bookcase and sun shined on it for a bit. Then when I turned it on about an hour ago, most of the dead pixel lines were gone!

Hey, I’ve also vertical black lines on my GB display, but when I turn the contrast to 100% everything is full black.

una pregunta..a cuántos grados centígrados usas tu cautín para hacer esa reparación? obviamente para no quemar la membrana del display!

what temperature did you use to reflow it?

Anyone know why my handheld game screen flickering when open game volume?😮

You made me refurbish mine, thank you for the hint!

What temperature should you use on the soldering iron?

I tried this method, worked flawlessly for the lines on the outer edges. But I am stuck with one line near the middle, the soldering iron didn’t seem to help. Any suggestions?

Really enjoying the videos!

I wonder f I’ll ever find my mothers old gameboy in the attic though I already have my grandpas gba sp lol though like she said I highly doubt it’s even in our attic

HE. IS. BACK.!!!!

Can we apply glue on the brown plastic for the screen?

Any advise on the heat setting for your soldering iron when doing the ribbon fix?

It didn't work for me. Rubbing the soldering iron does affect the lines, but they never stay, and as soon as I get a few good black lines, others disappear. I can't get any more than about half of them on the screen at once.

How do you stick the rubber under the screen back on again?

good quick fix, this one played ball!

what temperature did you put your iron at to let it melt solder but not the cable?

I have a korg triton rack that has vertical lines in the screen...I'm wondering if this will work on that! Cool video!

Random question so I know you repair cartridge based games but do you also repair disc games? Like using a disc resurface machine?

is it possible to convert the screen to a colored one?

Did this and it worked but then 3 lines came back a few months later, went back to do the same trick again but no matter how long I do it for the lines just won't go away, any advice?

i always worry about battery leaks for health reasons because of my OCD. i'd like to know your opinion on it.

I found and fixed this exact problem about a week ago...

The real question is what's that going to be like in the long term? Dave over at EEVBlog did something similar and the display just went back to how it was after some time.

Can you heat a knife with a lighter and do it with that I don’t have asodder lol

Well made video like always.

Great job!

Anyone have a recommended temp to do this at?

Ok, so 99 percent of the time if this DOES NOT work, there is some kind of corrosion that can happen to the traces that the brown strip connects to just underneath the bottom glass edge. Also if any of the traces are ripped underneath the portion that solders onto the board at the opposite end of this ribbon, your pixel lines will not come back. Be sure to take a good look and see if the parts gameboy you buy off of ebay doesn't have rub marks on that ribbon, as it may have been tampered with already, or else you might as well yank the screen out and replace it with an IPS one.

What is that black material you are hitting with the iron? Do you think hot air might work as well?

What about horizontal lines? I take it that’s a different deal altogether.

How would you fix horizontal lines? i have one with that issue

Wow this is genious!!

what about horizontal lines

Yeeeees he did again

Can you fix any Sega Game gear

nice just supported u

Will this work on a game.com screen?

Hello!

Are horizontal lines fixable?

Godlike

Step 1: remortgage my house to get a Philips screwdriver

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

if it was me, i would just get the RIPS or FunnyPlaying IPS screen for it and swap out the original screen with the IPS screen.

Oof

You have done this before. Something new please.

This is perfect, exactly what i was looking for,

Nice video. But don’t EVER use a knife near that ribbon. They tear of you look at them wrong. Solid content!!!