WonderSwan - No Power - FIxing Ebay Junk 

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Couldn't really tell in the video, but that "resistor" on the battery terminal might be an inductor. They also come in the same packaging type as a resistor, but usually have a green body to them like that does. Inductors also tend to have less bands as well. It being an inductor and not a resistor is my best guess, which is also why the resistance value is very low.

SwanCrystal was a Wonderswan Color with a far, far, superior LCD that didn't have godawful motion blur and didn't require the light of a thousand suns on it to give a visible display. Basically out of all the Wonderswans, the SwanCrystal is the only one worth having.

Got married during your hiatus? If so, congratulations! Great to see content from you again.

Pretty easy repair in the end, well done. From what I've seen the Wonderswan colour is basically the same form factor just with a colour screen, Kelsey Lewin who's often seen on the Metal Jesus Rocks youtube channel (I think she has her own channel now) is a massive fan and importer of all things Wonderswan.

I love your troubleshooting. Very clear order of operations to find what's wrong. Process of elimination etc. Wish I had more broken stuff to fix now!

Love the Wonderswan, such a unique little system. Playing shmups in Tate mode was ahead of its time.

It's great to see you're back! Congrats on fixing the console too. Weird handheld, but I guess that it being obscure might be worth a fair bit in a couple of years.

The classic is back. "Hey RU-vid, whats going on, it's Adam here with RetroRepairs!"

Great to see you back hope everything is good for you and your nice dog

Glad to see someone else take on the wonderswan! I'll be tackling two more in my next video, because they both have screen burn!

Heck yeah! starting the year with a RetroRepairs video!

A great start to the year. Cant wait to seem more again

Man I missed these videos. Great to see you back.

Great job! I enjoyed watching your method for trouble shooting the power issue

Retro repairs is back, already making my new year better :) happy new year!!

The person icon on the screen indicated which orientation the handheld is to held in. Since some games can be played in portrait mode or landscape. And the left pin like icon is your power indicator like the LED on the game boy.

I was thinking about you recently. Glad to see you back!

Glad your back. Love your videos!

Great video as always. Love you Adam, happy new year!

It's great to see you again

Finally some new content. Misssed your vids. Interesting repair.

Great video as always, brilliant to have you back. Don't know if someone has already mentioned this but I think you may have auto white balance enabled on your camera that keeps changing the colour temperature of your video, keeps going from a nice neutral to over warm when your hands are out of shot, think it's compensating for your blue mat. lol

15:15 Kona 🥰

Good to see you back again.

Its exciting to see you posting content again!!

Great to have you back my dude!

Looks like a neat system! What a shame it never came to the west, specially the other versions. Anyways, great fix as always!

Good to see you back!

Welcome back! Happy New Year!

Awesome vid bro! Keep em’ comin dude 😎👍✨

Looks like we need to get you a bench top power supply. Great for this kind of thing.

welcome back! missed your content!

Thank you for the awesome video 😁 Missed you 😃

This was the last bit of inspiration I needed to crack open my broken SNES and get it going again. Luckily all it needed was a good IPA scrubbing of the cart connection with a toothbrush. At some point a may get rid of the yellowing of the plastic, but having it working is more important than how it looks here.

Happy new Year Adam and Community:)

Welcome back Repair King!

A repair video we've been all waiting for! As far as I know, Wonderswan was created by the same guy who created the OG Gameboy, but later he left Nintendo, and started his own company. Some games were probably really well made, but I know only of Clock Tower, as well as some ports like Castlevania or Ghost and Goblins. It wasnt also a thing over here when it comes to handhelds, even the Neo Geo Pocket was pretty much missed. It was all about Gameboy and Game Gear. Good to see you (and Kona) back and well!

Its nice to see it works. But If I were you, I would take the opportunity and thoroughly wash the plastic, since I disassembled it anyway) Glad to see you back.

Nice job getting the console fixed!

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Holy crap you're back, nice to see you're back! Unless I miss something, lol.

me for the first 16 minutes screaming "cleans the batter contacts" at my tv

Glad you're back bud

Glad your back !!

So happy that backlit screens are the standard now.

Nice repair, well done! As for the game - I've noticed my SwanCrystal does this thing as well sometimes, and I need to take the cartridge in and out a couple of times before it starts working again. And when it finally does, and I won't touch the cart again, the game will run every time. Curiously, so far it only happened with the old monochrome WS games, the Color/Crystal ones in transparent shells worked like a charm each and every time. Since the contacts/pins are cleaned, and looking great, I don't know whether the faul lies somewhere else, or it's just a quirk of these older cartridges.

The game is Digimon Adventure 02: Digital Partner. You are a Digimon fan now

Two vidoes in a week? I thought Christmas was over!

Welcome back!

RETURN OF THE KING

The deoxit d5 works well in cartridge slots, chip connections, power switches as well.

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Yeah you are back!

The console itself didn't do well and there weren't many games (in comparison to the GBC and GBA) but it did have some really cool accessories. There was a GPS addon as well as one that would allow you to connect it to your mobile phone so you could download games and even browse the web! Remember this was back in 2000 when smart phones weren't a thing and 99% of mobile devices did not have internet capabilities. Anyway glad you got it working. I have one floating around, might have to go find it.

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Nice repair!

Does it boot without a game inserted? Looks like 0 voltage without game and 1,8 when inserted

We need to get this fellow a iFix-it sponsor , not that his existing tools are lacking but IFIX-IT lol

Is there a way to set and lock the white balance on your camera (with a piece of white paper for example?)

So i'm 11:15 in and I'm thinking a short on the power rail. also seeing what looks like burnt areas under the battery box on the main PCB (might be dirt though)

Did that game just hear you talking about opening it up, go "hell no I'm fixed now see?", and deny us all another video?

Nice sweater, dude!

I'd recommend using Deox-it on the cartridge socket, contrast wheel, the other battery terminal, and the power switch Even if it is currently working, it's simply a matter of time until it gets oxidized to the point of unreliability in the future Just my $0.02

Hey buddy i just got a quick question for you. I own a IBM P200 20 inch CRT monitor and it's been working good for the past like 8 to 9 months than all of a sudden a few days ago the image does not want to appear on the screen. i have to put a small blanket on the back of the CRT to let it heat up a bit than in like 30 to 45 minutes the image will appear. Do you know if this is a fixable problem? Let me know thanks.

We need to see more of Kona the Repair Dog!

Hey guy, good stuff!

HAPPY NEW YEARS

i like the color of the sweater you are wearing ^_^

This was designed by Gunpei Yokoi (who also designed the Gameboy). It was his next project after leaving Nintendo. This thing is actually quite a bit more powerful than the Gameboy/Gameboy Color, it's a 16-bit system. But the screen is so terrible it might as well just be a regular Gameboy. They made a color version later with a better screen...but by the time they did that, this thing got utterly stomped by the GBA. It might've been more powerful than the GB/GBC, but not the GBA.

Kelsey the cutest gamer/collecter ever is a big Wonderswan collector.

Yes ur back

so one thing the polarizer looks a little burnt, they almost always have to be replaced on wonderswans and i've had to do it to my two as well. luckily the font one isn't too bad to replace.

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Hey what’s the name of the screwdriver set that you use?

Let's go!!!!!!!

The WonderSwan seems like a pretty neat little machine. It was Gunpei Yokoi's final project; how wild is that? Also realized it looks like a Digivice, which is appropriate for it being a Bandai product with a Digimon game.

Nice to see you back. Important question how is Kona? I heard the dog in the Christmas video :)

i do like the sliding battery compartment, but i cant imagine a single battery is enough juice for long plays

Lowspecgamer did a great video on the Gameboy color which the wonderswan pushed.

i miss these videos

I've seen GadgetUK use one of those fiberglass pens to clean lacquer from a ground plane for soldering to. I've never used one but can think of about 40 times when something like that would've come in handy. Do you recommend a particular brand or would something from Amazon suffice?

So cool 🥺😢

Hi, good video... try to check all capacitor in the mainboard system for loss power or short circuit... and check in there is a low bad battery for saves in the cartdrige game...bye

Sweet!

I think the saying you are looking for is "not that well versed", when you were talking about your resistor colour code knowledge.

I finally acquired all 3 models. but I still do not have an OG b&w game.

The positive thing about the battery compartment is if a battery leaks and destroys the terminals there at least a chance it's going to be contained in the compartment rather than leaking into the entire machine. Also it would have been cheaper to replace the battery compartment that the whole unit.

WonderSwan didn't really get much attention from western games until Square made games for it. When they released the original version of the Final Fantasy remake for the WSC in 2000, it was a big deal. Might not seem as much 21 years later when Square-Enix has repackaged that game on seemingly almost every hardware in some form.

Woo! Kona Break!

I would have used a standard alkaline 1.5v battery for testing purposes.

That battery compartment is pretty over engineered, seems like there are a lot of possible points of failure.

I disagree with you on the battery compartment. If all handheld devices, back then, had a separate compartment to hold the batteries, there'd be a lot less acid corrosion on those systems today. How many Sega Nomads have you seen with battery corrosion on their PCB? I'm sure that it was possible to pick up a replacement, for a few bucks, back when the WonderSwan was in its prime.

Do you ever sell the consoles you repair?

Wb man

deoxit does not leave a residue and is not conductive

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Adam is here, but where is Cona? Is she ok?

As someone who's a micro electronics technician myself, I've never heard of using vinegar and simply tap water for cleaning. Usually use isopropyl and flux clean Would be cool to know where you learn this trick

1.8v??