Given the circumstances surrounding this, I'd say the fuse blew because it had a damaged port. Someone replaced the port but didn't go an further with it. Awesome job :)
It seemed to me the liquid covering some of the IC's legs also did some short-circuiting. Maybe the device would have worked without cleaning that stuff, but it could have potentially caused instability.
@@herrakaarme the liquid damage likely fried/shorted the port, and the bad port likely killed the fuse. Someone replaced the port, still didn’t get it to work. They sent it to TronicsFix, he replaced the fuse and cleaned up the liquid damage. Problem solved
@@mouthwash8182 Yeah, sounds quite plausible. It's just kind of strange the previous owner didn't clean all the liquid residue despite replacing the port.
The ability to pick up a device you've never seen before and quickly and accurately diagnose the issue is what separates the amateurs from the pros. You my friend are certainly a pro, I know you like to feel you way around devices blind when you get them for the first time instead of looking up guides (which certainly would have been available for a device like this), and I think that gives you a certain amount of knowledge and expertise that's difficult to obtain elsewhere. Love watching these, and keep killin' it my friend!
Maybe if you have baby sized hands and play looking through binoculars. Original agb-001 is the best epically when you do the ips backlit screen mod, It's compatible with all gba accessories and can be used as a controller for playing gba games on GameCube through the gba player.
Way to succeed in trying something new. This video just goes to show that if you work hard and keep practicing at whatever project that you want to finish, you can succeed at accomplishing such amazing goals.
Love these tiny Game Boys! The screen is probably the easiest part for these to source ironically, as it was a standard part used in many cameras at the time.
I loved it! You should have a retro fix section, there are a lot of pseudo fixers that do "obvious" repairs (like replace the charging Port for example) and then they ruined the devices or leave it because they asume there is nothing to do. Great video, great job! I hope to see another retro console repairs in the future
It’s great watching this because you know so many others would just throw broken electronics in the garbage while my man here is giving them a new life.
I bought a Gameboy Micro for a dollar a couple of years back at a thrift shop for a dollar. Its an awesome little console. Pair with an EZ Flash cart you have access to some bangers.
Wow, great repair! It's always so great to see things come back to life. For the scratches on the screen, have you tried a magic eraser (the OEM brand) for those kinds of scratches on the polarizer?
It probably makes more sense to replace the polarizing filter. Not exactly the most fun task, but the result will be leagues better. Provided you can source the correct materials, that is...
Great video Steve! This was obviously a challenge for you, but you came through in the end. Boy done good! Btw, love watching your channel. Always entertaining!
Nice fix, Sir! I got one of these as a gift several years ago. I could only play it for a few minutes at a time as the small screen made my eyeballs ache!
Very cool to see a video out of your comfort zone; with the videos on modern consoles it sometimes feels like you immediately know the problem just by looking at it, but here it was a lot more fun to see the thought process and the actual process of elimination to find the problem!
Love your videos because they show that sometimes things don't work out as planned. We have to work without schematics and things get messy. So thank you for showing everything, even if it doesn't work. I learn a lot and look forward to your videos every week.
Loved this video Steve! I remember when the Gameboy micro came out soo many years ago, I wanted one but it wasn't super practical at the time, + I was young and had an original DS from what I remember. Anyway, crazy that one fuse blew and caused it to not turn on! I really enjoy these types of videos, I love seeing how electronics are fixed with no schematics. They look intimidating if your not familiar, but electronics aren't as complicated as they look! (Well maybe sometimes LOL @iphone boards)
I frickin' love the Gameboy Micro. It's the first console I bought with my own money as a kid, it was $100 from Toys R Us. I saved up forever for it. It was so much fun with the interchangeable face plates and the fact it was a nice shape, held a long charge and played all of the GBA games. I still have mine!
Yes it's tronicsfix friday again. I really adore the gameboy micro it was such a great small console for it's time. Great to see it come back to life so someone can enjoy it again. Love those repairs so keep em coming. Have a good weekend Steve
I don't know why, but you scrubbing at a chip with a toothbrush and suddenly the lights coming on made me laugh harder than I have in a long time. Keep up the amazing work!
Really enjoyed the video! I enjoy seeing repairs on old hardware. Maybe in the future you could repair a Gameboy/Gameboy Color or any other old console.
You should do more videos of repairing older consoles. I see a lot of people that have PS2s&3s and Xbox 360s that are starting to fail and it'd be cool to see some brought back to life.
a blown SMD fuse. I had a similar problem (no power, aka NLOD) on a PS2 slim, I spent a lot of time tracking down the culprit, and it was a single tiny fuse bringing power to a secondary power rail with a switching regulator which among other things brought power to the on/off button board. the voltage went from 8,68V to under 2V on the other side, and verifying resistance on the removed piece showed more than 1MOhm - that acted like an open circuit. So, blown fuse. once the fuse was replaced the whole system was working again I had to resort to schematics though. always refreshing to see old video game consoles back in shape from a nonfunctioning state
Hi,just wanna say I love your channel very much. I like game consoles and repairs so your content is perfect for me. Subscribed ages ago and still enjoy now 👍.
I think i'm in love with your work, really you enjoy it so much and it's so high quality, i appreciate the hard work you put in your videos, i hope your channel grow to the infinity
Man I love your videos, I love the aspect of taking something apart fixing and cleaning it up and putting it back together, I do it with every used item I buy, its so fun to me.
It always surprises me that the Micro isnt well known, cause i had one and since i lived in a very small village and were not meeting a lot of other children I assumed others must have one too. Due to the smaller display everything, especially Golden Sun, looked so cool. It was a very good Console.
I was looking at the battery hanging out there while you were cleaning and wondered why you left it plugged in 😂 Oops...glad ya fixed it though! Never had any doubts!
Nice Repair. I can't count how often I had to explain to a customer that each tech has to do their first repair on each and every model they work on at some point. People would complain if a tech, doing an on-site repair, was using a service manual. I would simply ask "Would you prefer they wing it?" We would, of course, adjust any labor charges to account for any additional time needed when dealing with new models.
I love watching your videos, your work always amazes me. I wish I could ship you my sons learning tablet, one day it just randomly stopped turning on. He loved that learning tablet.
That charge port was definitely reworked. Giant solder blobs, messy flux, dirty joints. Probably was an attempt to fix it, not realizing that some corrosion on that IC was the real culprit that caused the short and popped the fuse. Great job!
while you have the screen exposed you should try feathering out the scratches with a q tip and some rubbing compound. it's not going to magically erase the scratch but it will help reduce the amount of light it catches and make it a lot less noticeable.
I was replacing the cartridge port in my C64. Back in the day it didn't get used much since I mostly used real floppy disks. But I don't have any of that nor do I want that. So instead I use a cartridge that emulates a real floppy disk drive, but it's controlled via the cartridge port.....which wasn't working anymore. Since I was going to do a lot of desoldering I'm like I need better flux than this hard crap I've been using. I got this HORRIBLE stuff that evaporates a lot like alcohol. But it'd definitely not. I just stopped using it. All it was doing was leaving white crusty crap on the board. I needed that gell stuff you guys use. Oh well. I got it replaced and it works good as new now! And of course I made sure to clean up all the flux residue afterwords with actual alcohol. I did damage a trace though. Not broken, just not completely attached to the board anymore. I ended up soldering it directly to the pin and double checked continuity. If I have to do anymore work on it, I'll have to find a better flux for next time. That stuff was worthless.
it cleaned up nicely! The inner plastic bracket is quite fragile but luckily you had no issues. I need to pick up some gameboy micros at somepoint but they are very expensive haha
I have a Gameboy micro that has a problem. When i plug the charger, the blue light indicator goes on. but the battery doesn't charge. when i unplugged it after a couple of hours the yellow light comes right back on. Probably I have a fuse problem too?
I am curious if after fixing the system did you try both the new and old battery to see if it was the battery or was it just the fuse and how dirty it was inside?
Given the circumstances surrounding this, I'd say the fuse blew because it had a damaged port. Someone replaced the port but didn't go an further with it. Awesome job :)
Yep, I'd agree with that.
It seemed to me the liquid covering some of the IC's legs also did some short-circuiting. Maybe the device would have worked without cleaning that stuff, but it could have potentially caused instability.
@@herrakaarme the liquid damage likely fried/shorted the port, and the bad port likely killed the fuse. Someone replaced the port, still didn’t get it to work. They sent it to TronicsFix, he replaced the fuse and cleaned up the liquid damage. Problem solved
@@mouthwash8182 Yeah, sounds quite plausible. It's just kind of strange the previous owner didn't clean all the liquid residue despite replacing the port.
@@RWL2012 just stop, no one cares.
This type of restoration, where there's no schematic or booklet to help, just pure skill, are so satisfying to see.
The ability to pick up a device you've never seen before and quickly and accurately diagnose the issue is what separates the amateurs from the pros. You my friend are certainly a pro, I know you like to feel you way around devices blind when you get them for the first time instead of looking up guides (which certainly would have been available for a device like this), and I think that gives you a certain amount of knowledge and expertise that's difficult to obtain elsewhere. Love watching these, and keep killin' it my friend!
I have absolutely no intentions of fixing anything like this but your videos are mesmerising
I love the GBM. It is just about the most perfect portable gaming device. Great to see one brought back from the dead. 👍
Maybe if you have baby sized hands and play looking through binoculars. Original agb-001 is the best epically when you do the ips backlit screen mod, It's compatible with all gba accessories and can be used as a controller for playing gba games on GameCube through the gba player.
Way to succeed in trying something new. This video just goes to show that if you work hard and keep practicing at whatever project that you want to finish, you can succeed at accomplishing such amazing goals.
Love these tiny Game Boys! The screen is probably the easiest part for these to source ironically, as it was a standard part used in many cameras at the time.
I loved it! You should have a retro fix section, there are a lot of pseudo fixers that do "obvious" repairs (like replace the charging Port for example) and then they ruined the devices or leave it because they asume there is nothing to do.
Great video, great job! I hope to see another retro console repairs in the future
These things look awesome, might have to grab one for my collection. Great video as always Steve
You should! These are great little handhelds.
prepare to have to pay a million dollars for one
@@Sam-gw3gc are these worth something now? I have a black one thats been played like 10 times. Maybe I should off load that.
@@handyhomebrewnetwork2142 yeah, they've been going up in price
I remember playing this in class in middle school. This is pure nostalgia.
It's beautiful when an old console is bring back to life. They deserve a second chance to bring hours of fun.
Your videos definitely inspired the ones I´m making! Thanks for showing your great work!!!
Love the Micro. Great little handheld.
Yep!
It’s great watching this because you know so many others would just throw broken electronics in the garbage while my man here is giving them a new life.
Tronix, your voice is si calm. I almost fall sleep with the sound of this video 😁
Ha, ha...glad to hear it!
Almost? I ended up sleeping. I had to rewatch the video. He did a great job! 👍
That seemed like a very satisfying fix. Always fun to see you work on a new system!
I bought a Gameboy Micro for a dollar a couple of years back at a thrift shop for a dollar. Its an awesome little console. Pair with an EZ Flash cart you have access to some bangers.
This was really impressive man. Never even worked on the device and diagnosed the issue. Color Me impressed
Wow, great repair! It's always so great to see things come back to life. For the scratches on the screen, have you tried a magic eraser (the OEM brand) for those kinds of scratches on the polarizer?
It won't work, since it has gone too far.
If you saw Jerry rigs video on how to remove scratches, you know it or else pls watch that
It probably makes more sense to replace the polarizing filter. Not exactly the most fun task, but the result will be leagues better. Provided you can source the correct materials, that is...
A polarizer replacement is very cheap, and pretty easy to do
@@Easymoneysniper5 if ya don't want spoilers, don't read the conments before watching the video😅
Car polishing resin maybe remove the scratches 😉👍
Even without the PERFECT amount of thermal paste... great video, man!
Fantastic! I love it when you fix these old handhelds! Great to see that old Micro comeback to life.
The intensity is off the charts this vid !!🔥🔥🔥
Love these little things. I've been keeping my eye out for one, but boy are they expensive! Great fix, Steve 👍
Prices are crazy on most things right now. These included
Sheesh, just checked the prices, my green ones been in a cupboard for nearly a decade..I lost the charger but even without they seem to be expensive.
Gosh, it’s the one Gameboy missing in my collection to collect the whole series of Gameboys. I love the video, keep up the great work😁
What a technician you are! Very nice job!
Great video Steve! This was obviously a challenge for you, but you came through in the end. Boy done good! Btw, love watching your channel. Always entertaining!
Your restoration videos give me life
man! I love the way you fix things, the way that you make alive the dead! it feels really great to me!
Hope you have a good one!
Nice fix, Sir! I got one of these as a gift several years ago. I could only play it for a few minutes at a time as the small screen made my eyeballs ache!
WOOOOOOOW what a blast from the past even seeing a Gameboy Micro!!! great fix!
Very cool to see a video out of your comfort zone; with the videos on modern consoles it sometimes feels like you immediately know the problem just by looking at it, but here it was a lot more fun to see the thought process and the actual process of elimination to find the problem!
Heck yeah, awesome to see you text another device and especially the one you’ve never done before!
Love your videos because they show that sometimes things don't work out as planned. We have to work without schematics and things get messy. So thank you for showing everything, even if it doesn't work. I learn a lot and look forward to your videos every week.
Most Game Boys it's the F1 fuse when it doesn't boot with battery. Crazy how quick he was able to find it without that knowledge.
This video put a smile on my face. Glad you were able to fix it! I love the oddity that is the Micro.
Loved this video Steve! I remember when the Gameboy micro came out soo many years ago, I wanted one but it wasn't super practical at the time, + I was young and had an original DS from what I remember.
Anyway, crazy that one fuse blew and caused it to not turn on!
I really enjoy these types of videos, I love seeing how electronics are fixed with no schematics. They look intimidating if your not familiar, but electronics aren't as complicated as they look! (Well maybe sometimes LOL @iphone boards)
I frickin' love the Gameboy Micro. It's the first console I bought with my own money as a kid, it was $100 from Toys R Us. I saved up forever for it. It was so much fun with the interchangeable face plates and the fact it was a nice shape, held a long charge and played all of the GBA games. I still have mine!
Yes it's tronicsfix friday again. I really adore the gameboy micro it was such a great small console for it's time. Great to see it come back to life so someone can enjoy it again. Love those repairs so keep em coming. Have a good weekend Steve
I don't know why, but you scrubbing at a chip with a toothbrush and suddenly the lights coming on made me laugh harder than I have in a long time.
Keep up the amazing work!
When cleaning the chip i was thinking " did he unplugged the battery" seconds later it turns on " oh dear"
Great video as always!
I have had your videos recommended to me lately... and I have watched a few. Great stuff... but THIS VIDEO... THIS ONE... made me click "Subscribe"!
Wow, thanks! Welcome to my channel!
Really enjoyed the video! I enjoy seeing repairs on old hardware. Maybe in the future you could repair a Gameboy/Gameboy Color or any other old console.
Missed your repairs. Hope life is good. Never had a game boy mirco before.
You should do more videos of repairing older consoles. I see a lot of people that have PS2s&3s and Xbox 360s that are starting to fail and it'd be cool to see some brought back to life.
a blown SMD fuse. I had a similar problem (no power, aka NLOD) on a PS2 slim, I spent a lot of time tracking down the culprit, and it was a single tiny fuse bringing power to a secondary power rail with a switching regulator which among other things brought power to the on/off button board. the voltage went from 8,68V to under 2V on the other side, and verifying resistance on the removed piece showed more than 1MOhm - that acted like an open circuit. So, blown fuse. once the fuse was replaced the whole system was working again
I had to resort to schematics though.
always refreshing to see old video game consoles back in shape from a nonfunctioning state
Please continue to make these videos and fix more electronics like this. 👍😄
Anyone else find it oddly satisfying listening to this guys videos? 🤩
Hi,just wanna say I love your channel very much. I like game consoles and repairs so your content is perfect for me. Subscribed ages ago and still enjoy now 👍.
Nice work! Elliot over at The Retro Future channel would be happy to see a Micro restored.
I think i'm in love with your work, really you enjoy it so much and it's so high quality, i appreciate the hard work you put in your videos, i hope your channel grow to the infinity
Great, You should do more of these retro fixes 👌
Love these type of video you make
Glad you enjoyed!
You make great content, love watching your videos. I've learn a lot from your videos. Keep up the great work!!
Thanks, will do!
Amazing job, as always my friend! Congrats!!
It's Tronics Friday! 🙂
YES!
Man I love your videos, I love the aspect of taking something apart fixing and cleaning it up and putting it back together, I do it with every used item I buy, its so fun to me.
Man I loved this thing as a kid. I still have it in pristine condition. This video certainly put a smile to my face.
I really love Your videos and it motivates me to start fixing stuff
Glad to see this repaired but whoever took care of it absolutely abused it. That case is a wreck.
Nice job Steve! Good to see you saving these old consoles from being scrapped. 🙂
Great video! I love seeing people repair things
Thank you for repairing a retro console :)
We all got together to send you the video that Rodrigo made for you. It was with a lot of love and humility
Another great repair video. I was actually unaware of the existence of these handhelds til today.
I had a friend named Mark who collected handheld gaming systems and he's the only person I've ever seen in my life to actually own one of these.
Oddly enough leaving the battery in and the switch on worked out perfectly. The game boy practically told you it was fixed lol
I dont know why i always enjoy watching he fixing stuffs :)
It always surprises me that the Micro isnt well known, cause i had one and since i lived in a very small village and were not meeting a lot of other children I assumed others must have one too. Due to the smaller display everything, especially Golden Sun, looked so cool. It was a very good Console.
It came out at the same time as the DS, which really overshadowed it
I really love this channel. You inspired me to get back into doing Maker stuff. Thank you.
Nice job Steve! those are fun to fix I buy alot of them from Japan for cheap sendico auctions and fix and sell them
I was looking at the battery hanging out there while you were cleaning and wondered why you left it plugged in 😂 Oops...glad ya fixed it though! Never had any doubts!
Nice Repair. I can't count how often I had to explain to a customer that each tech has to do their first repair on each and every model they work on at some point. People would complain if a tech, doing an on-site repair, was using a service manual. I would simply ask "Would you prefer they wing it?" We would, of course, adjust any labor charges to account for any additional time needed when dealing with new models.
I love watching your videos, your work always amazes me. I wish I could ship you my sons learning tablet, one day it just randomly stopped turning on. He loved that learning tablet.
Nice fix, never seen one of these before, cool looking device!
Video is great 👍🏼 but one thing my ears missed lot today is the "perfect amount of thermal paste" 😏
It’s always cool seeing a repair on something you’ve never taken apart. Always learning.
That charge port was definitely reworked. Giant solder blobs, messy flux, dirty joints. Probably was an attempt to fix it, not realizing that some corrosion on that IC was the real culprit that caused the short and popped the fuse. Great job!
I am Rodrigo's uncle, the video that the school boys made for you was with a lot of love, I would love for you to watch it
Superb and very interesting, informative repair!! 👍👍👍
Nice repair! Thank you for your videos, these are well done and very helpful 😁
crazy i just found a game boy micro at a yard sale for 2 bucks and then you put this video up nice
Excellent video.. Love your work man.
while you have the screen exposed you should try feathering out the scratches with a q tip and some rubbing compound. it's not going to magically erase the scratch but it will help reduce the amount of light it catches and make it a lot less noticeable.
I was replacing the cartridge port in my C64. Back in the day it didn't get used much since I mostly used real floppy disks. But I don't have any of that nor do I want that. So instead I use a cartridge that emulates a real floppy disk drive, but it's controlled via the cartridge port.....which wasn't working anymore. Since I was going to do a lot of desoldering I'm like I need better flux than this hard crap I've been using. I got this HORRIBLE stuff that evaporates a lot like alcohol. But it'd definitely not. I just stopped using it. All it was doing was leaving white crusty crap on the board. I needed that gell stuff you guys use. Oh well. I got it replaced and it works good as new now! And of course I made sure to clean up all the flux residue afterwords with actual alcohol. I did damage a trace though. Not broken, just not completely attached to the board anymore. I ended up soldering it directly to the pin and double checked continuity. If I have to do anymore work on it, I'll have to find a better flux for next time. That stuff was worthless.
I use paste flux. The liquid flux is not that helpful. Nice work on the repair!
Good job, already a child is happy to have it 😃👍🏻🛠️
it cleaned up nicely! The inner plastic bracket is quite fragile but luckily you had no issues. I need to pick up some gameboy micros at somepoint but they are very expensive haha
I wish i could find one of these broken for a decent price. But even the non-working ones are going for an insane amount of money.
Yeah all GBA prices are going crazy, Micro and SPs are going for $200+ here :/
Great fix and fault finding Steve! You should do more portable handhelds!
Always a pleasure to see hardware that is trash for others, gets a new life :)
what fuse did you replace it with?
Great stuff , thanks Tronics
Gosh your really talented. I am jealous - My attempt at that would have ended up with me raging it right into the trash can. Good Job! :)
Great video 💪😀👍
Glad you liked it!
Great video! These are such good watches on a quiet Saturday with a cup of coffee.
I never heard of the GB Micro and just checked ebay prices and I just can say holy cow ...
If you have 15 years old, yes probably no
But this GB Micro was good🤙🏼
I still play my GB Micro (famicom edition) when traveling! Great little system.
I have a Gameboy micro that has a problem.
When i plug the charger, the blue light indicator goes on. but the battery doesn't charge. when i unplugged it after a couple of hours the yellow light comes right back on.
Probably I have a fuse problem too?
I really do have a soft spot for the Mirco it's a great little Handheld.
Omg the memories I have with that game boy. Still have mine and it works fine.
I am curious if after fixing the system did you try both the new and old battery to see if it was the battery or was it just the fuse and how dirty it was inside?