I bought an AS-IS switch off eBay that turned out to have way more wrong with it than what was described. Initially it was just a faulty cooling fan, which then turned into it not being able to charge the Joycons. I fixed this by removing a faulty diode near the cooling fan connector.
But after...
Tried all of the above. Different games, cleaned contacts, even desoldered the cartridge connector and cleaned the pins and pads and I couldn't make it turn on. I can't tell if it's the cartridge connector or a chip on the board.
Hello all. I recently picked up this Action Replay for the Gameboy Advance. Knowing it's broken, I want to fix it. I have a few issues already though. My biggest one I want to address is that it doesn't seem to boot. I've never owned one, so I could be wrong. I plug it into my GBA, attempt to...
I mean yeah sure but the specs are the same as a $50 model, it's just those pesky "quality of life" things driving up the price, like an actually working speaker, or buttons that don't melt, and stuff like that.
I think all in my Pi 4 was well north of 200 bucks 150ish for the Pi 4 the case the fancy cooler, then like 70 for the 500GB MicroSD then like 70 for the Xbox controller. But honestly it's a nice set up I really enjoy and to me was worth every penny. (even bought more controllers for 2 or 4 player games.) hmmm have never played any 2 player games yet
Yeah that's what I hate about the RPi, it's supposedly $30 or something but it takes an additional $200 of accessories to actually turn it into a working something.
Yeah a lot of it I consider a hobby, using Batocera I am constantly adjusting the collection adding and removing stuff, scraping the artwork. Haven't even started on some music for the theme... Also way down the road I am considering attempting to do a WiiFlow knock off lol