gameboy(first gen) broken need help

[Joktan]

ok a few years back my little sister jumped on my gameboy.and she knocked somethign loose in itand now it wont power on.i want to take i[t apart but i dont got the special screwdriver.any way to do it without one?

 

[playallday]

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[Joktan]

no its got some weird sorta Y looking screw..i just want to take it apart to see if i can do something.it sounds like a piece just got loose inside the system.i mean i got a gameboy pocket but i want to fix my orginal one....

 

[Thoob]

I think you'll need to buy another from eBay. It is highly unlikely you will be able to fix it.

 

[Joktan]

it just sounds like a little piece is unhooked...i fixed a dvd player because a little thing became un a tached to it..so i am a assuming that its something like that....

 

[Deleted User]

If the screws are Y-shaped just get a tri-wing screwdriver (Arctic already posted a link) and see what you can do. Although I was pretty sure it used those screws you'd need a game-bit for--at least the battery-pack did. Then again, if the screws are the same that your GB Pocket uses, it's tri-wing.

 

[Joktan]

Although I was pretty sure it used those screws you'd need a game-bit for--at least the battery-pack did.

what do you mean? i am not understanding what you mean.

 

[Jamstruth]

Although I was pretty sure it used those screws you'd need a game-bit for--at least the battery-pack did.

what do you mean? i am not understanding what you mean.

Triwing screws look like this

They are a rather new system used from the mid 90s onwards

Gamebits look like this

These are an older system that you see used on GB cartridges. Takeshi was expecting to find this on an original GameBoy

 

[Deleted User]

Yep, that's exactly what I meant, but after a little research it turned out that the original GB actually uses tri-wing screws. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[Joktan]

i knew what kind of screws they are....i was wondering if there is any screw drivers that will work with it and not special order from a website...

 

[Jamstruth]

Not without special order, but they're very cheap and easy to come by.

 

[BlueStar]

They're pretty cheap and it's best to buy one, but you could try an old trick of melting the end of a pen and sticking it in the screw. Once it's cooled you'll have a plastic screw driver in the right shape. Not ideal, but you might get it to work if you're lucky.

 

[Joktan]

dude that sounds awesome...i am goin to try that..thanks bluestarhow hot would i need to get it?