Hey! New around here,
I've been refurbishing and modding this original GBA I got from Japan on ebay. I Cleaned it, put a backlit screen on, fixed the power switch which wouldn't work originally. It was playing all games well until recently. I was playing Zelda The Minish Cap, and it started showing wonky stuff on the save/load game interface, wouldn't let me load. But the same cartridge worked well on a different unit. Then I took it apart and tried cleaning it a bit more with alcohol, and checked most capacitors for shorts. Found nothing. When I put it back together, GBA games show glitchy from the start or don't play at all. The glitching varies a little too over time. At first Zelda wouldn't start at all, after a couple of hours it would show the splash screen as seen in the video. I was able to play original Gameboy games fine though.
I've put a good amount of time on this thing, has anybody seen this problem before? Any pointers to what it could be or what else to try?
Thanks in advance!
I've been refurbishing and modding this original GBA I got from Japan on ebay. I Cleaned it, put a backlit screen on, fixed the power switch which wouldn't work originally. It was playing all games well until recently. I was playing Zelda The Minish Cap, and it started showing wonky stuff on the save/load game interface, wouldn't let me load. But the same cartridge worked well on a different unit. Then I took it apart and tried cleaning it a bit more with alcohol, and checked most capacitors for shorts. Found nothing. When I put it back together, GBA games show glitchy from the start or don't play at all. The glitching varies a little too over time. At first Zelda wouldn't start at all, after a couple of hours it would show the splash screen as seen in the video. I was able to play original Gameboy games fine though.
I've put a good amount of time on this thing, has anybody seen this problem before? Any pointers to what it could be or what else to try?
Thanks in advance!
