Heh, this was actually the FIRST time i actually soldered anything.
The only tools I had was a bbq skewer, a soldering iron (i filed down the tip), a small vile of soldering tin (not sure if that's what it's called [just some cheap shit like
THIS]) and a few wires i raped from a broken walkman.
Anyway, I really had no clue what I was doing, so i just cut a teeny bit of soldering tin off and melted it onto some wire. It solidifies really quickly, so you can just put the wire up. So now you have a wire with a little bead of solder on it and you just point it on the pad you want to solder it onto and you melt it directly onto the pcb.
I admit, there is probably a WAYYY better way of doing this... I almost botched it FIVE times!?!?! At one stage, two of the pads were connected and i had to melt and chissel. It was damn scary..
AAAAAnyway.... an hour later, i'm playing a burnt copy of super paper mario on a PAL wii