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I have been trying for 2 days straight to fix my Pokemon Crystal, but I’ve only made it worse. At first, the GameBoy Color or GameBoy Advance SP that I put it in, would at least stay on, and I would usually get a strange group of symbols where the “Nintendo ®” should’ve been. Now, whenever I put it into the GameBoy Color, or any of my three GameBoy Advance SPs, and turn on the power, it turns the system off. I’m not having any similar issues on any of these systems, with any other games. I can’t find any other forum on Google with similar issues. Usually, the issues people have are in regards to changing the battery, so that the game can save, or the game simply not booting up; but, my issue involves the game turning the system off. I tried re-soldering every connection on the board, and the problem persists after several re-solder attempts. I have no idea what to do at this point, and I would really appreciate any help. I have uploaded a video link where you guys can see the issue yourselves. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6lk0a… Update (06/10/2018) Here are some images of the motherboard. Please let me know if they are not clear enough, or if you would like me to photograph other angles.
Also, here is the link to the second video. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6lkvd…
Hi @season I might be wrong, but when I see the video you had provided, it seems there might be “tin whiskers” affecting this, on some of the IC chip. https://i0.wp.com/writing.chrisvotey.com… http://writing.chrisvotey.com/blog/2016/… you will need to do some soldering rework, and adding new soldering to fix up those. remove battery before doing any soldering repair. Saved data will be lost.
