I remember buying a bunch of things from a chinese wholeseller and picking it up just because it was 2$ just to have one on hand and forgot about it for years. I had forgot that the Game Boy used proprietary Tri-Wing screw but fortunatly, I had a tri-wing screwdriver somwhere in my junk. I opened it to investigate the speaker situation. Sound was working through the headphone jack though. But I was lucky this time and every thing seemed to be working except for the speaker. After re-inserting the cart once or twice I got the game to boot. It is surprising because from my experience, when an eBay seller says that they couldn't or don't have the time to test something, it usually mean that they did and that it is broken. First I got a corrupted Nintendo boot screen but that is not really surprising considering the cart slot must have been dirty. As it turn out, not much was wrong with it. I was expecting to have corroded contacts and battery acid everywhere like most broken portable console I usualy from eBay but it was not the case this time.Īfter my usual innitial cleaning and desinfection, I digged some of my old Game Boy carts from when I was a kid, popped 4 AA battery in it and fired up good ol' Tetris to try and assess what kind of issues it had. When it arrived, I was suprised to find that it was in a pretty decent condition. I already have my old Game Boy from when I was young but I figured that I would be able to mod the extra one (I don't really like modding my old console from when I was a kid). I ended up getting it for about 15$ shipping included. It was shipping from Canada (lower shipping for me) and was selling for so cheap that I just had to bid on it eventough I really didn't need it. The description was that the seller apparently found it in a box while cleaning his house and didn't test it. I saw this defective original Game Boy listed on eBay that nobody seemed to be interested in.
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