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August 2015 - What summer is finally perhaps coming??? Let's get stuff!
Thom Grayson:
With regards to Superchops recent pickup...
I too, very coincidentally, just made a pickup including a white GBA and a bundle of games. Should be getting it in the next few days.
One of the games is even the same! :P
Lashek:
Picked these up over the last few months, but I've not been posting here. Been focusing on myself with a little bit of collecting mixed in. :)
The first picture was local pickups from Goodwill.
Second picture I found at one of the big Goodwill's while some friends were visiting (I dragged them along and they also got some things)
Third picture are some games a friend brought to me in exchange for my old nVidia Geforce 570 GTX graphics card and some RAM (unexpected, as I gave them card and RAM free). :)
Not Pictured: A spare slim PlayStation 2 that a buddy of mine at work brought in and gave me.
wiggy:
--- Quote from: Superchop on August 22, 2015, 02:36:07 PM ---
My Craigslist pickup and impulse buy from ebay.
The gameboy advance sp and finding nemo were an ebay purchase that I semi regret. It was pretty beat up, has no charger and was bedazzled but I had bought it just because I assumed it was backlit and just wanted the screen anyway. Unfortunately this wasn't one of them :( so it was a little lesson in making sure I do my research before making a purchase lol. However, I don't have an sp in my collection so I just decided to buy a new shell and plug and just make the best of it.
The rest of the stuff was from a local guy on craigslist. (story in the craigslist thread). The white gba works flawlessly and is in really good shape. The glacier one not so much. It's pretty beat up and is missing the battery cover. It also doesn't seem to read any game I put in. I haven't taken it apart yet to clean it up but will do so when the new shell for that one arrives. I'm hoping for the best but I knew the risks going into the purchase lol
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The GBA is a pretty damned robust system. Of all of nintendo's non-DS systems, it is by far the toughest IMO. I think I have about 10-15 or so that couldn't be saved for one reason or another out of the hundreds that we modified over the last couple of years. I'm willing to bet that a little love can get t working.
What are the issues you're experiencing? I can help you diagnose and fix it if you'd like. I've repaired more than I'd like to count and there are only a few typical issues that they have which are very easily resolved with a couple of little tricks ;)
Superchop:
--- Quote from: wiggy on August 23, 2015, 05:10:55 AM ---
The GBA is a pretty damned robust system. Of all of nintendo's non-DS systems, it is by far the toughest IMO. I think I have about 10-15 or so that couldn't be saved for one reason or another out of the hundreds that we modified over the last couple of years. I'm willing to bet that a little love can get t working.
What are the issues you're experiencing? I can help you diagnose and fix it if you'd like. I've repaired more than I'd like to count and there are only a few typical issues that they have which are very easily resolved with a couple of little tricks ;)
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Besides not being backlit ; p The system seems to power up fine but just stays stuck on the boot up screen. No matter what game I try none of them play. The gameboy text comes up fine, sound is fine but then that's it.
monjici:
--- Quote from: Superchop on August 23, 2015, 07:15:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: wiggy on August 23, 2015, 05:10:55 AM ---
The GBA is a pretty damned robust system. Of all of nintendo's non-DS systems, it is by far the toughest IMO. I think I have about 10-15 or so that couldn't be saved for one reason or another out of the hundreds that we modified over the last couple of years. I'm willing to bet that a little love can get t working.
What are the issues you're experiencing? I can help you diagnose and fix it if you'd like. I've repaired more than I'd like to count and there are only a few typical issues that they have which are very easily resolved with a couple of little tricks ;)
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Besides not being backlit ; p The system seems to power up fine but just stays stuck on the boot up screen. No matter what game I try none of them play. The gameboy text comes up fine, sound is fine but then that's it.
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That happened to me once and it was caused by filthy contacts. Hopefully I had a game boy cleaning kit. Worked like a charm :)