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...definitely try asking this question on the Game Boy subreddit . You probably won't find a larger collection of hardware modders, and some of the people there are wizards. ( he did ) Great minds think alike? I kinda feel bad for spamming my problems around like that... but whatever. Thanks for th...

lidnariq wrote:Try without a cart. Even without one there should be a scrolling black rectangle when it's turned on.

Sadly, no change. It's also probably worth mentioning that the contrast wheel does nothing.

End of the line for this DMG-01?

Hey nesdev, you helped me revive a dead NES last week, and I'm hoping you can help me again. I was given a dead Gameboy DMG-01 a couple of years ago, and I'd really like to revive it. I just can't stand to throw it in the trash and buy another one. I also have a new housing, bivert, and backlight mo...

Yeah, try adding the two wires. That worked beautifully, thank you very much! I went from a seemingly dead console with no power light to full function by soldering in those two wires. I ended up using the first example (yellow wires) instead of the second (white wires) , because my unit was missin...

lidnariq wrote:You can add two wires: https://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=10091

Should I give that a try in it's current state? I can easily add those two wires with the tools that I have.

Any idea why the console appears to be dead?

A friend gave me a very nice NES frontloader with a few games, 2 controllers, and even a Zapper! Nice! Sadly, it has the red blink of death, which I thought to be either a dirty cartridge connector, a bad NES10 chip, or both! I decided to pull it apart, clean the connector, and disconnect pin 4 of t...