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Game Boy Advance repair covers two families. The original is a flat unit with an unlit screen that runs on AA cells. The SP folds shut, has a lit screen and holds a small lithium pack. Common jobs are no power, a flickering picture, a worn battery and a cracked shell.
Two consoles with different faults are opened in a dead board and a flickering screen. A badly yellowed console sold as junk is the subject of the junk GBA restored from blue. For an SP, a home-built higher-capacity lithium pack comes from makho, who sells it as a kit. It is advanced work, and a bare lithium cell needs a protection circuit. A bigger job is a motherboard replacement, which makho rates as advanced soldering. Bench skills are under soldering.
An SP's lithium pack is a fire risk if punctured, swollen or shorted. The iron burns and its fumes want a window open. Crust on old battery contacts is corrosive, so clean it with gloves on.
Hobbyist or repairer
Moving the CPU and RAM from an original Game Boy Advance board onto a Funnyplaying replacement motherboard is the job here. The maker rates it as advanced soldering work.
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A torn funnyplaying GBA IPS kit ribbon has two repair routes, scraping back the solder mask to reach the traces or soldering onto the components instead.
Hobbyist or repairer
Snapped in two, refusing to charge and carrying a damaged screen cable, a Game Boy Advance SP gets a replacement screen and a repair.
Hobbyist or repairer
Fitting a headphone jack to a Game Boy Advance SP, a model that came without one, follows a method from another channel, and the maker admits there may be neater ways.
Hobbyist or repairer
A Game Boy Advance sold as junk does not work and has turned deep yellow from its original see-through Glacier blue. Odd Tinkering sets out to restore it.
Hobbyist or repairer
Can a GBA SP hold more charge? The maker builds a replacement lithium pack, aiming to lift capacity from 550mAh to about 900mAh.
Hobbyist or repairer
The Funnyplaying IPS kit made for the GBA SP (AGS-001) goes into an SP. The maker says there is one version of this kit, based on the v2 GBA kit.
Hobbyist or repairer
A USB C charging port goes into a Game Boy Advance SP, with the maker working out the order for soldering the anchor points and via, plus a reshaped bezel.
Hobbyist or repairer
Two Game Boy Advance consoles bought as faulty are opened up, one with a flickering screen and one with corrosion spread across the board, which the maker says stopped it booting.
Sells parts or repairs
A Game Boy Advance SP in poor shape gets a replacement battery, a new case and a fresh top screen protector, while the motherboard is cleaned of dust and liquid damage.
Sells parts or repairs
Can a Game Boy Advance run on a television over HDMI? Voultar fits the GBA Consolizer kit, which turns the handheld into a console with an HDMI output.
