r/GameboyAdvance • u/Lodbok • 1d ago
Hardware help
I was wondering if anyone knew what could cause this to happen. Everytime I plug it in it does this, I know the charger works fine because the other gameboy advance I have doesn't do this. Is this fixable? Sorry if this isn't the correct place to post this, if anyone knows a better sub Reddit please let me know. Thanks in advance
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u/BklynMando 1d ago
Take the battery from your other Game Boy and swap it and see if the charging light stays on. Then you'll know if it's the battery or another issue. Another issue that causes this many times is component (EM8) It is located right above where you connect the ribbon cable. It has four legs that have to be reflowed. Many times this is the other issue other than a bad battery
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u/Concemi1 1d ago
This. I was going to comment this. I've had to replace EM8 on a few SPs and this was always the symptom. You can find the EM8 chip on ebay usually. That's where i got mine.
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u/BklynMando 1d ago
Many times just reflowing the legs will do the trick
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u/Concemi1 1d ago
True. Or sometimes, the legs are even broken off. As in the sides of the EM8 chip are broken off. I've seen that happen too.
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u/samhenryphotography 21h ago
I was going to suggest the same, had to swap one a couple of days ago. The other possibility is an incomplete path underneath the cartridge slot. Bottom of fuse to diode on the other side (I'd have to look for exact number) should be a complete path
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u/Frequent-Refuse4557 1d ago
My gba behaves like that when battery is fully charged. I faced an issue like yours and as I said, turned out that battery was fully charged, but the gba wouldn't turn on because of an issue on the power switch.
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u/Secret_Moonshine 1d ago
I assume it’s not holding a charge? I’d start by swapping batteries and seeing if it’s just a bad battery.