Finally, a repair where nothing caught fire. I was surprised when carefully applying controlled heat along the LCD ribbon-cable bond brought the missing columns back and appeased the pixel gods! It worked on this unit, but “wave a soldering iron at it” is not a universal Game Boy display repair and too much heat can make things considerably worse. The gods may be crazy, but at least I can see all the Tetris lines now.

…and I might have uploaded an unboxing video of a camera that I have since sold on after coming to the realisation that my iPhone is just as capable when on a Joby phone holder coupled with a cheap stand. I guess I was originally hoping to do more photographing of consoles, but with university and life in general… the free time just isn’t there!

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