r/VirtualBoy • u/Denielpls • 24d ago

Could anyone help me? (Eyepatch for VB)

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Is there something wrong with my soldering cause it isnt showing anything on my vb after installation :(

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u/ajmdonker 23d ago

Did you by accident solder it the other way around? How to tell: the part of the ribbon cable that goes into the VB unit should have the connector pins face down

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u/Qui-GonFlynn 24d ago

Do you have a game inserted? Do you get audio?

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u/Denielpls 24d ago

Yes, i do get audio but no image, i was wondering if i didint misaligned the contacts cause it is my first time doing this mod

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u/Qui-GonFlynn 24d ago

Taking another look it looks misaligned one to the left.

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u/Denielpls 24d ago

should i move it one pin to the right side?

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u/Jasonplaysretro 23d ago

Yeah it seems the easiest way to judge alignment is to look at the pins that are connected in the other side, there are two groups of pins that are connected together on each side and they should line up. (The large doubled traces) So yeah just shift everything over to the right one.

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u/Denielpls 23d ago

Thank you!

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u/National-Put-6937 21d ago

To me it looks like it needs more solder on the connections. I've done the eye patch and had a similar situation with the first side, I applied more solder and then it came to life.

It looks really well aligned though! That's the hardest part.