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 Post subject: Re: Led Game mod!!!
PostPosted: Mon May 04, 2009 7:30 pm 
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Just to be forewarned people!!

I do this mod all the time, and the other day I got complacent and careless and after installing an LED in a GBA cart it looked perfectly fine, however without a magnifying glass I didn't notice that a tiny little metal dust particle had bridged the positive pin and another pin.

When I put this in my DS phat it bricked it, so I cleaned up the GBA cart, tested it in my GBA micro and bricked that too. :shock:

Spending the rest of your day bridging fuses is not fun people!!


It ended OK, I ended up reverting the GBA cart back to it's original self, fixed the GBA micro and got a warranty refund on the DS (cause I needed some cash).

From now on I'm not going to do silly little mods "just because". It has taught me a valuable lesson that it is important not to get complacent with anything you do, no matter how easy it seems. :D

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 Post subject: Re: Led Game mod!!!
PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:58 pm 
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He meant an external fan. :P :P

Kind of a waste if you ask me.

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 Post subject: Re: Led Game mod!!!
PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 6:47 pm 
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how do u find polarity? sorry im new to these things


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 Post subject: Re: Led Game mod!!!
PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 6:51 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Led Game mod!!!
PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2010 2:15 pm 
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i know the left one is pos but do i link the - part of the led to the positive?


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 Post subject: Re: Led Game mod!!!
PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:42 pm 
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Can you repost the pics?


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