ASH used REPAIR. It's super effective!

April 23, 2017 5:36 PM

This Is How You Fix A Really Busted Copy Of Pokémon Red [Kotaku] “Grant Haack, who goes by Snip3r95 on Imgur, found an old Pokémon cartridge while wandering around a flea market. The game only set them back $5, but actually getting the Game Boy classic up and running required some serious elbow grease. “It was at the bottom of a bin and in pretty bad shape,” Haack wrote in a post on Imgur [Full Image Album] documenting the project. The game wouldn’t properly boot up, so they unscrewed the back and dismantled the game to reveal a bunch of dirt and rust underneath.”
posted by Fizz (19 comments total)

*blows on cartridge*
posted by Fizz at 5:38 PM on April 23, 2017 [5 favorites]

I have done some weird ass repairs on old equipment before, but grinding away the epoxy to expose the leadframe and then soldering on magnet wire is just hnnnnnnngggg my hands are shaking just thinking about it. Good job, hyperdedicated Pokemon player.
posted by phooky at 5:45 PM on April 23, 2017 [8 favorites]

Pokémon Red

Those Japanese wines never caught on in America.
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:49 PM on April 23, 2017 [14 favorites]

I believe Chardonizard has been pretty popular.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:51 PM on April 23, 2017 [28 favorites]

Certainly a better fighter than Merlowth.
posted by delfin at 6:01 PM on April 23, 2017 [17 favorites]

Grant Haack, who goes by Snip3r95

Why would you need or want an alias when blessed with a name like that?
posted by Sangermaine at 6:15 PM on April 23, 2017 [22 favorites]

When your birth name's not l337 enough you gotta make do.
posted by quaking fajita at 7:34 PM on April 23, 2017

Grant Haack

l3337
posted by leotrotsky at 7:54 PM on April 23, 2017 [5 favorites]

Chardonizard is lovely, but with this hot weather I'm partial to Pidgey Grigio.
posted by ZaphodB at 8:44 PM on April 23, 2017 [11 favorites]

Bernie or rust.
posted by adept256 at 9:29 PM on April 23, 2017 [2 favorites]

Gewürztraminer, I choose you!
posted by Hicksu at 9:46 PM on April 23, 2017 [3 favorites]

I want to know what he soaked the board in to get rid of all that rust.
posted by GuyZero at 9:49 PM on April 23, 2017 [1 favorite]

I believe Chardonizard has been pretty popular.

It's overrated. The Shirazard it replaced was much better.
posted by Dysk at 3:24 AM on April 24, 2017 [2 favorites]

Too much Oak in the Chardonizard.
posted by Dysk at 3:27 AM on April 24, 2017 [3 favorites]

Shirazard

I could tell you some interesting stories about Shirazard, but it will have to wait until tomorrow.
posted by zamboni at 5:30 AM on April 24, 2017 [3 favorites]

This is the person I want with me in the bunker after the end comes.... well actually I'd prefer him to have a shop just outside my bunker where I could trade him clean water or old paperbacks for various microprocessor repair services. That way I don't have to deal with him except when I need to. But then he'd probably get bored because I tend to take care of things pretty well so most of my bunker electronics (video games included) would likely outlast me so he might not stick around if I really did need him. *sigh*

/firstworldendofworldproblems
posted by RolandOfEld at 6:14 AM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]

So, being ooold and unhip to the ways of the Gameboy and Pokemon...is there anything actually that special about this cartridge to make it worth the effort, or was Grant just bored? (No judgement here. I've been that bored before.)
posted by jferg at 10:40 AM on April 24, 2017

I am also pretty unhip but I think he was just bored.
posted by quaking fajita at 1:07 PM on April 24, 2017

I want to know what he soaked the board in to get rid of all that rust.

Acetone, according to the imgur comments.
posted by kenko at 7:36 PM on April 24, 2017