Also taking it apart, I realized that some of the work was probably on the shoddier end, due in no part to trying to rush to finish it, and it being my first foray into Game Boy modding. I declared the project dead, and stripped off most of the parts and threw the rest in a box to potentially tinker with in the future (but honestly, it will probably just stay in a box in my closet). Unfortunately, the custom nature of the mod made replacing the SP board more trouble than I deemed it was worth. I guess that’s what I get for buying a cheap used SP on eBay that was labelled “for parts”. After hours of troubleshooting, with some help from a few very knowledgeable folks on Discord (special thanks to gekkio for his help, and who has an infinite well of Game Boy knowledge on his website and github that I reference a lot), we determined the power management chip on the SP was bad. Eventually, I was unable to boot at all, even without a game cartridge in the slot. Only rarely, but it began occurring more and more often. It worked pretty well, but started showing some symptoms that something was not right. And after finishing my SP-in-a-DMG mod, I was really enjoying it… for about two weeks.
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