Just got my FlashBoy Plus and as I was seating myself in game position I suddenly noticed that the left screen was starting to glitch – really bad.
So, as I had already gotten a required tool – a screwdriver just for this purpose – I spent almost half-an-hour trimming the shape to fit in the deep holes and cling the screw head just right.
Disassembly was no problem at all as I had seen pictures from other people here doing the same. I was a bit uncertain regarding the solder temperature though but I discovered 380-390 degrees Centigrades was fine.
I didn’t get that lovely solder ball to push around but melted some solder on the flatcable and melted the plastic away with the iron and moved it along the traces from the cable onto the PCB so they wouldn’t bend in the wring direction.
First attempt was pretty neat, after cleaning the flux away with some alcohol it looked pretty nice. I was worried about the little gap at the end of the flatcable wire strands but solder had stuck there as well and when checking all connections from PCB to PCB all of them were less than 1 Ohm.
Next one was a little straighter and nicer and faster, took maybe two or three minutes to solder and just as long to clean.
Here’s my first attempt:
I noticed that the rightmost trace wasn’t exposed as much so I scraped the paint off before soldering that one:
Worked great, I should be playing instead of typing here. 😉
Me neither, I bought a two-pack of screwdrivers for 2 EUR and modified the flat one like described by the pioneers:
Took a while to make but worked perfectly.
EDIT: Seems adding normal postimage-linked pictures with thumbnails here really sucks… same miniature picture opens in a new window.