Ulrizza

Hi @JVOSS, thanks 
What a beautiful picture!

I didn't find any new Tetris, and I paused a little bit my collecting because I had expensive maintenance costs on my car recently, so I'll continue searching in some time.

I took some time to display my Tetris, I'll post a picture when I have time to finish the display 

1 minute ago, koifish said:

I beat one match of soccer mania, but I am not sure that really is the ending. The one place online I could find with any info on it said that you won the game upon beating all five other teams. I'm intimidated by that, as trying to beat the Brazil team after the Japan team was an awful time. I feel like I barely understand the game, but I did notice that once Japan was beaten, you could then select another opponent, and Japan's name was not present anymore. I suspect that this site may be telling the truth, and if it is, then I think this game might not get cleared very easily.

Look at the "requirement" column for this game on the first page of this thread 

I found another HKG with the label in slightly better condition than the last one!

• The first one ... no need to explain
• The second one is a little off at the bottom
• And the third one is nearly perfect 

Small new arrival in my collection: another Korean Tetris, in a way better shape that the one I had 

Thanks again to @Tyree_Cooper I just received the Taiwanese Tetris!

I thought it would have been easier to find the missing European ones but it looks like there are not much to sell this days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes that's what I suspected.
My childhood Dr. Mario is a "GPS" and I'm sure it has been bought in France!

I never understood why they made so much variations for Europe, like EUR, NOE, FAH?
I can understand that for an exclusive they can make a FRA (exclusive to France because of a game that is fully in french for example) or ITA, ESP, ... but since there is EUR Tetris, why bother make UKV, FRG, SCN, ...? They have all the same english ROM!

17 hours ago, JVOSS said:

check the ROC TR. 

I may have one soon, I'll check it!

Thanks all for the answers!
I have indeed MADE IN CHINA written on the back:

I never thought collecting would've been so interesting. I'm glad I found VGS 

So now I wonder if there are other DMG backplates than those two 

Hey @DK & @JVOSS 

Quick question: does your DMG-104CHN have an imprint in their label?
Because I just got one and it has none. I was just wondering if it's the case for every Tetris CHN label 

PS: My cartridge:

 

I got 3 new carts!
I already had the HKG but it was in poor condition...

Big thanks to @Tyree_Cooper for the HKG and CHN 

7 minutes ago, Gloves said:

You know there ARE some of us who DO speak French, eh?

Il faut aussi ouvrir une section "French" alors, qu'on sache qui sont les membres francophones

I don't know how I can have multiple languages on my blog. But yeah, writing my articles in 2 languages would just be too much work. I thought I could share only the main reparations in the future new Repair section with mostly pictures and small details.

Anyway, you're right, Google Translate would be sufficient to understand my prose, and if not, there's a lot of pictures
I put the link in my signature!

15 hours ago, Tyree_Cooper said:

I am sometimes confused by the PCB production date diagram.

Here, there's a single hole on December (12), so does that mean the production date is december, or november?

If it's november, does it mean december has no holes at all?

Also, I've seen the opposite logic on some carts, i.e. all holes punched up to the production month. I always get confused.

I found out how to read the month from this website, there is a lot of examples so it can be easily deduced.
So here are January (left) and December (right):
 

To memorize it, I think of the holes as check-boxes, so the checked out month are the ones that count 

On 8/31/2021 at 10:09 PM, AdamW said:

The code printed on the label is a print code for the label. It gets a -1 on the end if the label itself changes in some way. It does not necessarily correspond to any change to the internals of the cart, or the game code. You can have a game where the ROM was never changed but the label was, or a game where the ROM was changed but the label wasn't, or a game where both were changed but at different times.

You might be able to infer what label would have been on a given cart from the internals depending on the details, I guess. Assuming there was a -1 label, if you know when that change happened and the dates on the internals are after that date, it would presumably have had the -1 label.

As for the region, well, that's easy. There is no CGB-AHYE-EUR; for Europe, the game was CGB-AHYP-EUR (for Japan it was CGB-AHYJ-JPN). A shortened form of the code without the sales region but with the game code appears on the ROM chip in the picture (the biggest one): it's CGB-AHYP-1. So this is a European cart, and it's the second version (first revision) of the game code for Europe (revisions are region specific).

There are a few other date codes, BTW. '0051' on the ROM chip is 51st week of 2000, so between December 10 and December 16, 2000. 0042 on the second largest chip is 42nd week of 2000, so October 8 to October 14. The blobs in the rectangles on the back do indicate the month of PCB production, yes.

Thanks, that's a lot of things I didn't know!
Especially that GBC games can have different game code depending on the region!! I'm collecting mostly DMG games and don't recall games like that
And the game code was clearly written all along on the ROM chip, I feel so stupid no noticing it before

On 8/29/2021 at 7:48 PM, Tanooki said:

https://b13rg.github.io/Gameboy-MBC-Analysis/

Great reading, thanks for sharing

4 hours ago, RH said:

That one on the left looks quite nice. Congrats on the find.

The top of the label is a little bit damaged but yeah overall it's in great condition

On 8/30/2021 at 2:23 AM, SNESNESCUBE64 said:

You could do what I do and make a blog for your repairs.

I already have a blog, but since it's all in french I don't think it will be interesting to share it here 

So I found 3 more, but one 23 et two 05, so the search is still ongoing

Thanks for your reply! I'll check your link as soon as I have some time, it looks like a lot of information 

Is there a way to determine the region (and the revision) of a GBC game by looking at its PCB?

Edit: Answered by @AdamW: It's clearly written on the ROM chip
And since "AHYP" is a code specific to Europe, this game is a "CGB-AHYP-EUR-1"!

I just got Super Mario Deluxe without label, and I'd like to know it's ID.
It is "CGB-AHYE-USA"? "CGB-AHYE-USA-1"? "CGB-AHYE-EUR"? "CGB-AHYE-EUR1"? ...

There is the following info on the PCB, does someone knows what each info means?

• MM1134A ▶ Linked to U4
• CR1616 ▶ Battery type
• DMG-A06-01 ▶ Board type
• '00 ▶ Year of production
• One dot near 12 ▶ Month of production: November

Pics:

A thread regrouping all the multicarts would be super interesting!

I don't collect them but I got some, here are mines:

Thanks all

9 hours ago, the_wizard_666 said:

Do it!  Mel Brooks is a comedic genius!  Spaceballs isn't even his best work, but it's fucking hilarious!  The character posted is Pizza the Hutt, an obvious parody of the Star Wars slug   The bulk of the movie is a Star Wars parody, but they throw in bits from other sci-fi as well.  If you like it, check out his other works...except Dracula: Dead and Loving It, that was pure shite.

I've read the synopsis and yeah it looks like a lot of fun. It's in my watch list!

8 hours ago, FireHazard51 said:

If that thing smell of gasoline I hope the hell he cleaned it before plugging it in.  I demand to see the clean working NES playing.....

I thought I'll be waiting for the section to be up to share the cleaning process but since it can take some time (no worries, it already is nice that this idea is taken into account, no hurry here ), I might create a thread elsewhere in the meantime.

8 hours ago, the_wizard_666 said:

Thinking about it, the gasoline smell could've been from a flooded home, but not in any way related to the heating system.  Just dawned on me that pumps used to drain flooded areas typically run on gasoline.  I schlepped a bunch of those at my old job when the Bow River flooded here.  That could be where it came from.

Where I live there is still plenty of homes running on "oil-fired furnace".
And with the strength of the smell and the rainbow reflections on the water after cleaning it, I think there were submerged in something containing a lot of "petroleum product", and I don't think a working pump will not leak that much. 

8 hours ago, FireHazard51 said:

That NES needs to be flooded again with some soap and water 

It has already been done !

I'll create a dedicated thread (when I have the time) so we can talk more about it, or about home heating systems it's also an interesting subject

Thanks

I'll check it out! 

Me neither, the worst part is that I have 2 of them in the same condition!

I don't know what appended, I got them this way, but since they smell a lot like gazoline, I imagine that they where retrieved from a flooded home that had a fuel oil tank (not sure about the English world, in French it's called "fioul", and it's used to power up old homes heating system) 

I've just finished repairing a NES I didn't think would've worked again. I'm so happy that it still works I'd like to share this

I have never seen this movie!