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Nintendo GameCube Gameboy Player Teardown

Device	Nintendo GameCube Gameboy Player
Difficulty	Moderate
Time	20 minutes
Steps	5

This guide is by tayola on iFixit and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. ByteRot mirrors it for non-commercial preservation: formatting changed and photos resized for old browsers; full-size photos and the text are on the FTP in /DOCS/REPAIR. Original guide >>

This is a teardown of the Game Boy Player for the Nintendo Gamecube. The attached video is an ASMR-style teardown with a cleaning montage and reassembly footage. Steps based on this guide are provided with different photos.

Tools: Gamebit 4.5mm; Phillips #0 Screwdriver

Step 1 :: Unscrew the top

• Place the Game Boy Player flat on a surface, with the top surface that would mate with the Gamecube facing up, Nintendo logo on the bottom.
• Use a gamebit screwdriver to loosen and remove eight screws around the top of the surface.

Step 2 :: Remove top piece

• After the screws are removed the top piece can be lifted off of the rest of the unit.
• Try grabbing around the raised portion where the socket would mate with the bottom of the Gamecube, and and lift straight up and out.

Step 3 :: Remove heat sink screws

• Use a Phillips head screwdriver to remove 11 screws installed all around the metal heat sink.
• The metal shielding around the socket port is a separate smaller piece and should be removed first by grabbing around it and pulling up and away.
• Then, the rest of the outer shielding can be pulled up and away.

Step 4 :: Remove motherboard

• With the metal shielding removed, the motherboard can be lifted up and away from the bottom shell of the Game Boy Player.

Step 5 :: Remove extra shell pieces

• The shell has another layer of shielding in the track of the motherboard, and this can be pulled up and away after removing the motherboard.
• Additional removable pieces include:
    • two poles, one on the side and another near the corner,
    • a small flat piece near the front above the cartridge slot that would mask over the extension port,
    • and a long thin piece that goes across the shell, attached by a spring, which overall act as the cartridge's ejector.

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