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Game Boy Color Speaker Replacement

Device	Game Boy Color
Difficulty	Difficult
Time	10 minutes
Steps	4

This guide is by Cody 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 >>

The Gameboy color is a wonderful handheld, and a lot of the fun comes from the retro sounds. if your Gameboy color has suffered a speaker malfunction(mine got left in the rain :( and died) this is how to fix it and get back to Super Mario Bros. Deluxe!

Tools: Phillips #0 Screwdriver; Lead-Free Solder; Soldering Iron; Tri-point Y1 Screwdriver

Parts: Speaker

Step 1

• Take out the cartridge and batteries if there are any, very simple

Step 2

• now to remove the 6 triwing screws from the rear of the handheld
• if you cant find a triwing a small flathead will work

Step 3

• NOTE: Though it may seem like you can get to the speaker now, its still inaccessible
• you still need to remove three phillips head screws and lift the logicboard

Step 4

• now simply desolder the old speaker and solder the new one in place

Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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