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7 Inch Pac-Man
Mungo9000:
Then I hit my first really serious problem. It wasn't a big deal but it sure made me feel miserable.
With all of the pushing and pulling, and despite being delicate and gentle, I damaged the ribbon cable going to the screen of the GBA. There was no way to repair it and I had to order a replacement.
My screen is proper broken :embarassed:
Mungo9000:
Whilst waiting for the replacement screen I got to work on the livery.
Mungo9000:
With a new screen I got back to work and now ran into the problem of the analogue joystick.
I'd always had reservations about it, but once I connected it, it just didn't work.
In this image you can see a piece of white prototyping-breadboard (between the GBA and multimeter). I had planned to hard wire the controls in the cabinet and join them to the GBA by simply plugging them into this breadboard. It was an easy way to connect things and turned out to be a great time-saver.
Mungo9000:
I ordered a replacement joystick and got to work puttting a square peg in a round hole (literally).
The joystick is manufactured by "Grayhill Inc." and the part is a series 04A joystick.
I ordered the part from Digikey.com and it was sent from America to the UK. This made the shipping more expensive than the part itself (altogether about £22 for the joystick - for comparison, the GBA was only £17). When I installed the joystick I found it was faulty. This bothered me because I knew that by the time I sent it back and paid all of the shipping on the replacement it would have been a major expense. However, I spoke with digikey via their live-chat and they arranged to send a replacement part free of charge. My experience of their customer service was brilliant and I mention it here for what it's worth.
Mungo9000:
I was noticing that my stickers were already looking shabby so I decided to remove them and try to find a better replacement.
After some experimenting I found that the stickers I was making were good, but became superb when coated in clear sticky-backed plastic.
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