SCAMMED? 😱 eBay Sold it as "Working, but it's TRASHED!

I was told this Pokémon Stadium was "Working," but eBay lied... 🤥

I bought a lot of 3 games, but when I popped Pokémon Stadium into my N64—nothing. Upon opening the cartridge, I found the worst-case scenario: the PCB was physically broken at the pins. Since the connection between the pins and the ROM chips was severed, a standard cleaning wouldn't cut it.

In this video, we perform a total "Board Transplant." I’ll show you how I harvested the original Pokémon Stadium chips and moved them onto a functional Japanese donor board to save this game from the trash bin.

🚀 IN THIS VIDEO:
✅ The "Sold as Working" Reveal: Analyzing the broken pins.
✅ Why a Japanese board is the perfect donor for this fix.
✅ Advanced Desoldering: Removing N64 ROM chips safely.
✅ The Transplant: Soldering the "Brain" onto a new PCB.
✅ Testing: Can we finally play Pokémon Stadium?

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⏱️ Video Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 How I got this
0:29 Testing the Game
0:41 Disassembling and inspecting board
1:45 Broken Board
2:01 Fixing explanation
3:17 Removing chips from the donor board
9:05 Donor Board with no chips
9:21 Cleaning donor board
9:42 Removing chips from broken board
11:41 Installing chips on the new board
12:28 Soldering ASMR
16:06 Assembling game
17:13 Look how handsome it is!
17:22 Final Test

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Music by the great Ross Budgen.

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