Tetris (Bootleg) repair by Womble

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Took pity on an old Tetris bootleg board that I acquired; think it was listed as having corrupt graphics.


Fired it up and that was pretty accurate!


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Had already spotted the likely candidate though; a big scratch on the otherwise mint solder-side of the board.

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As usual the tracks that looked the worst were actually OK and the ones that looked like they had survived were totally cut through, only 3 in fact. So I soldered in short lengths of hookup wire to bridge the cut tracks, also resoldered a very dry joint on one of the main smoothing capacitors, the solder had never wetted the leg of the cap and it was totally loose on that leg.


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Plugged it all back in and fired it up...


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..fixed :)

Another nice easy one.

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