Fixing a game boy advance IN THE WOODS

Every year some good friends and I visit the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) for a 7-night camping trip. This time I fixed a Game Boy.
In this video I diagnose and repair a game boy advance (GBA) -- in the Wilderness! With only a screwdriver handy to open the shell, I have to get creative to make the fix with primitive tools!
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Day 1 (Diagnosis)
1:28 - Day 2 (Procrastination)
1:46 - Day 3 (A-button repair)
3:15 - Day 4 (Audio repair)
4:26 - Day 5 (Time to Play)
5:10 - Day 8 (Return Journey)
5:36 - Outro
**************************Notes**************************
* Day 6 & 7 are omitted since nothing productive was happening relating to the game boy repair on those days.. Including them would have just been filler content which I have more than enough of already.
* Soldering in the woods: I didn't show much detail on how I got the nail in the stick for the soldering iron. What I did was cut one end of a random stick flat with a knife. Then I pounded the recovered nail partially in to the flattened stick end with the back end of a hatchet, Lastly I pulled the nail out, flipped it over and pressed the blunt end into the hole in the stick I had just made. It was a little wobbly but held well enough to make the fix! Another note is that the camp fire didn't get the nail hot enough until I gave a few hard blows with the pocket bellows (3:50) to stoke the embers underneath the tip of the nail. After 4:15 (off cam) I removed the nail from the stick, burned the stick, and pounded the nail back in the hole of the tree we found it in. It's as if I was never there.
*Behind the scenes: I wanted this video to be as genuine as possible, but also not be a complete failure, so there was some planning ahead of time to prevent that from happening. I disassembled the unit at home before the trip so I already knew what the problems were--I wanted to be sure there wasn't anything too terribly wrong with it that I couldn't handle out there. I figured the button would be a pretty straight forward fix, but I was far from confident that I could get the soldering to work. I even brought my own nail and a small torch as a plan B, but never had to use them since plan A of using only what was found in the environment ended up working out.

[@tracyt7707]

Very beautiful workshop

[@FantasticQuack]

Couldn't agree more

[@Anvie__]

Super Gameboy Odyssey!

[@FantasticQuack]

Only the finest!

[@WeebGamer101]

Damn you did it even with a makeshift sodering iron.

[@FantasticQuack]

Gotta use what you have handy!

[@VKsChannel]

now all you need is a solar panel and mod it to play with solar energy!

[@FantasticQuack]

That would be cool!

[@rockobukkako813]

Good shit this quack is fantastic

[@FantasticQuack]

Thanks!

[@packie04]

Nahhhhhhhhhhhh. this video is awesome!!

[@FantasticQuack]

Thanks for watching!

[@ToaMeikhaal]

It's kind of hilarious that the problems with this device were specifically ones that could be fixed with those makeshift tools...

[@FantasticQuack]

To be fair I of course took this apart at home before the trip so I already knew what the problems were. I knew the button would be pretty straight forward but was far from confident that I could get the soldering to work (and was super happy that it did!); I even brought my own nail in preparation but never had to bust it out since we found that old one in the tree. Basically I wanted the whole thing to be as genuine as possible, but also didn't want it to be a complete failure, so there was some planning ahead of time to make sure that didn't happen. Bit of behind the scenes info for you.. maybe I should add it to the vid description as well.. Cheers!

[@JuicyJakeRepairs]

who needs IPA when you have the STICK

[@FantasticQuack]

Always in my tool belt now

[@GoodVibeCollecting]

Damn, that was quite different from your normal videos. LOL I wonder if it's possible to make a screwdriver from something out in the woods.

[@FantasticQuack]

Had the idea/opportunity to do something fun and unique, so I took it. Screwdriver could be knife-carved from the same nail I used for soldering, it would just take a very long time.

[@scottwhittaker1681]

I could have "fixed" it with one simple chop from that hatchet.

[@FantasticQuack]

This game boy has seen enough abuse!