dink wrote
I don't know about c6, but in general ceramic caps are usually filter/bypass caps, device will probably work fine without it, but they do help with stability over time. a bypass cap will make up for the slight power sag when a chip is doing certain operations. If you're interested in an awesome video about this subject, check out the bypass cap tutorial by eevblog:
visualized (with a scope)
best regards,
- dink
Thanks for replying. I did watch the tutorial and i did learn a bit more about capacitors. But it didnt help me understand if the C6 cap should be connected to ground.
With some tips from a friend i checked with a multimeter if there was any connections, and the connection on the pad that lifted was indeed broken. I couldnt find any information online if that connection should go to ground, so i risked it, patched a wire from the cap to a ground spot and the game gear didnt blow up lol. It is still working properly and in fact, it stopped doing a weird thing with the sound, where sometimes the sound would only come on after a few seconds of a game starting. So maybe that was the problem.
If anyone knows if i did good connecting that C6 cap to ground, please let me know.
Thanks for the help!