GBA messed up

[Designer noob]

lol, the problem I have was caused by stupidty like every other problem that I have on here. Well, one day I went to buy a dremel for the project and after, I got home. I went a little dremel crazy and thought on cool it would be tight to dremel off my GBA cart slot.

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As, you can see my dremel took off the copper wiring underneath parts of the GBA cartslot. I checked all my wires for shorts and none of them are touching. So, the only problem that remains is this one. Its the only reason my GBA isn't working. So, if you look the copper wire touches all the pins. Doesn't that mean all the pins are connected together? Or are the copper wiring underneath so, small that I can't tell there not touching and only go to specific places.

So, pretty much is there any way to fix this or just get anything GBA for 3 dollars or something.

[nitro2k01]

Wait what? You were planning to dremel away the cart slot and, what, solder the wires to the cart slot points and the to the cartridge and just leave it hanging there?

One of your problems might be that you're missing connections. If so, you need to trace those connections back to some other point on the board and add a thin wire from the cart slot point to that other point. For that you ideally need a working GBA board, same revision, as a reference.
But the GBA should still power up, even if it can't read the cartridge. If it doesn't power up, check the fuse(s). It/they should be marked F1, F2 and so on. (I think GBA only has one fuse)