Help with d-pad (unusual case)

[tribal coral]

hey mates i just opened my gba for the first time i had bought a gba ips v3 laminated. Had some issues with the switch but isoprop fixed it.
Now im having some issue because this whoever genius did this, has made the second screw (on the dpad side) screwing to nothingness he just put a plastic thing and trapped the screw and it doesn't do anything.
So when im playing pokemon sometimes the running stops for a moment (i think the dpad pushes back the board a bit and loses conduct.

[umbral axle]

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[limber acorn]

We're gonna need pictures of the board and shell

[sturdy flare]

And also let us know which screw has stripped. 7

If you take the rear shell off and push the dpad buttons, can you see or feel the PCB moving away from the front shell?

[tribal coral]

If I do that it happens yes, The only support it has is the rear shell

[tribal coral]

Just woke up I will reopen it soon

[sturdy flare]

If the internal screws don't hold the PCB against the front shell securely then replace the shell.

[tribal coral]

My fear is for removing the screen it’s a laminated IPs v3 can I remove it ? What would I need to do

[limber acorn]

You don't need to remove the screen to disconnect it

[tribal coral]

To disconnect the screen from the shell ?

Btw this is the place the screw cap is missing from the front plate. This is a second plate I have

[sturdy flare]

They are just stuck down with double sided tape, so you can loosen that with heat.

Use a thin plastic tool (guitar pick) to get under the lens once you've heated it up, and slide it around to cut the adhesive whilst it's soft. Don't twist or bend the screen and you'll be okay. You'll want to heat it up to the point where it's almost too hot to touch

[limber acorn]

It's also a lil bit of a pain and there are risks involved, let's not take that risk unless we actually need to remove the screen - which for now, we don't

[limber acorn]

from the board*

[tribal coral]

Okay I opened it I can see this is the shell just being broken now, you can see the blue shell on the screw on the board

[sturdy flare]

You could try glueing the plastic stub back on if you didn't want to replace the shell?

[tribal coral]

thats a good idea didnt think that I could do that , but what about using the other screw that is unused ?

this one over here

[limber acorn]

I've seen OEM gameboy with only one screw on this side of the PCB, and it was all fine
What's keeping you from trying ?

[tribal coral]

nothing i just saw it

this might work

we did it lads, the stutter steps on pokemon stopped

[tribal coral]

thank you both for helping me out with this, wish you all a great day, finally my issues are gone

I tried to close the post but didnt do anything, if you can mark it as solved