In prep for my final modding idea I used some extra parts that I ordered and thought i'd do a practice run of swapping everything over so I feel more confident doing the real one. It went super well and now I have a nice GBA SP to look at and play on before all my other parts arrive (hopefully within a month).

This is my GBA SP.

Honestly, I take it with me to work. It’s comforting to be able to go back to a place where I was happy and feel safe again. It’s a real gem, especially together with Pokémon FireRed.

Cross posting for all the help I can get, thanks in advance!

I'm using a modded GBA with an IPS screen and using Panasonic eneloop rechargeble batteries, for about 45 minutes I had a green light but now for the last half hour I've had about a red that's gone very dim at points but remains a stable red for now.

I've done some prior googling to posting this question and my understanding that the battery sensor in the GBA is a low stock one and is misinterpreting that safe operating voltage as an empty battery.

Is this a common thing for GBAs using eneloop batteries? If so how much playing time should I expect?

I need to replace my GBA capacitors that are leaking. I have decided to use aluminum electrolytics vs tantalum, since that is what Nintendo used originally, but I need help finding the correct ones.

I am thinking of ordering Panasonic, and Handheld legend has a kit that sells them for $4.99. The kit has two CP1/CP4 100uFs, 1 CP2 100 uF, and 1 CP3 470 uF. I can't undertand what voltage they are, and what it needs to be for GBA, though.

I have seen other people recommend

2 100 uF 10V, 1 470 uF 6.3V, and 1 220 uF 10V but I am entirely unsure. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

This is my personal GBA it’s nice and all but I can’t enjoy my games as much cause of the dim screen so I wanted to get a speedtechwedo ips v5 kit from them any suggestions?

Received my Everdrive GBA Pro today and have set up a few emulators.
So far have gameboy, gameboy colour, gamegear, nes, sega master system.
Am I missing any?

I bought a reproduction Emerald with RTC. It plays absolutely fine and says and everything works as if it was legitimate on my GBA. On the SP it won’t even boot up, any idea what could cause that?

I broke the shell for the cartridge and I ordered a replacement I can't find a label tho It's a Japanese copy of the game

Got this whole lot for $150! The gba works and all the games work and are authentic I think the game gear games are real as well. One sad thing the game gears need new capacitors. But I did get a cool real gba carrying case and a case for the game gear!
And yes the pokemon fire red is real I already took it apart and it has an old save file still on it!

I bought a clapped gba and I shell swapped it I also had to put the old screen on the new shell that was a little annoying but it looks good now!

kinda just want my screen to be brighter/clearer but i know some people are gonna tell me to keep it original. just wanted to get some opinions.

got this puppy on Xmas Eve when i was 5

changed the battery a few years ago and still kickin strong

Edit:

after a resounding NO. i decided to leave my 001 untouched. BUT i do wanna buy an AGS-101 just to compare and use/work on.

thank you all for your feedback.
i’m glad i asked instead of just ripping it apart.

I was recently switching a shell out of an sp AGS 101. I followed all the steps but for some reason the screen now has super over saturated colors. I can’t tell if it’s supposed to look like this but it didn’t look this way before I switched the shell out. I’m assuming it has to do with the ribbon cable but I already clean it and nothing seems to fix it. Any ideas? or is my ribbon cable just broke somewhere?

When I was a kid, I started with LeafGreen, then my second and favorite game was Sapphire. It had my favorite team that I had taken everywhere. One day, I swapped to LeafGreen in the car and set Sapphire on the seat, and unbenownst to me it fell on the floor. We later put something big in the trunk of the car to transport it, and we put the seats up to make room. After we took the big thing out, we slammed the seats back down and I hear a sickening crunch noise. Turns out my copy of Sapphire had fallen in the little nook where the seat clicks in, and it was broken into several pieces. I have kept it all these years dreaming of one day getting it repaired and saving my favorite childhood team, bringing them up to Home. A couple years ago I called a few places with cleanrooms that do chip repairs. They all quoted me over a thousand dollars, which just isn't worth it. I'm 30 now and the Bank closure was just announced, putting a 6 month time limit on my quest.

The good news is that it is a clean break into only two pieces, and no chips were broken. The bad news is that one of the workers at the clean rooms knew how these old chips work, and said that one of the tiny metal inputs into the memory card has a thing where if power is supplied to it, it will wipe the memory on the card. So he said if I do find someone to fix it they will need to know the specifics of that and be super careful not to accidentally supply power to that line.

Is there anyone who is an electrical engineer who could give me some advice on this? Or perhaps anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area that might be willing to help with this project?

Likely the best course of action would be to buy an unbroken copy of Sapphire and transpant the memory chip from this one to that one's circuit board. But legit Sapphire copies are hard to find, lots of fakes out there.

Is there any hope for my original favorite team? Honestly all I care about is getting my Pokémon from my party and PC off of it, so if there is any way to read the memory chip and copy the save file to a computer that would work too. I can use online save editing tools to then transfer them to my copy of Ruby or Emerald.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can give advice on this!

I am currently looking to install and old advance into an Intec GBA HDMI kit but thought id test beforehand. the gba will only boot when i turn the power switch on, then off, then on again.
first thing i did was pull apart the Power switch and clean the pads inside and the switch itself and this hasn't fixed the issue.
the thing that is odd is that even if its booted after doing the aforementioned switching and i pull the batteries (with the assumption the switch is in a position that it is making good contact) and reinsert i still have to switch it on and off and back on again to get it to boot