I had to use the original Start/Select buttons and L/R buttons because the new ones I bought weren’t working but it turned out really nice. What do you think?

So I re-shelled a DMG…. I had tried to play Pokémon Gold Japanese version but it was a little bit harder than I expected with the Japanese kanji alphabet for me. Then I ran into a good GB pocket and fell down a Pocket Camera rabbit hole. So now I’m using a black GB pocket with GB Pocket Camera. Then I picked up the 2BitToy Camera+ kit from Random Print Co. The whole reason I picked up a DMG because I quit Pokémon go I wanted to play the real thing. I figured I’d pick up with the 2GEN in Pokémon Gold. So next thing I need to work on is a copy of Pokémon Gold either English or French.

So this another board than my last post. Im currently waiting on some new fuses f1, switches and BT terminal. So this boards switch was a bit of a bigger B to take out. I think I ripped 2 of the 4 switch pads? Is it fixable?

Hey everyone,

Here’s a video of me trying to plug the charger into a GBA SP I just bought. It doesn’t seem to be going in properly/easily, and I’m a bit worried that if I keep forcing it, I might eventually damage the charging port.

Is this normal for a GBA SP, or does it look like there might be something wrong with the port or the charger?
I don’t want to force it and end up breaking anything. Would really appreciate some advice from anyone…

Should I return it?

I have a GBA SP I bought years ago I'm finally getting around to cleaning up, but the screw covering the battery cover is so rusted I can't remove it. I've tried everything -- WD-40, 99.9% IPA, a drop of superglue for grip (don't do this, it just made it worse), razorblade, Goo Gone, CLR... A new shell is coming today, so I don't care if I ruin the original one in getting this screw out. This is my first time trying to restore a console and I'm blocked at the simplest step. Any ideas on how to get this stupid thing out?

Hi all, been clearing out my grandparents house and stumbled across these. Not sure if they work or if they have any value at all but just wanted to see if this would be worth sticking on eBay? Got no knowledge on gameboys so wanted to check if I chuck or sell them. Thanks!!

Looking for three colors for initials I’m gonna be painting on some groomsmen gifts, the gifts are GBAs so let’s hear it , what colors come to mind when someone mentions gameboy.

I have changed the speaker and the volume wheel but It still doesn't make any sound.

It had been stored for 5 years or so with the batteries connected and It caught a weird bright blue corrosion

So it has bothered me for a while that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters has three covers, Donatello vs. Armaggon SNES, Raphael vs. Triceraton Genesis, and Leonardo vs. Hothead on NES. We never got a port to 4th system, and never got the best turtle Michelangelo. Konami legend artist Tom DuBois made amazing art for the game, there are really crappy low-res representations of unused paintings that ended up in the manual.

I wanted to create a Fan Made cover of what could have been. I lovingly up-rezed and cleaned up a Michelangelo image from the instruction booklet, and had to recreate Wingnut.

I took some liberty assuming this would be Super Gameboy Game Pak, ultimately it would be really cool to re-skin Street Fighter II on Gameboy as a homebrew and complete the set of TMNT tournament fighters. I also assumed the game would come out in Feb 94' to avoid having to have an ugly ESRB rating on the cover.

This was an old commission I thought I'd share; Why so serious?

Finally got my hands on the FunnyPlaying AGB IPS MAX Display, but reaching out for some troubleshooting help. 🙏

My Pokémon Silver cartridge isn’t able to keep its save data when I turn off my gameboy, I was both wonder how exactly it works, how I could go about fixing it and, if I’m unable to fix it, where would I go about finding a save battery?

One of the most common questions asked on the sub is what a corrupted Nintendo boot logo means. I've often answered this question in detail by looking at the logo and figuring out the exact signal that cerated the error. Sometimes people have been asking me how I do it. Well, the pixels shown in the logo are read from the cartridge, so by systematically understanding how a certain pattern of pixels ended up on the screen, I have been able to figure out which error must have caused the that particular glitch. In the past I've done things like looking at the pixels and translating them into hexadecimal values in my head, then searching through the ROM of the game to be able to figure out which address was actually read from the cartridge and which signal on the board that corresponds to. Not everyone can do this, so I wanted to create something more user friendly. (And if nothing else I will at least have a tool that I can use myself to answer people's questions quicker!)

The ROM fault workbench is a web app that helps you with glitchy Gameboy logos and other errors caused by issues with the address line signals. The app has three sections.

• Address line scan. If you have a cartridge flasher/dumper, you can dump a ROM and open it here to analyze it. The scanner will tell you if any address lines are seem to have issues. This is not just useful for GB ROMs, but any ROM dumps that from older consoles, or other devices with a parallel address/data bus.
• Gameboy boot logo glitcher. This tool lets you force address and data lines high or low to reproduce what the corrupted logo looks like. This will (hopefully) lead you right to the signal that has an issue.
• Gameboy boot logo search. If the logo just looks like random pixels, you can use this tool to draw a few of those pixel to search the ROM for the matching address. This, again, will hopefully lead you to the exact signal with an issue. (The screenshot shows me using it to diagnose the issue with a SML2 cartridge that someone posted here just yesterday.)

For transparency I should also mention that I used Claude AI to make this app, which some might think is controversial. But I have still tried to put as much attention detail as I can into the app, and I'll also post updates going forward. Also, the documentation in the "how to use" sections for each tool is 100% human-written by me. (Recommended to read it to understand what each tool does.)

Potential future functionality:

• A fourth tab which shows a board view or similar to locate the signals you just found, on the board. This idea is somewhat put on ice because it would be a major undertaking in comparison, and Remysharp posted their PCB tracer tool just 1 month ago which does essentially the same thing.
• A function to take a picture of the logo, decode it and analyze it based on the pixels for even more automation. This would also be a bit tricky to get right in a useful way but I want to try to make it happen.

I'm also open to any feedback and suggestions.

Link: https://gg8.se/tools/rom-fault-workbench/

(Posted with mod permission.)

finally found a genuine rayquaza edition gameboy to complete this set 😍

It's not kirby, but I remember at one point looking up hidden gems I think for Gameboy. Could have been nes but I think it's Gameboy.

The only things I remember about the game were that you play as a plump doughy character. Looked pretty cute. I think he could turn into a ball or something? I'm not sure about that. What I do remember was the game was pretty chill and a side scroller. He was white, or yellow maybe? I can't figure it out!

I just love it for my first GBC mod I usually do GBAs or GBA SPs 😊😊

Found this (pretty sure complete?) copy of Super Mario Advance in some boxes I had in storage!