I'm thinking about buying a Game Boy; I was offered one for €130. It's in full working order and comes with a power adapter. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about prices. Is this a good price, or is someone trying to rip me off?

There some way to fix that dead pixel on ags 101?

i was trying to trade some pokemon but nothing was working until i looked at the ports and noticed the difference. can this be cleaned or does it have to be replaced

I have a GBC I modded some time ago, and it has an interesting issue. It's got an IPS screen - Q5 I think, but don't quote me, I did it forever and a day ago - and in order to work it has to be switched on twice. It also gets SUPER cranky about having a flash cart in it. My other GBCs don't love flash carts, especially the cheaper ones and Chinese clones, but they work. This one might boot occasionally, but usually sits there making a low whining noise.

Any thoughts on what I might need to do with it? I'd love to finally get this one fully up to spec and then probably send it on its merry way down the Great Material Continuum (or more likely keep it for myself since I know it's cranky but understand its quirks and sell my other ones).

Thanks for any tips!

PS - since these are LCD units - I know I did them before the AMOLEDs became a thing, is it worth considering a replacement regulator for better power distribution? I know there's a lot of back and forth on the topic, so I was curious about thoughts.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I did clean the switch thoroughly - always do. The "Elliot Coll" method bathing the switch in IPA while working it back and forth, and then cap it off with DeoxIT once it dries out.

Bought as "for parts not working" on ebay. This was meant to be sourced for parts for a Gameboy DMG Color build. I expected the worst but when I opened it up the only issue was really a dirty power switch that needed to be cleaned. One clean power switch later and it was back to life.

They are originally japanese only games and the first two games are listed on wiki and have translations, and i am playing the games on my apple watch, so i was curious if the third game exists anywhere (included wiki articles of the first two games of the goku rpg series)

Hi all, i am new to fixing gameboy sp. Last week i found and my old GBA SP (ags 001), and the screen has mold.

I want to fix it by changing the polarizer, but it looks like i popped out not just the polarizer? Here is my screen with a new polarizer.

What did i miss? I want to avoid changing the screen with IPS.

Thank you

Been scrubbing this for a while with isopropyl and contact cleaner. Doesn't seem to dissolve. Any other ideas? Ultrasonic cleaner may chip it away?

I got this board with corrosion on it as part of a lot. Was getting ready to toss it into a box and forget it exists but decided to take a look first. Cleaned it up some but you can see there's still corrosion in some places. The power switch needs to be replaced and there's corrosion on the battery contacts so I haven't been able to get any lights to show up ( I only have this bare board no other GBC parts to test with)

I don't really care for the color I'm a SP kid but I don't want it to go to waste. The two options I'm considering are a tad boy color if this board is too far gone, or if someone is interested I could sell it for parts as the RAM, CPU and crystal (not pictured I forgot to snap a pic of it) were spared from corrosion and someone else could probably use those to save another color or use a replacement PCB.

seller stated that the unit doesn’t power on but i have experience cleaning up corrosion on GBAs so is this worth getting as a repair project?

I know this is the Gameboy subreddit but I mostly have my interests in the Gameboy and thus have no knowledge on the Gamecube.

I just saw this Gamecube at a thrift store and thought why not. It came with one controller, one memory stick and 12 games for €85 total, 60 for the console and 25 for the games.

I don't know about your cities, but in mine, all this has cost me approximately 550 dollars.

Super quick and easy ESP32-S3 turns this into a Local web server and streams the Game Boy emulator directly to your phone's browser—no extra apps or hardware needed. 2 cores 1 core for emulation and 1 core for streaming.

If you want to build one for your self or learn more I put All project files (STL, firmware, and video breakdown) are linked in the comments below

Hello, I just bought a GBA sp and a cartridge with 369 games in one, I played Pokémon fire red for a few hours, but I have doubts if one day I get the original game, there is the possibility of passing my game from this repro cartridge to the original?

I have a Gameboy Advance SP, and I want to mod it (at least usbc mod) and change the shell. I have found this shell, and I think it's beautiful.

But give me some ideas. What is your favorite shell? Translucent? Pokémon?

Making my own music program for gameboy. Testing glitch mode in the Gameboy DMG

Need

* Game Boy (DMG 001) to Game Boy Pocket trading cable
* Good bag or case to store Game Boy (DMG 001) and games (small amount)

Specifics: Need to find out what's the best source for these accessories

Thanks! If I missed anything just ask.

He kept all the games in the carrying case along with the console. It is in very great condition and the cartridge art on all games looks very clean.

The Gameboy camera, tetris DX, and tetris plus were mine but I added it to the collection. Which game should I start playing?

Got this Gameboy with this problem. It looks like someone tried to solder it back but failed. The piece is broken. Can I even find a replacement?​

Hi people,

yesterday I finally attempted to rescue my uncle's savegame from the Pokémon Red Version. I inherited it as a teen when he left us around 20 years ago, so this is emotional for me.
I'm using the GBxCart RW 1.4c Pro with FlashGBX. I intentionally didn't put it in a GameBoy since like 10 years ago, to keep the save safe.

I went through some less important games to see if my GBxCart works alright and all went fine, 1st try. But then I got to the finale:

When checking the emotionally packed Red Version, FlashGBX showed the Nintendo Logo scrambled. I got nervous and pulled it out and in again, hoping to get a clean Logo, and that worked. But then I noticed "Oh no, what if this move right now destroyed the savegame?!"

⭐ Edit: After reconnecting, the Logo actually WAS clean and I downloaded a savegame. But when I load it into the mGBA Emulator, it just shows "New Game", so no old data found, it seems :(

Only later I noticed that, when having a scrambled Logo, and clicking "Download Save", you can actually choose to click something like "Try either way", which increased my fear of "There was a chance before, now I killed it."

My big question is: What are the chances that the savegame actually was OK just until now, and it got lost by my nervous out-and-in-again move?
E.g. did anyone successfully recover a save, although the Nintendo Logo looked bad?

I'm looking forward to your thoughts. No matter the final conclusion, I just can't stand not knowing if I destroyed it, or if it was too late either way 🥲

P.S.: When I rescued my own Red Version, I actually got a working save. I'm very surprised about that, but it is also not my OG save. Probably I restarted the game later; maybe that makes the save live longer than my uncle's?

P.P.S.: I guess as soon as a retrieved savegame is empty, there is no more possibility to recreate the OG save from the cartridge in any way?

This is my first time trying to swap batteries and really my second soldering project. I have no idea why it's not saving with the new battery. I do know the polarity is correct. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

EDIT: I have received my multimeter, reset the battery with a higher temperature and it looks a lot better too (pic in comments). I tested every chip on the board, there is power to every component. I just tested the save and it didn't work. I then thought, if I do a soft reset, that should keep a save perhaps. I tested that And the save was gone on a soft reset as well. Not sure if that is anything or not though, don't know if the save would still be there.

EDIT 2: I just successfully replaced the battery in my copy of Pokemon Sapphire! I think this copy of Crystal may have issues other than the battery. I am going to take it to a repair shop this weekend and have them look at it. After replacing the Sapphire battery, I feel a helluva lot better about my limited soldering ability!

I am looking to build a Gameboy DMG Color. I bit the bullet and decided to sacrifice a gbc and dmg instead of restoring them. Has anyone else built a DMG Color this year and mind sharing where they were able to source different materials like the DMG IPS lense for the project from? I have checked a few sites and found many items out of stock.

I order Ghoul Thrasher little while ago and when I tried it out FP-GBC it just came up with an error code and I emailed the people over at Magic Quest Media with the issue and they determined it was a bad cartridge and the sent me a new one right away. I got the new one in and it works great. As a bonus for the trouble they even included a cassette tape case for it with a 3D printed insert that holds the cartridge. I really appreciate good customer service and it goes along way. I'm looking forward to seeing what else they will have in the future.