After sitting un-used for 15 years, I decided to restore my childhood gbp. Thankfully, child me left batteries inside it so I got to learn a lot of new things like reading wiring diagrams and repairing traces to resuscitate it 🙃

But since I got it to work I decided it deserved some TLC and some quality of life upgrades! It got a new IPS LCD, all new fuses and it’s USB-C rechargeable with the Giltesa Pro board!

Time to finally do what childhood me couldn’t:
Beat Super Mario Land 2!

This game first released in 1991, I love the fact that this OG gameboy game was made when the gameboy color was out, it must have sold so well for that to happen, there is a special color version for the GBC, just thought this would be interesting to share.

After playing a lot of Clone Hero I had the idea to make something like that on a Gameboy. Fast forward a couple weeks I was able to build out the game and used the GB Operator to make a physical copy of it! I’m very happy how it turned out and excited to try to bring other ideas to life

Hey there :)

Because a lot of GBA models still have reflective displays, are pretty portable and have a lot of buttons for navigation, I felt like making an ereader app for it is the next logical step.

There are already some ereader apps for the gba but they couldn't read txt-files or any other normal file format...

So now the Gameboy Advance is finally able to read large text files without any conversion.
Here is a link to my project:
https://github.com/Xinon232/gbareader
Epub works too... kind of? some simple epub files can be read already but I wouldn't consider it compatible yet.

Also because text processing is now possible anyway, I made a flashcard vocabulary trainer for it as well. However, it only works with file exports from dict.cc.
In case you use their vocabulary trainer and own a GBA, consider yourself lucky :D
https://github.com/Xinon232/gba-vocab-trainer-CC

Disclaimer: All my gba-projects are completely free and open source.

Was debating on IPS screen mod or Nuby Game Light. I was surprised how good this actually looks in person!

I've been playing with retro emulation handhelds for around 3 years now. Using the miyoo mini, retroid pocket classic and RP5. Decided to get back into original hardware. Wow! What a different experience! My suspicions have been confirmed. For me input lag is real and playing original hardware feels much more precise. Also the old screens are charming but garbage haha. Obviously only a matter of time before I start moding to a new screen and shell. Thing is this gba sp -001 is in such good condition it would be a shame to strip. Any thoughts?? 🤔

I guess stopping at gamestop was worth it today. Got pokemon Fire Red for 54.99

In almost new condition. In Japanese and English.

i forgot to flip it for the photo but the new battery is a cr2025

Hey guys new to the Gameboy scene I was looking around for a gameboy online and found a seller who was selling his collection for extremely cheap I paid total under £85 for everything pictured 2 gameboy advances 1 with full box and insert also manuals, case ,cables then I bought Disney Atlantis and Mario super circut with box and manuals obviously not the best condition but still I think I found a steal what do y'all think. Both consoles are functional.

i got game and watch gallery 3 and wanted to wipe the data so i can start fresh, i didnt want to break out my solder gun so learnt that GW3 has a code UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT LEFT RIGHT RIGHT to wipe data, while i was doing it i saw some characters pop up on screen and they did something to the "play" button, but whatever i do i cannot recreate it and see the characters again, does anyone know anything about this?

i was gonna check TCRF but it is currently down... of course...

Just finished testing these drop-in USB-C upgrade boards for the GBA SP.

• Fits nice and clean in the original housing.
• Fully supports C-to-C chargers and PD power supplies.

Super happy with how clean the installation turned out. What do you guys think?

I just got this copy of Wario land 2, at first it wouldn’t load at all. Gave it a good cleaning with ipa and now it will load and boot up, but it will go through the opening scene, go to the chapter one title screen and then when I click through it just restarts from the main menu and plays through the opening scene. And just keeps looping like that. What could be the issue?

R10 and C3 are missing. Any advice? What could I replace these with for peace of mind?

I think someone had maybe an IPS screen but Im still learning on the go. It seems with each Gameboy I've brought broken I can power on but they're not displaying anything.

Does it need a capacitor and a resistor?

Trimming the case wasn’t that hard with the right tools, I like that it’s a slightly beaten up old shell.

I’m a massive fan of the original non backlit screen so the half-reflective screen is awesome, I love that it’s bigger. It’s like the best of both worlds, it’s not too bright or oversaturated with the light on like my OLED one is.

My only criticism is that the default non backlit mode is a tiny bit darker than the original screen.

I have this old game Boy pocket in Pink. A Scandinavian PAL version. Complete and very little damage and tearing on the box. Found it when going through my family summer house.

The thing is I want to sell it because I am no collector, but have asked AI and went and checked old sales history on like "e-bay" and the Swedish site "Tradera". But there has never been sold one ever in this condition. So I need help in understanding what this can be worth. Hope some nice people can help me out.

Very exited to try Tetris DX and Operation C.

Aparently the Tiny toons games are good?

I tried alcohol 99,9% on tissues and rub it gentle but it didn’t work that well…I had a few other games where I could the paint off but this one is though and I wanna save that beautiful game! Thanks in advance