I played the GB version as a kid, but mistakenly missed the GBA release until a few weeks ago. The game has taken over most of my free time since, and if you're at all a fan of pinball or Pokemon I highly recommend giving it a shot!

The "travel" music is hot garbage, though.

After years without a gameboy, i finally pulled the trigger on this for the equivilant of about 50$ plus Crystal for another 50$

I repaired this Gameboy Color last week. It wouldn’t power on but after some soldering it’s fully working again.

Edit:

Some people think this GBC has not been repaired and the title is misleading. It uses about 80% original parts and the parts replaced are ones that cannot be salvaged (eg potentiometer, power switch, speaker). It involves several hours of cleaning of the corrosion, desoldering the original parts and transplanting them to a working PCB. The PCB is a new one I had made from Natalie’s Gerbers. I’m sorry if this confuses people what repairing a GBC to working order involves.

I recently finished Super Mario Land 2 and I loved it! Now I'm looking for similar games. I've been playing some other games like Mr. Digger, but I'm a bit more of a story/lvl game person. Any suggestions for what to play next?

This collection means the most to me because I still have my orginal GameBoy Color & GBA SP from my childhood along with some Pokemon games as well. The Gameboy Advance is my absolute favorite handheld and I have so many great memories playing these games🎮 I am in the process of replaying these games and still had my orginal save file on my childhood Pokemon FireRed copy. Its so fun and peaceful to sit down and flip through a old Nintendo Power Guide and play along🎮❤️

Do you think I should keep working on it? I think it'd be neat to have multiple levels with different brick layouts etc!

I tried moving the cpu and ram chips from two separate gba to two different funnyplaying motherboards and I got the same problem. It would boot without a game and then black screen with weird noises when a game was plugged in. I thought it was me and I would re flow the pins many times to no avail. The first time I did this mod I used all funnplaying parts and it worked my first try. These next two times I was using hispeedido parts and usbc rechargeable battery, and only the motherboard came from funnplaying. After I hit the same problem twice I just decided to see if a funnplaying battery would work and it did flawlessly!! Literally no issues, it boots perfectly and I can play games from my ez flash cart no problem. Does anyone know why that would be?? I've seen people mix the funnyplaying motherboard and hispeedido usbc rechargeable battery on youtube, but for some reason for me it wont work if I mix them. Are my pins just BARELY soldered right and the funnyplaying battery gives more power and that fixes it somehow?

Was just randomly soft resetting while listening to Vtuber clips

I have pokemon emerald from many years ago that I recently found but won't turn on. any tips on how to fix it?

If you like Farkle from Kingdom Come Deliverance, then you probably like Tavern Farkle GB as well :)

Get the rom for your GB player/emulator/device of choice on:
https://2ndlawgames.itch.io/tavern-farkle-gb

or for your PC or Steam Deck on:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4191210/Tavern_Farkle_GB/ (releases on Thursday 29th)

Does anybody know of a flash cart that can boot a single game as if it was a standard ROM cartridge? I do a fair bit of romhacking, and it would be great to have a cart dedicated to a single game where I can just update the file on it and play without having to reprogram the cart.

I'm thinking of a cart with either an sd card reader to transfer a single rom file, or a usb port with a small amount of eMMC. This could be hidden in the housing so that it looks like a standard cart from the outside. The firmware should just check for a new rom on the external memory and write that to NOR flash memory. If there is already an up-to-date rom in NOR, it would boot that immidiately. So it would look and play like a standard programmable cart, but it can flash itself without a programmer and external software.

Anyone know off the top of their heads what chips this would take?

Hey everyone,

I got a prebuilt Game Boy Advance with the following upgrades installed:

• IPS Screen
• Upgraded Class-D Amp + 2W Speaker
• Rechargeable USB-C Battery Pack
• Dehiss Mod

I'm noticing two specific behaviors with the audio and wanted to see if this is normal for these kinds of setups, or if there is a known fix:

1. The 0% to 5% Volume Jump: When turning the volume wheel up from zero, there is a dead zone where nothing plays, and then the sound abruptly "snaps" or jumps straight into an audible level instead of fading in quietly. Same when scrolling the volume down, it will jump from an audible level to 0%. The best way I can describe it is it doesn't scroll up or down sequentially, but there is this dead zone which makes it jump from 0% to 5% and vice versa.
2. The Red Light Cut-off: The second the power light turns red, the audio cuts out completely (if the audio is not loud enough). If I scroll the volume wheel way up, it forces the sound back but it's much louder and not enjoyable.

Is this normal or not? And is this fixable?

Just had my Gameboy pocket modded to have an IPS screen so I can finally see in the dark 😊

However, I would like to give this unit a new shell and buttons.

Any recommendations for colours or a combination of colours to reshell the unit to?

I've been working on Hang-On for the DMG/GBC based on the Sega Master System version. Hopefully have it out soon.

I've been playing NintenDoku for some while now and today they ask for side view and action Gameboy games. Do you have a suggestion for me? It's gotta be kinda obscure so I can get the most points. And if yall interested in solving this puzzle yourself here is the link:

https://www.n-puzzle.com/en/nintendoku

How do i clean this up? Is it safe to use afterwards? (if it even turns up anymore). Quite sad about it because it holds some memories. It survived for over 20 years, while some other consoles of mine either broke down or got sold. The backshell got lost many years ago but overall it still held strong.

So i found my old gameboy and games i of course have some of the classics like super maria land 1 and 2 and tetris and alleyway. With so many selling places i can find gameboy games easily so are there any must play games out there?

Open to any genre

Gameboy pocket

I have no games whatsoever. Years ago I was stupid and sold all my games. I used to have the old pokemons, sold those years ago for 20 bucks a piece. Now I found my old gameboy, still with a chage somehow. And now I have no games to play.

I was able to arrange a switch deluxe carrier case to work with my DMG and my entire current library of games. Not to mention I also got my light magnifier in there as well