Modding my Gameboy Pocket (kind of tutorial-ish)

Rex Kramer wrote:Very interesting. I'd be half tempted to try something like that on a busted GBA but my soldering skills are god awful. OG GBA with a lovely back lit screen would be so pretty. How much did the whole shebang end up costing you?

I don't think you'd have to do any soldering, only if you wanted to make it so a button press could change the brightness. When I did my SP I just swapped the screens around. It's just a case of taking one ribbon cable out

It's incredibly easy doing any of this, including the screen swaps as the ribbon cables have clips that are really easy to release. The only tricky bit was the soldering, and those GBA ones You can just leave the wires free and use the default values if you want.

Impressive stuff.

That original screen damage is grim. How would that even happen? Temper tantrum screen smack?

That looks great! Makes me think about giving my GBA a bit of an upgrade in the future, rechargeable battery and better, backlit screen would probably be the main ones, probably something I’ll never get around to though!

Victor Mildew wrote:

The state of this stacking :dread:

Chaotic stacking, give yourself a challenge during the early levels. 8-)

rinks wrote:That original screen damage is grim. How would that even happen? Temper tantrum screen smack?

I think it's prolonged sun damage. Presumably it's been sat in direct sunlight on a window ledge or something for years and it's done that to it.

The Watching Artist wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:

The state of this stacking

Great minds :datass:

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I'll stack your strawberry floating face in a minute m8

Anyway, two of the three problem areas are easily fixed with the next two drops.

Playing the long game clearly, setting up some wins for later

Tetris chicken - see how far up the screen you dare let the stack go before trying to get it back down to the bottom line again.

Victor Mildew wrote:It's incredibly easy doing any of this, including the screen swaps as the ribbon cables have clips that are really easy to release. The only tricky bit was the soldering, and those GBA ones You can just leave the wires free and use the default values if you want.

Yes as easy as that

From this

To this

That looks great!

Nice!

The only problem with playing GBA games on emulators or anything with a brighter screen is that so many games look overly bright or washed out because they were deliberately designed with more saturated colours to compensate for the dark screen

rinks wrote:Anyway, two of the three problem areas are easily fixed with the next two drops.

I used to like the game mode where it started on a cluttered mess and you had to really concentrate on block placement.

Really helped improve my Tetris skills, which have since departed me sadly.

Jenuall wrote:Nice!

The only problem with playing GBA games on emulators or anything with a brighter screen is that so many games look overly bright or washed out because they were deliberately designed with more saturated colours to compensate for the dark screen

Pokemon Emerald nearly blinded me when I first played it via emulator, had to fiddle with the gamma settings to make it playable.

The dmg coloured dpad and buttons I ordered arrived this morning, but now I'm torn between having that or sticking with the monochrome colours I've got.

Hypes wrote:...To this

That looks so smart, Hypes! I've never owned a GBA but I really like that SP design.

Victor Mildew wrote:The dmg coloured dpad and buttons I ordered arrived this morning, but now I'm torn between having that or sticking with the monochrome colours I've got.

Maybe... start fresh with another one, dude? Your first one looked so good that you could have a business going here!

If I could get the parts at cost, then there might be a bit of money in it for a side gig, but buying from a shop, I'd just get my money back I think rather than make anything.

Gba is a great console, probably my favourite Nintendo handheld overall, it's got a very snes feeling to it, plus it runs old gameboy games. For my next project I'm looking at making a gameboy macro, which is the bottom half of a ds lite, reshelled to be a GBA (as they have native gba support).

Modding my Gameboy Pocket (kind of tutorial-ish)

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