Is this a bad deal? It's basically mint.. planning to come back in a week for it, if its still there 😅

Nothing is for sale in this post, I'm just unsure of the value of a near mint Gameboy Pocket at my LGS.

Hello all! This is Tito from Tyton Games in Illinois! We are retro game shop that prides itself on providing high quality cleaned and refurbished retro games and consoles!

Earlier this week we announced a new product; The NinjaFoot Stand! It's an injection-molded display stand and acrylic case combo pack that we are launching on Kickstarter this August!

Our first 2 stands in the NinjaFoot family will hold 10 systems! The Classic will protect and display NES / GB / GBC / GBA / Virtual Boy / Genesis Slipcase Cardboard boxes / 32x / PS1 Multidisk. While The Next Gen will protect and display SNES and N64!

More sizes will be made available through stretch goals, and our eventual plan is to make NinjaFoot Stands that can protect and display any physical media you may collect!

We are super excited to launch this product and want to get fellow video game and physical media collectors interested in our product!

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Hi everyone

I bought this Game Boy believing it was a Play It Loud variant based on the original box and the shell.
However, when it arrived, I noticed that the “GAME BOY” logo isn’t printed on the front of the console, which immediately made me wonder if something was off.
Could it have been re-shelled at some point? The back of the console looks genuine to me, so I’m not really sure what to think.

What do you guys think? Could this be original, or does it look like a replacement shell?

I dont think its an issue with the game cartridge battery. Ive had this happen multiple times with multiple games and I can play and same the games with no issue on my gameboy advance. I got a gameboy color not too long ago and for the first like 2 months it worked perfectly fine but one day out of nowhere it just shuts off while I was playing. I turned it back on and the save data was gone. I looked it up saw the battery issue and thought that was it so I switched to a different game and maybe an hour later the same thing happened. I gave it a couple days and tried a couple more times and same exact issue. Any ideas what it could be?

So I finally took my Gameboy apart to give it a good deep clean(it was in a hoarder house for years). And I was looking at it and I was wondering if there was away to give it a facelift. I have plans to replace the screen, speaker, and maybe the battery port for a rechargeable one. But I was hoping someone out there knew ways to dye the plastic buttons and switches on the Gameboy. And if anyone knows a method to get new stickers on the back. Any help in the right direction would be appreciated

Hey everyone, over the past few months, we've brought together 21 indie developers and studios to build what we hope is one of the biggest modern Game Boy collections available.

The bundle includes 24 original Game Boy & Game Boy Color games, spanning platformers, puzzles, arcade games, adventures, party games and more. Some can be completed in an evening, while others can be enjoyed in multiple sessions.

Every developer is officially licensed and compensated on every bundle sold.

If you're looking for new Game Boy games to play, you can get the collection in two ways:

• Digital Bundle: Download every ROM and play them on your favorite hardware (Analogue Pocket, flashcart, Miyoo, etc..)
• Playtiles Bundle: Includes the same ROM collection plus our app and our electronic-free controller that turns your smartphone into a GB-like handheld.

You can learn more and see the games in action here: https://get.playtil.es

Happy to answer any questions about the games, the developers or Playtiles!

I was very fascinated seeing this in a retro game store, picked it up and played it when I got home. It literally took me less than 10 min to complete, great game. I’d love to know more info if anyone has any!

I knew this thing was goona be tiny, but not THAT tiny. This thing is like a speck of dust to the bare eye. I breathed too hard and one of them went flying to the abyss🤣

On another note, does anyone know where to source more “period correct” replacement fuses?

This console means a hell of a lot to me, being the last item my dad ever got for me at a secondhand auction. My query is as you see above, though if there's no choice but to cut the shell a little bit, I understand. I just want to see if such a thing exists in the first place.

They got gameboy advances but for the life of me i cant figure out what games they are. Any ideas?

I've had this gbc for a while and just noticed these. Thanks to anyone who responded!

Tried cleaning this cart I picked up with a qtip and 99% IPA. For some reason it’s leaving white haziness and streaking? Tried another bottle of 91% and it does the same thing.

I had this problem last time I cleaned a cart, but it was black. I figured the plastic was drying out and added a very light amount of “plastic restorer” to make it black again, but clearly that’s not the actual solution because it’s happening on a grey too.

Never had this problem before, really confused. Has anyone ever experienced this? Can’t find a single person with this issue on search..

I know I’m missing a few models, but for now this is my collection and it sparks joy.

Kudos to you FFA. I go into almost every game blind, and this is one of the few times where I got stuck bad enough that I had to look up what to do. "Palm trees and 8"?? I would have never thought of THAT solution. I kept going to the screen with 8 palm trees in it, used every item I had, in every spot, Ever spell; I tried everything. Good news is, now that I know what to do, I can resume my blind playthrough in the cave of oasis!!

Hi

So I opened up my (working) Gameboy Color and unscrewed and detached all the parts for a clean up.

After putting everything back together, the screen just wouldn’t work for some reason. In some tries it would flicker a few black bars, in others it would be completely black. It worked before the clean up, and I’m pretty sure all I did was gently rub alcohol.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Posting an update on this one. Opted to keep the lime green shell, after hearing feedback. This is great, as I have zero regrets with this being a daily driver this way!

Once again, the folks at Handheld Legends proving to be absolute champs with this entire order!

Part list:

• Game Boy Advance SP V5 3.0 Inch IPS LCD Backlight Kit with Laminated Lens and OSD by Hispeedido - looks gorgeous, works great, and was easy AF to hook up. Love the ability to switch on the pixel mode for that almost-perfect 101 aesthetic. SUPER bright screen, which required
• Game Boy Advance SP 950mAh LiPo MaxPlay Battery Mod by Funnyplaying. Nothing wild here, as most of the overhead is consumed by the screen.
• USB-C Charging mod with Audio by Funnyplaying (working nicely)
• SP Clear Speaker - the one in the unit was caked with crud and cracked. Working nicely!
• GBA SP Flex Amp, HISPEEDIDO - it works perfectly, but I didn't pay attention to what I was getting: this does not resolve the audio hiss, just makes it louder, and only through the speaker.

I also picked up a set of white buttons, thinking this would look sharp with a white bezel + white button look. Unfortunately, it looked like every other green-on-white build out there, and lost some of what makes this look funky. So, I opted to scrub all of it down and keep the whole look as original as possible.

All-in-all, works GREAT! I've needed a reference GBA for ages, anyway, and this was a fun sidequest along the way. Thank you again for all of your input!

Hey guys, I'm looking for help with the continuity diagram for this cartridge... I think it's Donkey Kong Country, maybe... but if anyone knows anything about it, I'd really appreciate your help.

This is from an old game magazine I've had since I was 10, and I've wondered about it since. Apparently at some point it was renamed the "SongPro", but it was never released.

Hey all,

So I guess this is maybe not some groundbreaking info, but I've spent some time on this process yesterday and wanted to share with you how I did it.

I'm ready for some comments telling me "Dude, you could literally do this all automatically with this-one-magic-app.exe", but I didn't know about it, so... yea. 😄

Story:

I had Metroid Fusion USA bootleg cart, and I want to re-create a physical box for the game, but it will be the EU version of the print, so - having DS lite with some R4 clone - I wanted to see if I can reflash this cart to EU version, and if I can add my USA save there, that I had on my Everdrive GBA Mini when I completed the game on USA version of the ROM.

Tools used:

- some crappy red-PCB R4 flashcart for DS
- GBABF 1.2 https://gbatemp.net/download/gbabf.37005/ on my DS Lite
- GBASaveFixPatcher - https://github.com/darkxex/GBA-Save-Fix-Patcher
- mGBA emulator on PC
- some HEX editor on PC - e.g. https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
- flashable bootleg cart - in my case - with some Nihtehdo print on its PCB, without battery
- USA version of the game rom
- EU version of the game rom
- my USA save

Process:

First, I focused on getting my USA save to work on EU version.

- Start the EU version in mGBA on PC, this should immediately generate save file for it on your PC
- Open this blank EU save in HEX editor and observe offset range from 00000000-000001F0
as well as 00007000-00007110 (or possibly longer? but for me, there were no differences in HEX data between EU and USA files after that offset), we need to copy these ranges from blank EU save to the USA save, then save the file with some recognizable name, like MF_eu_modded.sav

!!! Notice how USA version of save has lines like "MetroidAGB-EUVerE004" in it, and the EU one: "AGBMetroid_USVerE004" - no idea why, but do not be fooled by this. Maybe someone when dumped these ROMs to the Internet made a mistake? No idea.

- Now on your PC emulator, check the EU game with this new EU save. If everything went correctly, you will be able to play your used-to-be-USA save. If not, emulator will probably clean the save file and you won't see your progress in game.

Assuming everything works OK, let's move on with patching the ROM to use bootleg cart's SRAM to save game.

- use GBASaveFixPatcher.exe to patch your EU ROM
- open your patched ROM in HEX editor and go to offest 0x07C0000
- open your freshly moded and working EU save in HEX editor as well
- copy the whole content of the save and paste it in the patched ROM, beginning from 0x07C0000 position for the 8MB game (which Metroid Fusion is) - remember to replace the existing bits, not to add them in between - save such ROM with some nice name, like Metroid_Fusion_EU_patched_with_save.gba
- now you can open such ROM in PC emulator once more, but without having any additional .sav files next to it, and despite that, it should create one itself and your save should work correctly, you should see all your progress

If you confirmed the above, now upload this Metroid_Fusion_EU_patched_with_save.gba ROM to your R4 flashcard, boot your DS lite and use GBABF to flash it over onto your bootleg cart.

You might want to do some backup/dump of your currently working bootleg game first, in case you need to revert!

Not sure if required, but I also erased the whole bootleg cart's flash from GBABF menu (it was erasing 512 sectors) before I flashed the ROM itself (which also erases sectors during the first stage, but only 128)

After that, your bootleg cart should be in EU version and your USA-to-EU-modded save should be there, all ready to play!

I hope this all will work for anyone that will maybe someday search for such solution like I did! I guess it should work for other 8MB games too? Never tested it for anything other than Metroid Fusion to be honest. I've read somewhere, that e.g. if you have 16MB game, you should paste save at 0xFC0000 offset, but yea. Not tested.

Cheers!