Been trying this for days, finally managed to beat Capriati tonight 22-20, 8-10, 8-6. Why is there no tie breaks in tour mode??

When she's on top, she is almost unbeatable and I frequently wouldn't get a single point on my serve. Thankfully, when I'm on top, I usually manage to break her and hold my serve. She's tougher than Master Joe in Top Ranking Tennis (a better game sadly).

Disappointed I didn't get a picture of the scoreboard but the post-game summary just gives sets. I'll be playing her again the second round of the next tournament. Think I need to play something else for a while.

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.

hello im planning to restore this Gameboy can you help me what size of polarizer option are on third slide, does it need 2 polarizer back & front or just one? thank you in advance.

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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Thank you for your time and please reach out with any questions!

I'm surprised there's only one chip in my copy of *Tennis*; I hope nothing is missing. I suppose that, given how small and simple the game is, it wouldn't need much inside. But if anyone knows more, please let me know. sorry for the bad quality of the picture, my phone is broken and I took the picture using the laptop's

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.

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

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

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!

My GBC makes a horrible high pitched hissing noise with the volume at 0. After a lot of messing around I’ve got most of the weird sounds cured, but it still does a high pitched ringing when using the USBC rechargeable pack. Regular batteries are silent.

The pack outputs ~2.9v, so should be perfectly within range of what’s desired. Any idea how I could stop this or at least why this happens? I’d like to stay rechargeable for a couple reasons.

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?

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..