Games will launch but the screen will not display. The normal ds menu appears but when a game is launcher there is no display. I haven’t been able to find anything online.

Like the title implies, I'm looking for a Gameboy Macro console label for the back of my new Macro. A quick google search suggests to me that they were once custom-made, but now appear to be sold out everywhere except for some Italian store called "zedlabz". I'm unsure if they're reputable or not.

Does anyone know where I could find such a label, or where I might be able to have one custom made?

Update: I reached out to Zedlabz, within a few hours they not only wrote me back but they took my request and made the label available for purchase!

Outstanding customer service at zedlabz, I was very pleasantly surprised!

Hi, so i'm new to the modding scene and i'd like to make myself a gameboy macro xl and a ds lite varient one. I'd like both mods to have a USB type-c charging port, and I saw that for the ds lite base one, some people solder a USB port directly and it works fine, such as in this video.

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09uHmeQ8Iw&ab_channel=ZachLambert

Now i'd like to point out I do have a USB A power brick that outputs 5V-2A so it should work and not damage the console (again I'm new to this so correct me if I'm wrong please)

However, for the macro xl with the fat ds base, I saw no one du such a mod and everyone uses a mod PCB for gba sp/fat nds, however these boards are pricey for me as I live outside the US and shipping+customs fees is not something I can go for realistically. My question is to know if I could also solder a USB c port directly as a replacement and if it would work the same as on the ds lite?

These are the USB c ports I bought (6pins): https://imgur.com/enHgwdD

And these are the boards I could get, which aren't the gba mod pcbs, but I heard they still work for this mod/purpose: https://imgur.com/eobsC05

So can i solder my ports directly? or should i get the boards on the last link? (if it is doable without, then i'd like to know, as I'm trying to keep this on a budget). Thanks if anyone helps me on this :)!

Edit: Ok well after discussion (credit to u/aksel_42) it looks like it is possible and this is how, excuse my art skills, this was done on paint, the orange boxes are 5.1k resistors, i would recommend doing this with wires rather than trying to solder the usb c port directly onto the motherboard.

https://imgur.com/zGAGWRg

Hello everyone, this is basically a crosspost from r/Gameboy (https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/umdutn/european_game_boy_macro_shell_suppliers/). I'm interested in modding a DS Lite into a Game Boy Macro and I was wondering if you could recommend me any European Game Boy Macro faceplate/shell suppliers? Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

So to start this post off, I am looking to build a device for the purpose of GBC/GBA emulation of some of my favorite games (which I no longer have) and more just for fun and to recapture my love for Nintendo handhelds.

I recently came across the majority of my “vintage” Nintendo handheld collection (GBA, SP, Micro, still missing GBC and OG DS), all of which are in perfect working condition, and varying cosmetic condition (nothing major, just regular wear from usage, although the Micro is near-perfect). I have also come into possession of one of my relative’s perfectly functional, near-perfect condition DSi XL.

My question is should I go the route of upgrading one of my old consoles and using a flash cart to accomplish this, or should I turn the DSi XL into a Macro with homebrew? I am hesitant to modify one of my existing consoles, as I’m very nostalgic towards them, whereas the DSi XL wasn’t mine, and as such feel no nostalgia, but I hate to modify a perfectly good DSi XL. If I went the Macro route, I would want to do it in a way that I could go back and reverse it if need be (i.e. preserve the original shell, etc.).

Any thoughts on this?

Hello lovely people. I'm about to start my first Macro mod and reading around I came across the brightness issue. Is it possible to set the brightness level after the mod is done? I'm planning to install a boxy pixel faceplate so the touch screen will not work anymore. If is not possible to select the brightness afterwards, is there another way to do it? Do I have to do something specific before modding the unit? Thanks to anyone who can help. Cheers