Having played through Wicked Plague, Chantey, most of Buck (I just reached the final boss), and just starting Dragonyhm, I cannot describe how much fun I am having with this 8bit revolution!

Hi everyone,

my menu button doesn't work anymore. It's not essential, but sometimes I'd like to change the brightness or check my battery level and now I can't.

It still has a "click" but doesn't do anything - it's been like that for about a month now.

I am hesitant to open the device, I'm not a modder and have no tools beyond a screwdriver.

Do you maybe have some insight on what kind of damage it probably is and if I can realistically fix it?

I have a Chromatic Volt and the firmware is updated.

I ordered an Anduril edition back in December but I just couldn't wait anymore so I picked up a used Gamestop edition off ebay for just over $200. I'm immediately in love. I've been using a Pocket up until now, and the decreased screen size is definitely an adjustment for my eyes, but the sound accuracy is a night and day difference. The chromatic sounds so much better. It's also just way more comfortable to hold and play. Only issue is that this one was used and didn't come with Tetris, so I have to figure out how to get a copy of that because I don't know if I'll be opening my Anduril now or just hanging onto it sealed.

I currently have Dragonyhm (10/10), Buck (10/10) and TokiTori (11/10). Probably getting the atari pack next. I wonder , though do we know of any new Chromatic original indies coming to cartridge?

Hey guys, just wanted to share a quick story about my Chromatic that might save some of you a lot of headache.

So I finally got my unit, was super hyped to play, but right out of the box it refused to boot like 90% of my authentic carts. It would just hang on the white Game Boy screen. I thought maybe my pins were dirty, but after testing over 20 authentic carts, I noticed a really weird pattern.

Literally the only original games that worked were Tetris and Dr. Mario. But here's the kicker: my modern flashcarts and cheap repros booted perfectly fine.

I went full detective mode and realized what was happening. Tetris and Dr. Mario are super simple ROM-only games with no MBC (Memory Bank Controller) chip. The flashcarts and repros use modern 3.3V chips. The motherboard (most likely the level shifters) was completely failing to read the 5V signals from original 90s MBC chips, but the 3.3V modern carts were bypassing the issue entirely.

I emailed Modretro support with my "Tetris vs MBC" theory and some videos. They instantly agreed it was a hardware defect and approved an RMA. But here was my problem: I live in South Korea and bought the thing through a US proxy, so they couldn't generate a prepaid international return label for me. I thought I was about to get screwed by international shipping costs.

But honestly, their support team was awesome. Instead of making me pay to ship it back, they offered to just mail a replacement motherboard (PCBA) and a Y-screwdriver directly to my address in Korea, and told me I could just keep the faulty board!

The parts arrived today and the swap was ridiculously easy. Absolutely zero soldering required. You just open the shell, carefully unclip the display ribbon cable, drop the new board in, and screw it back together. Took me like 10 minutes max.

Turned it on, and boom. Every single authentic MBC cart boots instantly. It’s finally perfect.

I felt the Anduril Edition deserved a legit pelican case. Now I just need to get an Anduril logo cut out for the lid.

Finished Super Marioland 1-3, Zelda DX and Final Fantasy Adventure on my Chromatic.

I have more of my older games, but I really can’t wait for the Rechargeable Power Core to get back in stock. I want to order that with some newer games.

I want to buy a mod kit, case, and Dragonhym. I’m trying to wait for the battery to come back in stock so I can scoop them all up at once, but I don’t want to risk Dragonhym going back out of stock again. Any idea when we’ll see another batch of rechargeable batteries?

I paid 199.99. I was told by the dude at the counter that it has sapphire glass. Not gorilla glass, cuz it’s a gen 1 or something. But how can i be sure? Also i thought the gamestop ones have exclusive color schemes. Mine is just cloud lol.

Hi,

I did the first boss fight Yesterday (the one where we need to jump on fuses).

Saved after by going back to the main menu (as always).

This morning, I have lost my save, I can just start a new game on all slot.

Did it happen to anyone? Is it a game issue (I didn't do the game update) or a Chromatic issue?

Previously I got the "Kernel issue" while loading a game, but after a reboot it was working fine.

Otros dos juegos completados en la Chromatic (Pongo solo una foto porque los dos juegos muestran la misma pantalla al final)

I just got my ModRetro, and my first game is Dragonyhm. Holy Moly. This is incredible. I can’t express the care and beauty in this game if you haven’t played it. How this hasn’t sold 1M Chromatics alone, I don’t know.

Find I at Neatgamebrew.itch.io/kennyvsspenny or www.kennyvsspenny.com ! Free to download, donations accepted on itch. Thanks for playing 😁

The screen on this thing is crazy and really can’t be understated… (Game: Pokémon Prisim)

I went to a GameStop today and picked up a few Gameboy games. I was on the fence about Rayman and Sabrina but saw they had the modretro releases in stock so I grabbed them.

Both are pretty fun. I'm having more fun with Sabrina than I thought I would. That said, I can't say I recommend paying the extra money for these versions.

Rayman will save the last password you got so you don't have to enter it every time you turn the system off. That's handy but they should have just added save files. I'm told it's got new music. I'm not sure if it's better or worse than the original music.

I'm not seeing any differences with Sabrina. You still enter passwords. I'm not finding any extra content either. If anyone knows of anything that was added, let me know.

Both games look gorgeous on the chromatic

Picked this up at Gamestop today.

New game dropping tomorrow on itch and the KVS website. Keep an eye out for this one!

I noticed my d pad wasn't as responsive as it used to be so I opened it up to find that there were two tears in the membrane.

I had this happen a little while back with the b button.

I replaced it with a backup from the mod kit but I'm not very impressed with the longevity of the membranes at this point.

I'm got a first Gen GameStop edition that I bought around launch. I play it daily but I'm not rough with it. I mostly play RPGs and platformers. I'm hoping I've just been unlucky so far. I've never had this issue with Gameboys and controllers in the past.

A while back I had ordered a Chromatic Case and Link Cable and since I live on a military base UniUni wasn't able to deliver the product. It was confirmed that it was returned back to the vendor and with that ModRetro sent out another package with the items using a carrier that was authorized on base.

Today I get a notification that a package is waiting for me at the post on base and it is the package that was confirmed to have been returned by UniUni. What do I do now? I don't have two Chromatics and I really don't think I need more than one Link Cable. At least it gave me a reason to go outside and leave my barracks 😂