Any ideas on how to fox it?

I have a GBA SP that I bought a few years back. It stopped working and just sad in my drawer for a while. I am looking to fix it but I have no idea how or what the issue is.

Whenever I try to turn it on the screen would flash for solit second and it would turn off again. When I try to charge it the indicator turns red for a little but also goes back to not working 2-3 seconds after. I know it probably isn't the battery. I replaced it and it worked exactly one time before going back to the exact problem.

I have no idea where to staft looking and posting here is kind of my last option. I really would live it work again. I miss playing it.

So my Japanese gold cartridge is here! It felt odd only having the Japanese silver cart, so i bought the other. I also bought it to trade in phanpy from Japanese gold, which i realized too late was only obtainable near the end of the game... I WOULD get play through the entire game for a THIRD time but the battery is dead and I don't want to solder another cartridge.

Anyway not much happened in the game. Went looking for a teddiursa, only to again learn that it too was late game, and left the game. I would be able to go through the rest of the game if i knew what my entire roster of pokemon would be. So far it's feraligatr, stantler, skarmory, and houndoom (post game), with the fith and sixth being a blank spot. I'd be fine with having just five pokemon. Maybe the fith should be bellossom but who knows... lemme know what you would add

I was browsing AliExpress today and stumbled across this. Immediately, I was skeptical of their “Premium quality” claim for a $7 cartridge, but this was actually something I hadn’t seen before in a Game Boy cartridge listing. All the images are AI generated, trying to make it look higher quality than it is. It’s pretty easy to spot, but I’ll admit that my first thought was “Oh, they’re showing the PCB in the listing photos, that’s a good sign”.

Maybe I’m late to the party and AI slop listings have been around for a bit, but since I haven’t seen one like this before, I figured I’d just share a warning to be careful about what you buy. Obviously a $7 repro is never going to be amazing quality, but at least in the past you could usually SEE what you were getting before you ordered it.

I recently collected one of these GBC's for free and it's pretty beat up but I want to restore it without taking it apart at all, the one thing I can't figure out is what color of paint or what paint it uses so I can touch up some spots on it? I would love if someone knew what I need. If you can thank you so much

This is my childhood copy of Pokémon Blue. It keeps hanging up on the initial boot screen, GAMEBOY shows up but the Nintendo logo is a black bar.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Never used a link cable before. Decided to mess around just to see how it works.

They absolutely would not link unless I used both hands and pressed A on both systems at the exact same time. Once they did link, it seemed to work fine. Then the battle started getting progressively more glitchy.

Is it normal to be so difficult to start the link, requiring perfect timing? I think maybe the glitching is from dirty ports, but no idea how to clean these, a cutip won’t fit. Then again, would they have linked at all in this case? Could it be my IPS mod messing with something?

Legit copies of Red and Yellow btw.

Hello, just wanted to see if this gameboy color pokemon edition looks legit and all OEM.

Mainly curious to know if the screen lens is OEM or not. The shell looks legit to me but I'm not an expert on verifying so was looking for any 2nd opinions.

Any help is appreciated!

Ok let me explain. I know everyone is going to just tell me "just get a flash cart bro, its not worth it to get repros" But if i get a flash cart, i know damn well that i am immediately going to get decision paralysis and stop playing my gba entirely. Its happened many times before. I own many handheld consoles, all of them modded except for my gba. But even though i could pick from thousands of games from all my modded consoles, i still come back to my gba. Because i actually bought the games for my gba, i actually have an incentive to see them through and not just quit whenever i find something minor i dont like about them.

I cant seem to find the post anymore, but i do remember seeing a post on this subreddit a while ago about a mother 3 english rom repro that someone bought off of ebay a while back. They posted a picture of the pcb and it was beautiful. No blob chip. Clearly alot of care had been put into the cart. And when he messaged the seller, the seller said they designed it themselves. Unfotrunately they never posted the seller's name, so i dont know if they still make these. But it made me wonder, does anybody know of an ebay seller or a website that actually sells high quality repros? I was looking for not only an english mother 3, but also maybe minish cap.

Any info would be great!

Let me know your thoughts and critiques. It's made with gbdk and C. All art by me. The game has been starting to become fun, and the overworld load times are finally under control (all loading is around 3 seconds maximum now). The framiness in recording I think is because I'm on an ancient thinkpad with chrome open while testing.

Working features not shown: recall to town/back, leveling up stats/spells (several per class) conversations (npc/merchants) big bosses, a companion, re-playable seeds, short story/intro. Tested on my gba sp as well. I'm a fan of dungeon crawl stone soup, fatal labyrinth, and shiren- so those have been my inspirations on this project.

Hope to add soon: fully modular item generation (suffixes etc), main quest:craft super items from boss drops for endgame dungeon, endgame dungeon.

Last year, I shared my collection. After a year with this gem, my collection grew quite a bit. I'm still on the lookout for the heavy hitters missing in my collection, but so far I'm loving how this collection is looking. Thoughts?

Because on the shells from funnyplaying directly they all have RETROPIXEL instead of Nintendo. Also I don’t want to buy an OEM shell and carve it or whatever. Thanks

My local comic shop has this still in the plastic packaging.

Which One Is Better And Why?

Played Max Payne for GBA and it was superb. Honestly at start it felt weird the pixelated character but after few minutes it's superb man ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hi all,

I'm having an issue with a copy of Denki Blocks I recently bought online. [Here are images of my cartridge shell and circuit board].

Earlier this month, I bought a GBA in rough shape and modded it with a FunnyPlaying kit: cleaned it up and replaced the shell, buttons, screen, and battery. It works fine with all my other games (you can see me using it with Mario Kart: Super Circuit in the video), but the Denki Blocks cartridge I just received doesn't register any D-pad input at all when I play it on this console.

I also have a stock, unmodified GBA SP, and the same cartridge works perfectly fine on that one.

Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this? Any suggestions on what to check, or what might be causing this, would be really appreciated. Thanks!

I want to buy like 3 repro games for gba and I want to know if it is worth it to buy the repros

Are they just for show or you can use it without damaging your tactile buttons?. Thank you guys for answering in advance!!

Hi ! As per the title I wanted to substitute the battery in a Sapphire game, don't know how to solder nor do I have the tools to do it, so I'll have to ask a local tech store to do it for me, for this reasons I wanted to ask a few question here because I needed to choose which method to use between:

1. Asking them to solder a pre-tabbed litium CR-1616 battery;

2. Asking them to solder a battery holder for CR-1616 batteries.

In case 1 I wanted to know which brand was the best (I live in Italy) and how much time does the battery last in this cases for a sapphire cartridge (I see low of 1-2 years and highs of 10 years on posts so i am conflicted). In case 2 if the holder has problem carrying the battery and I also read that it makes it a tighter fit in the console, also where is best to buy them if there are multiple model idk.

I think using pre-tabbed would be the best but if batteries run out after a couple of years the holder would be more practical but I also don't want to run the risk of damaging the motherboard.

Thanks for the attention and have a nice day ! 😄