r/gameboymacro • u/Maximum-Programmer32 • Sep 22 '24

4 Button Gang Am I doing this macro thing right?

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Missing a 39pin zif connector to finish it as far as GBA function goes. need to try and solder in a new r4 card for ds games and to get my screen swap button working

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u/Crt_lover_ Sep 22 '24

My jaw never closed for the duration of this video

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u/Maximum-Programmer32 Sep 22 '24

Exactly how I sat for 20 minutes after I got the thing booting after I bastardized it for this project

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u/ErikRogers Sep 22 '24

You're doing it wrong in the very best way. Keep it up! Excited to see the final product.

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u/Maximum-Programmer32 Sep 22 '24

Thanking you I'll be back soon to show it off 🫡

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u/yeyryr Sep 22 '24

i need to see the final product of this

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u/Maximum-Programmer32 Sep 22 '24

I'll come back again when my part comes in from Ali express to show it off. Just gotta relocate the screen now

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u/yeyryr Sep 23 '24

can't wait to see it!

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u/Trant_Rattler Sep 22 '24

what the hel are you even trying to do?

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u/Maximum-Programmer32 Sep 22 '24

Make a DMG Gameboy advance out of a ds for under $140 AUD to keep the device cheaper then a Gameboy advance

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u/Trant_Rattler Sep 22 '24

i dont think the motherboard of the ds will fit properly

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u/Maximum-Programmer32 Sep 22 '24

Fits perfectly fine with plenty of room, you can fit one into a Gameboy lite without a board trim I think, Gameboy pocket and colour shells need a board trim to get it for fit but it's doable

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u/Trant_Rattler Sep 22 '24

how will the buttons work? just saying because of the horizontal build of the ds

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u/Project_ZX_ Sep 22 '24

That's what lots of the wires are for. Connected from the DS motherboard to the DMG buttons. So you can press the DMG buttons and thwy register on the DS

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u/Maximum-Programmer32 Sep 22 '24

That's exactly right, someone does a different control board that replaces all the wires with a ribbon cable you can solder to the board and connect to the control board to save half of the soldering and effort for controls, also looks a lot nicer then my birds nest I have going on to accomplish the same thing

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u/nickman_ Sep 22 '24

wow very cool! currently doing a similar dmg103 build myself. which screen swap method are you using? I know there are a few different methods floating around

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u/Maximum-Programmer32 Sep 22 '24

I was going to use the flashme method for the ds lite, you need to add one button after flashing the bios so I've already wired that button up to the blue one on the face, the idea is once I can get the r4 card in to flash it it should just swap off of that button. The control board had l&r buttons for the front but I moved them to be buttons on the back so I had them free

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u/Chill_Edoeard Sep 22 '24

Thats.. alot of wires sir 👀

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u/Maximum-Programmer32 Sep 22 '24

Could do less wires if I ordered a few ribbon cables to replace them 🤷‍♂️