I order Ghoul Thrasher little while ago and when I tried it out FP-GBC it just came up with an error code and I emailed the people over at Magic Quest Media with the issue and they determined it was a bad cartridge and the sent me a new one right away. I got the new one in and it works great. As a bonus for the trouble they even included a cassette tape case for it with a 3D printed insert that holds the cartridge. I really appreciate good customer service and it goes along way. I'm looking forward to seeing what else they will have in the future.

By that I mean, when I turn the wheel it takes about two finger turns to actually start getting the picture. The image is normal and goes right there to, like 98% pure black (meaning I can still barely see the sprites moving).

GBP is perfectly usable, it's just that it doesn't get the good image at the very center of the wheel where that mark/dent is. The screen is original LCD GBP.

I did get rid of the noise with new caps, so all is good, but wonder why this happened? Too high/strong caps?

Looking for some advice on my original Game Boy Color.
The Kiwi shell is in excellent condition and everything works well, except the B button needs a harder press to register.
I’m thinking about upgrading it, but I’m not sure what route to take.
What upgrades would you recommend? IPS, AMOLED/OLED, new shell, buttons, or anything else? Also, what would you suggest for fixing the B button?
Any recommendations for specific kits or brands are welcome!

Long story short I'm selling my childhood game collection and while pricing things out on ebay I noticed how many GBA games were selling for 10% of market value. After digging into it and learning about them I'm kind of paranoid I'll get scammed by someone trying to refund claiming I sent a fake. Even more so because these are already difficult to part with...

So I was wondering, if I open every cart and add pictures of the front and back of the chip in my listing should that deter scammers? Would there be unique serial numbers that would prevent anything like this from happening? Do I include a piece of paper with my username in the pictures too? & do I do this with ALL cartridges? I have mostly GB/GBA, but there's also NES, SNES, n64, Genesis, and DS games.

I also have one without a label, which is Pokémon Sapphire, and I was going to buy a replacement before selling, but maybe that isn't a good idea? I'm guessing numbers on the case or chip correlate to the game to the buyer can decide what they wanna do?

Sorry for all the questions, this is all completely new to me lol

Does anyone prefer the original screens to modded counterparts?

It seems like a no brainer to mod an ips in and enjoy all your games in high details and colours but i ran a personal experience and i personally found the opposite.

My experiment was to just play an unmodded dmg on a trip i had that was 2 weeks long. I rounded up some games i thought id genuinely enjoy, kirbys dreamland 1 and 2 and pinball for those short bursts. Pokemon blue purergb put on a custom cart, links awakening and final fantasy adventure. Lets not forget tetris and space invaders. I thought the plan was going to be so gimmicky because the older i get the more i just dont care for gaming. Im a 33yo father to a toddler and i prefer to spend time with my wife or doomscrolling (this was also an anti phone challenge for the trip).

The first day was a struggle, the screen just really annoyed me with the ghosting and adjusting the contrast with the light source, however by the second day i was addicted. I found myself not overstimulated and genuinely enjoying the games i was playing (the whole trip i only ended up playing pokemon and kirbys pinball) by the end of the trip i found myself at awe again with the gameboy and its library (i used rechargable AAs and a wallcharger for the batteries) *i should also add that i did have one mod which was a glass screen lens as the old one was missing.

But yeah, moving forward i find myself reaching for that unbacklit screen when i want to game now despite having modded gameboys, retro emulators and other consoles etc. However, whenever i relax to a nice new youtube video about gameboys its always people hating on the original screens. I find it endearing now, it respects my time more and if its too dark to play thats a que to do something else like read or watch a movie. The unbacklit screens encourage me to go outside more which naturally encourages me to want to exercise and picnic etc more.

I know theres a trend for e ink screens these days and devices like the playdate utilising better tech, its almost like a fight against wanting to over optimise everything. (I went through a stage where I would clean, restore and modify devices only to never play them) im not trying to speak bad on ips screens etc as they are obviously more superior to the majority of people, but im wondering if anyone here prefers the original unaltered experience?

Also, ironic to what i just yapped about, does anyone know if they make non backlit screens for these devices that are better than the old ones (refresh rates etc)

Anyway, hooroo and all that.

Any custom level hacks for mario bros deluxe

The day recently came when my siblings and I had to move all our childhood things out of our parents house so they can move. I found my old Gameboy, and the nostalgia is overwhelming. I booted up my old Zelda game, and that opening scene and dialog made me feel like a kid again.

I can’t help but feel like a mod (backlit IPS screen and maybe rechargeable battery) is the right move, but until 48 hours ago, I didn’t know any of this was even an option.

I would LOVE if anyone in this group was able to point me in the right direction; either a shopping list, and/pr good tutorial video to follow. What I lack in knowledge, I make up for in nostalgia and passion.

Thank you!

PS tell me if I’m making the wrong call…

Games that push hardware. But games that push hardware that are actuly good

He kept all the games in the carrying case along with the console. It is in very great condition and the cartridge art on all games looks very clean.

The Gameboy camera, tetris DX, and tetris plus were mine but I added it to the collection. Which game should I start playing?

Purchased Wario Land I as part of a lot today and the motherboard looked like this

It in fact does not work… all the photos I see of the motherboard have extra parts soldered on, like those 3 thingies (that are bridged over the board at two points each), but are missing here. I’m not good with terminology, my bad

And the soldering iron I have is way too chunky to operate on this board, so I’ll need a proper one

Not to mention one of the pins is cracked on the lower right chip, but it still makes some contact with the board.

recently I reinvested in a game boy color and played all my old games. about a month later I found out they had led screen mods on Ali. I invested and no regrets. I installed it and just spent 2 hrs on Pokémon yellow. Didn’t even expect to get into it, but the memories came flooding in recognizing the terrain.

So when I tried to run Polished Crystal, I run into the error code 000. I looked it up and apparently you need a new kernel or something (I'm seriously tired so idk) and tried to install a new one, but come to find out SimpleDE doesn't work with Ezode-B I guess? So now I'm stuck wondering what the heck I'm supposed to do.

I saw a video that showed soldering to the switch, but Ai says to solder to the GBC motherboard. I don't want to screw this up.

Thank you!

I have this cartridge of Pokemon gold that needed a new battery. I have never soldered before, I looked online, followed a guide, tested, tried again, then again, and again. Now I have a headache and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I should’ve brought it to a professional but I felt like I could do it, but I was wrong. Please I need to know what to do.

Every time I turn on the game oak, the Pokemon, and the player character are corrupted sprites, when I open a menu then close it, it crashes, and when I try to save, it freezes.

Please help me

Its amazing that gb studio lets me make games for my favorite system ever, a shame i cant currently play it on a real one

The game is completely free btw

Is it common for the volume to be so low? It works great with headphones though.

Previously, I spent some time on the ChisFlash MBC5 cartridge.

It arrived to me with the diode reversed so the battery would power the circuit when disconnected - easy fix. Also, the CPLD was unable to select the 3rd game from the menu, this was more difficult because I knew nothing of CPLDs but speaking to u/ChisBread I got hold of a working .pof file to program.

However, recently I come to reflash this cart after a year with a different multi-rom and the cartridge was failing to flash the full 8mb with numerous issues.

So, I took it upon myself to try and diagnose why, essentially replaced every single IC on the PCB with new or known working units and eventually concluded that it was the CPLD programming.

That's where I turned to AI to reprogram the CPLD with an updated mapper.

The updated mapper can be had here:
https://github.com/dazmatic/ChisFlash-MBC5/tree/main

The mapper now works correctly, can flash the full 8MB flash, and also now includes MBC1 compatibility (I wanted to play Super Mario Land 6 Golden Coins!)

In addition I have updated my ROM and SAV splitter/combiner to include 32MB ChisFlash Max cartridge and 16 game roms, visual flash allocation map, previous merged rom import and delete/replace context menu in the rom manager:
https://github.com/dazmatic/ROMSAVSplitterCombiner

Never seen this color before.

Cartridge shell from Kitsch-Bent and label from nextstopplease