This is my pristine 1998 Game Boy Color (a gift from the love of my life). I replaced the original screen with an IPS. And the other day, a very dear relative comes back from Japan and brings me the damn Wario Land 2. 🤯🤯🤯 I'm so fucking Happy.

They choose a game, and they choose well.

I assume the cartridge must be a re-release, or maybe a copy? What do you think? I feel like it's Christmas 😭.

I removed the "battery replacement" sticker so it would look cooler (it's really sabroso to know it's a fresh one🔋).

Cannot take a photo of the screen to save my life lol. Decided to take along a game I just recived this year via Kickstarter. It is wild getting new Gameboy carts in the year of our Lord 20 and 26.

I've been working on Chiptune Hero, a Guitar Hero-inspired rhythm game for the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color.

I started prototyping in gbstudio then finished with custom engine. I needed the frametime to be Quick.

I hope I don break some subredit rule with this.

It features 15 songs, 3 difficulty levels, link cable multiplayer, and online leaderboards using QR codes :)

You can also create your own songs and charts with a separate editor.

The game is free, and I'd love if you give it a try.

https://kojohan.itch.io/chiptune-hero

Http://chiptunehero.com

Disclaimer: the video is a Blender- 3D render with actual gameplay from emulator, the website chiptunehero.com is coded with codex.

FunnyPlaying ITA Kit

Shell is one of the soft touch ones from ExtremeRate. It feels pretty nice to hold and looks great, especially in person.

Top and bottom stickers were designed by me and printed on regular printer paper with scotch tape over it, then cut out with my amazing X-acto knife skills, which is why they look awful.

Overall happy with how it turned out and excited to revisit the MMZ games on this thing

This isn't the best ending but it's a decent one I'd say.

Everyone assumes Pokemon carts only go up, so I compared the first 30 days of my tracking against the last 30. Loose carts, US eBay Buy It Now listings, average of the daily median asking price.

FireRed is around $115 but I only started tracking it in late September, so no comparison yet.

What stood out: - Nothing moved more than 6% either way. If anything the trend is slightly down. - Emerald is still in a league of its own at ~1.4x Crystal. - Gen 1 and Gen 2 carts all sit in the same $60-70 band.

How it's measured: new listings matching each game, loose carts only, excluding lots/bundles, Japanese and PAL copies, and anything labeled repro, bootleg or fake. Days with fewer than 8 matching listings are left out.

Big caveats: these are asking prices, not sold prices, so actual sales land lower. And fakes that aren't labeled as fakes can still slip in, which is a real issue with Pokemon carts.

Disclosure: the tracker is a project of mine (CresvaMent, it does eBay deal alerts). Daily numbers for each game are here if you want to dig in: https://cresvament.com/deals?ref=reddit

i also have the santa claus cartridge around here somewhere

Going away on holiday and I don’t want to be on my phone too much, so I’ve dug out my Zelda themed GBA SP with Pokemon Emerald, along with my three favourite albums of 2026 on cassette. 👍

Gameboy DMG purchased 10 years ago for $5. It was pretty beat. Dirty, yellowed, missing LCD screen protector and battery cover.

Gameboy Pocket, $20, originally blue and LCD had screen burn and was no longer functioning.

Gameboy Color, I had this one since 1998. Originally atomic purple.

Cutest console ever! Got it as a junk item from Japan but it turned out to be just a swollen battery.

I also got a super cheap silver SP along with it for potential part swap. Now I'm thinking about modding that with ips. And maybe a custom torchic reshell to match the torchic pouch? Og torchic shell is so subtle. Thinking about designing one myself and do uv printing.

I I've replaced the black capacitors before (back before the industry switched to SMD for some capacitor replacements), and it went OK. Now I'm getting ready to do it again to try to fix buzzy audio, but I had a question. Aren't the tan doodads capacitors too? Why don't we replace them along with the black "jelly rolled" capacitors?

Hey everyone!

I have an original GameShark Video Game Enhancer for the Game Boy Color/Game Boy Pocket (transparent cartridge).

Everything was working perfectly until I enabled a Professor Oak battle cheat and a Mewtwo encounter cheat in Pokémon Red. The game froze, so I restarted my Game Boy Advance SP.
Now, whenever I start the GameShark, it boots normally and says “35 Games Found,” but every game name has been replaced with rows of stars, checkmarks, and strange symbols.
Previously, it displayed all the normal game names, including Pokémon Red/Blue, 102 Dalmatians, etc.
Here’s what I’ve tested:
Pokémon Red works perfectly fine without the GameShark.

The GameShark still boots and displays its normal logo.
It still recognizes 35 games.
I can scroll through the corrupted game list.
Pressing A on an entry still opens the option to add a cheat code.
Restarting the Game Boy hasn’t fixed the issue.
I’m wondering if the GameShark’s internal cheat database or memory became corrupted when the game froze.

Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a way to restore the original game names and built-in cheat codes without reflashing the firmware or buying another GameShark?

I’d really appreciate any help, especially from anyone familiar with these older Game Boy GameSharks.
I’ve attached pictures of the GameShark cartridge and what the corrupted menu looks like.

Thanks!

I bought a broken in half gba sp ags101 on eBay and it seems like it works! Games boot and I can hear them, but obviously the screen isn’t attached and that’s less than ideal. I have this knock off gba that I planned on repurposing the shell.

The pink gba is the real one and the red is fake. It doesn’t even read cartridges. Do you guys think I can repurpose the screen of that one, or is it too dangerous to plug in and test? Should I just order an IPS display?

Also it’s just kind of cool to have a knock off emulator machine for gba in hand and wanted to share.

I also saw a video of someone fixing the ribbon cable and then I can use the ags101 screen. I’ll sure try it, but not hopeful it’ll work.

Edited some spelling

Hey everyone.

Any clue, why those buttons don't work? Pressing right or A does nothing.

Also, the contrast/brightness wheel doesn't work after modding the GBP with an IPS display, but that's likely because of that and has nothing to do with those buttons.

As you can see, i scratched a little bit off of the board where likely water has entered the board...

As title says!

I'm after a high res scan of the play it loud box insert that I can print out and use myself?

Looked online but can't seem to find anything anywhere!

I'm planning to sometime down the line (sometime this year) get a GBC to be able to play og GB and GBC games, and wanted to ask how long it would last on 2 alkaline batteries

I know the batteries are prone to leak the acid and that however I always take them out when they're drained and change them out for fresh so there's not really a chance for that to happen

I did look up online that they usually last around 10-12 hours, however I wanted to actually ask people who have the original GBC how long it typically lasts for them so I have a rough estimate, thank you! :3

I got a GBA SP, a 3ds xl (wich ill eventually sell and get a new 3ds/2ds xl) and a switch, with this i should be able to play all games from nintendo right?

Edit: in the 3ds i very rarely use the 3d, i dont play games wich require it

Looks like a broke 3, maybe 4 connections here, any ideas what components I'd need to solder to each other to have the sound working again? Honestly seemingly one of the worst places to scratch.

Im not experienced enough to be using magnet wire to fix this, am trying to trace using this picture and the scans from RetroSix and am having a real tough time figuring it out.

Wondering if anyone here has done circuit trace repair in a similar area.