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Image 1 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 2 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 3 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 4 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 5 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 6 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 7 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 8 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 9 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 10 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 11 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 12 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 13 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 14 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 15 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 16 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 17 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 18 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 19 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
Image 20 — I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago
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I brought my GameBoy camera to the Pokémon Fossil Museum at the Field Museum in Chicago

u/CookieDudeShow — 5 hours ago
▲ 30 r/Gameboy

Retro Appreciation Post

I just lost a hard fought battle with a New Nintendo 3DS XL and will be sending it away for professional repair, so I thought I could express my appreciation for simpler times when there weren’t so many ribbon cables or cables that had to be forced through hinges. Good times.

u/Immediate-Good5668 — 3 hours ago
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Cool new (broken) GBA

It's a combination GBA and DVD player. It turns on, I can make it play a DVD but the screen stays black. Also I don't know how to turn it to gba to test GBA games. Time to add this to my massive repair pile 😜

u/Lanky-Peak-2222 — 9 hours ago
▲ 78 r/Gameboy

Gameboy Micro Magazine Ad (2005)

Honestly, this is the 1st time I’m hearing of a Gameboy Micro! Anyone have one? This ad was in Teen People. Very stylish!

u/Joseph_P_Larkin — 7 hours ago
▲ 227 r/Gameboy+2 crossposts

The reshell my DMG deserved

Saw it on eBay an HAD to get it! I Love the design and the Texture of it

u/Kehrplaste — 11 hours ago
▲ 111 r/Gameboy+3 crossposts

Made some stands out of Lego

Built each handheld its own stand. Each one is built a little different to match the curves or angles so they each sit nicely with no wobbling.

u/Frequent-Milk-2394 — 9 hours ago
▲ 2 r/Gameboy+1 crossposts

Audio Jack Issues

Hello everyone, I just got my hands on the hinged GBA SP from boxy pixel and was able to successfully install the IPS screen, USB-C port, and am struggling with the audio jack. I desoldered everything with some solder braid and then went back and re tinned everything to ensure clean connections with no bridging. But now I’m getting audio with both headphones (very quiet), and no audio at all when they’re unplugged. I honestly wouldn’t mind just plugging the hole, but boxy pixel didn’t provide me with a plug for the audio jack port. Thanks for all advice as I’m very new to soldering and mods.

u/Tohjo-Falls — 7 hours ago
▲ 60 r/Gameboy

Is it still worth modding gameboys?

I was so excited when I bought another Gameboy to practice modding on; giving it an ips screen, USB C, new audio. Then modern handhelds started coming out for like the same price it'd cost me to mod og hardware... In Australia if that makes a difference. I'm torn between the satisfaction of modding a classic console or paying maybe a little more for something manufactured and remarkable out of the box 🫠

u/Jacko_Sixxe — 17 hours ago
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Retro game repair shop

What do we think about retro game repair shop? Planning on buying a shell and buttons off of there and I don’t know if they are good and reliable

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u/ThoughtSafe3765 — 5 hours ago
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Gave my childhood gba new life

I dug up my old gba from when I was a kid. Went ahead and took the plunge on a new shell, screen, and usb-c pack. Super happy with how its turned out.

u/FettIsBaked — 16 hours ago
▲ 49 r/Gameboy

Finished up the Alakazam build for a buddy. Took some shots of it next to my Rayquaza I've been running a few years!

Had a lot of fun with this! Pretty usual specs:

Original AGS-001 board donated from his cousin's old SP

All Funnyplaying parts: Clear Mirror Shell, 950 mAh maxplay battery, USB-C charging/audio mod, clear buttons, yellow pads and M2 backlit IPS screen. It came with that touch pad for controls but I went ahead and soldered it to the brightness button anyway

u/NumRickn — 14 hours ago
▲ 3 r/Gameboy

It’s possible to rewrite a repro cartridge?

I got today a repro Warioland 4 card for cheap ($2), and when reading it with GBxCart it says its a “generic” - non rewritable or not auto-detectable card. Would it be still possible in any way to write a different ROM into it?

For writing ROMs do I have to look for a specific models in repros?

Thanks in advance for any kind response!

u/greckzero — 11 hours ago
▲ 493 r/Gameboy

Is my Hilux a gameboy?

Turned my hilux clock into a pokemon crystal emulator. I’m on a roll this week

u/moleman2532 — 23 hours ago
▲ 19 r/Gameboy

The Mario Land Trilogy Shows Off Nintendo's Talent

Nintendo is amazing at working around limitations to make great products, understanding what works and what doesn't. The Mario Land games show this off best.

  1. Mario Land 1 is zoomed out to give you roughly the same ratio of character to level as Super Mario NES but at the cost of the visuals. Additionally, it's an adventure that spans the globe with varied gameplay and aesthetics to make the levels feel longer than they really are, where the original Mario Bros had mostly samey levels.

  2. In Mario Land 2, they responded to feedback and made Mario bigger and more detailed, closer to his SNES counterpart, while making the game more expansive so it played more like Super Mario World; however, this came at the cost of making the gameplay more challenging as you now couldn't see as far even with Mario moving slower than he does in the home consoles.

  3. In Mario Land 3, they slowed down the gameplay further and focused it even more on exploration instead of platforming but now it was too dissimilar to a classic Mario game, so they decided to make the protagonist Wario a character who liked hunting for treasure and was generally bigger.

It's a great showcase of how the company works: through light experimentation, turn limitations into strengths and change what isn't working.

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u/MarcusQuintus — 15 hours ago
▲ 1.3k r/Gameboy+1 crossposts

Finally fulfilled a childhood dream.

When I was a little dude, I wanted to have all the starter set from the go or at least find all of them in the wild but that was impossible if I recall as they were not available to catch in the wild. You needed a trade link cable but never was able to. Now, grown, finally fulfilled that objective for that little dude back in 99.

u/Defiant-Brother-2698 — 1 day ago