r/Gameboy • • Aug 16 '26

Announcement - Updated Rules

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Please take a look at the updates we've made to the rules.

Due to an increase in self-promotion we've adjusted rule 5 to require mod approval, automod will automatically remove any posts it detects as self-promotion and if a mod approves the post or comment it will be shown.

Added rule 8, the vast majority of this subreddit is English speaking and due to limitations in our ability to moderate languages other than English please keep posts and comments in English. If you see any posts in languages other than English feel free to report with rule 8 as the reason.

Thanks everyone.


r/Gameboy • • 13d ago

[Game of the Month competition] October: Advance Wars

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Advance Wars

Play the Game of the Month and win prizes! Click the link below to view the kickoff thread, which includes the detailed rules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/1hseh1t/game_of_the_month_yearlong_competition_kickoff/

Quick rules:
- Play the Game of the Month and try to reach the specified milestones. Earn points and compete with other redditors.
- Start a fresh new game, no earlier than October 1!
- Take a picture of your screen with your username written on a piece of paper. Post it here in the thread for all to see.
- Half-point and one-point milestones can be earned at any time during the year. Post your screenshot in this month's thread to make sure I see it.
- Emulation is okay, but no cheating! Check detailed rules for more info.

What are the prizes?
Over the year, the prize pool formulates as I slowly gather goodies. I'll separate the prizes into 4 bundles. Usually the bundles include Game Boy games (all generations) and other GB-related trinkets.

Prize donors: Let me know if you're willing to donate prizes to this year's prize pool! Prize donors get 2 votes for next month's GOTM and my eternal admiration.
This year's donors:
Fenriz_D

Previous Months
January - Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
February - 🐸
March - V-Rally: Championship Edition
April - Metroid Fusion
May - Burger Time Deluxe
June - Tetris DX
July - Metal Slug Advance
August - Quarth & Torpedo Range
September - Crystalis


Next month
Check the comments to vote for next month's game!


This month: Advance Wars

Just play regular campaign, Advanced Campaign is next level stuff and I'm not going to require that. Lol. We also won't be messing with the final Rivals! mission, which has to be unlocked in a very specific way. Definitely check it out if you're not familiar, but we won't do it for points this month.

Campaign mode is available after you complete Field Training. If you're already familiar with the game and you don't want to do Field Training, just tell Nell that you don't want to do it, and then you can finish just the last mission to unlock Campaign.

Choose any mission path you want to when you have a choice.

half point: Complete the third mission in Campaign (Air Ace) and have Max join your team.
1 point: Complete the Kanbei's Error? mission in Campaign.
2 points: Complete the Final Battle mission in Campaign. (must be completed and posted in October.)

Leaderboards


October

Pos. User Points
1 u/r0cky 0.5

2026 so far

Pos. User Points
1 u/marcao_cfh 22
2 u/quijibo42 21
3 u/BuryKeebler 19
4 u/r0cky 16.5
5 u/bluestoc 14
- u/dathudo 14
- u/javmiller83 14
8 u/PekinPhysician 12.5
9 u/zaiueo 12
10 u/bolognamaloney 9.5
- u/Deafboy91 9.5
12 u/hatlesssniper 9
- u/thom_horne 9
14 u/StarWolf64dx 8
15 u/Fr3d0 7
- u/hamburgers666 7
- u/wafflecoptor86 7
18 u/KiddoKatto 6
- u/MalTheCat 6
- u/rockhopper92 6
21 u/thebigbabushka 5.5
22 u/Fenix398 5
- u/zefez- 5
24 u/GeekScientist 4.5
25 u/AstraDrgn 4
- u/Keveezy93 4
- u/Xanthaca 4
28 u/peroleu 3.5
29 u/Fenriz_D 3
- u/NnifWald 3
- u/wiedo 3
32 u/Capable_Dog3550 2
- u/coolstones 2
- u/hugglehermit 2
- u/iLessThan3Tu 2
- u/ma-pj 2
- u/PrudentAd3769 2
- u/shadynewt 2
- u/waffledork 2
- u/Zeblid 2
41 u/Traditional_Band_ 1.5
42 u/Benay148 1
- u/Dark_Mesh 1
- u/Gabelvampir 1
- u/SirFadakar 1
46 u/Admirable_Sea1770 0.5
- u/cantrelate 0.5
- u/orange-yellow-pink 0.5

r/Gameboy • • 1h ago

Systems Selling at a market with the wife. Brought the trusty GBA.

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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.


r/Gameboy • • 7h ago

Games Chiptune Hero

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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.


r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Questions my copy of madagascar has some minor cosmetic damage on the pcb

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is it fixable or should i ask my money back?


r/Gameboy • • 2h ago

Collection I’m now definitely ready for my holiday.

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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. 👍


r/Gameboy • • 14h ago

Modded Megaman Zero GBA Build

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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


r/Gameboy • • 20m ago

Collection what’s in the box?

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i also have the santa claus cartridge around here somewhere


r/Gameboy • • 28m ago

Troubleshooting GBP: Buttons (A & RIGHT) not working

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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...


r/Gameboy • • 22h ago

Systems Finally got around to swapping the broken screen on my childhood SP!

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Ignore the screw covers, they disintegrated as I took them out and I have new ones on the way lol


r/Gameboy • • 1h ago

Questions Does anyone have a scan of an Play it Loud insert

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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!


r/Gameboy • • 16h ago

Games Just (kinda) Beat Wario Land.

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44 Upvotes

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


r/Gameboy • • 6h ago

Troubleshooting Game Boy Color GameShark suddenly showing stars instead of game names — corrupted database? How do I fix it?

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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!


r/Gameboy • • 20h ago

Troubleshooting Finally got my BMO Gameboy!!

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50 Upvotes

r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Games The GOAT!

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206 Upvotes

This little oddish is amazing 10 straight turns with stun spore and flipping heads to paralyze. They were able to build Venusaur on the bench and win the match! I just started the game and am still using the premade deck until I can build up cards.


r/Gameboy • • 16h ago

Games I tracked loose Pokemon cart asking prices on eBay daily for 3 months. They've been flat to slightly down.

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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.

Game Jul 19 - Aug 18 Sep 17 - Oct 16 Change Listings per day
Emerald $243 $230 -5% ~25
Crystal $179 $168 -6% ~16
Ruby $99 $97 -2% ~13
Sapphire $98 $98 0% ~15
Gold $74 $71 -5% ~17
Yellow $69 $70 +2% ~18
Red $69 $69 0% ~16
Silver $67 $63 -6% ~15
Blue $64 $62 -3% ~17

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


r/Gameboy • • 20h ago

Systems FPGB MINI delivered today...

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r/Gameboy • • 21h ago

Troubleshooting GB PiL Blue - fixed a wrecked unit

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After several days I managed to fix this terribly corroded play it loud blue. It did stink like hell and the front board was eaten. Had to reconstruct maaaany traces and reflow almost everything on both PCBs but I'm super satisfied now. Is it really this rare? I didn't find too many on Ebay. Bought it for ca. 25-27 USD.


r/Gameboy • • 19h ago

Troubleshooting Pokemon Emerald - Save Failed. Checking Back up memory error.

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Recently found my old pokemon game and got the battery replaced. When starting a new profile and trying to save, this error keeps occurring. Having never really dealt with these kinds of issues, I was unsure where to go since the info on this seems kind of limited. Was wondering if anyone had this occur and what kind of method they used to solve it? Please let me know :)

Not really looking to get the save back, more or less trying to fix the problem to have it fully functional again for a new play through


r/Gameboy • • 8h ago

Questions Game consoles

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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


r/Gameboy • • 18h ago

Troubleshooting UPDATE ON Tetris DX

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Worse news. After trying to reflow all chips and soldering another battery. It was all in vain because I discovered the save only dissapears when the cartridge is removed from the console. Any idea why does that happen?

Pics are when I discovered it.


r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Games Native Super Smash Land PORT for GBA

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I’ve been working on a native GBA port of the game *Super Smash Land*, and it’s nearly finished (I know the game was originally intended for the classic Game Boy, but running it on that hardware is virtually impossible). I realize this might not generate a huge buzz, as it’s not a game many people remember, but ever since it came out, I’ve been dying to see it running on real hardware—so I felt the time was right to give it a shot and share it with you all. I’ve tested it on an emulator and it works, as well as on real hardware (as shown in the video) using a SuperCard MiniSD (I’m not sure how it performs with other flashcards). If this post gets a positive response, I’ll release the FULL ROM next week.

Just a quick note: I want to give credit to the original creator, Dan Fornace, who made the game for PC. https://www.supersmashland.com/ I hope you enjoy it!


r/Gameboy • • 17h ago

Questions Planning on getting a Gameboy Colour in the future and had a question about the batteries

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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


r/Gameboy • • 11h ago

Troubleshooting Scratched motherboard, can I fix it?

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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.


r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Mod/Modding The GBA Is an iPod Now

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runs on
SuperCard
SuperCard Clones
SuperChis Prime
EZ Flash Omega
EZ Flash Omega DE
Everdrive Flashcarts