is it fixable or should i ask my money back?

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

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.

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.

Just released Morse Boy, a free Game Boy homebrew ROM for learning, sending, receiving, and decoding Morse code.

Multiple practice modes, adjustable speeds, and a fast-refresh interface. I'm also exploring the possibility of connecting a real Morse keyer through emulation.

Think you can hit 60 WPM? 😂

Or better yet, hand it to your grandpa. He might absolutely smoke you.

Free download: https://dansciurus.itch.io/morse-boy

Created with ChatGPT/coding-tool assistance. Tested in emulation; original hardware compatibility hasn't been verified yet.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

saw this online and was wondering if it is authentic? price seems too good to be true.

Over the few years I’ve been regretting selling my old console. I was thinking of regaining at least the n64 cause that’s my Core Video game console growing up and of course my gamboy too but battery died and sat in closet for years . Anyways other than nostalgia what would be the point??? if ports and remakes of at least what I use to play is out ?? Genuine question, just got back into videos games and just trying find that drive I use to have for it when I was a kid.