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It’s a fun build, and one that goes to show you don’t have to throw a Raspberry Pi in everything to have a good time. The only thing to note is that the DS hardware can only play Game Boy Advance games, not the earlier 8-bit titles. It also has the benefit of a bigger, brighter screen compared to virtually any Game Boy ever made. The final result is essentially a larger version of the Game Boy Micro, the final handheld in the Game Boy line. The shell of the bottom half is then cleverly modified with epoxy clay and paint in order to hide the original hinge and give a clean finished aesthetic. The motherboard is then hacked with a resistor on some test points to allow it to still boot with the top missing. In this build, the top screen is removed and discarded entirely. The build is based around a Nintendo DS Lite, one of Nintendo’s later handhelds featuring dual screens. The build ends up like a bigger version of the Game Boy Micro, the final release in the Game Boy line. Of course, you can always build your own Game Boy that rectifies this and other shortcomings, and that’s what did with this Gameboy Macro build.

Most notably, the Game Boy didn’t receive a backlit color LCD until the Game Boy Advance SP launched in 2003. I don't know if this is some peculiarity about my particular hardware since this doesn't seem to be a widely reported issue, but if you're having battery life trouble with your Macro with a fresh battery, this might be worth looking at.Nintendo’s Game Boy line were the world’s most popular handheld gaming systems, but did have their drawbacks. I shifted the speaker connections to SPL0 and Headphone pin 1 (which disconnects when headphones are inserted)

I started playing with different placement options, SPL0 to VGND, SPR0 to VGND, trying the original speaker, soldering to the top screen ribbon cable pads, all of those options yielded the same battery life result sadly.Īfter poking around with the multimeter in continuity mode a bit more, I discovered that the Audio ground on the headphone jack is not electrically continuous with the ground at the power connector! I didn't let it run to completion, but with headphones, it was running over 6 hours.Īfter doing some probing with the multimeter, ruled out everything but the speaker. I also re-ran the test with headphones plugged in. The 330 Ohm resistor, speaker across SPL0 and VGND, and removal of the top screen ribbon connector were the only modifications to the board at this point, so I checked that the resistor was correctly installed, that all of my solder joints were good, and I desoldered the old ribbon connector point and inspected with a loupe to check for bridges.Īfter reading into some threads. So I figured there had to be something wrong in my setup or on the board. Knowing that DS Lites are known for their battery life, and that it's only powering 1 screen, I figured it was a bum battery, but I set up my LiPo charger to charge it and was surprised to find that it was charging to close to full rated capacity. The test I ran was with the Macro running full volume, default brightness, with an EZ Flash Omega with the latest firmware running the Pokemon Emerald intro screen on loop until it shut down. The donor DS Lite for the macro was of unknown age/battery use, so after I finished the build (following the same method as all of the popular video build guides, 330 ohm resistor, ), I did a run time test to see how the battery was holding up. Hey all, I recently finished up my first two Gameboy mods, one of which being a Gameboy Macro

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