Game Boy Color laminated IPS mod
Over the years I have accumulated quite a collection of Game Boys ranging from the original DMG to Game Boy Advance and DS Lite, there was one that was missi...
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Revisiting Game Boy multi-rom carts
Multi-rom carts… I’ve look into one before in a previous post, but that was back in 2018 and a lot has changed in the mean time!
Adding a battery to a bootleg Game Boy cartridge
In recent years I haven’t been tinkering with Game Boys or bootlegs as much as I used to, but sometimes I do some Googling to see if there’s anything cool ou...
Replacing the battery on a Game Boy cartridge
I hang out in /r/Gameboy/ a lot and I see that quite a few people mention J4U or japan_4_you on eBay as their resource for buying Game Boy related stuff. The...
Reflashing multi carts
Previously I had only reflashed single game cartridges, but it’s also possible to flash multi carts!They are being sold as 22-in-1 Pokemon carts, but the nam...
Game Boy Advance backlight mod
It’s been quiet for a while, busy playing Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Nintendo Switch. I still follow what’s going on in the modding sc...
A Game Boy orange backlight and bivert mod
Last time I ordered backlights from deadpanrobot, I also got an orange (or amber) one because I thought it would look cool and give a nice retro feel to an a...
A Game Boy Backlight + Bivert mod
After backlighting a Game Boy I was really wondering how big of a difference a bivert mod would make. In pictures you see on the internet the difference is q...
Powering a Game Boy over USB
One of the cool things about the Game Boy is that it uses regular AA type batteries, which are ubiquitous. However, you might not always have (charged) AA ba...
What’s inside Game Boy battery packs?
With all the Game Boys I collected I sometimes received other Game Boy accessories, like a magnifying glass and a four player adapter. Most of all I got batt...
Game Boy backlight mod
In my last post I refurbished a Game Boy DMG and a Pocket, but I still had the backlight kit from Gameboymods.co.uk. The backlight mod can be tricky because ...
Refurbishing a Game Boy DMG
After my Nintendo DS adventure I decided to go a bit more retro and look for an original Game Boy, also referred to as the Game Boy DMG. In case you’re wonde...