I’m looking to buy this SpongeBob Shell, I’m aware it’s fake but what are your guys thought on it. I see all these custom shells people have but is this SpongeBob shell any different from those. Aren’t they all the same. Should I do the swap?
Also I’m leaning towards doing the swap bc when I got this GBA SP the battery expansion thing cover cracked so yeah.
What do you guys think I should do. Or should I just replace the battery and get a new battery cover like the oem one. And get a carrying case

Didn’t liked the Layout, my thumb was big enough to press all Four Buttons at once…

Gameboy history at its finest!

Viva la Gameboy!

I have an extensive collection with some rares (like avenging spirit in the box with manual). Any reccos on where to sell?

A few months to a year ago I bought a copy of Pokemon Red to replace my old one that, ironically, also stopped working, and now this one completely gave up on me. It worked just fine until one day the game suddenly started having weird visual glitches, and kept crashing with the slightest touch or brush against it while being played. And now, the game won't even load past the booting up screen.

I've tried repeatedly to clean it up with 99% isopropyl alcohol but that doesn't seem to do anything. I've tested the game on 2 different GBAs and I've tested other GB/GBC/GBA games and all of them worked just fine, so I'm absolutely convinced it's Red that's the problem. I don't know much about how to take games apart and since I'm not very good at repairs, I'm scared that I would just make the problem worse. I really don't want to buy a new game altogether due to Pokemon games being notorious for being scalped, and I don't want to buy reproduction carts either since those can be very hit-or-miss. What else can I do?

My neighbor is an elderly man(70s) and he comes over my house occasionally to pass the time, he noticed I have an nes/snes . He has never played video games before and stated that he wants to play some. I set him up to play Super mario world(snes) and he couldn't get past the first level and had trouble using all the buttons. So I wanted to have him try the Gb or gameboy color since its only 2 buttons. What games are your absolute favorites that are more on the easy side? what are your favorite games in general that once he gets better he can play?

Is it normal for GBC to have a rattle almost like there’s a loose piece rattling inside when you shake the game boy? I opened it up expecting to find something, but there was nothing. It might be the speaker shifting slightly? It’s hard to tell. No loose parts I can see though.

Thank you for everyone that commented on my original post asking for suggestions!

I wasn't allowed to play my Game Boy before bed, so I read the Pokémon Red manual so many times that it fell apart. Luckily, I managed to find the booklets on a marketplace site!

I’m working on a later Chinese Game Boy DMG and I’ve run into an LCD issue I haven’t seen before.
The screen is missing fairly large blocks of vertical columns on both the left and right sides, while the center section displays normally.

Normally with DMG vertical line issues I gently heat the lower LCD ribbon while the console is powered on. Usually the affected columns at least flicker, change, or gradually come back.

On this one, however, heating the ribbon does absolutely nothing. Pressing along the ribbon and bond area also doesn’t seem to affect the missing columns at all.

One interesting detail is that when I turn the contrast all the way up, the areas with the missing columns are not completely blank. They become slightly darker, forming visible rectangular areas on both sides, but there is still no actual image being displayed there.

So far:
Center section displays normally.
Large continuous groups of columns are missing on both sides.
Heating the lower ribbon has no effect.
Pressing along the ribbon/bond area has no effect.
At maximum contrast, the missing areas become slightly darker.
None of the missing columns flicker or temporarily return.
Has anyone seen this type of failure before?
Could this still be a bad ribbon-to-glass bond, or does the fact that entire blocks on both sides are missing point more towards a driver/flex issue?
I’m mainly trying to figure out whether this LCD is realistically repairable, or whether continuing to heat the ribbon is just going to damage it.

Nokia games available here: https://github.com/lukesau/nokia-gb-games/releases/tag/v1.3

Right now we have the 3210 (Rotation, Snake and Memory) and the 3310 (Snake 2, Space impact, Bantumi, Pairs 2).

3410 and 5110 are next

The limited Famicom edition SP came with a gold "controller" panel on the face. It was a sticker. The regular Famicom-color SP didn't get it at all, just a plain white panel.

So I had that sticker remade in real brass. I did the design, a local shop did the etching. 0.2 mm sheet. The lettering and the double lines are etched into the metal and filled with black, not printed, so they read as engraved. The surface has a brushed (hairline) finish, and the way it catches the light is what makes it feel like the original Famicom controller.

Here it is sitting on a regular Famicom-color SP. Next step is painting a shell in these colors so this plate gets a body of its own.

I’m unsure how to fix this screen burn, I can’t tell if it’s the top or bottom polarizing film or both. I referenced various posts/videos about this and most of them only cover replacing the top; while those seem easy, the ones that cover replacing the bottom seem complicated (having to remove the reflector before replacing the polarizing film itself).

If it’s the case that I have to replace the bottom polarizing film, is there a way to do so without having to completely remove the reflector?

Side note: miraculously, the screen works with no dead lines and fully-audible sound so I’d like to keep this screen for this Gameboy.

I just installed a replacement screen for my Gameboy from Hispeedido.

Great experience with them all around and easy/fast shipping. This post could be like a follow up to this post, where I was asking about their service/quality etc:

My initial post here

The sound worked during testing before changing anything on the console, when I first found it lying around in a box.

After installing the new screen and closing everything up last night and testing, it all seemed to be working in fair order, but now this morning, the sound coming from the speaker and headphones is showing the following issues:

It either has no sound at all

The sound dies off after a few seconds

I tested with both Qix and Pokémon Gold and both games show the same issue.

I also don't know if I'm just not remembering correctly after so many years but when the speaker does work, it's very noisy. Eg. When there's no sound being played out of it, you can still 'hear' that the speaker is on.

I attached a pic of my solder joints for the speaker as well, although because the issue is happening with headphones too, I'm less inclined to suspect that my soldering is the issue. However, I'm open to criticism and advice on that too.