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 • • 24d 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 • • 3h ago

Troubleshooting Gameboy color repair

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149 Upvotes

I repaired this Gameboy Color last week. It wouldn’t power on but after some soldering it’s fully working again.

Edit:

Some people think this GBC has not been repaired and the title is misleading. It uses about 80% original parts and the parts replaced are ones that cannot be salvaged (eg potentiometer, power switch, speaker). It involves several hours of cleaning of the corrosion, desoldering the original parts and transplanting them to a working PCB. The PCB is a new one I had made from Natalie’s Gerbers. I’m sorry if this confuses people what repairing a GBC to working order involves.


r/Gameboy • • 13h ago

Collection My Pokemon Generations 1, 2 & 3 Video Games & Nintendo Power Guides Collection is Complete

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332 Upvotes

This collection means the most to me because I still have my orginal GameBoy Color & GBA SP from my childhood along with some Pokemon games as well. The Gameboy Advance is my absolute favorite handheld and I have so many great memories playing these games🎮 I am in the process of replaying these games and still had my orginal save file on my childhood Pokemon FireRed copy. Its so fun and peaceful to sit down and flip through a old Nintendo Power Guide and play along🎮❤️


r/Gameboy • • 5h ago

Modded My custom GameBoy Colour.

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r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Games FINALLY GOT A SHINY HO-OH AFTER 10 YEARS!!!

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1.3k Upvotes

Was just randomly soft resetting while listening to Vtuber clips


r/Gameboy • • 1h ago

Other Single game flash carts?

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Does anybody know of a flash cart that can boot a single game as if it was a standard ROM cartridge? I do a fair bit of romhacking, and it would be great to have a cart dedicated to a single game where I can just update the file on it and play without having to reprogram the cart.

I'm thinking of a cart with either an sd card reader to transfer a single rom file, or a usb port with a small amount of eMMC. This could be hidden in the housing so that it looks like a standard cart from the outside. The firmware should just check for a new rom on the external memory and write that to NOR flash memory. If there is already an up-to-date rom in NOR, it would boot that immidiately. So it would look and play like a standard programmable cart, but it can flash itself without a programmer and external software.

Anyone know off the top of their heads what chips this would take?


r/Gameboy • • 20h ago

Games Tavern Farkle GB is now available in EN, DE and FR + 90s TV Commercial I made

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If you like Farkle from Kingdom Come Deliverance, then you probably like Tavern Farkle GB as well :)

Get the rom for your GB player/emulator/device of choice on:
https://2ndlawgames.itch.io/tavern-farkle-gb

or for your PC or Steam Deck on:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4191210/Tavern_Farkle_GB/ (releases on Thursday 29th)


r/Gameboy • • 2h ago

Modded GBA Audio Mod sound cuts out on red battery light, and volume "jumps" from 0% to 5% in green light. Is this normal?

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Hey everyone,

I got a prebuilt Game Boy Advance with the following upgrades installed:

  • IPS Screen
  • Upgraded Class-D Amp + 2W Speaker
  • Rechargeable USB-C Battery Pack
  • Dehiss Mod

I'm noticing two specific behaviors with the audio and wanted to see if this is normal for these kinds of setups, or if there is a known fix:

  1. The 0% to 5% Volume Jump: When turning the volume wheel up from zero, there is a dead zone where nothing plays, and then the sound abruptly "snaps" or jumps straight into an audible level instead of fading in quietly. Same when scrolling the volume down, it will jump from an audible level to 0%. The best way I can describe it is it doesn't scroll up or down sequentially, but there is this dead zone which makes it jump from 0% to 5% and vice versa.
  2. The Red Light Cut-off: The second the power light turns red, the audio cuts out completely (if the audio is not loud enough). If I scroll the volume wheel way up, it forces the sound back but it's much louder and not enjoyable.

Is this normal or not? And is this fixable?


r/Gameboy • • 8m ago

Games I made a homebrew Breakout clone for Game Boy (using GBDK)!

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Do you think I should keep working on it? I think it'd be neat to have multiple levels with different brick layouts etc!


r/Gameboy • • 8h ago

Mod/Modding Help with button issue?

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r/Gameboy • • 21h ago

Questions Gameboy Pocket Shell

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24 Upvotes

Just had my Gameboy pocket modded to have an IPS screen so I can finally see in the dark 😊

However, I would like to give this unit a new shell and buttons.

Any recommendations for colours or a combination of colours to reshell the unit to?


r/Gameboy • • 23h ago

Games Hang-On GB

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33 Upvotes

I've been working on Hang-On for the DMG/GBC based on the Sega Master System version. Hopefully have it out soon.


r/Gameboy • • 22h ago

Systems Battery leaked into gameboy

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How do i clean this up? Is it safe to use afterwards? (if it even turns up anymore). Quite sad about it because it holds some memories. It survived for over 20 years, while some other consoles of mine either broke down or got sold. The backshell got lost many years ago but overall it still held strong.


r/Gameboy • • 15h ago

Games Tierlist of every GBA game I have ever completed

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5 Upvotes

r/Gameboy • • 19h ago

Games What are the must play games?

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So i found my old gameboy and games i of course have some of the classics like super maria land 1 and 2 and tetris and alleyway. With so many selling places i can find gameboy games easily so are there any must play games out there?

Open to any genre

Gameboy pocket


r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Modded Difference between gameboy pocket-> gameboy color-> gameboy advance sp-> and finally a modded gameboy advance sp with an ips screen mod. All of them running the same cartridge of Pokémon red.

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r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Questions Found my old original gameboy I had as a kid, still with box and all inserts. What should I do with it?

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115 Upvotes

I have no games whatsoever. Years ago I was stupid and sold all my games. I used to have the old pokemons, sold those years ago for 20 bucks a piece. Now I found my old gameboy, still with a chage somehow. And now I have no games to play.


r/Gameboy • • 20h ago

Games Getting into the Spirit

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r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Accessories a better case??

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25 Upvotes

I was able to arrange a switch deluxe carrier case to work with my DMG and my entire current library of games. Not to mention I also got my light magnifier in there as well


r/Gameboy • • 13h ago

Troubleshooting Accidentally pulled pads off GBA motherboard

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Any clue on where I can run jumpers to fix this? Anything helps thanks!


r/Gameboy • • 18h ago

Questions Where to order an affordable custom Gameboy Colour in the UK?

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As a gift for a friend's birthday I want to build them a custom gameboy colour with artwork printed on the shell.

I have found some services but they are either too expensive (US, £24+ for postage + unknown customs fees), unreliable (seller told me there's no guarantee it will come out well), or doesn't offer regular GBC shells (Retrosix for example uses Q5 shells).

Any advice or guidance greatly appreciated!


r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Mod/Modding Success story with Hispeedido!

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Wanted to share my installation process, since while I was troubleshooting some screen issues I couldn't find much on Hispeedido's warranty process or much of others running into this specific issue. Not an ad, I just like tweaking and sharing with the community when I find something helpful or unfortunate.

Bought a drop-in GBC Q5 IPS and a GBA V5 IPS screen for each of my consoles; I like minimal work and didn't feel like soldering. The GBA screen was flawless after some finagling to get the LCD to align with the front glass. The GBC screen however had some issues; it worked initially and I took the above picture in the post, but then suddenly stopped working normally and had screen bleeding/retention issues that wouldn't go away. I cleaned my power switch and recapped board to no avail.

Long story short, Hispeedido replied within 2 days of all my queries with minimal friction. Though I suspected the issue was the PCB, they initially sent me a screen replacement, of which I replied and provided video proof did not work. Shortly afterwards they agreed to send me a replacement PCB, and I'm overjoyed that my GBC works flawlessly now!

My initial shipment and the two replacements all came within 2 weeks from overseas to the USA. Though it was a bit sad going through trial and error, I appreciate their solid support in the process and like to share good and bad experiences for community knowledge.

Other thoughts, both IPS are beautiful, colorful, bright, and the pre-cut shells they came with fit flawlessly and look and feel mostly OEM. There's a few minor graphic differences compared to OEM, but my untrained eye hardly notices. I hear the cases are outsourced from different sources so I realize this is not entirely to their credit.

Edit: Grammar + product name


r/Gameboy • • 19h ago

Troubleshooting Testing gb games

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I already have a thread but i feel it wasn't conclusive.

Is getting passed the title screen and playing a game boy game for about a minute or under sufficient to test if the game is working. Not referring to batteries I'm talking roms and other additional chips related other than saving.

All i own is a game boy dmg, pocket and advance. No computers or flashers/rippers


r/Gameboy • • 15h ago

Collection How serious is this?

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