Discussing the Differences Between Game Boy Generations

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Love it!

The original screen is garbage. But what do you think of the dmg color mod? I think it's by mousebite labs, but it's a whole new pcb that uses a color cpu and the q5 screen kits. With the space for a larger battery it's something I want to do. It's also a good way to recycle gameboys with corrosion issues.

Huge fan of your work!

Am I the only one the only one that noticed a ant stopped to check out stuff n the repair matt lol

Hey Makho Did you ever get around to putting the connector for the Game Boy micro on that multi-wire that retro game repair shop sells?

I've been around since before the GBC and I learned quite a bit! Never knew Nintendo used Black Blobs in the newer DMGs, gross. I still forget the old pokemon games were playable on game boy sometimes cause even tho I got them when they came out I'm pretty sure in the US at least they released I think a couple months before the GBC? I remember they were the first games I got with my GBC at least and I was playing them very early. I always wondered about the game boy light cause it's the only model I never owned. I wonder how bright the originals were cause I do notice with my old watches as well that the EL is much more dim.

I wish the micro line continued just a bit longer, I love its form factor but I always wished it played GB/GBC even though it'd look ridiculous. I waved it off as stupid when it came out since the SP 2.0 was like the same price but the screen is really nice. I think it's mostly due to being smaller, but I still use my famicom one I got before prices got insane pretty much every day lol.

I remember even when the GBA was newish there were frontlight kits (afterburner I think?) cause I knew someone with one and while it probably sucks now I was super jealous of it. For whatever reason everyone just put up with worm lights till then but I remember a lot of people were upset about the backlight thing till the SP came out.

1:04:00 was that an SP aurora shell like the one for CGB from cloud? omg i have been waiting for this
Great video btw, didn't mind the length at all, very well explained.

I think something got messed up lol, the video is only 5:06 minutes long 😀

That moment when you were watching an hour plus long video, pause at the 50-minute mark and come back later to find it's been edited to 5 minutes long. That aside, your rambles are nice to have playing in the background!

Edit: Came back to check, and the full video is back, huzzah!

I've owned a Gen 2 Pokemon game for about 20 years now, and just the other day I found out gold and silver are backwards compatible with the original Gameboy. Since I never owned and original gameboy. just a color and advanced sp this came as quite the surprise to me lol.

I wish I had this video 10-15 years ago when I was trying to get my buddy's DS lite to play gameboy color and DMG cartriges. I figured out the GBA's cartridge switch for switching the circuits between GBA and GBC, and realized it was a physical block in the DS preventing the carts from slotting in, so what did I do? I chopped the corners off 3 or 4 cartriges (incuding pokemon silver >.<) before testing it. Of course it didnt work and I was left with a few mangled games. Thankfully, with a little super glue and the plastic bits I chopped off, the games were restored to playability, but every time I pull out my gameboy games and see it, I kick myself.

What I am wondering Makho is do you have a microscope!? And if not how do you do for those micro micro work sometime or for repairing a trace on a PCB 😭!? And if yes what is it and why don't you use it more often!? Yeah.. I'll stop here looool

Mahko, do you have a virtual boy ?

I enjoyed this video 🙂
I ended up taking my childhood GBA and modding it with a backlit screen and glass screen cover. Makes it look better than an AGS-101 and I love it.