The terrible screen on the original Game Boy keeps it from being a retro device I want to use. But this mod, which crams a GBA screen inside, made me fall in love all over again. [Flickr via Oh Gizmo!] More »
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@dagamer34: What about the fact that it’s running Harmony of Dissonance? I’m pretty sure that it’s impossible to have that running in your good ol’ Game Boy Color, buddy.
LegacyCrono
@Celery: I like the wide. It reminds me of an SNES controller but with a screen. Micro’s okay, but you’re really crazy if you use SP. I suppose for the rechargeable battery, though.
Hackintosh
Ah, and it was the fact he was playing Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance kinda gave it away for me that it was a GBA SP casemod.
Mike Haddaway
@dagamer34: You’re missing his point. He’s saying if you don’t have a GBA processor it won’t be able to translate your classic GB/GBC games like the GBA can.
To answer his question, I believe it IS a casemod, without shoulder buttons probably – crippling its ability to play many GBA games – although it would do nicely with GB/GBC games.
Deez
Wow, I think it just hit me for the first time that the buttons on the Game Boy are modeled directly off the NES controller. Fonts and everything.
I guess those aren’t the sort of things I was paying any attention to as a kid…
technosophe
Any love for the original Gameboy, gets love from me.
In b4 rule 34.
PixelProphet
@Pwnguins: Not intentionally, have I been?
MifuneT
Seems to cram in a GBA, not just the screen. Harmony of Dissonance wasn’t released for the Game Boy.
TurboFool
@Kaiser ‘Do you have any Grey Powell?’ Machead: Tis’ Blaphemy! Blasphemy I say!
dragonfire312
do the old GBA games suddenly turn color with the new screen? or would you play GBA sp games on it only
Pwnage
@Hackintosh: Are you crazy?
SP or Micro, regular is just inferior.
Celery
looks like a SP+ screen.
stupid face
@Aethyr: Do you remember those batterypacks you could buy for this thing? It wouldn’t be bad if he used that case to put the shoulder buttons on, because as I remember it, it fit perfect in your hands with that block in it.
Everyone likes me, even the Danish
@andrew_berge: Mine is missing a few vertical lines, for some reason, but still runs! I have the original, and a see through one from a few years later
greyseal
@CarbonFalcon is apparently a graphic artist (Who Knew?): That tag doesn’t get used enough.
Mike Zuniga Knows the Secret
@Jose_J_Herrera: That’s exactly what it is.
Roobs
I still have my old gameboy, it’s green.
Amazingly, it’s still in almost perfect condition, yay!
andrew_berge
@Hackintosh:
SP GBA
stupid face
I really wish my original game boy still works. I have it sitting in a draw at my parents house.
Itz James
The question is, where are the L and R buttons?
Aethyr
If you actually think about the layout of the buttons on the SP and the distance from the screen, this is actually a relatively simple mod.
Mike Zuniga Knows the Secret
Very nice. I have an original Gameboy that doesn’t work. Any ideas of how I can repurpose it such as making it into an external HDD enclosure or something like that?
KamWrex
@Snes: Yeah, I second that. I haven’t played any GBA Castlevania game in a while, but I’m pretty sure either L or R is dodge in Aria of Sorrow. Losing the ability to dodge would suck.
But that aside, the mod is still awesome.
SanjiX
@MifuneT: Are you replying to starred comments so you can be noticed? I do that all the time.
Pwnguins
@dagamer34: that still doesn’t answer the question. If the screen is replaced, the old hardware in it still wouldn’t be able to display color (or it shouldn’t as it was not meant to do so). Looks like its just a case mod and he installed a GBA into an old Game Boy case.
Jose_J_Herrera
@Maybe i’m Spartacus..: Notice the GBA SP underneath the screen? That’s because it’s not an original GB screen. -_-
dagamer34
@Celery: Wide GBA. Definitely. No SP.
Hackintosh
@sarge5: The original Game Boy. The GBC was much smaller and it had teeny start/select buttons. Besides, the GBC was the first to come in more colors than the GB (only white or clear). The thing shoved inside it is a GBASP.
Hackintosh
Does it come in this size too?
Mike T
Is that a GBC or the orginal Game Boy?
sarge5
F you DS, GBA forever.
Celery
But… if it plays GBA games then it won’t have any L or R buttons.
Regardless I got all nostalgic and pulled out my GB pocket to play some SML2/pokemon (yellow)
Snes
where is L and R buttons?
raikoh05
The future of Retro
-Animusic Reference
AlienSix
Fall in love with an inanimate object?
#whoelsebutthefrooch
CarbonFalcon is apparently a graphic artist (Who Knew?)
uh…Question, wouldn’t it just display one tone of color for the graphics? Unless it’s a complete casemod for a GBA. Because i don’t see the old hardware being able to magically display color games.
Maybe i’m Spartacus..
does this mean that somewhere there’s an original spinach gameboy… oh god…
lpranal
Yeah, that normal screen totally fucks it up. That’s why I decided to buy a Gameboy Light (released in Japan only). Ebay, for only 10 bucks
Sending to Europe was 17 bucks though -_-*
Still, 27 bucks for a working system is not bad at all
Everyone likes me, even the Danish
@Kaiser ‘Do you have any Grey Powell?’ Machead: Highly blasphemous and highly awesome, indeed.
MifuneT
I welcome its blasphemy with great enthusiasm.
Kaiser ‘Do you have any Grey Powell?’ Machead
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