Some of the most common components to go missing on a Game Boy are link port covers, screws, and battery covers. How to fix it. Official support for the Game Boy from Nintendo is no longer available. Parts must be replaced from used Game Boys or using third party reproductions. The Game Boy community is alive and well. Incredibly, the original DMG-01 design would last until 1996, when Nintendo produced the Game Boy Pocket. Essentially the same system in a sleeker case, it also boasted an improved screen and was. Gameboy color games that'll fit into a DMG Transparent Pink Kirby Tilt n Tumble game. Although it's a gameboy colour game, it does have a notch for DMGs. Dark Blue Dark blue normal DMG cart with Action Man game. Will fit in a DMG but only displays a note saying you can only play it on the GBC. Feel free to post pictures of collections, mods, homebrew games, and anything else Game Boy related! February Game of the Month: Kirby's Dream Land 2. Helpful Links: Fake Cartridge Thread. List of Modders and Custom Part Shops. General Painting Guide. Everdrive GB - Flash cart for the Game Boy. Game Boy Camera Tutorial.

1. Free Gameboy Games

Old Nintendo consoles are clearly having a Moment.

This interest has been spurred in part by official hardware releases like the NES and SNES Classic Editions, tiny replica consoles that have more in common with your smartphone than with the original hardware. But lots of people still want to dig out their old cartridges and play games on actual hardware, as evidenced by the Analogue NT, the Super NT, and Hyperkin’s unabashed Game Boy Pocket clone.

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It’s that last one I want to focus on. Nintendo’s retro revival has so far focused mostly on the classic boxes that you hooked to a TV, ignoring the portables that buoyed Nintendo when home consoles like the GameCube and Wii U faltered. But Hyperkin’s backlit Game Boy clone and the (heretofore totally unsubstantiated) rumors about a Game Boy Classic Edition suggest that people want to relive their long childhood car trips just like they want to relive hours in the basement parked in front of a TV and an NES.

If you don’t want to wait around for Nintendo to start re-releasing old portables, the good news is that there’s a vibrant repair and modding scene out there for anyone who wants to make their old Game Boy hardware as good as (or even better than) new. I’ve spent the last month researching the subtle differences between different Game Boy production runs, watching dark blurry YouTube videos, learning to solder, and spending more time crawling through Reddit and forum posts than I care to remember. And I have returned to share my trove of knowledge with you, so you don’t have to try quite as hard to enjoy these old games on the hardware that originally played them.

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