#GAMEBOY MACRO XL TUTORIAL MOD#

#GAMEBOY MACRO XL TUTORIAL MOD#

If you’re starting from scratch with no DS Lite, components, or tools, the cost for this mod could be as much as $200. I used a busted DS Lite that I’ve had since 2010 and I recommend you do so, too, if you can instead of tearing apart a perfectly functional DS Lite. Total budget: I spent a total of about $150 on this project for all of the parts and tools. iFixit toolkit with bit drivers, tweezers, and spudgers or cheaper alternative.Alejandro Medellin / Input Prep for surgery My modded Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Macro, and GBA SP. While the Game Boy Advance SP has these features, a Game Boy Macro has a horizontal form factor, which makes it more true to the original Game Boy Advance. It can play any Game Boy Advance game (no GB or GBC cartridges, though) and comes with a built-in backlit screen and a replaceable rechargeable battery. I’ve modded my Game Boy Advance and GameBoy Advance SP with new backlit screens, buttons, batteries, and shells, but modding a DS Lite into a Game Boy Macro was, by far, one of the easiest operations I’ve had to perform.īefore we start, why is the DS Lite the perfect Game Boy Advance? Because the bottom half is a Game Boy Advance. Here’s how I made my dream Game Boy Advance. If you’ve got a DS Lite lying around and time to kill, you can hack together your own Game Boy Macro with minimal effort. You can hack together your own Game Boy Macro with minimal effort.įrom these depths, the Game Boy Macro (as dubbed by the modder community), has emerged as arguably the best DIY Game Boy Advance that Nintendo never made. In recent years, avid modder communities have sprung up on Reddit and YouTube and Instagram where people show off how they’ve enhanced their Game Boy Advances with all kinds of new features like new shells, better backlit IPS displays, stronger and louder speakers, and even rechargeable batteries. Though the Game Boy lineup was retired once the Nintendo DS succeeded it, gamers have never stopped loving the Game Boy Advance. Before it was officially discontinued in 2010, Nintendo updated the GBA hardware with two iterations: the Game Boy Advance SP (2001), which added a backlight to the screen (2003) and the Game Boy Micro (2005), which was a shrunken handheld. With its vast library of games from virtually every genre, the Game Boy Advance was an instant hit. The 32-bit handheld was the follow-up to the Game Boy Color, which enjoyed extended life thanks to a hugely popular franchise called Pokémon. Twenty years ago in 2001, Nintendo changed everything with the release of the Game Boy Advance.

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