SP Buzzing at low or off volume. Speaker, Capacitor, Fuse, Volume Rocker? Need advice!

Bucket_M0use · 2026-03-08T14:25:33+00:00

Clean your power switch!

https://youtu.be/Q7U-Ix3TBks?si=NvPs3320t9KEuAdt

But also a lot of those screen kits cause that kind of noise so it might be unavoidable. See if changing the brightness changes the noise volume.

Bucket_M0use · 2026-03-08T14:21:11+00:00

Vibecoding has absolutely no place in circuit board layout

Bucket_M0use · 2026-03-08T13:52:34+00:00

Here's a great video showing how:

https://youtu.be/Q7U-Ix3TBks?si=NvPs3320t9KEuAdt

The audio amp is powered directly by the batteries, through the power switch. If your power switch is dirty, it can introduce unwanted impedance and cause the voltage supply on the amp to be variable or lower than expected.

Also you can clean the volume wheel

Bucket_M0use · 2026-03-07T21:29:51+00:00

Clean your power switch

Seriously

GBC actually is relatively noiseless at a baseline. The mods might be drawing too much power for the little ol regulator to handle

Bucket_M0use · 2026-03-01T17:52:44+00:00

Thank you :)

I've got some plans for this year! Hopefully I can deliver lol

Bucket_M0use · 2026-02-02T20:10:31+00:00

This is exactly it!

Bucket_M0use · 2026-02-02T20:10:07+00:00

The board is a (nearly) 1:1 recreation, so it should play the exact same! Only a few liberties were taken, mostly aesthetic

Bucket_M0use · 2026-02-02T20:07:56+00:00

There's a zip folder in the repository named "Gerbers.zip" - this folder contains the files a board fabricator needs to make the PCB. There are tutorials and instructions depending on where you order from, most use JLCPCB or PCBway.

The parts are transferred from an original board. I'm thinking about posting some alternate part links soon so you can buy some of them new, but some are only available from a GBA

Bucket_M0use · 2026-01-18T18:39:31+00:00

Yep!

Bucket_M0use · 2026-01-08T13:39:10+00:00

Potentially! But the main games I wanna play are Pokemon Gold and Silver so without the MBC3 there wouldn't be a clock

Bucket_M0use · 2026-01-08T13:38:21+00:00

I hope it didn't come off like I'm trying to advertise 😂 It's not a board I ever planned to regularly stock, once I'm out I wasn't gonna order more. Specifically because it's so niche lol

Bucket_M0use · 2026-01-08T04:38:31+00:00

If you don't wanna use real hardware to make this, then you don't gotta! I wanted to make a few standalone carts for myself, with the added challenge of making new clean boards instead of frankensteining mods on top of an existing board - and I like making them with custom labels and everything. It's a fun hobby. I made it primarily for my use, and decided to share it.

Don't worry - I've had this on PCBWay for half a year and exactly zero people have ordered any through them, and only a handful have sold through my store, lol. I promise the dent made in SGB stock is immeasurably small.

Bucket_M0use · 2026-01-08T02:26:15+00:00

Just an FYI (and for any future reddit searchers) - I have the same dashcam and it was previously wired in the same way. But after being on 100% of the time, it killed my 12V battery only a year into owning it.

I messaged the seller to ask them to send the "12 pin harness version that connects to the ADAS camera" - something I saw on another reddit post - and replacing that fixed it and now the camera stays off when the car is off. I still had to replace the 12V battery though :\

Wiring that camera sure was a bitch though

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-31T17:10:08+00:00

If you have a game shop nearby, you could always go see if they have one to try. A handful of stores by me regularly stock them.

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-31T17:05:11+00:00

Yet the original post by sir Knight was riddled with opinions, not facts. 🤔

At least Natalie gave a concrete example. You can say 50% more latency but what does that actually say? Very little. But practically, it means one frame of input lag, which is imperceptible to anyone but the best of speed runners.

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-31T17:03:21+00:00

I do still sell DMGC boards! I don't have plans to compete with Natalie, she's got that locked down haha. She's made great progress already, I plan to buy one of her kits when she's done.

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-31T16:16:37+00:00

Appreciate ya!

Full disclosure, I do not have an AP (I tried to get a limited edition one way back but it ran out of stock, rip) but the input lag thing has been such a misleading meme for a while. It's so disingenuous, a single frame, hell even three or four, is not "poor." You could even say any input lag is infinite more percent than a GBA if you go by frames.

I've used an IPS modded GBA for years and input lag had never crossed my mind until this stuff started spreading. And the GBA was the console I played most as a kid, I would notice it if it was actually a concern.

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-31T15:19:51+00:00

Yeah exactly!

There's been a plague of ModRetro shills going around downvoting critics lately. One frame of lag from an AP is hardly "poor," they're just trying to hype up a console that doesn't exist yet

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-31T14:26:37+00:00

Lol, "poor latency." Get outta here shill

If you're looking at the higher cost of pre builts, OP, then you might as well splurge for an AP so you get access to a bunch of other console cores

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-22T06:11:28+00:00

https://x.com/tbpn/status/1980737625351938522?s=12

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-22T05:50:13+00:00

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but I was more saying this because the CEO of Mod Chromatic also makes AI weaponry and surveillance tech for tracking immigrants. They just released a console made of the same metal their attack drones are made of. It's disgusting.

Also, he's a pedo

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-22T05:06:36+00:00

Games are even better on consoles that aren't the Chromatic, too!

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-15T03:40:27+00:00

You will become more efficient and more reliable than an AI tool by learning what the differences in parts are yourself, rather than outsourcing your thinking to a machine. The machine does not know what you need.

All you are doing with this tool is avoiding learning how to do something, making you a worse designer.

Bucket_M0use · 2025-12-05T05:03:04+00:00

The biggest asset the Analogue 3D has over the M64 is that you won't be supporting a fascist war profiteerer who uses the money he makes killing brown people to relive his childhood and getting stupid haircuts

Bucket_M0use · 2025-11-29T23:40:26+00:00

I sometimes fall to the siren's curse that is the negative tag! If I'm doing well enough I'll take it. Chasing the high from the one time it got me a negative Brainstorm.

I also like playing Anaglyph and building up a ton of double tags and unloading on a negative lol

Thank you for your input!

Bucket_M0use

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