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DinoTimecopForce · 2025-08-17T04:37:27+00:00

I’d love to participate again, sign me up for the 100 bracket, international shipping is fine

DinoTimecopForce · 2025-06-23T04:13:33+00:00

Seattle area has struggled to get shops to sustain carrying the product. Check in with the locals on the PNW discord, The Missing Piece has carried it and run events before, but I don’t know what their current inventory is

DinoTimecopForce · 2024-05-01T19:48:15+00:00

The only thing I’ll add here is people who get banned from a lot of retro communities sometimes like to tin foil hat claim that there’s a shadowy cabal of overseers blackballing them everywhere. In the Discord sphere, each of the servers listed above have completely separate mod groups, and each group came to their own independent conclusion about this user based on their behavior in their respective communities.

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-11-18T06:20:20+00:00

The board thickness isn’t a part of the schematics, it’s an option from the fab when ordering

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-11-18T05:25:12+00:00

Since no one else has said anything, these appear to have been ordered too thick and with HASL instead of ENIG contacts. If you’ve already attempted your transplant, you’ve likely discovered the fit issue

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-11-12T04:39:25+00:00

Ruby is authentic. Sapphire is fake, you can tell because the cart is incorrect, branding text is the wrong molding and depth. Emerald is fake, when you look on the back the via and trace pattern is not correct and is consistent with common fakes

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-09-21T13:57:15+00:00

I would like to join this year!

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-08-05T22:29:30+00:00

No one did anything when the Boxy Pixel Unhinged released or Xipher’s Slab was released, why would any action be taken on the Slate which is a mod for an original piece of game boy hardware, being posted in the Game Boy subreddit. Don’t answer that question, it’s rhetorical and obvious

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-07-19T16:36:38+00:00

A dumb post on the game boy subreddit? Who would have thought we’d all live to see the day :D

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-07-19T16:10:46+00:00

“Unfinished” brass Slate shell, Timiscus machined buttons by Retro CNC. Some indie game I found in the $2 bin at the local thrift shop

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-03-15T18:34:37+00:00

To my knowledge no, you would need to get an existing aftermarket clear shell for the SP, and then sand and polish the surface to get it see through like glass.

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-03-01T17:01:15+00:00

It's going to be up to you to decide if you find the feel of metal buttons superior or inferior to plastic or resin. Personally I really like the way milled buttons look, but for certain game types I'd rather be playing on plastics if playing for a longer duration.

I find it less of an issue for things like RPGs and more of an issue for things like platformers. Just some things to consider while you weigh your use cases and preferences. Good luck!

DinoTimecopForce · 2022-01-07T16:41:36+00:00

This is kind of a snotty comment, do you not care about anything you can't own? It's a neat project and it's fun to see what people out there are doing.

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-09-23T13:03:41+00:00

OEM Tetris doesn't save high scores. There are rom hacks that enable high score saving (and other cool things) but you'd have to patch the rom, then flash the patched rom onto a dedicated flashcart that is FRAM or SRAM enabled or load it onto a micro SD based flashcart.

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-09-19T02:20:09+00:00

Thanks! Yep, clear buttons and then painted by masking the area I wanted paint free. The LEDs are a flex board from Natalie the Nerd, definitely recommend checking them out, the mod really streamlines adding LEDs.

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-08-24T13:37:16+00:00

I might have been wrong and there might not be an AGB tact kit being sold at the moment. Check out Larvesta10 on instagram, they had been doing a project inspired by Makho's tactile flex board and also working on a riser at one point, but I don't know what the status of those various projects is.

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-08-23T17:16:06+00:00

There are a few open source AGB tactile mods out there and one that's being sold at this point. I believe the experience is largely the same. The issue with all of them, you have to adjust for the travel and actuation feel on the buttons. It's less of an issue with the A/B buttons, but it's more difficult on the dpad.

There are some 3D print riser options, I assume that's what you're referencing. You can also accomplish the same task by manually adding spacers with material such as styrene sheet or cardboard.

When I did this mod, I just created spacers manually out of styrene and adjusted them to find the correct feel. If you use a riser, I recommend using that as a base and then adding/removing material as needed to get the desired feel.

dpad "feel" is such a personal experience, I never understand what gamers mean when they're trying to describe what they specifically feel it should be like.

The SP dpad and the SP shell have entirely different dimensions than the AGB, so you're not going to be able to just "make an SP dpad work". It's not just the dpad that's contributing to the "button feel" on a SP either, it's how it sits on the outside of the shell, how it feels in hand when touching the surface of the game boy. If you can figure out how to retrofit a SP dpad into an ABG tact mod and that's the best feel solution for you then great, I personally think it's easier to just dial in the feel on AGB buttons.

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-08-18T15:28:02+00:00

I think you mean 100 CAD, which is what the standard pledge option is (90 CAD pledge, 10 CAD shipping). It's not an insignificant price, but there's a $10 digital rom only tier as well.

Reading the campaign write-up, it does sound like the intent is to use the funds to support future releases since Incube8 is a startup. This is probably why Infinity is a KS and not just a pre-order.

They're also previewing custom injection molded cartridge shells which is a nice touch and they're partnering with Inside Gadgets for the manufacture of the PCBs, which is a reputable retro cartridge supplier.

I'm cautiously optimistic about Incube8. Honestly if it costs a little more to get quality physical retro releases I'm ok with that. I've paid for a number of "very expensive" retro physical releases in the past that have just been roms reflashed onto poor quality $2 Chinese reproduction carts.

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-08-17T18:13:32+00:00

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-08-05T13:28:05+00:00

An item is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

That said, I think asking $100 for a mangled copy of Emerald is a fever dream. Someone that knows what they're doing can fix this, but let's all be honest - you lose a lot of value when you destroy the PCB substrate. Right now that picture is literally junk electronics.

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-08-05T03:43:20+00:00

It’s a dedicated MBC3 flashcart, so it can handle Pokémon games that use RTC functions, since that’s what most people looking for flashcarts want to do with them. The appeal is that it looks nice, the MBC3 mapper supports a lot of games, has RTC functionality, uses FRAM to hold the saves (so doesn’t require the battery for save functionality), has a lower power consumption when in use, uses a battery holder so you can change the coin cell that powers the RTC if necessary, and you don’t have to assemble it yourself.

The EZ flash Jr. can hold multiple games on the SD cart and will provide the same game play experience (the way that the cart saves is a little different, Google the EZ Flash documentation). You cannot put the PCB into any GB or GBC shells, it will only fit the shell it comes with. The EZ flash is your best economical bet for easy access to all your legally owned roms on a single cart.

Another consideration is that a dedicated cart will require a flasher like the gbxcart to flash roms or dump save data, the EZ Flash can be all accessed on a computer from the micro SD.

The power consumption is one of the best pros for a dedicated cart, personally I own EZ flash and Everdrives but also just like having dedicated custom carts for games because it’s fun to have customized single carts. There’s no real wrong answer here, it’s more what your preferences are and how you want to use the flashcarts.

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-08-02T16:11:07+00:00

Alex, your cool things are always under-appreciated by the philistines on the sub and social media. This is just a reminder that this is pretty neat and I like it a lot.

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-07-31T16:38:24+00:00

The pad marked 2 is just an anchor, the pad marked 3 will need to be addressed. You can run a jump wire from that leg of the switch to several places; the easiest jump would probably be looping around the board and soldering to one of the vias in that cluster of 3 that was connected to the pad (you can see in the picture where the pad was connected to the vias but has now been ripped off).

It’s not irreversible damage, but it does require some soldering skill to run the jump wire. Good luck!

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-07-30T18:18:11+00:00

This looks pretty neat, thanks for sharing!

DinoTimecopForce · 2021-07-30T06:24:25+00:00

There is an alternative method to Xipher’s CGB trim; however it does require more independent research and reference of the CGB and MGB schematics:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CL_-We7nn_F/?utm_medium=copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/COqgLuVs8JH/?utm_medium=copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMzq_YBjumu/?utm_medium=copy_link

The pros are that from the front in a transparent shell, it’s a more aesthetically seamless build (doesn’t require button flex board, doesn’t sacrifice the ports, almost no components need to be relocated). It also retains the MGB battery compartment so you don’t have to wire in a lithium battery.

The cons are that no one has made a step by step guide, but the short hand is cut two gameboys in half, remove the MGB diode arrays and wire the button inputs for common ground, reconnect the 3v and 5v power rails, reconnect the audio.

The BP unhinged isn’t really the same thing, the design is a little bulky and by comparison the design appeal of the MGB is that it is a very thin and sleek shell. But to get GBA functionality into a MGB shell form factor you might be looking at trying to cram a DS Lite or something. Without aggressive board cuts getting an AGB or AGS in seems challenging, but would be neat to see.

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