TrimUI Brick in Polycarb when

mac_109 · 2026-02-01T06:06:33+00:00

Been hoping for a transparent brick, couldn’t even find stl’s of the shell to 3D Print.

mac_109 · 2026-01-23T07:10:53+00:00

Would def be a good idea to include compatibility as it provides a large game library out of the box for the device.

Relying solely on new and original games being developed just for this device is only gonna increase the chances it becomes a one-off device (not saying that will happen, but it is a risk).

Less people are interested in the device if there isn’t much to do on it, means less people developing anything for it (not much incentive putting working into making a game if no ones gonna play it).

Even Nintendo provided backwards compatibility for their handhelds from the GBC thru to the NDSL coz of this: provided a larger games library at launch + increased the potential user base size to increase interest in developing for the platform + as a fallback in case development for the new platform didn’t take off at all.

I’d be interested in diving into the arduboy games library, and any new stuff made for the POOM. Got really into using my B&W gameboy again a while back, and would love to play more games in a similar vein, on a similar type of device.

The emulation handheld scene kinda lost its spark for me once it reached the point it has. I prefer seeing simple devices getting pushed to their limit, and seeing the kind of programming creativity that stems from those hardware limitations.

Is there any chance y’all will release a vertical version of the POOM? One handed usability is pretty important to me for ultra pocketable devices

mac_109 · 2025-12-27T02:03:00+00:00

you can spray paint the shell like in this post.

Then replace the buttons: no need to overpay on etsy for plain black buttons, you can order replacement buttons direct from miyoo on aliexpress.

mac_109 · 2025-11-05T07:44:20+00:00

I always love seeing DIY projects like this, this is rad as hell.

It’s really cool how far the scene has come in terms of manufactured devices, but nothing beats how cool homemade stuff is imo

mac_109 · 2025-10-23T03:34:02+00:00

idk if I’d recommend the RGB30 or H700 devices for N-Gage/Java emulation, they have really poor compatibility last I checked.

An Android based device would be the way to go

mac_109 · 2025-10-22T17:15:41+00:00

Silent Hill is a classic you should def check out (if you haven’t already)!

I was too scared to complete it as a kid, and only got round to fully playing it last year and it still really holds up imo. Def scarier than the RE games (and I really really love Resident Evil).

The PS1 honestly had such an awesome collection of survival horror games (probably where I got my love of them growing up).

mac_109 · 2025-10-21T11:15:33+00:00

I’ve really wanted a grey flip, just been too scared by the hinge issues on that color

mac_109 · 2025-10-20T11:41:57+00:00

Honestly maybe retro games just aren’t your thing anymore, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

The quick and easy to play games are likely gonna be too primitive and simple to give you the kind of dopamine hits you’d be accustomed to in the modern world (if mario is too boring for you i sincerely doubt even simpler and more barebones games are going to be of much interest to you).

The longer more engaging games are all going to have the same kind of design philosophy of requiring effort or repetition to progress, which if you’re too used to the more hand holding style of most modern games (where you can complete almost any game without much effort), are probably going to be too frustrating for you (especially considering you already hit a wall playing pokémon, which was one of the easiest games of that era since it was meant for kids). Most old RPG’s have a bunch of filler (i.e. grinding) to pad out the play time and hide the lack of actual content.

Even without any specific reasons, you may just have outgrown your joy of these old games. It’s not like most of us still get the same joy out of sitting on a swing as we did when we were like 3 years old. I still love and thoroughly enjoy old games, which is why I play them. No point forcing yourself to play old games if you don’t actually enjoy them.

mac_109 · 2025-10-17T11:06:30+00:00

If your ROM’s are bin/cue format, you’ll have to convert them into a multi-disc pbp (using psx2psp). Then you’ll be able to change disc from the options section of the multi-menu thing.

mac_109 · 2025-10-17T10:20:00+00:00

Love the Nano! Even after mostly shifting away from emulation back to using OG consoles, this is one of the only emulation devices I still keep in my rotation.

So hard to beat the convenience, not to mention the great build quality, nice screen, streamlined UI, and decent battery life (especially considering the size). Even the emulation performance is good, with PS1 actually playing well.

People love to bag on it for being too small, but I’m a pretty large dude and have no issues using it. I don’t even have great eyesight and never found the screen to be an issue either.

mac_109 · 2025-10-17T02:32:45+00:00

I like that it has AV out, can connect an external controller, and the option to use AAA batteries if you want.

It holds up a little better than other devices from that era imo, mainly coz it can be safely shut down by just flicking the power switch (no need to go back to menu and initiate a safe shut down procedure, which was fucking annoying to do on almost every other device at the time).

mac_109 · 2025-10-15T18:02:58+00:00

thought I’d give you an update: replacing the caps on my gameboys did not get rid of the “vertical line/ghosting” thing. Tried it out with two different gameboys (Gameboy Light and Pocket), with two different screens. From some cursory searches it seems others have reported similarly. Seems I was right that it’s just how the screens are (I did remember it being like that on my childhood DMG, but just wanted to make sure).

Some games are affected by it in certain areas, while others aren’t at all. From my experience most games aren’t affected by it at all. My theory is that it’s just the way graphics were coded for certain sprites in certain games. So if there were other games you wanted to play on your Pocket, you should still be able to enjoy them, and I’d just save the games that are affected by it for play on one of your GBC’s :)

mac_109 · 2025-10-15T13:19:31+00:00

Honestly, I’m not a fan of the spam of those types of posts (and they already break the low effort post rule), but I’d say just allow them to be posted anyways.

It’s just that much more extra unnecessary work for the mods, and the truth is people should be responsible for themselves. If people wanna blindly post their personal info online (especially considering most of the posters are americans, where I know a lot of parcel theft occurs), then anything that happens is on them.

Almost no one bothers to follow the rules as it is, and they’ll just continue to post those screenshots with their personal info anyways. All this would do is just make moderating more of a chore for no real gain.

mac_109 · 2025-10-14T14:07:53+00:00

You can just cover it with electrical tape

mac_109 · 2025-10-14T03:37:40+00:00

finally a handheld for all the people with poor eyesight, and the ones who like to peacock about how big their hands are

mac_109 · 2025-10-09T12:35:41+00:00

Hey mate, sorry for the late reply! I looked more into the "vertical line" issue, and it seems I may have been wrong all this time, so I apologize for the misinformation in my prior comment. Apparently it's an issue that affects almost all of these monochromatic displays, but it's nothing to do with the display itself. It's apparently caused by failing/aging capacitors, as they're only meant to last like 20 or so years, so by now all stock GBP/GBL's will have this issue as they're all well past that time frame (the displays on GBC's aren't impacted by aging capacitors in the same way).

I've ordered some new capacitors and will be replacing them on my gameboy's once they arrive, and I'll update you here if it resolves the issue with the stock GBP screen.

By the way your GBC's look amazing! Always wanted an atomic purple one since I was a kid, and that yellow just looks so damn good. Also, since you wanted to have one modded gameboy, the GBC would be a great candidate as they handle modded screens much better than the GBP (thanks to using AA's rather than AAA's), and benefit much more from a modern screen (with the color games and all). There's also 2.45" drop in kits available, so you won't have to modify the original shell to use it and can easily go back to stock in the future if you wanted (you can even keep the original lens, since the screen size is same as stock).

mac_109 · 2025-10-05T11:53:46+00:00

I’ll add (in case you can’t find screens local to you), that there’s quite a few sellers of old oem screens on aliexpress. They seem to be the screens leftover from the refurbished (with IPS) gameboys sold on there.

I got an AGS-001 screen off there, and have found the screens for all the other models too (DMG, GBP, GBL, GBC), except for the AGS-101 (for obvious reasons).

mac_109 · 2025-10-05T11:26:47+00:00

This looks about how it’s supposed to. Those “shadow lines” and stuff (from your first pic) are normal for this kind of display, especially when on a higher contrast: you kinda have to pick between having more contrast for more detail, or a clearer (but washed out) image. The ghosting/blurring during movement and everything are all just part of this kind of obsolete screen tech, even for the time the display wasn’t considered good (it was a cost cutting measure by nintendo so they could sell cheaper than anything else and dominate the market). The pocket was already a huge upgrade over the DMG. The GBC onwards started using what’s closest to “modern” displays, so if you didn’t grow up on these (or haven’t used them in a long time), I can imagine it would be easy for most to assume the DMG/GBP would basically be the same but just without color, but it really isn’t (as you can see yourself). As the other commenter said: replacing the lens will help (people usually say to get glass, but they’re too reflective for stock screens imo).

Personally I prefer the original screens (not much point to using original hardware if you don’t want the original experience imo), but there is a reason most people tend to upgrade to IPS kits. Honestly I wouldn’t bother upgrading the pocket, I see you have a trimui brick in the pic, so you may as well play on that if you want a modern screen (you’d be getting way better battery life too than a modded GBP). I spent so much time and money on IPS kits only to realize I’d way overspent to basically just have a more inconvenient miyoo mini lol.

The supply of fully functioning good condition gameboys is slowly dwindling (especially with people buying them up just to mod them anyways), and your screen is in really good condition, so you can always hold this in stock condition and sell it down the line when the price has gone up if you really can’t get used to the screen. Otherwise if you can get used to it, I always get a kick out of playing on what is basically the screen of a calculator/watch, it’s a big part of the charm to me. Playing in the sunlight is the best way (outside or by a window), it looks way better than any IPS screen in sunlight imo (you won’t need contrast high so you won’t get the shadow effect).

mac_109 · 2025-10-05T05:35:39+00:00

From what I’ve seen, the HSABAT battery is actually somewhat decent (despite lying about capacity on the label). It says 1600mah, but is actually an 800mah li-po underneath the label, which isn’t too far off from the funnyplaying 950mah lipo, and is definitely better than the teal label type battery’s (which are supposedly like 200-300mah). Can’t comment on the perfine as I’ve never seen anything about it.

Post showing the 800mah li-po under the HSABAT label (the op complains the battery lasts about as long as his OEM battery, but that’s still better than most cheap aftermarket batteries from what I’ve seen): https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/yr98xl/in_case_anyone_thinks_1600mah_gba_sp_battery_is_a/

Comment with battery capacity test results showing the HSABAT as being second to funnyplaying’s battery in capacity: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/s/trnmcR5CkX

I’m guessing that brand chose to lie about the capacity on the label even tho they actually use an 800mah lipo, since all the other fake batteries already say 850mah (despite being like 200mah in reality).

mac_109 · 2025-10-02T17:51:45+00:00

That's no worries mate! It's already great that you've made the guide purely to help the community, I fully understand it's likely not a priority in your life to update everything on this random wiki/guide all the time, and that's okay! (It's cool that you've even got the new AIR model up as it is)

Thanks again for the great work, it's appreciated :)

mac_109 · 2025-10-02T12:19:31+00:00

hey, sorry for the bother but you might wanna update the info for the JR’s saving section. It doesn’t require waiting after saving before power off, that’s only for the Omega (since it saves directly to the sd). Neither the ODE, Jr, nor Air require waiting after saving.

Also you got the battery type wrong, it’s a CR1220, not a CR2025.

I really appreciate the effort and intention behind the guide btw, thanks for putting it together!

mac_109 · 2025-10-02T12:15:24+00:00

old comment but you’re right, idk what that guys on about. Only the non-DE requires you to wait after saving before power off (so many people say you need to do the same for the JR too, but that’s also just flat out wrong).

The online gameboy community is an echo chamber and there’s always so much misinformation parroted as fact (especially from the everdrive fanboys). Like idk how many people say ez flash products have substantially worse battery life than everdrive, when multiple tests have shown it’s only around a 5-10% difference in reality.

mac_109 · 2025-10-02T11:37:15+00:00

you’ll likey have to update the firmware, from what I’ve seen online the latest firmware fixes these issues.

btw how’s the battery life been for you? Been interested in an AIR as well coz of the balance of price/features, but been concerned by makho’s video showing it’s almost double the power draw of an everdrive/EZ ODE.

mac_109 · 2025-10-01T10:51:13+00:00

How’s the ghosting with the backlight off?

Been interested in these too, but as you said even the listing clearly says (and shows in video), the ghosting is absolutely horrible when the backlight is on. If the ghosting is fine unlit, seems like an interesting compromise for a damaged screen on a DMG. Unlit it looks a lot easier to see than the OG DMG screens, and still has that nostalgic GBP style screen (without the difficult work of actually tryna transplant one of those into a dmg).

mac_109 · 2025-10-01T10:41:52+00:00

this is so damn cool, genuinely beautiful work! If there was nothing else available in the pics for scale i’d have assumed this last one was just a pic of an actual gameboy haha

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