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AGB
Our Electrolytic Re-Cap Guide
Re-Capping Made Easy!
In this post, we will show you how to replace both types of electrolytic capacitors; "Surface Mount" and "Through-Hole". This process requires a bit of soldering knowledg...

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An "Advanced" Method For Cleaning Game Boy Advance Power Switches!
How To Clean Your Power Switch
Sometimes your Game Boy Advance may not be working properly, and sometimes it's as simple as cleaning your power switch! For this quick start guide, we will go o...

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A Beginners Guide To The Game Boy Advance IPS V2 Kit
A Guide To The IPS V2 Kit
The IPS V2 kit is an LCD upgrade that is completely solderless and offers additional brightness functions. This guide is very similar to our V3 kit guide, just with s...

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A Beginners Guide To The Game Boy Advance IPS V3 Kit
A Guide To The IPS V3 Kit
The IPS V3 kit is an LCD upgrade that is completely solderless and offers some additional color and brightness functions. We will get you started with a quick start...

Hand Held Legend
A chat with Jellybelly Customs' Matt Whitehead
Here at Hand Held Legend we’re proud to be part of the modding community, and to count a number of other businesses - large and small - as partners and, yes, friends.
One of those businesses is Jel...

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What are “Newton Rings”?
I don’t think the name is all that commonly used, but is the term that I hear most often when referring to this phenomenon… and no, this isnt an update to fig newton bars. That’s something else.
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Bob Mods
Game Boy Macro: How-To by Roberto Gualan
In 2018 Joe Bleeps created the “Neon Advance” and I immediately fell in love with it! The “Neon Advance” is basically a Game Boy Macro – a modified Nintendo DS Lite that is meant to play Game Boy A...

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Voltage and current - Comparing Game Boy Color backlit LCDs
We've been selling a backlit Game Boy Color LCD solution for a bit now and by all accounts people are loving them... we keep getting in more, and they keep selling out... thank you for your support...
Chiptune
Chiptune: Form + Function (Part 2) by Kain De Rivera
Part 2: Function
As mentioned in the first part of the chiptune article; Part 2 will provide detailed information on 2 modifications to create chiptune on a Game Boy DMG. A pro-sound mod, which is ...