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We get it... …when it comes to illuminating the display on the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance one option is frontlighting. It’s effective and it’s inexpensive relative to the backlit solutions...

In the last article we covered the tools of the trade, but this time we go through how to use and care for your soldering equipment. Tools are only as good as the techniques of the user and using t...

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...

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...

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 ...

Introduction We need to be honest here - we've heard of chiptunes before, but it's always seemed to be this obscure thing that only a small group was into... but it has something to do with retro c...

If there is one skill that is most useful to repairing or modding a retro console, I have to say it would be soldering. Common faults like replacing bad capacitors, blown surface mount fuses, dead ...

Texas Instruments released a series of amazing gadget calculators in the Ti-80 series, but as with so many other old school consoles, the backlight was a commodity and not a necessity. The TI-84 s...

All hail the PAM8302A - the little amp that could. For those not familiar with the 2.5-watt Class-D mono amplifier, the little PCB packs a lot of punch... it traditionally was made for Arduino cons...