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Hand Held Legend is expanding beyond retro gaming! We now offer PS5 Dual Sense controllers, Xbox Series X/S controllers, and Joy-Con controllers for the Nintendo Switch. Whether you're upgrading fo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. Ne...

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...