I'm back with some more cases! I previously posted my cases for the GBA and SP, and now I have a case meant for just games!! The models are available for free on my Makerworld page here https://makerworld.com/en/@BigJuice55/upload

Two sizes for either 12 and 18 games!

Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions :)

Hiya!! I recently bought a gba and a copy of warioland 4 from CEX and it’s awesome, but I’m now realizing getting authentic games for it isn’t gonna be super easy. Cex is pretty good, but the range per store is fairly limited (so ordering is probably best) and a lot of these games aren’t cheap, aria of sorrow and zero mission for example seem to average at about £70 which I can’t really justify. I don’t reallyyyy trust ebay unless they’re selling like 1 copy of the game with pictures to prove it’s real, does anyone else have experience buying gba games in the uk and should I invest in a flash cart? (And which one should I get) thanks!!! :]

I got myself a GBA that has a power issue. I got to the point where I wanted to try resoldering. I accidentally melted the plastic, so I decided to disassemble. I thought the plastic melted to the board, so I pried it off after desoldering. It looks like a pad got stuck on the solder point and lifted off with it. How do I proceed with replacing the switch?

When I found my childhood gba in a box, my intention was to jump back in where I left off, just throwing it in my pocket/bag and playing. Then the plastic lens started shedding, the battery door broke, and the d-pad... oh man the d-pad.

The original d-pad was so stiff and unresponsive. It works fine for like platformers or rpgs, but I just could not play gradius. So I tried my luck with a replacement membrane and put the original membrane in another device to replace the shitty chinese membrane that kept fallimg apart. Surprise suprise, the shitty chinese gba membrane also fell apart. Since I guess its impossible to get good button membranea in 2026, I finally got sick of eating shit in games and I put in tactile switches that were salvaged from some type of broken remote. Omg. I don't like tact switches, and I really resisted going this route, but holy snokes is it great to actually know what direction I'm pressing and have consistent action. Its definitely not ideal, but it is sooooo much better.

I got a glass lens and it looks phenomenal, like a whole new screen. The coating on the old lense started flaking and oh man was it hard to see. The logo on the new one doesnt look good, but hey, I'm not complaining. The battery door clip broke and I was just holding it in place while playing for a few weeks, but finally I got around to making a new clip out of a broken usb cable I found. Works like a charm.

Anyway, this is my franken gba. I'm just happy it works.

Something I wanted to figure out for years, and more so after I saw a few websites make fake generators for it.
I know VBA sucks as an emulator, but it does show me the bios, so that's a good enough smoke test for me before I try flashing this to a real console or use it with more emulators. Even know most emulators now days don't need a gba bios image anymore.
You can get it from here but I still haven't worked out how to get it into the real agb-001 or ags-001 yet, that requires replacing the read only mask rom on the console with my own custom flash. haven't started that work yet.
gba_bios_gamegirl.bin No pallet mods, just the replacement logo
gba_bios_gamegirl_pink.bin Pink on black pellet mod with replacement logo.

"fun" side effect of this mod. So I could replace the letters in the gameboy logo fine, but after adding an additional letter to the logo and doing pallet mods, I ran out of unused space in the bios for my mods. Soooo I gutted the cart auth check. It will still display the Nintendo logo stored in the cart rom, but we don't store a copy of that logo in the bios to compare with. so it will boot anything, shitty bootleg or real cart it should just work lol. But this is also kinda untested, as just about all games bootleg or not, outside of some ique things I think is designed to run on real hardware, so they will have all the checks that need copied, fixed or spoofed already there. We are just not checking them anymore.

I have to brag a bit about this SP I recently put together. The customer had an incredible vision and everything came together!

Most pieces are from Retro Modding, LED is funnyplaying, screen is hispeedido V5.

After a long development journey, Dungeon Durban v1.0.0 is finally out for the Game Boy Advance! 🎉

It’s an arcade maze game with multiple worlds, bosses, achievements, unlockable game modes and real 2-player multiplayer via GBA Link Cable.

It runs on original GBA hardware as well as emulators.

Here’s some gameplay from the final version!

https://tony123f.itch.io/dungeon-durban

I had to get this off my chest

Se trata de un juego de plataforma tipo Mario bros, pero caminan unos polllitos tras el personaje y creo que los tira.!?!?!.... no recuerdo... ayuda porfa.

Getting close to the halfway point!

I'm looking to replace my GBA's internal battery and I want to know which brands are the best.

Some of you may remember my GBA FPS collection from my previous account. I deleted that account, so I’m reposting it here from my new one.
I’ve been collecting GBA FPS games for a while, and I’m now just one title away from completing the entire set!
My collection so far:
• DOOM
• DOOM II
• Duke Nukem Advance
• Ice Nine
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Serious Sam Advance
• Dark Arena
• BackTrack
• 007: NightFire
• Ecks vs. Sever
• Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (US version)
• Ecks vs. Sever II: Ballistic (PAL version)
• Medal of Honor: Underground
And there’s just one more title left:
Greg Hastings’ Tournament Paintball Max’d
It’s already on the way!
Once it arrives, my collection of all 13 GBA FPS titles will finally be complete!
I’ll post the complete collection when it gets here!

Had a spare screen and some spare time so I tossed in this screen and it looks so good! A little upset I didn’t do it sooner it was super easy

Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP — Onyx Black — AGS-001 — North American/U.S. model

Apparently is what i have but anything I’ve asked chat gpt and photos I’ve looked none them have that sort of tag style font on the front wondering of anyone remembers or knows what it says or if it was a special edition!? #gameboy #nintendo

Edit: confirmed as genuine and normal thank you everyone

Okay I need some help with this one please. I purchased this copy of Leaf Green, looks super authentic no reason to suggest it isn't at least from what I can see and having purchased all the other game boy and game boy advance games and trying to learn spotting fakes.

Anyone else experienced this pause or delay when returning to the in-game start menu?

GameBoy Advance is a genuine GBA that was resheld, IPS v3, and rechargeable battery with USB C modded all done by me.