r/Gameboy • • Aug 16 '26

Announcement - Updated Rules

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Please take a look at the updates we've made to the rules.

Due to an increase in self-promotion we've adjusted rule 5 to require mod approval, automod will automatically remove any posts it detects as self-promotion and if a mod approves the post or comment it will be shown.

Added rule 8, the vast majority of this subreddit is English speaking and due to limitations in our ability to moderate languages other than English please keep posts and comments in English. If you see any posts in languages other than English feel free to report with rule 8 as the reason.

Thanks everyone.


r/Gameboy • • Sep 02 '26

[Game of the Month competition] September: Crystalis (GBC)

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Play the Game of the Month and win prizes! Click the link below to view the kickoff thread, which includes the detailed rules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/1hseh1t/game_of_the_month_yearlong_competition_kickoff/

Quick rules:
- Play the Game of the Month and try to reach the specified milestones. Earn points and compete with other redditors.
- Start a fresh new game, no earlier than September 1!
- Take a picture of your screen with your username written on a piece of paper. Post it here in the thread for all to see.
- Half-point and one-point milestones can be earned at any time during the year. Post your screenshot in this month's thread to make sure I see it.
- Emulation is okay, but no cheating! Check detailed rules for more info.

What are the prizes?
Over the year, the prize pool formulates as I slowly gather goodies. I'll separate the prizes into 4 bundles. Usually the bundles include Game Boy games (all generations) and other GB-related trinkets.

Prize donors: Let me know if you're willing to donate prizes to this year's prize pool! Prize donors get 2 votes for next month's GOTM and my eternal admiration.
This year's donors:
Fenriz_D

Previous Months
January - Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
February - 🐸
March - V-Rally: Championship Edition
April - Metroid Fusion
May - Burger Time Deluxe
June - Tetris DX
July - Metal Slug Advance
August - Quarth & Torpedo Range


Next month
Check the comments to vote for next month's game!


This month: Crystalis

A GBC port of the NES action RPG. Start a new game!

Half point: Learn the Teleport spell.
1 point: Defeat Sabera and get the Broken Statue.
2 points: Defeat Dragonia and see the ending. (must be completed and posted in September.)

Leaderboards


September

Pos. User Points
1 u/Deafboy91 2
- u/marcao_cfh 2
- u/quijibo42 2
- u/waffledork 2
- u/zefez- 2
6 u/dathudo 1
- u/SirFadakar 1
8 u/peroleu 0.5

2026

Pos. User Points
1 u/marcao_cfh 22
2 u/quijibo42 21
3 u/BuryKeebler 19
4 u/r0cky 16
5 u/bluestoc 14
- u/dathudo 14
- u/javmiller83 14
8 u/PekinPhysician 12.5
9 u/zaiueo 12
10 u/bolognamaloney 9.5
- u/Deafboy91 9.5
12 u/hatlesssniper 9
- u/thom_horne 9
14 u/StarWolf64dx 8
15 u/Fr3d0 7
- u/hamburgers666 7
- u/wafflecoptor86 7
18 u/KiddoKatto 6
- u/MalTheCat 6
- u/rockhopper92 6
21 u/thebigbabushka 5.5
22 u/Fenix398 5
- u/zefez- 5
24 u/GeekScientist 4.5
25 u/AstraDrgn 4
- u/Keveezy93 4
- u/Xanthaca 4
28 u/peroleu 3.5
29 u/Fenriz_D 3
- u/NnifWald 3
- u/wiedo 3
32 u/Capable_Dog3550 2
- u/coolstones 2
- u/hugglehermit 2
- u/iLessThan3Tu 2
- u/ma-pj 2
- u/PrudentAd3769 2
- u/shadynewt 2
- u/waffledork 2
- u/Zeblid 2
41 u/Traditional_Band_ 1.5
42 u/Benay148 1
- u/Dark_Mesh 1
- u/Gabelvampir 1
- u/SirFadakar 1
46 u/Admirable_Sea1770 0.5
- u/cantrelate 0.5
- u/orange-yellow-pink 0.5

r/Gameboy • • 8h ago

Systems My Savers Find $5.99

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Pick this GBA SP at Savers for $5.99 originally came with a copy of Pokemon Ruby (not a fan of pokemon so I put it aside) and this extended battery pack. I ended picking up Crash Bandicoot Purple and fallen in love with it. Been carrying this SP everywhere with me and been trynna beat the game. 49% complete btw now.


r/Gameboy • • 5h ago

Games Finally beat the Safari

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Decided I was justified in breaking out PKHex and the GBxCart


r/Gameboy • • 11h ago

Collection Is it gooood?!

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r/Gameboy • • 21m ago

Troubleshooting Game Boy Battery Issue: Inflated and Unsure What to Do

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I recently dug out my old Game Boy, but it looks like the battery is swollen. Has anyone else dealt with this?

Did you try to power it on anyway, or did you replace the battery right away? If you swapped it out, where did you get your replacement? Any advice would be appreciated!


r/Gameboy • • 18h ago

Other Lunch break

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r/Gameboy • • 13h ago

Systems Yellow Pocket

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Just pulled my Gameboy out of the attic. OFF Road is such a good quick game. Now to find the rest of my games.


r/Gameboy • • 21h ago

Collection My Pride and Joy

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117 Upvotes

r/Gameboy • • 6h ago

Collection Nostalgia

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Game Boy Advance SP games I had growing up


r/Gameboy • • 24m ago

Troubleshooting Gbm pink Is it supposed to be like this?

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Why are the L and R trigger buttons ivory-colored?


r/Gameboy • • 9h ago

Collection Growing collection... Still missing my forecer in restoration GBA

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My GBA is on his 3rd restoration... Still not alive. Soon to give up on that one and pick another one.


r/Gameboy • • 9h ago

Systems Pink Japanese Gameboy pocket cleaned restored 😇

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I have worked hard restoring this Game Boy pocket tbh it wasn't working before and now it does 💪

So firstly as you may be able to see that there is a lot of corrosion around the capacitor which also needed to be changed basically the board was pretty shocking 😭

I have also installed the new speaker into this and just gave it another good general clean it took me about an hour.

it's well worth it and it's so satisfying when fixing these!


r/Gameboy • • 14h ago

Games Game Storage Cases I Designed

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r/Gameboy • • 2h ago

Troubleshooting e-Reader not working?

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I have the Japanese e-Reader+ and I’m trying to use it with Doubutsu no Mori e+ to get villagers in. Anytime I try to connect my GameCube to the e-Reader with the link cable to my e-Reader inside my GBA, it will pick up a signal for a couple of seconds then give me an error. The e-Reader shows up perfectly fine on my GBA and used to work 2 years ago, but has been sitting in the attic for pretty much that whole time. Should I replace it?

edit: lmao I completely forgot you have to prep the e reader in the post office before you scan. that was the issue


r/Gameboy • • 7h ago

Mod/Modding GBA Sp Hinges... Advice please

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Hi guys,

I'm trying to replace my GBA SP shell and the old one had the hinge frame braked.

I was able to remove the MB and so on, however, I'm stucked in the image situation.

Any idea of how can i remove the hinges from the broken frame ?


r/Gameboy • • 30m ago

Questions First time GBA mod

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All advice welcome!


r/Gameboy • • 23h ago

Games GBMAKE : Made a small batch of boxed physical games

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Hello everyone!

After lots of trial and error,

we finally finished a small production run of custom boxed physical games.

A huge thank you to all these homebrew developers for trusting our tiny workshop. We’ll keep reaching out to more homebrew creators to help grow the Game Boy community together 💛

link: https://gbmake.com/

Any feedback is warmly welcomed 😊


r/Gameboy • • 22h ago

Modded My latest pickup unhinged gold metal SP

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Been wanting one of these for a while but they are so expensive and often sold out. Grabbed this one on eBay for a little over $100 as a parts system. Found a bridged power solder and blown F2 now it’s perfect. I do want to swap the plastic buttons with aluminum ones but can’t decide which color would go best. I kind of like the blue but not sure how it would look. Also the screen seems okay but there are better ones.

Came with USBC charge port
Lithium battery pack (not OEM style)
Jack port for audio but it was never connected


r/Gameboy • • 7h ago

Questions Anything I'm missing? I heard I need some sort of lens too but im not sure if thats necessary. Thanks!

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r/Gameboy • • 4h ago

Other Wacky Races not working on GBA?

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So I was testing my Game Boy player for my GameCube and I wanted to finally see a childhood favorite, Wacky Races (GBC) on the big screen. But it just wouldn't load, instead hanging on a white screen after the Game Boy Logo.

I thought, huh maybe GBC is the issue but nope, other GBC carts worked. So I put it in my actual GBA and the same thing happens. Now I'm wondering if it somehow broke the cart, but nope, plays on my GBC perfectly.

Is there some kind of compatibility issue with Wacky Races *specifically* that stops it from running on GBA?


r/Gameboy • • 5h ago

Shopping/Haul Best marketplace find ever

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I want another one so bad but I don’t need it , anyways where can I find authentic games online ?


r/Gameboy • • 16h ago

Troubleshooting :'(

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Do you guys have any idea about why this may have happened? It was stored in a fresh and dry cabinet...


r/Gameboy • • 21h ago

Shopping/Haul Anyone know where to buy cases like this that cleanly hold manual and DMG cartridge?

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r/Gameboy • • 1d ago

Mod/Modding I reverse engineered Nokias snake and put it on my gameboy

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Project is here https://github.com/lukesau/nokia-3210-games. Only snake working so far but I plan to do all of the games including 2 hidden ones that existed in the phone firmware but had no way to access them!