Author Topic: Game Boy Appreciation Thread ♥ (Read 71427 times)

Tasty · « **Reply #240 on:** May 30, 2019, 09:06:28 AM »

https://manugamesdev.itch.io/battle-system

Pokemon-like RPG battle system for GB Studio

Tasty · « **Reply #241 on:** May 30, 2019, 12:23:10 PM »

MMaRsu · « **Reply #242 on:** May 30, 2019, 01:50:50 PM »

Tasty I also bought this nice box for 25 euros the other day, only thing missing is the link cable and foam inlay

MMaRsu · « **Reply #243 on:** June 05, 2019, 09:22:02 AM »

While attempting to install a backlight into a DMG , I cracked the screen as I applied too much pressure on it when removing the polarising film behind the display.

Fuck

Thats 1 DMG down, 3 left.. and now im scurred

Tasty · « **Reply #244 on:** June 05, 2019, 12:15:01 PM »

RIP :'(

Unofficial menu system plugin for GB Studio has been released: https://toxworks.itch.io/menu-system-in-gb

MMaRsu · « **Reply #245 on:** June 06, 2019, 06:19:29 AM »

Ome project didnt go that well, the DMG

But yesterday I was anxious to continue modding. So I started on the GBA which I reshelled onto a Golden Pikachu Edition GBA.. I made the adjustments to the shell and then inserted the new screen. I screwed the motherboard back on, but one of the screws got messed up and lost the indentations? Either way I continued on since the mobo was already sitting tight on the shell.

Next up was soldering a very tiny wire, to a very tiny leg on the motherboard. Having never soldered anything before, this made me anxious. I watched a few tutorials and tried it myself.

Succes! Aside from a bit of dust that crept in behind the glass screen protector, and not habing positioned the screen perfectly.. but still the result was amazing!

sorry for the horrible pics, it looks way better in real life

Tasty · « **Reply #246 on:** June 18, 2019, 02:39:14 PM »

400+ homebrew ROMs, playable in your browser!

Homebrew Hub

I was gonna make a site just like this but now I don't have to

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #247 on:** June 18, 2019, 03:33:53 PM »

Gonna order an EZ-Flash Omega for my SP 101 when I get paid this week.

MMaRsu · « **Reply #248 on:** June 25, 2019, 05:13:13 PM »

made this last night

Tasty · « **Reply #249 on:** June 25, 2019, 05:50:54 PM »

MMaRsu · « **Reply #250 on:** July 01, 2019, 11:11:32 AM »

Hmm ok so I sold that one and reshelled my own Pokemon Shell backlight to this clear shell

Tasty · « **Reply #251 on:** July 01, 2019, 11:18:24 AM »

Holy fuck

Yo that looks dope as fuck. Especially the prismatic logo, holy cow.

Reminds me of my childhood Crystal Gundam figure.

MMaRsu · « **Reply #252 on:** July 01, 2019, 12:00:14 PM »

Thanks man! Yeah it turned out pretty well ^_^

tiesto · « **Reply #253 on:** July 01, 2019, 01:39:15 PM »

MM, what are some of your favorite original GB games?

Tasty · « **Reply #254 on:** July 11, 2019, 04:33:20 PM »

I see your fancy RE2 remake on Xbox One X and I raise you this:

Tasty · « **Reply #255 on:** July 16, 2019, 09:30:51 AM »

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/cdm0am/i_finally_finished_my_gameboy_calculator/

thisismyusername · « **Reply #256 on:** July 16, 2019, 10:05:10 AM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on July 11, 2019, 04:33:20 PM

I see your fancy RE2 remake on Xbox One X and I raise you this:

Not as impressive as the first one going to the original Gameboy.

Also it might be Youtube compression, but this doesn't look as good as the Game.com port.

Tasty · « **Reply #257 on:** July 16, 2019, 10:53:04 AM »

You're absolutely right about the GB port of the original.

MMaRsu · « **Reply #258 on:** July 17, 2019, 09:43:05 PM »

Today I put this together with a chinese drop in kit from aliexpress which requires basically zero modification to your gbc shell or any soldering, so if you want to backlight your gbc and have no skills it's a fun way to start modding.

not sure why the fotos are flipped but not gonna bother fixing as im on mobile

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #259 on:** July 18, 2019, 10:53:26 AM »

I got my EZ-Flash yesterday and dropped a few thousand roms onto it that I will definitely delete within 48 hours.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

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MMaRsu · « **Reply #260 on:** July 19, 2019, 05:12:46 PM »

Finally took the plunge and backlighted my reshelled Pocket.

Was a bit scary because of removing the film from behind the pocket screen as Id already killed a DMG screen which has the same polarising film

Im pretty happy with the result

Tasty · « **Reply #261 on:** July 28, 2019, 08:34:32 PM »

So the same design just popped up on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/cj286z/my_precious_dmgstyle_game_boy_pocket/

Honestly I think I'm in love. This may be my overall favorite console design of all time.

Tasty · « **Reply #262 on:** July 28, 2019, 10:34:42 PM »

Also, this is flipping cool: https://blog.hackster.io/supercharge-your-old-nintendo-game-boy-with-a-circuitpython-cartridge-abc0dc2c618c

Run Python code on a GameBoy using a special cart. Insane.

Tasty · « **Reply #263 on:** July 31, 2019, 11:01:01 AM »

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1156580316628291585

Tasty · « **Reply #264 on:** July 31, 2019, 11:01:17 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 31, 2019, 08:45:36 AM

Quote from: Premium Lager on July 31, 2019, 01:57:16 AM
PS4 has sold as much as SNES, N64 and Gamecube combined

Still hasn't sold as much as the Gameboy, though.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #265 on:** July 31, 2019, 04:52:21 PM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #266 on:** July 31, 2019, 05:07:45 PM »

Shuri · « **Reply #267 on:** August 04, 2019, 07:53:39 PM »

Quote from: MMaRsu on July 17, 2019, 09:43:05 PM

Today I put this together with a chinese drop in kit from aliexpress which requires basically zero modification to your gbc shell or any soldering, so if you want to backlight your gbc and have no skills it's a fun way to start modding.

You got a link for this? there's a few of them.

edit: aw crap

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"Wow! That sounds awesome! But wait, there's got to be a catch, right?" you may find yourself saying. Well, yes, there is indeed a catch. Like the McWill kit, this kit runs the LCD at 60 FPS despite the GBC running at ~59.7 FPS. This means that every few MS the LCD needs to duplicate a frame to allow the GBC to catch up. This results in some noticeable judder, especially on any games that include smooth, constant movement, much like in any of the Pokemon titles. The McWill mod deals with this by introducing some occasional tearing, this kit straight up drops a frame or two to deal with the framerate mismatch. This framedropping occurs significantly more often on this kit than the tearing on the McWill kit.

$:-\$

MMaRsu · « **Reply #268 on:** August 05, 2019, 12:42:15 PM »

Wow that's not it buddy I did not notice any screen tearing in my testing

Buy this one man

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33040321760.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4dT4DCZj

Get the second option for just the screen kit itself. I dunno why they added the option for a GBC Mobo + mirror? Don't even know what that mirror does. Maybe it's just a lens.

Sold that GBC for 100 euro's btw. Probably lost little bit of money on it but I wasn't gonna use it.

Tasty · « **Reply #269 on:** August 07, 2019, 07:31:03 PM »

Really cool GB Studio adventure game, playable right in your browser: Soul Void

Basically a walking simulator with horror trappings and more than a little helping of Undertale influence, but it's a solid and enjoyable 1-2 hour experience and has some great spritework (no music tho.)

Extremely excited by GB Studio's spread.

Tasty · « **Reply #270 on:** November 05, 2019, 04:40:37 PM »

It's here! 🤩

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #271 on:** November 05, 2019, 04:41:24 PM »

What is it?

Tasty · « **Reply #272 on:** November 05, 2019, 04:49:53 PM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on July 28, 2019, 10:34:42 PM

Also, this is flipping cool: https://blog.hackster.io/supercharge-your-old-nintendo-game-boy-with-a-circuitpython-cartridge-abc0dc2c618c

(Image removed from quote.)

Run Python code on a GameBoy using a special cart. Insane.

Another insane thing I found: a Game Boy cart that makes your Game Boy a controller for modern systems

https://www.tindie.com/products/insidegadgets/wireless-gameboy-controller-device/

I contacted the maker if the radio (unfortunately RF and not Bluetooth, but that might need its own battery, even LE) was programmable by the ROM on the cart (think the wireless adapters for FireRed/LeafGreen), and was told they can be.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's pretty out there but if someone can build a Wi-Fi radio into a cart, you could theoretically do a Stadia situation where it's just a PC streaming video of a game to the GB's screen, and transmitting the button presses back to the PC. Granted, it'd be downscaled to four tones and 160x144 resolution, but still...

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Tasty · « **Reply #273 on:** November 05, 2019, 04:51:24 PM »

Quote from: D3RANG3D on November 05, 2019, 04:41:24 PM

What is it?

Game Boy cart flasher (reader/writer.) Tetris is plugged in and you can see the mini USB port on the bottom, next to the lights.

Now I just need to make a game with https://gbstudio.dev and plop it on the correct type of cartridge.

Easier said than done.

tiesto · « **Reply #274 on:** November 06, 2019, 10:27:15 AM »

Picked up a cib copy of TMNT2 Back from the Sewers... still am on the hunt for TMNT3 Radical Rescue.

Anyone ever play the TMNT GB games? Fall of the Foot Clan is slow but that was one of my first games for the platform (along with Tetris, Super Mario Land, and of course FF Legend)

Tasty · « **Reply #275 on:** November 07, 2019, 05:40:27 PM »

Saving this here for now: http://bgb.bircd.org

This Windows-only emulator can export direct WAV (and AVI) recordings. Hugely useful for LSDJ and Nanoloop.

Chooky · « **Reply #276 on:** November 07, 2019, 06:14:35 PM »

Quote from: tiesto on November 06, 2019, 10:27:15 AM

Picked up a cib copy of TMNT2 Back from the Sewers... still am on the hunt for TMNT3 Radical Rescue.

Anyone ever play the TMNT GB games? Fall of the Foot Clan is slow but that was one of my first games for the platform (along with Tetris, Super Mario Land, and of course FF Legend)

i think the second game was the one i've played. whichever it was was slow and short but a decently fun side scroller. konami had some good stuff on GB. i remember liking the tiny toons game a lot too.

Tasty · « **Reply #277 on:** November 07, 2019, 09:40:10 PM »

Tasty · « **Reply #278 on:** November 11, 2019, 11:23:13 AM »

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #279 on:** November 13, 2019, 11:49:28 AM »

Quote from: tiesto on November 06, 2019, 10:27:15 AM

Picked up a cib copy of TMNT2 Back from the Sewers... still am on the hunt for TMNT3 Radical Rescue.

Anyone ever play the TMNT GB games? Fall of the Foot Clan is slow but that was one of my first games for the platform (along with Tetris, Super Mario Land, and of course FF Legend)

I played Fall of the Foot Clan so much as a kid. Never got the other games.

benjipwns · « **Reply #280 on:** November 15, 2019, 01:06:49 AM »

I don't think I have posted this one before, so potential apologies:

chronovore · « **Reply #281 on:** November 17, 2019, 12:06:20 AM »

Quote from: benjipwns on November 15, 2019, 01:06:49 AM

I don't think I have posted this one before, so potential apologies:
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That looks like one of those helmets for children that are likely to hurt themselves.

Tasty · « **Reply #282 on:** November 20, 2019, 12:42:33 PM »

tiesto · « **Reply #283 on:** November 21, 2019, 07:19:34 AM »

Saw this cool Final Fantasy Adventure ripoff with a bit of ecchi in there

https://twitter.com/StudioS_ShiN/status/1185372450999033856

benjipwns · « **Reply #284 on:** November 21, 2019, 08:08:55 PM »

The funniest part to me about that BODYGUARD is the description talking about what it protects the Game Boy from.

Except all the parts you might actually want to protect from "dirt, scratches, etc." like the screen and the cartridge port, etc.

Plus the original Game Boy is built like a freakin' brick, there's probably a good height you can drop them from and not damage them.

Tasty · « **Reply #285 on:** November 27, 2019, 12:12:54 PM »

New GBStudio game + English translation: Art School Pocket

https://tfc.itch.io/art-school-pocket

Tasty · « **Reply #286 on:** December 03, 2019, 01:18:59 PM »

https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/releases/tag/v1.2.0

New version of GB Studio, lots of fixes and additions.

Tasty · « **Reply #287 on:** December 03, 2019, 01:20:54 PM »

http://nectaris.tg-16.com/GB-KISS-LINK-FAQ-hudson-gameboy-nectaris.html

Also, wtf, Hudson made an RF modem that could talk to Windows 95 and built it into a cartridge so you could wirelessly backup your saves. In 1998.

Tasty · « **Reply #288 on:** December 03, 2019, 01:21:17 PM »

I'm thinking of starting a GB blog so I don't spam this thread as much lol.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #289 on:** December 03, 2019, 05:52:13 PM »

lol, no worries, I love reading about all this crazy-ass GB stuff

tiesto · « **Reply #290 on:** December 03, 2019, 09:00:15 PM »

Found a beautiful CIB copy of Rolan's Curse 2 on ebay. This (and its prequel) has been on my list for a while! Now if I can only track down reasonably-priced cib copies of TMNT Radical Rescue, Knight's Quest and Great Greed...

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #291 on:** December 03, 2019, 09:49:56 PM »

Nice, I loved Rolan's Curse 2. That was the one where you had recruitable characters with different abilities, I think.

Tasty · « **Reply #292 on:** December 03, 2019, 11:16:51 PM »

Thanks to some spare WordPress credits I now own gameboy.blog. 👀

Tasty · « **Reply #293 on:** December 05, 2019, 10:38:14 AM »

https://www.boxypixel.com/collections/game-boy-color

If I actually do make something with GB Studio the first master is definitely going on one of those metal carts.

Tasty · « **Reply #294 on:** December 07, 2019, 09:08:48 AM »

Someone did an Animal Crossing demake in GB Studio!

https://mortmort.itch.io/acgb

Full how-to as well!

It's really charming and I'm amazed how much of the experience translated over.

Tasty · « **Reply #295 on:** December 07, 2019, 10:21:29 AM »

tfw you're browsing a random open source GB project (fpgaboy in this case) and notice the author is the guy you played company softball with every week a few years back

Tasty · « **Reply #296 on:** December 12, 2019, 02:46:57 PM »

Various (unofficial) isometric Gen 1 concepts:

Coax · « **Reply #297 on:** December 14, 2019, 04:48:39 AM »

Not sure if this is actually from a Gameboy game but is in the style either way and thought it was interesting. A beach waves animation motion interpolated at 60fps using a new depth-aware neural network implementation that some have been messing around with for 2D animations.

See also the project's video overview for intended live action video which is quite impressive over other methods.

Tasty · « **Reply #298 on:** December 15, 2019, 10:00:48 AM »

http://furrtek.free.fr/?a=gbtvbg

French Game Boy homebrew to control your TV using the Game Boy Color's IR port.

Tasty · « **Reply #299 on:** December 15, 2019, 10:02:34 AM »

Quote from: Coax on December 14, 2019, 04:48:39 AM

Not sure if this is actually from a Gameboy game but is in the style either way and thought it was interesting. A beach waves animation motion interpolated at 60fps using a new depth-aware neural network implementation that some have been messing around with for 2D animations.

See also the project's video overview for intended live action video which is quite impressive over other methods.

I've heard of this before and am surprised it's not more common, it's far far far better than the fake 60fps modes on most shipping TVs.

Didn't think of applying it to low-FPS Game Boy animations... the effect is a little unnatural tbh. And yeah, I think it would be impossible to do something like this on actual hardware.

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