If you know your way around a solder joint, you can probably finish the entire mod in under an hour. Keep calm and solder onįor first-time modders, this mod could take as long as two hours to complete.
You’ll want to have an X-Acto knife since you’ll have to do some light cutting. For $10 more, you can get the glass screen with a “Game Boy Macro” logo, which I didn’t buy because the font turned me off.
At $54, the shell is pricey, but so worth it. Touches like the recessed D-pad and button areas give the modded handheld a more polished feel, and it covers up the X and Y buttons for a cleaner look and more authentic Game Boy Advance layout. It only replaces the surface of the bottom half of the DS Lite, but it makes subtle improvements to the ergonomics and aesthetics. To pretty up your Game Boy Macro and house the new speaker, get Boxy Pixel’s sublime CNC machined aluminum housing shell. The Boxy Pixel shell only replaces the top half of the DS lite housing.
GAMEBOY MACRO MOD MODS
It’s still sort of pricey, but worthwhile hardware mods aren’t cheap - this project is definitely worth splurging. You could cut costs and get the budget down to under $100 by doing without components like the new shell or speaker, or go with a cheaper knockoff toolkit like this one that Input Senior Reviews Editor Raymond Wong recommends, but the finished result may be a less complete Game Boy Macro. If you’re starting from scratch with no DS Lite, components, or tools, the cost for this mod could be as much as $200. I used a busted DS Lite that I’ve had since 2010 and I recommend you do so, too, if you can instead of tearing apart a perfectly functional DS Lite. Total budget: I spent a total of about $150 on this project for all of the parts and tools.
If you’ve got a DS Lite lying around and time to kill, you can hack together your own Game Boy Macro with minimal effort. You can hack together your own Game Boy Macro with minimal effort.įrom these depths, the Game Boy Macro (as dubbed by the modder community), has emerged as arguably the best DIY Game Boy Advance that Nintendo never made. In recent years, avid modder communities have sprung up on Reddit and YouTube and Instagram where people show off how they’ve enhanced their Game Boy Advances with all kinds of new features like new shells, better backlit IPS displays, stronger and louder speakers, and even rechargeable batteries. Though the Game Boy lineup was retired once the Nintendo DS succeeded it, gamers have never stopped loving the Game Boy Advance. Before it was officially discontinued in 2010, Nintendo updated the GBA hardware with two iterations: the Game Boy Advance SP (2001), which added a backlight to the screen (2003) and the Game Boy Micro (2005), which was a shrunken handheld. With its vast library of games from virtually every genre, the Game Boy Advance was an instant hit. The 32-bit handheld was the follow-up to the Game Boy Color, which enjoyed extended life thanks to a hugely popular franchise called Pokémon. Thank you for supporting Original Mods such as this one and Original Creators.Twenty years ago in 2001, Nintendo changed everything with the release of the Game Boy Advance.
GAMEBOY MACRO MOD INSTALL
Original design and not a clone of any other product, designed with easy install in mind for everyone.Integrates the 330 Ohm Resistor Mod to enable the lower screen without the top screen (Macro Mod).7 Easy to solder points to complete the install.1.5W Output capable of driving a variety of speakers BUT best used with a Switch Speaker (clone speakers will distort).This amp combines 2 different mods into 1 (Lower Screen Conversion and Audio Amplification) and with it’s flex pcb is super slim and really easy to solder on with just 7 solder points. Install video is missing new solder point on the “Tail” of the PCB but everything else is identical.
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