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Turn Your GBA Into A Game Console

Posted by simoniker on from the almost-the-size-of-a-nomad-now dept.

Kon writes "Here's a site that has photos and describes some very nice mods for the GameBoy Advance (original model), which make it function more like a video game console, yet still remaining portable. These mods include a Neo Geo joystick attachment, power management mod, and an RGB LCD monitor attachment. If you're not too squeamish you can try them as well, using the instructions which are provided."

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  1. Or you could just use a Game Boy Player... by Incoherent07 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Less trouble that way.

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    1. Re:Or you could just use a Game Boy Player... by (54)T-Dub · · Score: 1, Insightful
      Maybe you only read the title ....
      which make it function more like a video game console, yet still remaining portable
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  2. That's, um... by SandSpider · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...well. From a technical achievement, that's very good. Impressive, lots of good stuff going on. From an 'improving the GBA' perspective, that's really kinda dumb. If you're going to do all that, just get a PS1 for the same price and not all the work, and you've got just about the same amount of portability.

    The idea behind the GBA is the portability. Seriously. Tacking on all that extra stuff does not make the GBA better.

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  3. Well then, by Absurd+Being · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would have imagined hooking up the dead GBA to an external LCD screen would have been on the top of your list of priorities. Or are you one of the people who has that "common sense" thing everyone's talking about, and threw out/had professionally repaired/exchanged that GBA.

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    1. Re:Well then, by Prince_Ali · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually, I destroyed it like 2 days before the GBA SP was announced. So the "give-up in despair" option seemed best.

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  4. Um... the GBA is a game console already by Psykechan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The GBA is a game console, albeit a portable one. I can turn a functioning GBA into something not a game console, but turning one into a game console when it's already one is -1 Redundant.

  5. I hate to say it... by Raptor+CK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But this one *does* feel pointless, even if it's marginally cheaper than the alternative.

    Gamecube + Game Boy Player + Battery pack + LCD screen.

    That's maybe 3-5 hours of game time on a single charge, but you can then play any GBA/GB games as well as the full GameCube library.

    Granted, it suffers of a horribly reduced hack value, but for some reason, I'm OK with that.

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  6. This is just stupid. by Raven42rac · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This has to be like the dumbest "mod" I have ever seen. If the regular GBA isn't big enough or have a full featured gamepad, get a gameboy player, see you can get a screen for the gamecube and a battery pack. That would cost about the same and not void any warranties. This mod is moot.

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  7. Re:PocketNES by Cowclops · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How can 256 mbit of flash hold "over" 1000 NES games? You couldn't even hold 850 copies of the original Super Mario Bros. And Dragon Warrior 4 was an 8 mbit game, so you could only squeeze 32 of those on.

    Most of the better games are either 2mbit, 3mbit, or 4mbit. For the 115 NES roms i've got, it takes up about 25.9 megabytes on my hard drive, so you could probably fit about 160 average games on there. But not "over 1000."

  8. ten years ago... by cloudship_tacitus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    i would have found a sega game running on a nintendo platform using a sony ps1 monitor odd.

    amazing how the competitive markets change.

  9. Turn Your GBA Into A Game Console, or... by s88 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    as I would title it:
    "Turn lots of time, money, resources, into a less useful GBA with a marginally larger screen."

  10. This improves upon what? by LoudMusic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I mean, what the hell. Make it 4x as large and 10x as clumbsey. Must be a second cousin to this guy - the Civic mod .

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