Eventually, I was unable to boot at all, even without a game cartridge in the slot. Only rarely, but it began occurring more and more often.

It worked pretty well, but started showing some symptoms that something was not right. It took a long time, got delayed more than once due to parts I didn’t have available, and was very frustrating at times, but I was able to finally complete it.Īnd after finishing my SP-in-a-DMG mod, I was really enjoying it… for about two weeks.

But the GBC is so much smaller now compared to when I had one as a kid! My hands cramp up too quickly! It feels just a bit more chintzy than a nice, solid DMG! So in order to satiate my desire for a nicely lit, GBC-compatible DMG, I stuffed a GBA SP motherboard inside of a DMG case. But that old dim screen, gross! And the lack of Game Boy Color game support, so inconvenient! But you can just play them on a GBC, you say. There’s just something about the original Game Boy that just is so aesthetically pleasing to me.