Think You could take newer Radica and mix it with a gba?

genrox · Post by **genrox** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:32 pm

Anyone know if you could use the screen from a gba and mix it with one of those newer radica's that are just a controller that sell for just 19.99 canadian dollars?

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:35 pm

Short answer: No!

Long answer: you could use a gba screen but this would require: A: A device wich plugs into the cartridge slot of the gba. (these do exist look on lik-sang.com or something) Or B: reverse engineer the screen of the gba and make your own controller board for it. This however is very hard and the only person I see doing this is Kevin Horton he MIGHT be able to do it.

dankicksass · Post by **dankicksass** » Tue May 09, 2006 6:55 pm

The Radica board is actually pretty fat, and would probably have a very difficult time fitting in a GBA with a screen and batteries anyway. Plus, 2 AA's won't run a Radica, so you would need at least a third battery in there. Overall, probably not worth the effort.

Post by **Skyone** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:52 pm

dankicksass wrote:Plus, 2 AA's won't run a Radica, so you would need at least a third battery in there.

Are you forgetting my discovery?

The radica TOTALLY runs off 3.3v, so if you're lucky, you can do it!

EDIT: Actually, this is a bright idea. You can replace the regular screen with a Hip Gear Pad Screen (aka I have too much words) and replace the pcb's capacitors with smd caps or a smaller variant so it would fit.

Short answer: YES, you can. It'll just take some patience.