Making a Gameboy out of the Super Gameboy

DK · Post by DK » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:47 pm

As we all know, the old gameboy screens are a bot too samll and not backlit, so I had a cunning plan, hack a Super Gameboy!

After reading the forum, I know that the Super Gameboy has all the workings of a Gameboy inside, but sends the video to the Snes. So would it be possible to hook up the Super Gameboy to a PS1 screen via the Snes video chip?

Post by **gannon** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:06 pm

Good luck with that, you'd have to reproduce a lot of the SNES circuitry for it to work, actually, all of it since the CPU loads the bios/reads the controllers/etc.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:15 pm

Yeah, it'd be easier to build a SNESp and just run the Super Game Boy offa that!

Or, just buy an actual GameBoy for the $5 they go for on ebay nowadays.

CTFan

DK · Post by DK » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:30 pm

Thanks for that, I think that project might be put on hold for a while.

Hokusai · Post by **Hokusai** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:41 pm

What about using one of the smaller SNOAC's out there and hard wireing the SuperGB cart to that?

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:44 pm

Haha I remember when Cennar made an snesp so he could play portable pokemon on the Super Gameboy.

Hokusai · Post by **Hokusai** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:46 pm

All a bit redundant eh?

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:41 pm

Hokusai wrote:All a bit redundant eh?

He had to much of the green stuff. Were did Cennar go? I remember him leaving and later coming "back"

BloodNess · Post by **BloodNess** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:04 pm

Hokusai wrote:What about using one of the smaller SNOAC's out there and hard wireing the SuperGB cart to that?

ummm, maybe i missed something but last i checked, there weren't any Snoacs yet. i may be wrong.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:38 pm

BloodNess wrote:
Hokusai wrote:What about using one of the smaller SNOAC's out there and hard wireing the SuperGB cart to that?

ummm, maybe i missed something but last i checked, there weren't any Snoacs yet. i may be wrong.

Yeah there is one now called the FC Twin. I'm not sure if it's "on a chip" per se, but it is smaller then the snes mini boards.

Hailrazer's FC Twin

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:44 pm

jeroen wrote:
Hokusai wrote:All a bit redundant eh?
He had to much of the green stuff. Were did Cennar go? I remember him leaving and later coming "back"

Brad Lancaster. He failed at giving up weed.

Snoacp's. That sounds like its about to happen soon.

SS

arfink · Post by **arfink** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:25 pm

Anyhoo, the SNESoac ain't quite here yet, but the FC twin thing works well, so far has proven to be %100 compatible with the SNES library (unlike NOACs, which aren't %100 compatible with all NES games)

It ain't a single chip, but the board is really really small.

Of course, if you wanted to go nuts you could risk the $5 it would cost to get a gameboy and mod the screen with some led's or something like that, it probably wouldn't be too hard, and if you do screw it up a new game boy is so cheap.

ATOMICMAN · Post by **ATOMICMAN** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:53 pm

arfink wrote:Of course, if you wanted to go nuts you could risk the $5 it would cost to get a gameboy and mod the screen with some led's or something like that, it probably wouldn't be too hard, and if you do screw it up a new game boy is so cheap.

nice idea cept the lcd is opaque and you wouldnt see the leds behind it.

just make one of the fc twins into a port and wire up the super gameboy inside it or something.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:45 pm

wallydawg wrote:
BloodNess wrote:
Hokusai wrote:What about using one of the smaller SNOAC's out there and hard wireing the SuperGB cart to that?

ummm, maybe i missed something but last i checked, there weren't any Snoacs yet. i may be wrong.
Yeah there is one now called the FC Twin. I'm not sure if it's "on a chip" per se, but it is smaller then the snes mini boards.

Hailrazer's FC Twin

the fc twin neeeds the second board with the a/v plugs on it, it also needs some caps and resistors on the NOAC board to get audio. the parts needed for audio are on the pins 10-16