broken gameboy

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:33 am

Does it have the scrolling "block" and the classic "ping" noise without a cart? If your game is bad, it wont have video or sound. If you dont have a game in there, it should have the "PING"... i think. Try another game if you can, or try your tetris on a working GBA/GBx.

is this a GB Classic, GB Pocket, or GBColor?

If you want some ideas what to do with it, i can give you info on making a simple rewiteable cart and writer for it so you can slam freeware roms and apps on it. I have an app for my GB Color (works better on the pocket and Classic) that allows me to play arround with the phone companys equipment. i also have an IR Recorder/Playback software... I think i might have a serial terminal program as well, i dont know if i still have it, i can possibly rewrite it. Build a simple PS/2 ASCII Terminal, and use the GB as an ASCII Reciever, and you have a simple serial terminal. Great for configuring routers, or those 4 line road signs you see on the roads.

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:43 pm

i figured out what was wrong... the contrast was too low... im a dumbhole (tm)

FDSMAN · Post by **FDSMAN** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:01 pm

lol, I was just gonna say that, that happened to me once with the contrast, stupid nintendo, the gameboy is already dark enouogh, does it have to be darker?

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:08 pm

madc0w wrote:i figured out what was wrong... the contrast was too low... im a dumbhole (tm)

At least you figured it out before you opened the thing up...

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:24 pm

(No that's not my pic. I can barely draw a straight line with an Etch-A-Sketch

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MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:34 pm

Please be nice. One doesn't really expect game systems to have Contrast, especially in this day and age. We're used to the older systems, but not everyone is. I made the same mistake with my Vectrex when I first got it. (I had no experience or documentation with it, so it was hard for me to spot.)

You live and you learn.

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:54 pm

its ok, i was being stupid. I think im going to bring it to school tomorrow, so thats cool

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:14 pm

Aw nerts man, that's down-right embarassing!

NIce humility though. You don't see that this day and age. I give you props for that one...
Gald to hear that one more vintage(-ish) console is still alive and well. Personally, though, I like the GBP more...

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:31 pm

Me too the GBP is the coolest.

Weebl · Post by **Weebl** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:12 pm

I remember when lugging around a big old Gameboy was the cool thing to do. I used to spend hours with mine. Good times.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:09 am

i remember when lugging around a psp was cool wait a secind

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:53 am

lugging arround a PSP doesnt make you cool in my books, it makes you a target.

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:26 pm

Yep a kid at my school got mugged for his psp it got stolen too but now he has the 2.0 version...

Post by **Triton** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:35 pm

Foxx373 wrote:lugging arround a PSP doesnt make you cool in my books, it makes you a target.

yeah, a target for humiliation! lol, gp2x all the way lol