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Gameboy Advance mod
« on: February 13, 2009, 01:35:18 PM »
Bought this off my friend for 5 bucks  ;D Got bored after modding a sixaxis, and since I still had my iron plugged in i decided to do a quick led swap.






So a few days later, I got bored again so I decided to do some modding... Ripped open the gameboy again, and after some thinking, I decided that I didn't have enough room near the buttons to make some button-activated leds look good. But, I already had the thing open so after some more looking around I noticed that there's TONS of space in the back of the gameboy. So, I decided adding some leds there would be a good idea :) Took atleast 4 hours, and I was so stressed out, but eventually I finished it lol. I ended up snapping a wire, pulling an led out of its hot glue, and ended up accidentally securing my motherboard to the back of the gameboy with hotglue and wires... So now I can't do any repairs or more mods to the back of the thing. Here are the final results. :D

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My wiring... Not the neatest but it works.


LEDs just glued in

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Back of GBA, in light


Back of GBA, in darkness


Front of GBA, in darkness


Front of GBA, in light

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Re: Gameboy Advance mod
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2009, 04:33:43 PM »
nice retro console lighting

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Re: Gameboy Advance mod
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2009, 05:03:10 PM »
you should wire up all the buttons so you can do a external controller.

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Re: Gameboy Advance mod
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2009, 08:43:15 PM »
Yeah I was thinking about an external controller, and like a snes controller would be cool, but I have no clue what the pinouts for one would be, and I had no clue how difficult it would be to do an external controller. Too late now anyway, my mobo is strapped to my bottom casing from all the wires XD

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Re: Gameboy Advance mod
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2009, 06:14:55 PM »
Yeah I was thinking about an external controller, and like a snes controller would be cool, but I have no clue what the pinouts for one would be, and I had no clue how difficult it would be to do an external controller. Too late now anyway, my mobo is strapped to my bottom casing from all the wires XD
you should add your own back light
Its easy to do aslo!
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