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When external power is provided via this jack, the gameboy is kind enough to stop sapping your batteries of their life juice. Why? Because there is an important break in the circuit at this point.

The highlighted traces is the path from the positive terminal on the battery bay to the DC power jack. This is part of one of them: How power enters the circuit. There are three major things I wanted to communicate with these plans. OK, now for some more technically relevant information. Would it fit in your DMG case? Yes, but it'd be a little snug. There are only a couple places that bother me, but I doubt any of you are looking that closely.Īpplicability: If you were to make this board as I've shown and soldered all the bits to it, would it work? Yes. I then went back through and took some liberties with spacing. The initial draft followed the image to a minimum of 1/20th of a mm. I did attempt to get things as accurate as I could. I didn't get it perfect - as in: there's a total of 0.4mm of drift in the image, I hope you can deal with that. I corrected this in Photoshop by re-distorting the image. I can spot a few differences between them, but they're small things that shouldn't matter.Īccuracy: The scans I made had some distortion because it didn't lay perfectly flat against the glass. The gentleman I bought this from sold me his and his brother's, saying he had gotten his, from the store, soon after his brother had gotten his. I know this because I am only the second owner of this gameboy. Source: The gameboy I dissembled had an early production of the sixth revision of the CPU PCB. This does give me the opportunity to tell you a little about the prints you're looking at (or whatever they're called in digital format). The usefulness of this image is less than the others because it's so detailed. All 80 hours of work, plus or minus (I'd rather not think about it). *This may be helpful to some doing mods/repairs on old Gameboys, or trying to redesign the PCB.This is it, folks. I figured I would post this here for all to use as a tool. If you have any issues, try checking over and reflowing your connections, use short wires, and shield your boards with some tape.

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The following image shows the Pro Micro and NES controller pinouts along with the pins you connect to. This will allow for custom controllers to be used externally on the handheld, turning it into a fully-fledged home console.Īll that is left is to wire either a NES controller port or cut the end off a controller cable and wire directly to the Arduino. The Pro Micro replaces the front PCB inputs entirely. Here is a scan of the back-half pcb that shows where the ribbon cable header pins solder to the Pro Micro. (If using a generic Pro Micro, select Leonardo as your board type in Arduino IDE) You can comment out/delete: //Serial.println(buttons_state, BIN)

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Open the Arduino IDE serial monitor and you should see eight ones (11111111) being printed repeatedly, and when you press a button the corresponding 1 should change to a 0.

Game boy dmg replacement controller code#

There are a couple of lines in the code to test that the NES side of it works. This is the final code we came up with on uXe's Github. To bypass them we need to program an Arduino to act in replacement for and I got help from uXe, and together we were able to write some code to interpret the NES controller button presses and output them as DMG button signals. These are the DAN215 components that output the signal data. So further understanding of the traces from the buttons to the DAN215 was needed. But the buttons are not connected afterwards.

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Big thanks to uXe for designing them!!!Īfter wiring the mod to the back half pcb, I noticed it didn't need the front PCB to output video. They are great! They really keep to the E-Z theme when installing. Recently I got a few Easy_VGA boards from Kitschbent to test out. It shows the traces to DAN215 that outputs the signals to the cpu, and the ribbon cable. With the help of we made this diagram of the front button PCB inside of a DMG.

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Along with info and diagrams showing how to wire a NES controller to your Gameboy. This post has board scans of both the front lcd, and back cartridge PCBs. My first venture was a dual clock mod for the Gameboy pocket years back. As (hopefully) you all know, I love Gameboy modding with an undying passion.