Recent content by tomcraig

Batteries are brand new and everything. I'll give it a shot with a resistor.

Ok so I got my bright white V3 backlight in the mail not to long ago and wired it all up. It appears to be working properly, but after not much play at all it gets dim and quite flickery. I wired it up the traditional way here: http://mikejmoffitt.com/tut/tut_mgb_backlight1.html but it seems to...

Hm, I'm a little to scared to poke around anymore so I'll probably just deal with it, it's not too annoying anyway. Thanks for the info!

So I was tinkering a bit, and now my Pocket has a few faint vertical lines on the LCD. I've seen fixes for DMGs, is it similar for a Pocket? Advice appreciated. Picture:

Hey guys, I've got a few newbie questions about the Game boy Pocket. I just put a Nonfinite V3 backlight in my Pocket and I'm wondering what the expected battery life is. I've heard 10 hours but I'm not sure if that's correct. Mine's been going for about 8 hours but after 2-3 the backlight...

That's interesting, I'll poke around and see. Thanks for the info!

Hm... Well I've seen some posts about using SP batteries, like this one:http://bibin.gg8.se/blog/page/2/, and it seems like I'd be stuck using an SP to charge the battery. Is there really no other way to charge the battery, like pulling parts from the SP and putting them inside the Pocket or...

Hey guys, fan of the site but first time posting. I've looked around and found similar projects, but can't figure out if this possible. Can I power my Gameboy Pocket with a Gameboy Micro battery? I know that the Pocket runs on 3v and the battery is 3.8v and the only reason I want to try is...