Gameboy Color Recharagable battery mod.

[pkmnjunky7]

I have to ask, what did you use as a charging / protection circuit? I'm not seeing any special wiring or whatnot.

I don't know about pkmnjunky7, but i didnt use any
And i also just noticed that mine is remarkably similar to his. Same color CGB, same game in it. But mine has the blue battery cover.

I didnt wire in any sort of protection/chargin circuit. I just take the battery out and charge it on one of my many broken SPs i have laying around.

 

[N00BModdr]

Does anyone know how to wire in some jack or thingmabob (excuse my noobish language) so that the battery will charge inside the CGB?

 

[N00BModdr]

Ok. My CGB is going absolute wonkers. I think its because of the battery. The battery from the SP is 3.8v, and the gameboy usually takes 3v. I have two theories. One, the battery needs to be charged (its almost dead). Two, the extra .8v is making the gameboy have problems. For the first like 8 hrs of the battery being installed, it was going great. Now, i turn it on, and the screen is having some serious image stability issues. Can anyone help???

 

[eurddrue]

Did you try charging your batteries? That usually happens when something isn't getting proper voltage.

 

[N00BModdr]

Yeah, i just finished charging one in an SP charging dock I have, and its working ok now.

 

[PalmerTech]

Would you be fine with it charing inside the CGB if you had to build your own wall wart only for the CGB? If so, I can link to the $5 in parts you will need, and it will work with any li-ion battery projects in the future.

 

[Ampersand]

If I'd had that GameBoy when I got a BGC and Pokemon Crystal for Christmas when I was seven, I would have ended up a very socially deprived child.

Nice work

 

[N00BModdr]

Would you be fine with it charing inside the CGB if you had to build your own wall wart only for the CGB? If so, I can link to the $5 in parts you will need, and it will work with any li-ion battery projects in the future.

Hmm... I'm not sure what a wall wart is... Can you explain?

 

[eurddrue]

Black box plug's. The ones that turn the AC into DC basically.

 

[N00BModdr]

Oh, then yeah, I'm fine with that.

 

[N00BModdr]

So, uh, how would you do it?

 

[PalmerTech]

I will post the stuff tomorrow night when I get home.

 

[N00BModdr]

Alrighty. Thanks.

 

[senor_kiwi]

I know that this is an older thread, but I have a gameboy color and 2 extra SP batteries, and, well, please post the parts

 

[BoFoSho]

1 SP battery is all you need.
1 SP to act as the charger.
wire.
solder.

 

[senor_kiwi]

I know how to do it while charging it in the SP, but I wanted to know how to make it charge inside the CGB. I can find countless examples, but no information that will help someone like me...

 

[BoFoSho]

Want to do what bibin does?
If so I'll post a tutorial tomorrow.
he makes the battery internal.
adds a charging port.
wires a sp. up to a plug to act as the charger.

 

[senor_kiwi]

YES!!! Thanks SO MUCH! That's the PERFECT thing!

 

[BoFoSho]

No problem.
The tutorial will be with an MGB but it is the same thing as the CGB
MGB = Gameboy pocket
CGB = Color gameboy
DMG = Original gameboy

Just for anybody who was wondering.

 

[senor_kiwi]

Is the board of the MGB similar enough to the CGB in the areas pertinent to this mod that there wont be a problem with someone who is very unexperienced in modding?