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gameboy advanced sp

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:41 am
by ShipStreeT
so a found a gameboy advanced SP in my house and wondered can i use its screen, button pcb, battery and battery charging to make a pi zero? so what will be different is the "brain", well be replaced with the pi zero.
ive never worked with stuff like this and every screen , battery , or any electronic that i looked at doesnt ship to where i live :(
so because im out of resource i was wondering if the gameboy SP screen and other stuff will work with the pi zero

Re: gameboy advanced sp

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 12:09 pm
by Rolen47
You can't use the LCD because it doesn't have a driver board that the Raspberry Pi can use. You have to replace it with an LCD that can be connected to with composite, HDMI, or VGA. The Gameboy SP is a very small case, it will not be easy but it isn't impossible.

Re: gameboy advanced sp

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 1:26 pm
by ShipStreeT
i see well my problem is that every board or screen or any thing that i need for the big gameboy zero project wont ship to israel which is sad.
put could i use the battery of it and charging board?

Re: gameboy advanced sp

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:44 pm
by Rolen47
Yes you can use the battery. Not sure about the charging board, but I don't think it's separate from the motherboard, so probably not.

Re: gameboy advanced sp

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 4:50 pm
by ShipStreeT
so best bet is to ditch the motherboard all togther and not to try to solder on to the existing stuff that i need?
i was thinking of soldering to the 3.7v rail line and to the buttons lines, because that motherboard got every thing needed, a battery that can be charged, buttons and audio

gameboy advanced sp

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2016 1:49 pm
by WesleyfuhPP
I noticed my gameboy has this weird sound coming from it when its on. Even with the volume down it has like a static sound coming from the speaker. Any ideas on how to fix this?