Game Boy Dumper
I just finished my Shawazu game Boy dumper project! I originally got it to rescue my Pokemon before the battery dies, but now I use it to archive my game collection and play it on the steam deck! Building it was fun, but soldering all those little cartridge connections was a bit tricky. I also needed to compile the firmware for the raspberry pico, which I have never done before. So i also learned a lot during the project. Unfortunately not every rom I dump works, and sometimes the file names are gibberish. I've read it's because aftermarket cartridge connectors are not very high quality and I need to really push it against the connectors. Or maybe the firmware got a problem? Needs some more tinkering but it's a fun project!
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I know the dude that developed that personally. He gave me one of these kits for my birthday. Color me surprised they show up even here. X)
Please tell him that he did a great job!
Nice dumper bro.
Ikr
Details, please!
I got the DIY kit from this website:
Thank you!
Are the mod wires running over the board related to those options listed on the page?
Yeah exactly. I have a game boy camera so I needed it. It doesn't work yet but I working on it :D
That CS2 wire running a bit close to the GP16 solder bead, no? Or maybe it's jacketed and I just can't tell from the image...
Yeah, that wire has a transparent jacket. It's barely visible
Ah, that makes sense. Nice work!
That was freaking me out as well😅
I like how the half of the board footprint is logic level shifters
This is probably the edible talking but... I'm enjoying this through the lens of the sci-fi trope of humanity trying to cheat death by digitizing the soul.
We haven't figured out the technology for ourselves yet, but here we have a person at their workbench, driven by empathy for a digital pet, going apeshit with a soldering iron to try and transfer their little friend's ghost before its shell fails. That's cyberpunk as fuck.
(Bortus voice) Five. Hundred. Logic level converters.