<![CDATA[ChipMusic.org - What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> 2014-02-04T00:29:56Z PunBB https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/13332/what-should-i-do-with-my-broken-dmg-any-ideas/ <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> i am making an inconspicous case to hold any contraband i may or may not have.

]]> https://chipmusic.org/bitjacker 2014-02-04T00:29:56Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199753/#p199753 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> Condom dispenser.
Make it into a bomb.

]]> https://chipmusic.org/Bit+wish 2014-02-03T23:20:08Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199748/#p199748 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> I mentioned this to my friend and they showed me this:

  1. http://www.flashingleds.net/gameboyLCD/gameboyLCD.html

  2. http://www.flashingleds.net/nintendosco … scope.html

He's outputting the screen data to an oscilloscope using a microcontroller, it should be totally possible to LED matrix or some other kind of LCD display. I don't have a fast enough micro but maybe one day!

]]> https://chipmusic.org/brook2 2014-02-03T21:53:24Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199740/#p199740 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> Alley Beach wrote:
DogTag wrote:

Empty it, put something behind the screen protector acting as a light difussor and a big LED inside. Power it up with USB. Ultra cool desk light for less than 5 bucks!

i might try that... i have lots of empty cases tongue

I'm serious! If I had extra DMG cases I'd try it rightaway...

]]> https://chipmusic.org/DogTag 2014-02-03T17:21:03Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199700/#p199700 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> Bamboori wrote:

what about making a new display with led matrices? always wanted to see something like that tongue

I would absolutely love to make a new display to give it new life! I wonder how easy it would be do to? Probably a bit out of my depth since I've not done much hardware but it's fun to think about.

I counted 20 channels on the ribbon cable that connects the back PCB to the front, not sure what each channel is: my best guess (and this might be completely wrong) would be one channel for all the pixel data (rough calculation: 160x144 pixels with 2 bits per pixel depth being displayed at 59.7Hz would come out to 2,750,976 bits per second) and a couple channels for things like v-blank, h-blank as well as audio and the button inputs.

The flexible PCBs that the LCD is connected to the board through have a couple decoder chips (serial to parallel maybe?) for vertical and horizontal lines, maybe it'd be an option to desolder that and connect the matrix up to there instead of trying to decode through the ribbon cable.

]]> https://chipmusic.org/brook2 2014-02-03T14:48:56Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199687/#p199687 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> if you have one of the later dmg-cpu (blobs) use it for recording. supposedly they have the best sound

]]> https://chipmusic.org/Alley+Beach 2014-02-03T06:29:47Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199680/#p199680 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> DogTag wrote:

Empty it, put something behind the screen protector acting as a light difussor and a big LED inside. Power it up with USB. Ultra cool desk light for less than 5 bucks!

i might try that... i have lots of empty cases tongue

]]> https://chipmusic.org/Alley+Beach 2014-02-03T06:28:50Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199679/#p199679 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> what about making a new display with led matrices? always wanted to see something like that tongue

]]> https://chipmusic.org/Bamboori 2014-02-03T06:01:33Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199677/#p199677 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> 12ianma wrote:

You want to close to the screen.

Not that close...

]]> https://chipmusic.org/katsumbhong 2014-02-03T01:02:52Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199661/#p199661 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> You want to close to the screen.

]]> https://chipmusic.org/12ianma 2014-02-03T00:35:03Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199660/#p199660 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> I'll take the back PCB and you can keep the rest. smile

]]> https://chipmusic.org/Jazzmarazz 2014-02-03T00:18:39Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199658/#p199658 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> Empty it, put something behind the screen protector acting as a light difussor and a big LED inside. Power it up with USB. Ultra cool desk light for less than 5 bucks!

]]> https://chipmusic.org/DogTag 2014-02-03T00:05:49Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199657/#p199657 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> katsumbhong wrote:

It looks like you were using the soldering iron in the wrong area...

It looks like you were getting super close to the screen.

Yeah I wasn't sure of the right place to do it. I started out really carefully and had no effect, so the next days I tried in different places and with a hotter iron.

]]> https://chipmusic.org/brook2 2014-02-02T23:45:44Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199656/#p199656 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> It looks like you were using the soldering iron in the wrong area...

It looks like you were getting super close to the screen.

]]> https://chipmusic.org/katsumbhong 2014-02-02T23:28:11Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199655/#p199655 <![CDATA[Re: What should I do with my broken DMG? Any ideas!]]> PianoGameboy wrote:

I'll buy it from you. How much do you want?

I don't want to let go of it, I'd like to find a use for it but I'm just lacking ideas at the moment.

but really I don't think you want this DMG, I tried (and failed) again to fix the lines and realized you can see the traces if you lift it up.. here's what I see:

So I don't think it's fixable without a replacement flexible pcb part or combined pcb + lcd (but maybe not needed since there's no missing horizontals) and of course neither of these can be bought anywhere..

]]> https://chipmusic.org/brook2 2014-02-02T23:23:33Z https://chipmusic.org/forums/post/199653/#p199653