Bitamin wrote:

Hi smile I am new here and would like to know some fellow chippy producers too :'D

Saw your username, did a doubletake. Welcome to the site smile

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(55 replies, posted in General Discussion)

<---- Actually Batman. Job as a delivery driver is a scapegoat for being out all night fighting crime.

kitsch wrote:

radiograffiti

I would be into these boards like crazy. Would want to order two, FYI smile

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(1,206 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

That, sir, is beautiful. Any chance you can show us a shot of the teensy inside? I'm still in the middle of making some DMGs with the Teensy inside, interested in your choice to put it in the corner behind the speaker.

Zen80

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(274 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

heart yay

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(16 replies, posted in Trading Post)

PM sent.

I remember digging around on Alibaba and finding some GBA SP AGS001 screen replacement kits, and they came with frontlights. They were something like $17. Not sure if they were old Nintendo stock or what, but they were once there. Can't find them now.

These possibly could be the same frontlight units...

Apeshit wrote:

Label is printed and currently in transit to us

Instabuy.

kitsch wrote:

@thebitman...  #7, just to make sure i'm reading you right...  you mean having a thru hole right next to the solder pads of SMT parts?  or, would having extra long solder pads work since you can solder fly wires to them easier like that?  i'm a touch confused, i think i'm seeing something in my head you don't mean...  in short (just from an ease-of-PCB-design perspective) adding two rows of thru-holes/vias unnecessarily is a lot of mess you'll curse throughout the routing.  keeping them on one side (with longer solder pads perhaps, or some variant of this) would be much easier. 

and, your #6.  it'd need to be a breakout PCB with the SMT fram on it, with swiss pins or something acting like a socketable IC.  its possible...  someone else mentioned switchable fram up above...  sort of echoes something jazzmarazz was wanting (i think, not looking).  multi-sav support is what it sounds like this boils down too, right?  or, do you literally want to be able to physically swap the fram?  and, why?  (just for curiosity's sake)

For #7 I should redact my statement and insist on solder pads. Easier to deal with smile
As far as #6 goes, easy multi-save as well as the ability to, say, create an FPGA-to-SRAM/FRAM socket interface, may be cool for debugging or creating custom code in the future with the aid of custom homebrew ROMs wink

I know what I would want to see:
1) status LED for when flashing ROM to cart, or reading save. Something like that which has to do with flasher reading and writing.
2) solder pads opposite the board from said LED like the ASM carts so that those of us who strive for symmetry can solder in an identical LED
3) cases similar to the machine-cut Bleep Bloop cases that had the notch cut out (if possible)
4) Possibly multiple ROM banks (say, 2?) and definitely support for Little FM, second bank could be used like a redundant backup of songs if used WITH Little FM-patched LSDJ ROM
5) a means (perhaps a switch on top?) that could disable writing to SRAM. Good for things like screwed up saves, Pokemon cloning, and preventing mGB from overwriting any LSDJ info at startup (not sure if this is a real problem though). This is a pretty unneeded option really though.
6) socketed FRAM = multiple saves when using multiple FRAM chips? just a thought, not sure how easy that would be to implement, might work well with multiROM support
7) throught-hole leads that connect to FRAM and EEPROM in case someone wanted to make, say, a Raspberry Pi-based mobile cart flasher. Again, a bit of a stretch but something to think about.
8) if a custom case is engineered/cast for the PCB, it would be nice to see something that will feel stable in the GBA and GBA SP (SP's tend to wiggle and cause little LSDJ-seizures, for me).

I'll email you some other thoughts I have about other things wink great post, I love the crowd-sourcing approach you are bringing to the table smile

http://www.realhotstuff.hk/EZ-Flash-IV-_p_76.html
Get 'em while they're hot. $39.95 with free shipping from HK.

I ordered one. Are you?

@herr_prof I bet if you were to use a table with a flicker between E3 and E0, based on having the right tempo and such, you might be able to make it seem like the pitch being played is sounding an octave lower. It would probably require some crazy math though.

I'm an Anamanagroupie

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(59 replies, posted in Trading Post)

I'll check the adapter settings for my Gameboy Light and let you all know *if* it works plain and simple with these adapters.

I have a pretty good hunch that it will...