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I remember seeing an Austin Powers PDA thingy for the GBC a while back. It may have had a calculator.
Also, I found a PD homebrew rom of a reverse-polish notation calculator. It takes a bit of effort to remember to enter equations in reverse-polish notation, though.
Seeing as I've been gutting and re-capping broken game gears for the past week, I tried this yesterday and it works flawlessly. Great idea with the game gear d-pad. The rubber buttons internally fit exactly the same and they're the same size as a game boy d-pad. The only modification was boring out the case and making alignment tabs with epoxy and plastic. Works amazingly well!
Awesome. Maybe I'll go look for dead GGs some day. I have extra DMG shells to use. 
Well, I haven't really damaged any of my Gameboys, but I once dropped my GameGear 6 feet. The thing wouldn't turn on afterwards, so I opened it up and noticed that a coil from the power board was knocked clean off. I completely re-wound the coil so I could get enough wire to solder back in. I'm glad I got it working... It's hard to find a GameGear in good shape for a good price around here. (I bought mine from a ValueVillage for $8 a few years ago and found one at a retro game shop for $20 in the worst shape imaginable and a few of the same quality at a lower price at a flea market.)
Oh, and like... 10 years ago, one of my friends dropped his DMG on a playground and the sound was lost completely. (Probably just a knocked out cap though.)
Hey, you should have tried using a GameGear D-Pad. I'd try it as I have access to the right tools, but I don't want to further tear apart my only GameGear...
Okay, I just got my hands on a clear Play-It-Loud DMG:
GM2553372
Maybe it's my cart, maybe it's the super gameboy 2...I don't know but it didn't work for me...btw my old non-USB EMS works !
I think it might be your cart or you have to format it; I just tested my new 64 megabit EMS cart on my SGB with no problems.
first of all you can't paste something from real life and second of all
laughs are for things that are funny
What do you mean "paste something from real life"?
Well, I'm new here, so give me a break... OTL
I was going to say something else, but I thought it would be slightly inappropriate.
Yeah, I kinda messed up backlighting my MGB (only took 45 minutes; I guess I was a little forceful). At first, it was perfect; nothing went wrong. After a while (of packing it around with me everywhere), the contacts started to loosen or something and now I have some lighter lines near the centre of my screen, but they go away when I unscrew the Gameboy a bit and adjust the screen unit a bit.
This probably goes for the MGB as well (haven't been inside one for a while), but I'd suggest using a hot air soldering iron when desoldering a DMG LCD ribbon cable; it's a LOT easier. I messed one up by using a cheap soldering iron and had to buy a new DMG.
All units are US/Canada
I've got Gameboys all over the place, but here's what I've found so far:
DMG - Gray
G22484694
G19299578
I can't say much about the DMGs themselves because I may have [accidentally or otherwise] swapped cases. I haven't done any backlight modding on them.
CGB - Red
This one came off; damn. I have another around here somewhere.
MGB - Black, no power indicator
MG112015?31
Serial came off, but I managed to dig up a picture; it's pretty tattered, so I can't recognize one of the numbers. Might be a 5 or 3.
Take a look if you want... not using BB code because it's a rather large image.
http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww32 … MG4607.jpg
I did a backlight mod on this one; fairly easy.
I have a strong feeling that the DMG serials just sequential in order of manufacturing.
For laughs:
Atari Lynx W29C5007349
Atari Lynx 2 Y215101440?
Sega Game Gear - Black 031649809
Sega Genesis - Model 1 31X53287
Super Nintendo - Mini UC20271167[4]
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