It turns a normally working ( or broken ) DMG handheld into a fully capable home console with a fairly simple DIY modification.

DMTV PCB Required).

The Gamebox DMG Consolization Kit brings life back to otherwise marked broken or for parts handhelds.

Simply remove the old cable and LCD PCB, and plug it into the slot on the Gameboy PCB.

Gameboy not included ).

Our add-on PCB offers a breakout port that connects to Original Nintendo Entertainment System Controller Ports.

DMTV has also been tested working with aftermarket wireless controllers.

Simply solder TWO wires to connect the signals to DMTV for a clean and crisp chiptune experience Great for LSDJ, Nanoloop, etc.

We check each printed part for major defects in order to successfully manufacture each case kit.

Gameboy Dmg Pcb Download The Design

You can download the design files for DMTV from our Github Page.

The script is written so that you need to hold the button for around 1 second to trigger the event, so you wont have an accidental suprise. (.

This project is not perfect by looks, but it is an Raspberry Pi 3 crammed into a classic aftermarket gameboy shell with additional features, like monitor the battery with a DIY arduino inside, a powerboost 1000c from adafruit to make it run off a battery for around 2 hours of runtime (and charging it with the powerboost).

Gameboy Dmg Pcb Psp 1000 Analog

The input controller is a (Sparkfun) arduino leonardo pro micro which I programmed myself and hooked up with 2 psp 1000 analog sticks.

I have also tried alternative images like recalbox, lakka and some others.

The reason I took retropie is that almost everything worked out of the box on the first startup, and to edit configurations if needed is easy to follow, which was important to me because I am less of a linux guy, but it still is fairly easy to understand what is going on.

The interface is nice and clean and easy to handle.

So. I was so pleased by retropie and did have alot of fun playing, that an idea I had just totaly got me then.

I wanted to put the setup I had on my desk, connected to my TV in some sort of handeld device.

Then I saw it. A video of somebody cramming an raspberry pi zero into a gameboy shell.

His name is known as wermy, you can check out his build here: Then there was no going back for me.

I knew I had to build something like this But I wanted to take it up a notch.

A Pi Zero was not enough for me, so for extra beef and more features like wifi, bluetooth and more USB, integrated audio and much more, I decided to take my Raspberry Pi 3 for this project.

Also, I about had in mind what games I definetly wanted to play on this, so I knew I needed more controls.

So I decided to take two PSP 1000 analog sticks to have one as sort of main stick and the other as additional sort or control stick, sorta like the Nintendo Gamecube.

So I took my old gameboy in my hands and thought where to best place them.

Eventualy, I had my parts list and tried to find everything on eBay, which I did, except for a (grey or black) gameboy case like you see above, for some reason I only found the transparent ones here in germany, so I went with a blue one, which is also fine.

After the parts arrived one by one, I started building.

You can follow the build log).

The end result is an awesome, fun handheld gaming console able to play back so many memories from my childhood with games like the original NES and SNES Super Mario bros.

It features an 3.5 TFT composite screen, an sparkfun leonardo pro mico which acts as a gaming controller pcb, original gameboy buttons, 2 PSP 1000 analog sticks, L1, L2, R1 and R2 buttons, an Adafruit Powerboost 1000C USB boost and charging PCB along with a cellphone battery which has 3.7V and 2500 mAh.

The front button PCB is a pre-made commercial PCB gotten hold of from a store named kitsch-bent, you can check it out here for alot of gameboy accessories and spare parts: Kitsch-bents store.

The speaker is a gameboy advance speaker which is a bit smaller than the original speaker supposed to go in there, but it fits just OK as well and it has more beef and is clearer as the original.

To regulate the volume, I also used an aftermarket Gameboy style wheel potentiometer, which then goes directly to the raspberry pis audio output.

I also put in an additional arduino uno (just the atmega328 chip with an 16 MHz quartz) which monitors the battery.

If it drops to a voltage of 3.54 Volts, an red LED will light up, so the user knows they have around 10-15 minutes of playtime before the battery drops to 3.20 Volts and the arduino then safe-shutdowns the raspberry pi via GPIO.

There is a tactile switch on the upper right, which is connected to the same GPIO pin so that you also can (and should) safe-shutdown the raspberry pi when you want to stop playing for now.

If the user decides to plug a charger in on the mini USB port, the shutdown of the arduino is surpressed of course.

The script is written so that you need to hold the button for around 1 second to trigger the event, so you wont have an accidental suprise.