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GND pin from the powerboost to the solder join just to the left of THAT pin.

EN pin from the powerboost to the solder joint to the left of my screwdriver in the photo.

Make sure that battery is not in the Gameboy and now you may solder your final solderings. (The two pins to the left of my screwdriver in the photo). If you have a multimeter, hook up the battery, turn the Gameboy OFF and make sure there's no current flowing through the two pins on the OFF side of the switch. *** NOTE: WHEN YOU CUT THAT TRACE, MAKE SURE YOU DO SO THOROUGHLY OR YOUR POWERBOOST WON'T OUTPUT THE BOOSTED CURRENT. Get lost, old Gameboy circuit, you're no longer needed around here. Well, guess what, the EN pin on the powerboost is going to do this job now. The reason for this is that when you turn your Gameboy off under normal circumstances, the switch isolates the battery circuit so they don't discharge while your Gameboy is off. If you want to use the boosting circuit on your powerboost do the following:Ĭut the trace at the switch in the above photo.

EN on the powerboost to any GND point on the powerboost (disables the boosting circuit).

GND from the powerboost to the (-) battery terminal (obviously the one with the spring).

Vsh from the powerboost to the (+) battery terminal (the one without the spring if you somehow haven't figured this out yet).

GND from the powerboost to pin 1 beneath the DC jack.

USB from the powerboost to pin 2 beneath the DC jack.

If you're not utilizing the boosting circuit on your powerboost, solder as follows: You're hungry and it's almost nap time, so make sure to work quickly and recklessly so you're done sooner. Now that your soldering iron is hot, it's time to hook up the powerboost to the Gameboy's PCB and finish the job.

Gameboy dmg rechargeable battery mod how to#

I didn't jump EN to GND on this board because I'm going to show you how to use the boost feature in this mod with that one since I haven't destroyed it yet. Sorry.įor the 500c, you will want to solder wires to the USB, GND, EN, GND, 5V, and GND pins. The Vs (or Vsh) pin provides power from the wall if the battery is not in, otherwise it provides power from the battery. The BAT wire should be on the Vs (or Vsh) pin. **NOTE** There is an error in the powerboost 1000c photo. I just wanted to make sure it was all the way off. You can trim as needed from there.įor my 1000c, I wired the EN pin to GND because I ruined the boosting circuit anyway. You should leave enough wire to reach the top of the Gameboy from the powerboost. You will thread your wire through hole near the positive battery terminal and into the innards of the Gameboy. The powerboost is going to sit in the battery compartment underneath the battery. WHEN YOU PREP YOUR WIRES, MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE ENOUGH LENGTH OF WIRE. The serendipitous thing is that the Gameboy can run off the paltry 3.7-4.2v that my LiPo battery was giving out, so I don't even need the boosting circuit! The Gameboy operates on 5v, so it has the voltage boosting inside itself already, making the powerboost "booster" kind of redundant, but whatever, we're doing this. I thought all was lost, but, LO, the charging circuit still works. as I was farting around with this mod, I fried the boosting circuit on my powerboost 1000c. The best part is that it utilizes your Gameboy's original DC jack so you can keep your Gameboy's original pristine aesthetic (no new holes in the shell) and still use your inefficient old wall charging brick that you bought at Toys 'R Us in 1991 when you first got sick of wasting batteries playing Super Mario Land.

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This amazingly incredible mod jams a LiPo in your Gameboy's backdoor with a recharging board so you never have to fuss with batteries in your beloved little handheld portable gaming system NEVER EVER AGAIN almost. After this, I'll invent the time machine so you can help your past self out on that road trip from hell by giving your childhood you THIS modded Gameboy. 30 years later, I've devised a solution to this quandary that has plagued mankind for decades. Now, let me ask you a serious question: Have you ever want to put a LiPo battery into your ORIGINAL Gameboy DMG for NONSTOP GAMING EXCITEMENT? No? Well, too bad there's no turning back now. You're out of batteries and there's still two hours left to drive.

Then the red LED next to the screen blanks out. You are able to make out one last weird noise that Tetris makes when you lose.

What a payoff! Then it happens, the screen goes dim. You're about to take your high score in Tetris- 150 lines and you get to see that cutscene of the dancing Russians and Buran shuttle being launched. Playing your brand new Gameboy DMG that you got last Christmas is the only thing keeping you sane at the moment. You've run out of Ecto-Cooler Hi-C and your stupid brother has been car sick since Sioux Falls. Tears For Fears is blaring on the radio of your Chevrolet Celebrity station wagon. You're on hour six of an eight hour road trip to Mount Rushmore.