Testing the FunnyPlaying IPS GBA LCD in a Game Boy Color
Channel: makho
Date: 2019-10-18

Spoilers below. Just in case you are into that sort of thing.








This is some older footage that I dug up. It was recorded about four months ago on June 21, 2019.

I'm testing whether the (v1) Funnyplaying IPS GBA screen can be used in a Game Boy Color with one of BennVenn's AGS-101 adapters (v2.4 in this case). BennVenn has stated that it will not work but I'm stubborn enough that I had to find out for sure. Well, it does not work. I don't know the details as to why it does not work but even if it did work, it would be a very sloppy and sub-optimal solution and I can't imagine that the battery life would fit any definition of the word "good."

Here is the install video of that v1 kit in my AGS console: https://youtu.be/YftGqoLI_kM

but if you want to make one of these for yourself, it's worth getting the AGS kit to install in a AGS console instead of shoehorning an AGB kit in. Here is my video on the AGS (v2) kit: https://youtu.be/amRFG-DqP2w

Testing aside, I guess this is a good look at my Boxy Pixel machined aluminum Game Boy Color shell that I had cerakoted. And yes, I am still very pleased with the finish. 

I no longer have those metal buttons and I neglected to take measurements. If you want to add a nubbin to your dpad, you might be best just cutting one off an existing dpad and super gluing it on. In hindsight, that would have probably been a lot easier than what I did. 

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I went back and forth on uploading this video for a while because of the issues I had recording. Ultimately I feel it is important to show failures as well as successes when experimenting because there is always something to learn but with the fact that I initially lost nearly all of the footage, I put off uploading this for a while. Thanks to some computer magic, I was able to recover the video footage that I shot but unfortunately I lost everything from after the phone locked up (likely because it was never recorded in the first place). I played with the idea of going back and doing reshoots but that felt like a waste of my time since I had already performed the experiment and already learned what I could. 

The reason I uploaded this today was because I had received a few different PMs from people asking about this exact scenario so I decided to review the footage I did have and see if I could recover more. Thankfully I got most of it back but I was having a hard time actually editing the recovered footage without re-encoding it. Finally I just decided to let it roll as is because of the diminishing returns and missing minutes anyway. Audio is not synced for the first half of the video but since you can't really see me talking while I'm talking anyway, I don't think it's a huge issue. It's close enough.