Game Boy Advance Speaker Mods
Channel: makho
Date: 26/11/2020

In lieu of a clickbait title, no, speaker mods do not make a difference on an otherwise unmodified Game Boy. No reason not to mod for aesthetic though. 

Tested: Stock AGB speaker, stock AGS speaker, stock DS Lite speaker, generic 1w aftermarket speaker, and new funnyplaying speaker. 

To me, they all sounded basically the same. Yes, this GBA is rather quiet but it was consistently quiet with all speakers. The sound is otherwise fine. The results may be significantly different on an amplified Game Boy (which is also where we might notice a bigger difference with Helder's mod). I'll probably do another video soon on fixing the volume level issues (I believe it needs to be recapped). 

The Funnyplaying speaker was provided to me by Retro Game Repair Shop and you can grab one for yourself, if ya dig it, here: https://retrogamerepairshop.com/collections/funnyplaying/products/funnyplaying-clear-game-boy-advance-speaker?variant=32508798304330

Also provided by RGRS was Helder's GBA Power Cleaner flex ribbon: https://www.heldergametech.com/shop/gba/game-boy-advance-power-cleaner-flex-pcb/

Though I did not notice any real difference with Helder's board, I didn't really give it a fair shake. I will be running more tests on that later. 

The "stock" console speakers were all sourced from the respective consoles. The other, generic speaker was sourced from aliexpress. Search "game boy speaker" and you should be able to find them pretty easily. I specifically used the 1w version. RGRS also stocks them: https://retrogamerepairshop.com/products/game-boy-advance-color-pocket-speaker?_pos=3&_sid=19acf9823&_ss=r&variant=31863010951242

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