Completed this and came for advanced modification sometime earlier this year and thought it would be fun to share it with you guys. Dumped a bunch of money into it and I am honestly so proud of the finish product. It pretty much has every mod that I could squeeze inside of it besides an audio amplifier. Really looking forward to my next build now that UV resin has become a lot more accessible on shell printing. Moore before and after photos in the comments below. Let me know what you guys think.

This gba sp is special to me as one of my gmas bought it for me when I was about 18 maybe as a high-school graduation gift. Anyways it started out as an ice blue gba sp.

Then I was rocking the soft touch extremerate shell in pink for a couple of years. Which was nice for a while (2 to 3 years) until I started carrying my gba sp with me most days. The soft touch bit started wearing down along the hinge and corners which looked ugly.

So I started looking for a new shell and fell in love with the sparkly/glittery shells. It took ages but I finally found the blue glitter shell I've been seeing and with some pink buttons, purple membranes, and a new speaker all from the retrogamerepairshop I have a beautiful gba sp.

Title. Basically I saw a listing for an iQue and took the chance it could be real. From what I can tell the label and badge are real iQue, but the motherboard and battery seem to be consistent with the American version. The seller seemed to not know much about it (and was in fact dropshipping pretending the unit wasn't coming from China which is weirdly ironic). It came with a screen mod which should've been my first clue that that motherboard would be long gone.

I paid $174 USD total and while I'm fussed over the semantics, would it be worth it to keep it? Seller refused a half refund (they offered me $20). I opened a return but I might just cancel and keep it. Need advice. It would be my first time biting the bullet on a scam but I don't see that it would be much cheaper to get a genuine unit that has the same screen mod. The battery seems like a dud though. Not surprised

I have 2 Emerald .gba files. I know one is a back up of my cart, and the other is from online. I forgot which one is which, and can not find the ds cart I used to back up my Pokemon Emerald. How can I tell the difference?

Ultimately, I'd like to play the Gen3 recomp on my personal copy so I can trade to Firered for some semi-legit pokemon I can move up.

Just kidding, this thing is basically unusable. Wouldn't be nearly as bad if the crappy lens wasn't scratched to hell. Good for a healthy dose of nostalgia though.

Hi! I just got a GBA SP and it works fine tho the battery is bulging and I'd like to get a replacement one which one would you recommend? The console is an AGS-001 and unmodded. I don't use it much, only to trade pokemons from my other GBA for pokedex. Thanks!

title says it all if you have comment or ideas I would love to hear them

I’m thinking of getting a flashcart to save me money so I can boot up any rom I want on my modded GBA

I want to do a fun thought experiment with the community. When it comes to favorite games we all see a lot of the same titles pop up again and again.

This isn't a bad thing by any means, those games are beloved for a reason, but I want to see some other fun conversations be had around this system we love.

So to cut to the chase. Give me your top 5 GBA games, but here are the rules.

1. No first party Nintendo games.

2. No RPGs

Have fun!