Going to attempt a gba pi zero build

meleu

@radiofreero Oh boy! I would love to have one of that!!

anthonyp555

I think I'm going to order a replacement shell for a gba pi and also an original old school gameboy and figure out which one will fit the components better, I like the idea of the original gameboy also because it has more of a retro feel, also does anyone know if its possible to power the pi zero from 4 AA batteries because that's what the original gameboy uses

obsidianspider

@meleu A Zero is significantly slower than a Pi2. It can run GBA games, but not consistently smoothly. Even SNES games aren't perfect. It works, but it's not great. That's what got me to cut down a Pi3 to fit one in my build.

anthonyp555

@obsidianspider will a pi 3 fit into the shell of an original gameboy

obsidianspider

@anthonyp555 It can, but with some caveats. I've seen it done without removing components from the Pi itself, but the ones that I think look the nicest are when the "sticky outy bits" have been removed from the Pi that you won't be using anyway.

radiofreero

@obsidianspider "Sticky outy bits", and breaking the board... It doesn't sound like you know what you are talking about. Have you ever even seen a Raspberry Pi 3 before?

obsidianspider

@radiofreero nope. Never.

radiofreero

@obsidianspider A. How did that even (seemingly) work?, and B. You do realize this guy is a noob who just bought a Raspberry Pi Zero on a whim. In any case it wouldn't be smart to completely destroy a board. Especially if you've never dremeled (hack & slash) a board. Which in doing so could crack at any moment when you try to purposely cut off/ break a piece of your newly purchased $35.00 board.

meleu

@radiofreero said in Going to attempt a gba pi zero build:

How did that even (seemingly) work?

This way:
hacked_pi3

Sounds funny to see reprimands to not tinker here in a tinker community. :-)

obsidianspider

@meleu Exactly. The whole point of a Raspberry Pi is to be a "low consequence", inexpensive computer to learn with.

meleu

@anthonyp555 said in Going to attempt a gba pi zero build:

@obsidianspider will a pi 3 fit into the shell of an original gameboy

This video can interest you:

meleu

This one sounds interesting too:

grenade44

@meleu

I have one of their v1 boards when it was called game pi advance. Here my build log.

Gba worked well (can't remember the core off the top of my head) but if your wanting gba achievements, it didn't run mGBA very well. There new free play CM3 board with the built in pi 3 sounds really impressive.

I also have a Gameboy Zero which uses an original DMG-01 shell, with X and Y added to the front and L and R added to the back. Sudomod.com I'm currently upgrading mine to a raspberry pi z w and New hdmi screen.

The weirdest thing is that the GameBoy Zero run mGba very well but the game pie advance didn't, same pi, same retroarch version, same core version.