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      obsidianspider
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      @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.

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        anthonyp555 @obsidianspider
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        @obsidianspider will a pi 3 fit into the shell of an original gameboy

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          obsidianspider @anthonyp555
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          @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.

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            radiofreero @obsidianspider
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            @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?

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              obsidianspider @radiofreero
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              @radiofreero nope. Never.

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                radiofreero @obsidianspider
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                @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.

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                  meleu @radiofreero
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                  @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. :-)

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

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                      meleu @anthonyp555
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                      @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:

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                        This one sounds interesting too:

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                          grenade44 @meleu
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                          @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.

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