Zero wrote:It requires a video signal to work.

Yep, that did it! Thank you!


Side note, does everyone else's screen look like total butt. I know its 240x320 res but even so, the picture isn't very crisp. Can this be fixed in video settings or is this just the nature of composite video?

So I got my Bw seen with the blue version 7 board. I hooked it up to 5v from my powerboat board and nothing happened. PUT the jumper wire to the regulator, still nothing. Tried to find a 12v wall wart and all I could find was the 9v for my soldering iron. WHEN I hooked it up to that I got a very sli...

Chedda wrote: How's your desoldering skills?

I'm going to find out....
My neighbor is a great soldererer. He's build and modded a bunch of microphones (can you say tiny components) so I can always have him teach me. The smallest thing I've ever soldered is 18AWG wires on my scooter.

So after watching wermy's videos I decided to jump in and build a gameboy zero. I got a dmg-1 from ebay with a broken screen. Purchased (hopefully) all the materials. I went with Kitsch-Bent rev. 1 pcb. I am hoping I can reuse the original headphone jack, speaker, and volume wheel (i know a 30 year ...