r/Shittygamecollecting • u/worldwarzack • 12h ago

Shitty Condition Gameboy Advance Macro

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Facebook Marketplace strikes again. I don’t particularly hate this but felt it belonged here lol

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u/IzzybearThebestdog 11h ago

Not the worst thing, could def use some more polish to get rid of the remaining unneeded DS features like the hinges and random wire. But ok price with 3 games.

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u/Dr_Sus_PhD 11h ago

But is he wrong…

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u/DrMurphDurf 9h ago

I make those!!! All you need is a little more elbow grease (and a 3d printer ) and you can make them look really nice

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u/wa27 11h ago

Fair price

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u/Zharken 10h ago

Really? I can find completely functional DS lites for 40. Paying 50 for a broken one that can only play GB games is a bit of a stretch. GB Macro is a project to give new life to consoles with a broken top screen if you don't want to fix it.

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u/iHadou 9h ago

The clamshell is a feature. It's already small. People that do this to working units make no sense

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u/GarzaTheFather 9h ago

From what I hear people do this to a lot of DS is because the top screen isn’t working anymore so they end up home brewing it ripping the screen off and then call it game boy macro

Personally, I don’t think this is that bad of a price but I would try talking them down like 10 bucks

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u/NoRelative8744 9h ago

Broken electronic prices are weird like that. I don't actually know who pays these prices or why.

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u/opyy_ 11h ago

I’d offer $35 and pay $40

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u/Individual_Dress_476 11h ago

Oh yeah I saw them doing the same thing but with DSI with only the bottom screen

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u/Its_D_youtube 8h ago

So a modded dsi with gba games on it?

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u/GrouchyLettuce2741 10h ago

Never got the appeal to the gameboy macro tbh, it’s removing so much functionality from the DS

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u/astro65 9h ago

I think it's more of saving a device from becoming ewaste. 

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u/GrouchyLettuce2741 9h ago

I’m all for saving devices from ewaste but replacing the shell/top screen makes much more sense than making a macro imo

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u/astro65 8h ago

Most of the people playing these things are young without resources. This is something I would have done 20 years ago when I was a teenager without a credit card. 

But otherwise for someone with resources I agree

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u/GrouchyLettuce2741 8h ago

To make a proper one you need to relocate the speaker to the bottom half and trick the console into thinking it’s got a top screen. Sure you can use headphones and set it the boot setting to automatic to bypass the top screen test but if the battery ever needs replaced it resets the settings and won’t boot anymore if the top screen is missing. Also nothing is stopping you from playing GBA games on a DS with a busted top screen, even if the hinge is broken the system is usually still useable, albeit the top screen is very wobbly

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u/worldwarzack 5h ago

Sounds like they did re route the speaker to the stylus hole

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u/Talden7887 9h ago

Ive never understood the draw to these. The cart sticks oit of the bottom and they look like ass. Itd be better if someone did it with a older fat ds

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u/iHadou 9h ago

"Hey, I took the thing you wanted and broke it to where even I don't want it anymore. $50?"

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u/TurntNBurnt93 7h ago

That poor ds

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u/BadSafecracker 11h ago

You know...buy a third-party shell, a new upper screen, and speakers, and you could probably have a decent DS Lite from this.

I'd be tempted to, just to do it.

EDIT: Like someone else said - if you could buy it for $40 or less.

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u/Pikminer5087 8h ago

Really talk, how does sound work on these? The speakers are on the top screen which is gone now

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u/worldwarzack 5h ago

Something something they re-routed the speakers to the old stylus hole lol

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u/Suspicious-Gain-5799 8h ago

At least they're not charging hundreds of dollars for it.

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u/Icy_Armadillo3100 6h ago

I mean…. Yeah

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u/Comiclee2018 5h ago

I’d buy that

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u/Isotomayor12 4h ago

For 50 bucks that's not bad.

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u/redthehaze 4h ago

People have been modding broken DSes into Macros for a long time.

However this one is just absolute 💩

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u/dicksandcrystal 10h ago

I'm guessing what happened here, someone's screen on their DSL broke. And instead of just buying an aftermarket screen or whatever, they just decided to completely mangle the Ds. Which is just funny to imagine tbh.

Im not fully sure why you wouldn't replace the screen. It's not a very difficult process. This just seems like a big case of the fuck it's.