Tiptonium
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I thought that this was just way too wacky to work. As we all know, the Game Boy Advance SP has a front lit display that makes playing portable games much more enjoyable. There are many games for the NGPC that are quite fun to play but can be hard to play in low light situations.
Upon examination, I noticed a striking resemblance of the Game Boy Advance pin outs to that of the NGPC cartridge (Figure 1). Except for a small plastic bridge on the NGPC cart it looked pretty much identical to that of the GBA cart. Curiosity got the best of me and I decided to take the GBA cart apart. Low and behold it looked just like a NGPC cartridge, minus the plastic bridge that keeps the NGPC game from being able to fit into the GBA SP cartridge slot.
The mad scientist in me awoke. I cut off the top of a really lame GBA game cartridge (Figure 2). To my surprise, the NGPC cartridge fit nicely into the newly created opening (Figure 3). However, the cartridge contacts were not making any sort of contact to the GBA PCB. Taking a small screwdriver, I pried the GBA contacts up about 1/16th of an inch, just enough for the NGPC contacts to touch the GBA contacts. I then inserted the NGPC cart into the GBA cart opening and I heard a solid “click.”
<img src="http://www.tiptonium.com/stuff/gbaspngpc0.jpg" alt=" - " />
Next I jammed this contraption into the GBA SP, powered it on and to my surprise the NGPC game powered up and played perfectly. The only problem now is that the GBA game cartridge jammed inside of the GBA SP. No matter, I’ll just use this GBA SP to play NGPC games now!
<img src="http://www.tiptonium.com/stuff/gbaspngpc4.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://www.tiptonium.com/stuff/gbaspngpc5.jpg" alt=" - " />
-- Tiptonium Out...
Upon examination, I noticed a striking resemblance of the Game Boy Advance pin outs to that of the NGPC cartridge (Figure 1). Except for a small plastic bridge on the NGPC cart it looked pretty much identical to that of the GBA cart. Curiosity got the best of me and I decided to take the GBA cart apart. Low and behold it looked just like a NGPC cartridge, minus the plastic bridge that keeps the NGPC game from being able to fit into the GBA SP cartridge slot.
The mad scientist in me awoke. I cut off the top of a really lame GBA game cartridge (Figure 2). To my surprise, the NGPC cartridge fit nicely into the newly created opening (Figure 3). However, the cartridge contacts were not making any sort of contact to the GBA PCB. Taking a small screwdriver, I pried the GBA contacts up about 1/16th of an inch, just enough for the NGPC contacts to touch the GBA contacts. I then inserted the NGPC cart into the GBA cart opening and I heard a solid “click.”
<img src="http://www.tiptonium.com/stuff/gbaspngpc0.jpg" alt=" - " />
Next I jammed this contraption into the GBA SP, powered it on and to my surprise the NGPC game powered up and played perfectly. The only problem now is that the GBA game cartridge jammed inside of the GBA SP. No matter, I’ll just use this GBA SP to play NGPC games now!
<img src="http://www.tiptonium.com/stuff/gbaspngpc4.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://www.tiptonium.com/stuff/gbaspngpc5.jpg" alt=" - " />
-- Tiptonium Out...
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