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For the love of retro gaming.
Open-source Bluetooth mods for the NES Advantage and Game Boy Advance. Display stands for 26 handhelds. One person makes and ships all of it.
Game Boy HiFi Audio, $69.95.
Audio mod for the Game Boy Advance. Pulls the stock amp and hands the whole audio path to an ESP32 and an ES8388 codec. Adds Bluetooth out and EQ. Open source.
Stands
Display stands for handhelds and cartridges. Over 530 sold on Etsy, with a five-star average.
See stands 02Mods
Custom boards for original hardware. All open source, so you can build your own instead.
See mods 03Restored
One-of-a-kind consoles, recapped and tested on a real cartridge before they ship.
See restorationsFeatured mod
The Bluetooth NES Advantage.
Makes the 1987 NES Advantage wireless. It pairs straight to a Switch, or to a real NES through an 8BitDo Retro Receiver. Turbo and slow motion still work.
- Also a Bluetooth gamepad for PC, Android, Steam Deck
- Open source. Build it yourself or buy the kit
The process
How a console gets restored.
Every restored console goes through the same six steps before it ships.
Read the full process- Step 01
Sourcing
Bulk lots, mostly from estate sales and a couple of brokers I trust.
- Step 02
Triage
Every unit gets powered on and checked: screen, buttons, audio, ports. I write down what's wrong before opening anything. About a third don't make the cut and become parts.
- Step 03
Disassembly
Every screw and ribbon cable gets tracked so it goes back where it came from. Nothing gets forced.
From the journal
Build logs and writeups.
Bluetooth NES Advantage 2.0: it pairs to a Switch now
The second-gen board adds direct Nintendo Switch pairing and 8BitDo Retro Receiver support on top of the BLE gamepad mode. Prototypes are on the way.
Game Boy HiFi Audio: real sound out of the GBA
A Bluetooth audio board that pulls the GBA's stock amp and hands the whole audio path to an ESP32 and an ES8388 codec. The first prototypes are at the fab.
Community
Come talk old hardware.
Ask about a mod install, or anything else. It's on Discord.