At a minimum one can expect to spend roughly $150 and as much as $250-$300 depending on parts used as well as whether or not you need to procure the needed donor consoles. This mod is definitely not for those who are just getting into modding or have limited experience soldering.Īdditionally, this can be a fairly pricey project. It is highly recommended to use donor consoles that are damaged or not working but has all the needed parts in good working order. For those that want to undertake this project, you must have advanced soldering skills as you will need to be able to desolder chips from the donor consoles as well as solder in very small passive components. Now it must be noted that this is a very difficult and time consuming mod.

All the other components used for the project are brand new and can be purchased from a parts retailer like Mouser or Digikey. Essentially, in order to perform this mod you need to harvest components (roughly 10) from an Original Game Boy DMG as well as a Game Boy Color. This project uses the footprint of the various DMG circuit boards (mainboard, screen/button board, power board, audio board) and tweaks them to accept the unique components needed for a Game Boy Color to function (CPU, RAM, Link Port etc). More info and link to the GitHub below 👇 /usFF0XYiQy A Game Boy Modding enthusiast names Nick ( created an open source project that allows you to transform an original Game Boy DMG into a Game Boy Color.įinally, I can share my DMG Color (DMGC) with the world! This is an original Game Boy (DMG) console that plays both Game Boy *and* Game Boy Color games.

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