Nintendo USB-C Charging Kit

The Game Boy Color USB-C Charging Kit is a circuit that allows you to charge a Nintendo Game Boy Color by USB-C and use a Li-ion battery instead of AA batteries.

This circuit includes the famous TP4056 and DW01A. The first one is the device in charge of charging the battery, and the second one is protecting the lifetime of the battery of the over-discharge.

This kit includes two boards. If you want to install it easy, it’s enough with the main board which doesn’t need any cable for working. However, if you want to have the status LEDs in the same place as the original status LED, then you will need to solder the second board and joint both with 3 cables. You can choose the best option for you.

This kit includes:

• 1 board which includes the charging and light board.
• 1 Battery cable.
• 1 Cable of 3 wires for connecting the light board.
• 1 Light diffuser

The Game Boy Color USB-C Charging Kit PRO is the new circuit for Nintendo Game Boy Color. This time is all in one circuit and includes not only the charging controller but also a boost converter and audio amplifier.

The modern IPS displays with background light require more energy than the stock display. Also, the flash cards to load tons of games consume the battery very fast. If you really want to enjoy the games, the best way to do it is using a li-ion battery instead of AA batteries.

However, that is not enough because a higher consume is forcing the original electronic to strive more than it can. That may cause noise in the speaker or headphones.

Typical solution has been adding a charging circuit for the battery and a power converter to replace the old and not efficiently one which is included in the GBC. Some people also add an audio amplifier to hear better the speaker sound. All these things make the GBC perfect, however the installation require a lot of cables and can not be easy for some people without enough knowledge.

This Game Boy Pocket USB-C Charging Kit is the same as the Game Boy Color board but customized for Game Boy Pocket.

Because the Nintendo main board has less space, it has required a special board which include 3 boards:

• Main board: Include the electronic components for charging and controller the battery over-discharge.
• USB board: It is just the USB.
• LED board: include 3 lights which are: White when GBP is power on, red when is charging and green when it has finished to charge. This board has been modified to support the GBP without status LED, you can get this functionality and replace your GBP case for another with LED hole.

This kit includes:

• 1 board which includes the charging, USB-C, and light board.
• 1 Battery cable.
• 1 Cable of 3 wires for connecting the light board.
• 1 Light diffuser
• 2 Small cables to connect the power on LED if your model doesn’t have a red LED.

There are many version of the GBP mainboard, this kit is compatible with:

• MGB-ECPU-01
• MGB-LCPU-02

It’s not compatible with:

• MGB-CPU-01

PS: This board should be usable in the Game Boy Light as well, because both boards have almost the same size, but I haven’t try it so I can’t guarantee you can use it in this model.

Because the Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP video console include a li-ion battery, this board just has the USB-C connector and two resistors.

Unlike the GBC and GBP, this board allow you charge the battery and take out the audio with a USB-C earphone (or use them with a USB-C to jack audio adapter)!

However, this board it’s extremely small and you will need to solder 6 small pads. So, it can be a bit difficult. I will try to make a video explaining how to do easier.

This kit includes:

• 1 board.
• 1 plastic cap to cover the hole (3D Printed bezel).

PS: This boards should be compatible with Nintendo DS as well, because it has the same connector as GBA SP.

EDIT: USB chargers with cable USB-C to USB-C may NOT work because the board doesn’t have the resistors. I’m investigating again if there is any way to keep the resistors and don’t lose the audio.