About

I grew up playing Game Boys — DMG, Pocket, Color, Advance, up through the NDS Lite. Thousands of hours in my hands, then years in a storage bin.

In the winter of 2025, a few impressive modding posts pulled me back. I dug the old units out of storage and started trying my hand at more advanced mods. There’s a community out there breathing new life into these devices with custom shells, modern screens, and donor-board transplants — generous, well-documented, unexpectedly beautiful work. This site is my record of learning my way in: builds I’ve finished, lessons earned the hard way, and the people I’m trying to learn from.

What you’ll find here

  • Journal — soldering as a beginner, told honestly. Failed attempts, troubleshooting, gear regrets.
  • Builds — every handheld I’ve finished, grouped by family: Pockets, Lights, Colors, Advances / SPs, and even a Neo Geo Pocket Color.
  • Resources — model comparisons, cartridge sourcing, ROM hack picks, and other reference posts.

How this site was built

I built this whole blog without writing any code by hand — using two tools:

  • zero.xyz — the search engine for AI agents. It let my agent discover and call paid APIs on demand (image generation, data lookups, etc.) through a single wallet, instead of stitching together a dozen one-off integrations.
  • Claude Code — Anthropic’s agentic coding tool. I’d describe what I wanted (“migrate my old document posts posts,” “rebuild the gallery as a comic-strip layout,” “fix the caption escaping”), and it would read the repo, make the edits, open a PR, and iterate with me until it shipped.

Migrating content from multiple sources, restoring the photo gallery with custom popups, and getting GitHub Pages deployed — all done in an afternoon, with the agents handling everything from parsing HTML exports to writing Jekyll templates.

Disclaimer

This blog is not intended to serve as an official guide and is not affiliated with any specific modder, brand, or company. All content — including links to YouTube videos, GitHub repositories, affiliate products, and creator websites — is shared for informational purposes only. Credit is given to original creators wherever applicable, and I do not claim ownership of any third-party content referenced or linked here.

Some product links on this site (for example, AliExpress and Amazon) are affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate relationships don’t influence which products or builds I cover.

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