GP32 Hardware Question - Gb Vs Gp32

[generalnmx]

I was wondering, does the Gameboy have something the GP32 does not to allow it to have a battery strength indicator LED? I'm not a hardware person (Comp Sci major here), so I'm not too keen on issues like this.

 

[mr.mirko]

WHO cares ?

gp32 can not display battery status, in no way.

If you want Gameboy information, use a Gamboy forum ...

 

[polywaffle]

Some guy modded it to, it was as simple as adding a wire!

 

[lek]

I think RobBrown figured out a battery strength indicator mod, and iirc Spiv's 32mb (now dead still?) GP32 actually has this mod.

 

[diablo2]

is there a tutorial
and would i need to change the led? or will the one i have right now work?

 

[generalnmx]

Some guy modded it to, it was as simple as adding a wire!

Yeah I thought it was possible...I'd be interested in trying to do this myself. As an avid GP32 gamer I find it annoying when my GP32 resets itself with a too low battery =/

 

[scarface]

for some reason my screen flashes when batteries start gettin low

 

[generalnmx]

Sometimes that happens with mine and sometimes it just resets.

 

[Robster]

I made a mod to read the battery voltage...

This connects the battery voltage to AIN3. I've even made a version of doom that displays the battery charge as a head-up display!

Of course, it's as useless as last season's useless thing because people aren't going to bother doing such a trivial mod to their GP32s.

If you do it, remember that the voltage depends on the type of batteries that you use

 

[diablo2]

wow that cool

 

[generalnmx]

I made a mod to read the battery voltage...

Would you be able to use this modification to create some type of status LED for the current battery life expectancy, or is it only useful for passing data directly to the CPU?