Aftermarket Game Boy Micro Shell 

You're providing a huge service by reviewing these shells. I was very close to purchasing one. I think I'll take a different route on restoring my garage sale find. Thank you!

Shame they take all that time to plan out the metal and bends only to mess up the screw hole location.

I hate that these are still so trash, I've wanted a micro for the longest time.

Man, each time I watch your video, I end up looking if one of my cats is stuck in a tree or something ^-^ Your cat is so chatty, mate =)

One of my favourite things about the micro is how well it fits together so I would hate these on mine. I bet they vary in quality a lot though, there's probably a chance that you could get one that isn't shoddy

So I recently bought a blue one of these. I was able to get it to fit (and I use the term loosely) decently. Took a lot of time but I figured out its all in the back piece. I had to bend and twist it to where the battery door notch lines up with that notch in the back piece and that closes the gap to where its not so hideous. Also I discovered that pre-tapping the holes in the back piece makes it way easier to screw in without striping your screws. Its by no means perfect or worth the $30-40 youll have to spend to get these, but its at least presentable.

Thanks again, I don't know why but I fully disassembled mine to replace the screen. Now I know next time Don't do that.

Wow your gameboy micro looks very handsome Its amazing

In a slightly more enlightened society products of this nature would result in punishment of the merchant. I just picked up a micro with a beautiful oem case - thanks in part to this video.

i didnt even know they did micro shells. Besides what good is a replacement shell without the inner plastic part?

I'm still wanting a shell to bang up so I can keep the OG relatively clean. But for now some protective film will do.

I wish I had seen this video before I purchased one of these shells on eBay. I need to contact the seller for a refund because the shell doesn't fit together properly, the faceplate that it came with is unusable because the legs on the clip side are bent completely outward, and the second faceplate that I ordered doesn't look like what I was expecting to get, and it is a little bit too wide to properly clip on to the Micro and it already had scratches in the lens. The alignment of the screw holes was so bad that I couldn't get the screws on the top screwed in, and I had bothered with threading the captive screw properly on the battery cover only to find out that doing so only made the gap between the battery cover and the back panel even larger. The red color of the replacement shell doesn't even match the red color of my GBM's original shell, and the whole reason I ordered the replacement shell is because my GBM has a dent in the back panel, and the clear cover layer of the serial number sticker is falling off and I wanted to be able to use my GBM without worrying about the serial number rubbing off of the sticker.

Bought a nice black game boy micro recently. Will arrive very soon. Where can I find an evangelion faceplate? Looks real good!

It sucks that those shells are still ass. My OEM shell has stripped screw holes, all scratched, etc. I wish I could revive my shell, but it looks all banged up, and I don't even have the top screws on there because they stripped the holes.

Was there a screen protector on the inner side of the lens?

I don't understand after all these years, wouldn't it be easier to produce glass lens for gameboy micro rather than making crappy foggy ones?

I bought one recently. A black one. It sucked. There was a massive gap around the shoulder buttons, almost like the entire shell was bent. Don't buy these things.

I am looking for replacement GBM chromed start and select buttons that have clear lettering like the originals. Do they exist?

The finish under the anodize appears to be sandblasted on this "new" gold shell, Can't say for certain because I'm not seeing it in person but that is what I would guess from what I can see. The old crappy "silver" one that you had that doesn't fit at all is just a "brushed" aluminum finish. It could be a modification and still be the same factory producing a "better" version since time has passed, and depending on how they are making their blanks they should be able to adjust the hole locations to the proper places but that assumes they know what they are doing and didn't just make hundreds of flat blanks and then the tooling and just hoped they would get it right. It's really unfortunate that there still isn't a great solution for these. I don't have one but they always looked cool, I wish I had picked one up back in the day. I can remember almost getting one off craigslist in around 2012. Wish I had. The frame for these, is that plastic or aluminum?

do they ever plan to make it better because i really want to restore one i just got

Thanks for the video Makho!. Which paint do you recommend for paint the silver GBM OEM shell?. One more thing, where do you found that green translucent buttons?

Ever swap the leds on the start/select? Just curious, anyways diggin all the videos!

Would it be possible to gently bend and manipulate the parts to get them to fit better, such as on the battery door? My poor micro's a bit worse for wear to a noticeable extent. slight panel gaps beats dents and gouges.

have a question with my SP and it's kinda hard to explain for me being as I'm fairly new to working on gameboys and such, but I'll try my best. so basically it works fine but sometimes the red low-power LED comes on no matter how much charge it has. If I can squeeze or fiddly with the console on the bottom right corner by the power-switch and it'll go back to green for a bit, but then eventually it goes back to red until i fiddle or squeeze some more and it'll go back to green and pretty much repeats the pattern. at first I thought the battery was just old because it was the original battery so I purchased a new battery, and it helped for a bit it seemed, but then the some issue reared it's ugly head once again, after that the only thing I could think of was to try re-flowing the solder on the power-switch so I did that and it seemed to have fixed the problem yet again, but alas... I'm still having the issue. It happens a lot less frequently, but it's still an annoyance. One time I let it be just to see if it would cause the battery to "die" or if it was just the the LED being weird, but it the gameboy does end up dying if i don't squeeze and fiddle with it until it turns green. which is kinda concerning because I hate the feeling of squeezing the shell knowing of all the tiny components I could be harming. I've looked all over and I've asked around a few places, but to no avail. Any input from anybody who may know what my issue is would be greatly appreciated!

Also, where do you buy those wrist straps?

never leave your strap-on

Makho I found an old parts bin ds lite onyx black I forgot why it was in the parts bin so I reassembled it and it worked to my surprise so I bought a shell and now it’s a palkia dialga onyx black shell I played it for 2 hours and then got the low battery light when I plugged it in I remembered why it was in the parts bin it doesn’t charge not even a flicker the port is like new and mounted securely no cracks in the solder why isn’t it charging not even an orange light flicker nothing makes it charge tried 2 chargers an oem and aftermarket

This is a huge pass for me. Ill be interested when it gets perfected. I can't live with gaps that big.

What is the edition or place you got your purple housing and rad faceplate you had before the swap

That new shell is crap, put on the old shell

Where did you find button replacements that fit the micro?

May a subscriber like me purchase one of your micros? Everyone wants over 300 bucks for one of these

Hey! I think your timeline is off man. Where's the inside gadgets overclock??

What screwdrivers did you use

lmao makho needs some lessons in screwing

Its like a used tesla!