That RaspiBoy looks great! If everything can fit into case (flash card, LCD screen) you can probably run C64 emulator VISE x64 with Sid Duzz It tracker (Linux version).
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uXe - i feel terrible suddenly, such a vulture! i guess thats my way of showing some sort of support. i'd like to see this thing live in some fashion.
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8bitDAD wrote:
uXe - i feel terrible suddenly, such a vulture! i guess thats my way of showing some sort of support. i'd like to see this thing live in some fashion.
Don't feel bad 8bitDAD - seriously! The idea behind crowd-funding the project is to have a streamlined / centralised way of taking pre-orders, and setting the target at 100 boards means being able to meet the break-point in pricing for a production run and keep the costs down for everybody... things are moving quite slowly though, so I may have been a tad over-optimistic to think that I would be able to immediately reach a hundred other people in the world with the same enthusiasm for the project as me! Anyway, the point is that I absolutely plan to get boards into the hands of everybody who has been generous enough to give their support - whether we hit the target or not, I will find a way to make this happen! 
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i had to clear out my paypal account for rent this month, so unfortunately my short-lived pledge has been canceled. Lets keep in touch as this moves forward, I'd really like to be a part of this project.
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uXe, looks good, but i dont get the point? sure for the Pi in a DMG, but why the nes board in a DMG? other than the Pi example?
I want one not even knowing why id want it though!
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Domu wrote:
uXe, looks good, but i dont get the point? sure for the Pi in a DMG, but why the nes board in a DMG? other than the Pi example?
I want one not even knowing why id want it though!
Well, apart from the Pi example, another potential application was nicely summed-up by Theta_Frost in the very first reply to this thread:
Theta_Frost wrote:
I admit though, it would be nice to just have a GB shell with a cable coming out of the bottom to act as display and control for the NES.
...like this:
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8bitDAD wrote:
this would be made very attractive if you buckled down on a source for some confirmed ease-of-implementation LCD screens for people looking to buy your product and build it in a DMG case.
Another display possibility is to drive an LCD module directly from the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins rather than using the 'video out':
http://spritesmods.com/?art=rpi_arcade&page=2
...these little integrated LCD modules can be found even more cheaply than the 'car reverse camera' LCDs:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/370692289959
PS. Jeroen Domburg's blog at spritesmods.com that I just linked to above is well worth checking out - heaps of awesome projects, including a GBA-MIDI hack!