Pics are back up!
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Santa Cruz, California
Just doing a little more detail on the face plates.
I found that it was easier to glue the bottom plate in, and the drill and cut with it in place.
Patience and a steady hand serves me well.
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Santa Cruz, California
I cut and installed the frame edges.
I was planning on getting a piece of gorilla glass to go with this thing (and I might still do that) but the lens was in pretty good shape, so I simply cut it to fit.
I did a little sanding and cleanup just to make it look a little more crisp.
What do you guys think so far?
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LOL!
Looks like some people on instagram don't like seeing how things get made.
It's weird because they're POKEMON FANS! They have a Pokemon fan account! You'd think they'd be interested in knowing the steps so they could make one of their own.
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This is a fucking DOPE build man! Loving EVERY picture you're posting. Wow, people on instagram can be whiny pussies!
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Man, it's their loss. I love long documented builds. I did one myself with my Sega video machine. I don't do builds often but when I do I love to share my experience with others much like you do with all your builds. That GBA looks ace as heck! Can't wait to see a backlight in that thing 
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DeerPresident wrote:
Wow, people on instagram can be whiny pussies!
To a level I never thought was possible.
TylerBarnes wrote:
That GBA looks ace as heck! Can't wait to see a backlight in that thing
I ordered the backlit AGS-101 screen this morning. It'll look TITS!
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Santa Cruz, California
Then there was that one time when that I didn't plan my order of operations, and I suddenly had to build the part that should have been done first.
I need housing for the D-pad/Lens/Whatever.
This broken Gamecube controller looks like it will work nicely.
Thickness is pretty much perfect.
Time to hack away at it with reckless abandon (like I always do)
The top half needs to be the correct depth so I can have both halves close back together as if it were a manufactured product.
Amateur videogame surgery is one of my favorite games to play.
And now I have to go out and pick up another GBA I found on CL for $10... I need working internals and another set of shoulder buttons to go on the bottom.
I'll be back later.
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Are you going to make bottom shoulder buttons to duplicate select and start buttons?
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Santa Cruz, California
friendofmegaman wrote:
Are you going to make bottom shoulder buttons to duplicate select and start buttons?
Nope, that would involve an entirely new level of complication that I don't want to have to deal with on this build.
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Santa Cruz, California
Went and picked up another GBA off CL.
But we don't need that just yet.
Time to fit the rear half of the D-pad housing.
Observe.
This was actually a little fidgety to cut out.
Now I need to do some shimming, sanding, and figuring out how to mount everything in there and get it to look right.
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What are you using to make all those fine plastic cuts? Looks great!
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Santa Cruz, California
Adil Soubki wrote:
What are you using to make all those fine plastic cuts? Looks great!
These are my tools for all of my delicate plastic work:
Luthier miter saw
X-acto knife #11
5mm jewelers file
I also have a vast amount of patience and a steady hand from decades of model building.
EDIT: also various light grits of sand paper.
Last edited by Teh D3th St4r (Jul 19, 2014 2:24 am)
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Looking clean as heck so far!
Also a dremel would be a good addition for smoothing out fine curves to exactly how you need them. I usually keep mine of a low speed and a finer grain bit attached.
Although that saw might be superior than the dremel. I've just never used one like that before.
Last edited by TylerBarnes (Jul 19, 2014 3:46 am)