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YES. Ten thousand fucking time YES.

Last year I took my phone to Japan because my fucking carrier claimed that it would roam there. POPPYCOCK.
It never did and I was left out of tons of gatherings and shit because I was simply unreachable. If I was not with a friend that had a working phone, I was non-existant I would leave home early morning to make the most out of the day and not return until late that very day, so I spent many days alone unless I had planned and arranged something the day before. Also, it's easy to get lost some times in Japan so having a service like Google Maps will help you a LOT during your trip.

I am not totally sure about this but Akihabara is chock-full of cheap phones that you can buy and I think get activated locally by a friend or something. I'd do this next time I go there or the SIM rental service, though I happened to think SIM rental was too expensive for my liking. If you have a friend that travels to Japan all the time and has a phone, see if you can get it lent.

Contrary to popular belief and as Lazerbeat said, Japan is not that expensive, at least not more expensive than most of the major metropolis in the world.
I ate plenty delicious teishoku (menues) for no more than 1200 yen and that was awesome. I love this place where you go to a vending machine and you pay then you get your ramen. Very cheap and I thought was yummy!
What could be expensive is public transport (though no more than the London transport ), I remember spending more than what Lazerbeat put for some reason, perhaps for getting lost or just for not knowing and then I spent a shit ton of money in drinks. Blip this year is a bit further ahead in the year but if it's still hot, it's usually really fucking hot, and you will be consuming liquids like a sponge.
Suffice to say most of my cash went towards drinks and transport, and next time I'd try to get a bike and my GPS phone working to get around the city.

Oh, add to your daily spending money a LOT more extra for all the junk you will want to buy. I came back home with items as "retarded"  as sponges and clothespins, and I went like 3 days to Akihabara to fill my craving up

Oh upon arrival, if your destination is nearby one of the places where the Narita Express (NeX) stops, I'd recommend it, because the limo bus takes ages to arrive because of the traffic (all depending on what time of the day you arrive, I guess, but it's generally much, much faster). It took me more than an hour to get to Shibuya with the limo bus upon my arrival, whereas the NeX took me to the airport from Shibuya in like 20 minutes.

Enjoy Japan!

Apeshit, what you describe, is just people trying to help others, as I said, they are not trying to take anything away from you, just suggesting an alternative to peers. This is a public forum. Also I don't know if that happened in *this* very forum, but the previous sentence still applies to any other forum.

If you'd say a "competitor" would go on your threads and be like "hey you should let ME do it for cheaper", then I could understand.
(PS: using the word "competitor"  in a situation/place like this sounds so wrong...)

All I ever got was $3 panels. Not sure I know what you are all referring to. Seriously and totally out of curiosity, I would be really interested in knowing what sort of modification can run to 80 dollars in parts. Unless it is an internal Arduinoboy mod, I can't think of anything more expensive.

And teh price of Game Boys of course relateds to teh popularity they had in each area. Here they cost like 10USD, but there are few.

5 dollars? They should not be worth more.

Modifications can be done at home by any shmuck like me. I have applied backlights, pro-sound mods, PS/2 internal ports, i never spent much in parts, the backlights have been the most expensive piece of kit I have bought for modification and they are tops, what, 15 dollars? How can you sum up 80 dollars in parts?

Apeshit, don't confuse research with actually making the modifications. The mods can be done/applied by anyone, and suggesting people to do so is, I believe and in agreement with what Trash 80 said, a good thing to encourage.

The research to get to advancements and/or breakthroughs in modification wouldn't be possible without people investing lots of money and time on such endeavors, though, so I don't think it has anything to do with the point of the thread. It would be like Trash 80 gettiing angry at people building their own Arduinoboys. That doesn't make sense. Nobody is out there to "take business away from you".

PD:

If that's USD, you're crazy. Unless you have a very beefy Amiga in there

Needs AMIGA section with Deluxe Paint and Personal Paint.
Deluxe Painty is also available for otehr platforms.

ALSO: Fantavision.

I been sad for weeks. That's what I do.

OSama Been Loadin'

Contact me if you need graphics for that Game Boy ROM.