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My girlfriend is having a birthday party tomorrow, so the first thing i thought was "omg a load of drunk people are gonna trash my gameboys" so i was going to hide them in the spare room but people are staying the night....
then i had an idea to turn the glass table we have, into a gameboy showcase! doesn't hold all the gameboys, but it works for some, and also anyone who sees it might say something like "oh you like gameboys? well i have an old one you can have!"
something like that anyway...
these are pretty good!! im still sort of looking for matched front & back sets, but i'll do some google image scouring later... tanks for the suggestions ;D
also - nitro: that is a MASSIVE pic, haha. its like a DMG kayak or something
i can do some front and back pis if you like, thats just what i had on the camera. dont forget google images might not be free to use
does this help?
awesome!
I didn't see this mentioned here but the Game Boy hobby shops (kitsch, nonfinite and I'm sure others) are going to be stocking new screens lenses very soon that match the coloring of the Play It Loud! Game Boys. This is pretty awesome as the general opinion appears to be that the dark gray screens look better, even on the stock gray Game Boys. These are definitely going to make all the great custom paint jobs we're seeing look a lot sexier as well.
so can they be bought anywhere yet?
i need a large stock of these!
Cool job. I like your design. How are you protecting the ribbon cable going to the card slot? It looks like it could be a conspicuous point of failure. If that was my work, it'd probably be slathered in hot glue.
lol well it is full of hot glue on the inside, not sure what to do about the ribbon cable tho.... maybe a vacform plate?
the other problem is closing the thing too, the PCB takes up all the room so i cant have any screws going through it, so i am not sure what i can use....
NeX wrote:controllers!
right on, then no complaints here.
yep, i built the adapter into a gameboy 4 player adapter, but i have run out of male 25way connectors to finish it.
it has two snes sockets on it (in the right player positions as well) and then Phono sockets for video and audio
That shit's ridiculous! How are you powering it? That screen looks good too. Can you give me some specs?
But you are missing like 4 buttons. Way to go
its running off a 4.8 volt rechargable battery, this is only so i could get enough space in it to fit the main pcb, originally it was running off the normal 4 AA batteries. no magic tricks was uses, even tho the snes is 10 volts and the screen is 12, they both happly run off the AA batteries. just had to wire the power a bit further into the power regulators.
the screen is a cheap £10 from ebay, from hongkong, its a car dash screen, the reason i chose that one is because it was EXACTLY the right size, both for the screen of the gameboy, and the driver board is actually just wedged inside the gameboy it is so perfectly sized.
the Snes is an japanese snes mini, which i cut down A LOT! it took a lot of work because i had to keep checking it worked.
it uses the original gameboy regulator board to power the back light on the LCD and give a nice stable 5 volts to run everything off. the controller is the original gameboy screen PCB cut in half and then wired into the chip found in a cheap hong kong snes controller (you can see it glued into the front of the gameboy at the bottom)
don't worry, i have built an adapter that plugs into the back, and then you can plug a normal controller into it. in fact you can plug two controllers and some AV cables as well.
it works fine for bomber man and R type because they only use the A and B buttons anyway, but for more complex games you obviously have to plug in the controller.
i wanted to keep it looking like a gameboy, for stelth lol, but if i am like on a plane (which i am kinda often) then me and the gf can have battles on it with the controllers plugged in etc
here is my Snes boy, its a snes wedged inside a gameboy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbruQBj61xc
also some internal pics too, including the amp which was harvisted from the original gameboy.
hahaha, i have an up stairs balcony that i took the photo from, my collection has got a lot bigger since then also. i have twice as many DMGs! problem is finding enough time (when the girlfriend is out) to get them all out and take a photo, i am going to run out of floor space too
here is my collection 
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