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Haha thank man! Yea I love the way turned out actually. I posted pics of it lit up as stuff on the handhelds section. The plans I have for it ate actually kind of exciting and will be awesome if I can pull it off. I'm planning on actually cutting into the case with a Dremel and then melting other plastics into it front the inside so it'll look like its melting from the inside out. I'm thinking an orange backlight and then possibly painting a biohazard symbol on the back.

Btw I only posted that gameboy on here because I'm working on a Domo doll gameboy and it was the only gameboy I had at the time that wasn't taken apart. Using a grey boy then using the fabric you see in the picture and putting it on it as making it a domo doll with bendable arms that can actually be played! Red backlight and I'm debating on button colors right now. I want brown by they are a bitch to find so I might go with black but they are also a bitch to find and kitsch is sold out ATM. Soni might be stuck with red or white buttons for now.

Also the mystery machine gameboy is being painted fr a customer and then getting shipped to a buddy of mine to be pimped out with some badass mods. Orange backlight green power LEDs and a bunch of other stuff. I can't wait til it's all finished its going to be very badass it's it completion.

Or I could do a trade with you or something? I dunno lol

Thanks man it's just an opinion though. As for the grandmother story it actually is even cooler. The day I found the pocket was actually the 5th year anniversary of her passing to the day. But I didn't add that because it's kind of cheesy but it was. That gameboy will never be sold never be modded and will never have another game put in it besides Mario Six Golden Coins in my lifetime. I play it every few weeks. I miss my granny. T_T lol

I actually had the same mindset as you Amity when I first got into the chip scene then I realized how many had been made and sold. But still as a respective fan of the product and the fact that ONE DAY they may be all broken or destroyed or modded, I keep one grey DMG untouched one Silver Pocket untouched one lime green Color untouched one purple Advance untouched, and if I ever get my hands on some Lites I will leave one of them untouched. The silver pocket led less was the very first gameboy, actually game system at all that was actually bought for and given to me rather than a hand me down,  with Mario 6 golden coins, I broke it 5 years later after dropping it so many times and it got trashed. My grandmother that bought it for me died about 6 years ago and I wanted my gameboy back because some of my best memories with her where involved with my gameboy. I looked for one for years and finally found one about a year ago and bought it instantly and put six golden coins back into it and it now sits on my display shelf in memory of her. And now by coincidence my hobby is modding and painting gameboys and the occasional lsdj song here and there. Sorry for te long cheesy story. Back to the concern at hand there are collectors out there that are keeping them untouched, but you also have to look at what this community has done, we have brought systems back into the eyes of the public that had been long forgotten. Amiga systems, Nes, snes, and so so on are be sold, bought, traded everyday to be USED and not just collected and sat on a shelf. I think using the product rather it sitting on a shelf is the highest respect you can give it. And showing off what 20-30 year old game systems can do now by modding them is even more respect. Imagine what the creator of the Gameboy thinks or would think of he knew his design his baby of sorts is still being used 23-24 years, almost a quarter of a century, after it was made and released. I'd personally take it as a huge compliment. We have basically turned these "gaming systems" into miniature music studios. We aren't destroying the product we are upgrading them and showing off what they can do with today's technology. Okay and now I'm shutting up lol.

Also this site might be useful to someone wanting a cleaner and nicer case lighting:

www.thatscoolwire.com

This stuff is pretty awesome and it's as flexible as string. So you can measure the length you need the. Order just that amount. Also has a separate power source kit you can probably cram into a gameboy. And if you don't want to use the separate power source him they don't pull much power so it probably wouldn't be to hard to wire it to a 5v source on the gameboy pcb.

Also I know someone is working on making a case lighting kit using this stuff but I'm not going to to disclose as to who that is.

Good luck man and again hope this helped.

Yea I don't know about 100$ + shipping for all of them not modded. You might sell then easier also if you sold them separately for around 20-30$ a piece also. Btw I can't tell in your pictures, how good of condition is the clear boy? Are there Any serious visual flaws like scratches or anything? And how about the black? I see the lettering on the black is kinda messed up as you mentioned. Mostly concerned with the clear boy though. Im considering buying it if you can let it go by itself. I have a painting technique I want to try on it. But we can't have a lot of scratches on it, also depends on if you'll even key it go by itself. PM me please an let me know if you are interested in selling it alone and maybe with the black one as well, I something in mind for it too possibly.

Alright man. If you can pm me your email that'd be awesome. In case this post gets lost in te crowd.