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I looked at crystal swapping options, not 100% sure if it will work. Case swap is a definite no-go for the GBC and GB Boy Colour.

Short list:

Danimal Cannon (and Zef)
Electric Children
Fighter X
Sabrepulse
Bit Shifter
Massive Until Morning
Toriana
NNNNNNNNNN
Chibi Tech
Anamanaguchi
Knife City
Whitely
Frostbyte
Ant1
Misfit Chris
Space Town Savior
an0va
Galaxy Wolf
Killer Whale
Chipzel
Virt
Rushjet1
Auxcide
Protodome
Nordloef
FearofDark
C-jeff
4mat
Henry Homesweet
Trey Frey

And many others.

Alright, a few questions:

How many useable Jtag pins are we looking at? Looks like 9 pins and ground.

Also, the breakout header is 5 pins and a ground, correct? What do the breakouts actually connect to on the PCB?

What methods are there for users to flash their own EEPROMS? Will you be sourcing EEPROM programmers, kits, or flashing EEPROMS for a price?

Are we going to have a way of programming the FPGA easily (Jtag over and over seems a bit tedious)? Also, what will the FPGA offer for chip music users as well as general consumers?

Are we looking at a price point of over $100, and is the estimated sales time in 2013?

And the most important question - will the cases be prettier than the ugly cutout PROM cases?

Looks snazzy, can't wait to talk to you more about this

Quit chiptune now and save yourself the struggle.

As someone who was nearly finished with a degree in Management Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, I don't like the vagueness of your posts. Specificity is the key to getting real answers.

Figure out your own scope of your abilities, your finances, and your goal. Think about it for a while. You are very bold, and you want your first attempt to further chip in the UK to be successful (because it will be expensive to get set up!). Break down each of those elements as far as you can, formulate a plan. Attack the "untapped" market from all sides. Try making friends with local hackerspaces if you are near one, make technical friends, maybe even get a group together to do Gameboy mods with a focus on making controller breakouts, clock mods, all kinds of zany but sort of simple stuff. Talk with local record store owners and show them some badass albums, and maybe try to work with artists to get albums sold in shops. Do free clinics at anime expositions, etc, maybe using Famitracker or something since it's free, popular, and accessible, to try and gain interest. Play local gigs, open for a friends's rockband, raise awareness for yourself and your cause. If you truly believe chip music is hot stuff, you will need to act like it, and actually believe it. If you do, you will do great things

EDIT: holy run-on sentences, Bitman!
EDIT 2: typed to much, cut it downnnnnnnnnn

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Game-Boy-Classi … 58998fe14f

But don't let the lack of battery covers stop you from buying, they are easy to find.

There was a guide a year or so ago on this forum about making LED-lit buttons, I'll try and dig it up. I know kitsch has been working on silicone-like buttons with LED holes for at least a year (it's somewhere in his shop thread), but you can drill your own holes and put the LEDs in yourself on clear buttons (you may want to sand the outside to change the light diffraction, as well as cut notches for the LED legs to escape through for wiring in series).

Hard to execute, almost ALWAYS stunning when done looks great!