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(1 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Hey peeps.

I made a set of 4 Pokemon gameboys. I sold one of them and there's three left. I'm asking £100 for them each.

They are as such:

Dragonair - white painted with molotow paint, blue glass screencover, blue UK Gameboy backlight CPU05, Clear blue d-pad, A/B buttons. Silicone Start/Select, prosound.

Cyndaquil - Painted shell, with orange glass screencover, orange UK Gameboy Backlight, CPU08, Teal silicone buttons, light teal on/off and link port cover.

Umbreon - Black shell with Umbreon painted on. Yellow glass screencover Black silicone buttons, dark grey on/off switch and link ports.

https://uk.pinterest.com/mikeeteevee/pokemon-gameboys/

Any questions, drop me a line. I'll cover postage out of the UK.

catskull wrote:

I've never dealt with him directly, but he appears to do quality work.

Can confirm, quality of Joe's builds are excellent.

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(161 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Freak Assassins wrote:

Maybe A Kitsch-Bent, Based In England. No More Stupid $s Or Shippin Fees For Me Then

You'd have to have a heart of coal not to find this a little bit endearing and funny. Shut up dollars! I hate the way I get 50% more of you for my pounds!

edit: forgot basic maths.

double edit: A UK Kitsch-Bent? DJ Transformer found that an imaginary deity was more lucrative than chiptune. GLHF.

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(161 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'd be really interested to know what you think can bring to the table. If you think the market in the UK is untapped, you likely need to do some more market research. There are plenty of artists in the UK, resellers of mods and gaming stores that carry pro sound/backlit gameboys. I've had to leave a shop empty handed cuz the retro gaming shop I went to was already modding their own.

I applaud you for coming in dry here, but the chiptune scene isn't 'untapped' - if anything, it's thriving and alive. The problem is, there's no money in it. If there was, they wouldn't run Kickstarters, fundraisers etc just to have a fucking knees-up. If you come in thinking modding is easy, you'd be right, but being good takes enthusiasm.

As Jellica says, the beauty of the scene is for those who musically want to make something out of nothing. If you can't afford a Fender, you pull a gameboy out of the attic and buy a chinese cart. Many people with years of deep electronics experiences struggle to make a living off of it and they already have an established fan base and mind-blowing, ground-breaking ideas. Kitsch beat me to the punch but the way to get ahead in the scene is to be really, really into it (or drink the tears of your enemies helps) You can't fake enthusiasm.  Although don't let that stop you. Just don't think that people aren't 'trying' hard enough. Commercially, there's no value. Socially and emotionally: sure.

I recently returned a couple of gameboys to someone who had bought them stateside. The pro sound had gone on one, the screen had a bubble on the other. I took them apart, fixed them up and returned them. He asked if I wanted money. It was actually too much bother to even hook up a brother with a paypal account for a simple job. I'd got enjoyment out of it, and was happy to help. I'll bump into him at Superbyte and we'll have a beer and bond. This is pretty common in the scene so no amount of market research and two decades of running a business is going to allow you to undercut 'free'