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Thanks for the tips, I need to get couple of those…

I got lucky and found a couple of these at a Goodwill the other day.

One is staying pristine, the other is getting disassembled at the junction box with a CGB end going into my pushpin interface, and a double DMG/CGB end going into an arduinoboy.

Good find, thanks for keeping these in the scene.

Ah, good to know… I'm probably going to have to redo some parts of it to get it to my liking, and I have to redo the switch routing and find a way to fill those other switch routings I cut out that aren't going to work. Maybe I'll swap the backlight out too…

As another point of note, I'd swear that the RadioShack speaker is louder than the stock DMG speaker. I think the thing sounds better now, and I didn't do anything that should have affected that.

It's probably the paint job.

Was it for plastic? You can get Tamiya polycarbonate spray paint for model making at hobby shops, CM.O member Evil Scientist has used it with much success for some of his custom mods.

As for doing a graffiti style piece, I'm not going to be able to give good advice about how to scale down a full-size piece. The issue with recreating graffiti at small scale is the tools: you need both an airbrush and a firm command of the airbrush as a means of artistic expression. A typical full graffiti piece done with rattle cans is about 8 feet X 12 feet, so you would be scaling down immensely. If you really want to try it, your best bet is probably paint markers. You'd still have to spray your case with plastic primer and a base coat, though.

As an alternative, may I suggest you design a tag-styled linework case and clearcoat over that? I think that would be a lot easier to do at that scale. Not that I'm an expert on graffiti or anything…

Painter's tape or masking tape, the same way I did the lines on my case. just make sure your mask is on securely or you're get overspray like what is by my A Button. Paint a base coat that's white or the lighter color, and then do the checkerboard in the darker color over that.

I really don't want to be that guy who tells you to search before posting, but there's a ton of information about this both on this forum and all over the internet. FYI.

As for painting, the best way to approach it is like you are building models. All of the same stuff you would use to paint plastic models is stuff you can use to paint DMG cases. The sky is the limit!

Here's my last paintjob:

As for my personal experiences, I did the DMG above with DupliColor vinyl spraypaint, used to do vinyl automotive interiors. If you can get spray vinyl die, that's better and leaves a finish like the original game boy, but that's hard to find. I've never seen the stuff in person.

WE NEED TO GO LOWER!

For real, you could make an half-clock bass game boy and write some stuff specifically for it to fill out your sound… that's a way to get a lot of low-end into an overall tonal palette.

Nonfinitite includes the track in a .SAV on carts flashed at purchase from him. If you want a copy, I can get you the BLUSIGHT.LSDSNG to look at. I just checked to see if it's on LSDSNG swap and it isn't. I don't think nonfinite would mind, though…

If that's an ethics issue and I shouldn't redistribute it, I won't. We could always ask nonfinite to put the song on LSDSNG swap.