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I agree. When I sign the gameboys I mod, I sign on the inside. It would seem too show-offy to do it elsewhere.

I think it would show up the very best on the transparent shells.

Finishing up the main tracing and still positioning silk screens stuff. The board is not going to be just square as it is shown, so I may design a bottom half of a housing shell in CATIA. I know nothing about how we can get plastic objects printed though, so if anyone knows, tell me. Here is the basic chip placement:

Resistors will be made Surface Mount to save space and so the ground pour doesn't get chopped up so much. At this point, there are many free headers on either side of the board. Ceramic Caps will remain through-hole so that VCC may be routed on both sides more easily and to offer more coverage of GND.  um...yep. That is all for now.

Sorry, I was at work so I couldn't really reply to people.

@Alpine, I am familiar with and attached to Jazzmarazz, so you have a point, although I wouldn't say "A lot of stuff" under it.
Im still just an unknown face on the web.

@rygD, You also have a point, I should come up with it myself but I am having difficulty. I don't want something Super serious, but nothing along the lines of Super-duper-make-cool-stuff Co. either.  lol

As for the board, the bare simple version is coming along well. I have located an ideal regulator in a lovely SOT-233 package, but the thing holding me back seems to be that I have to create a lot of the libraries myself, or modify ones that I already have. The good thing about both drawing a schematic and board layout is that I may choose the packages and parts myself. No one can tell me to go with parts I do not wish to use.

Next I will be changing up the quartz crystal to a larger quartz oscillator in the 014 or 008 package so that users may alter the rate more easily. If I can locate a highly available variable clock IC, I may utilize that but we'll see what happens. After I find these things, I can move on to tracing the rest of the board and then creating a blank "shield" with loads of tie points.

I will be confidant to share photos in a day or two.

EDIT: Got rid of the parallel resonance altogether! DERRR! Why was I messing with a two pin clock at all?!

The board so far has USB (power only) and regulated DC input with a Jumper to select between one or the other. So far, that is all I have added aside from the cpu/rom/ram.

I do like it, but it leaves me in the same place. I would like to move away from Jazz altogether. It is the past-me and has no relevance with my goals.