I’m just not too artistic, or experienced with that kind of thing or at the very least, I’m way too bothered by minor imperfections when I make projects like this for myself. I don’t think I’m good enough at modding cases to make them look nice.
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I saw many people mod the outside shell to accommodate the actual GBA functionality into the console – like adding L and R buttons. So, looking through a lot of different projects, it seems that there are many different ways people have done this in the past. With some heavy modifications and additions, people have been able to get their SP inside the DMG case and have a fully functional GBA. The original GBA board was too weirdly shaped to fit inside the DMG case, but the SP was a comparably smaller square shape.
Then, I stumbled across a few posts from people who put an SP inside a DMG case. I get it, it’s kind of a necessary thing, and backwards compatibility was definitely nice to have back when I was a kid. I could just modify a GBA or a GBA SP with a nice screen and battery, but I really actually hate how the non-GBA games stick out of the console. I could cut the board in half, and just rewire the broken traces, but that’s pretty difficult and I didn’t really have much exposure to how these things were wired up when I started, and what was important and what could be rewired easily.Īnyway, the next generation up from the GBC was the Game Boy Advance. Most of the ports are basically on the opposite side of where they are on the DMG. On a Game Boy Color, there is just one large PCB inside, as compared to the DMG’s two separate boards that slot nicely into the plastic. My first instinct was to try to put a GBC inside of the case, but that seemed more difficult at first. And I didn’t want to have a modded DMG and a modded GBC, especially if the GBC could do everything the DMG could.īut… what if were to purchase a Game Boy Color and disguise it as an original Game Boy? Oh hoh hoh hoh, delightfully devilish, Nick! But the GBC’s form factor isn’t my favorite – mostly due to my large hands. But the more I started adding up costs and thinking about the games I wanted to play, the more I realized that there were a TON of GBC games that I’d really like to play on a nice IPS screen. I figured instead of making a bunch of smaller modded consoles, I should just fix up one console without any modifications for display purposes, and then make one really nice console with all the bells and whistles that I’d like – the main features being an IPS screen and rechargeable batteries. It seemed like a fun project! So I bought two DMGs (that were supposedly “dead” but really weren’t). I decided that, since I never had a DMG, I should finally buy a crappy one and fix it up. I never had an original Game Boy, but I’ve always had an affinity for the original design, known as the “DMG” model. My first Nintendo console of my own was my purple Game Boy Color (that I annoyingly can’t locate). I started watching The Retro Future on Youtube and saw a bunch of his videos of refurbishing and modifying old Game Boys, and I became intrigued. I recently got really interested in Game Boy console modding.
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