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Game Boy Mods

e14 Contributor

I think you should do an episode with all kinds of different Game Boy Mods in an episode. These are easy projects that are really cheap.

 

Some ideas:

- How to put LSDJ and other programs on an USB cartridge [cartridge can be found here or here]

- How to put a backlight in a Game Boy [Backlights can be found here,here and here]

- How to make a custom case [Leds for clear Game Boys can be found here, custom buttons here, here and here]

- How to pro sound mod your Game Boy [1/8" kit or RCA kit but these are sold out at the moment, but you should be able to find one in another store]

- How to record a song

- How to make samples and kits and put them on your cartridge

- How to bi-vert or polarize your screen

- ...

 

Remember, these are just ideas, you can decide which you want to do. If someone else wants to see something else, reply on this discussion.

This isn't going to be a challenge if you just use an original Game Boy, so I would preffer a Pocket, but if you would like to use an original, I won't stop you.

 

I think this wou usld be a cool build because chiptune music and retro gaming is popular at the moment.

 

Some helpfull links:

- LSDJ Wiki

- Main LSDJ site

- Michael J Moffitt (tutorials)

  • I'd like to see one where he Mods a Gameboy to run games found on a Micro SD card, and designs a "game extracter" that rips games from a cartridge and uploads it to a Micro SD. As in Making a MicroSD card that contains all of your Gameboy Games at once. So you wouldn't have to keep track of the cartridge.

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    The SD card is almost the same as the USB cartridge that I included and you can download the roms online if you own the cartridge.

     

    Not saying I wouldn't want to see it, I just think it's too hard because you'll have to emulate the memory chip and the game extractor just seems like waste with the abundance of roms on the internet.

     

    But Ben, if you really want a challenge, I want to see this thing build so I don't have to wait for my cartridge to come all the way from America.