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I wanted to wrap this up before the baby came, but baby came early and halted work for a while :D I got all the buttons working except UP, which did nothing at all, no matter what I did. That's the kind of thing that makes me want to throw the whole thing in the trash. I didn't want to have to...

Yeah, there are places who can do quality prints and ship them to you, like Shapeways. Do a Google search for "3d printing services" to find lots, possibly including local places you didn't know about. If you're on reddit, there's r/3dprintmything, where you can have a stranger print it for you...

Hold up, a button for changing game colors? Will this be a raspberry pi build or an actual VB?

Super cool! I love the Lynx 2, it's big for what it is, but I always thought it would make a neat shell for a portable console.

In 2016(?) there was a modding contest on the Gameboy subreddit, and one guy tried to make a Super Game Boy with a screen and controls, so that you could play games on it, but then also pop it into a SNES and play it that way too. He never finished it, but he got a few things working, like the...

PlanetVB will flip out over this. Myself included.

Aaaand I'm back to it. Had to completely mess up my workbench for termitey reasons, but now I should be able to finish things up. The screen I was using sprung a LCD leak, so I had to backlight-prep another pocket screen. This one actually also has some leakage around the edges, but it's not...

The battery board is a TP4056, this one is supposed to have undervolt protection. I don't know that there's a lot of danger of undervolting the Li-Ion since the DMG usually runs on 4 AA's, but I don't know exactly how the DMG circuitry works. Clearwelding in the magnets now. It takes a lot of...

I love it. I'd like to make a GBoy someday, I'm already studying these pictures :D

I'd better finish this! It's almost done, just need to glue some stuff and wire up the face buttons. I mounted the charge board up by the screen so that the charge light would shine through the old power light hole. The dials and ports are wired up. Turns out the DMG link port has the exact same...

looks SLICK noob question: 5 regs with 2 caps per reg?

Here's this: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/the-piisp.249/ Looks like about a 10/10 on the difficulty/complexity scale with its own very unique problems/solutions. Definitely a "figure out how to make it work" project, there are no guides to follow, but at least you can look at...

I had been trying to use connectors and whatnot to try not to permanently attach the board to the shell, but maaaan I do not want to mess with these things anymore. I think I might opt for just having the wires be long enough that I can separate the shell from the board like opening a book...

I’ve posted a couple of things to BitBuilt here and there, but I’ve been lurking in the Wii guides and worklogs for a long time, slowly preparing to make my first Wii portable. I lurked for a long time before I started going on the Discord chat to ask questions there. And I’ve been getting some...

Yeah I might have to do something like that. A and B are fine, but the D-pad + squishy tacts are too tall. I can carve into the Dpad a little, but not like A+B. Maybe I could move the tacts more toward the center, that would let me move them up into the plastic a little better, but it might feel...

Regular old JB Weld is really ugly, so I'm going to get some of that ClearWeld stuff. There's almost no room for buttons beyond the rings built into the DMG shell. So I'm carving away at the buttons to try and fit a squishy tact in that small space. A and B buttons sit satisfyingly well with...

Worthless Game Boy modifications that nobody asked for? Don't mind if I do! I was marveling at the thickness of the original DMG Game Boy, and wondering if there was some way I could thin it down. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted a slim Game Boy. I realized after waaay too long...

Wow. I thought my Game Boy was portable. It is not. THIS is portable.

In case anyone is curious, I did eventually finish this and it works great! I ended up getting an EZ Flash IV, which I took out of its plastic shell, so it could live in this SNES controller semi-permanently. Ideally, I would have come up with a way to play carts on this thing without having to...

You can, but the actual build doesn't have to LOOK like the schematic, just use the same connections. So anything the red line touches is all connected together, however you want to do it. Your array might look like this...