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Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by purpleflame1257 »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #46
jollyllama wrote: post #2

>Purely in terms of industrial design, I don’t think a Nintendo handheld has matched the elegance of the SP. 100%. Awesome post.

Ds Lite imo is even better. Its thinner so it fits easier in the pocket even though its wider. You put in a flashcart with a 32gb micro sd and now you can store every game worth playing from the nds, gba, gbc, gb, snes, nes, sega genesis, various ataris and other early game systems. It has the longest battery life for a nintendo handheld I believe. Plus I find it pretty comfortable in adult hands still, definitely mo…

The one pain point on the DS Lite is that if you want to put in an actual, physical GBA cartridge it sticks out. Everything else is great.

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by jollyllama »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #46
jollyllama wrote: post #2

>Purely in terms of industrial design, I don’t think a Nintendo handheld has matched the elegance of the SP. 100%. Awesome post.

Ds Lite imo is even better. Its thinner so it fits easier in the pocket even though its wider. You put in a flashcart with a 32gb micro sd and now you can store every game worth playing from the nds, gba, gbc, gb, snes, nes, sega genesis, various ataris and other early game systems. It has the longest battery life for a nintendo handheld I believe. Plus I find it pretty comfortable in adult hands still, definitely mo…

Good point but I'd contend that the SP might have been more durable. I'm not sure. Either way, I liked the weight of it over the DS lite. Both great devices though.

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by vintagedave »

drewzero1 wrote: post #21
jansan wrote: post #8

Just to confirm that I understand this correctly, that clear case is really 3D printed? I don't follow 3D printing too closely, but I did not think that something like this would be possible.

I've just been getting started with FDM printing since this summer, and after getting to know the limitations of my printer I'm even more amazed at the smoothness and resolution that some resin printers are getting. (I've even heard of people starting to print optical lenses[0], which I can hardly imagine.) You can really see the difference in resolution in the image with the different bottom shell! 0: https://www.cu…

> heard of people starting to print

That article is dated 2015! If they could do that seven years ago, what is state of the art now?

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by sdenton4 »

drewzero1 wrote: post #21
jansan wrote: post #8

Just to confirm that I understand this correctly, that clear case is really 3D printed? I don't follow 3D printing too closely, but I did not think that something like this would be possible.

I've just been getting started with FDM printing since this summer, and after getting to know the limitations of my printer I'm even more amazed at the smoothness and resolution that some resin printers are getting. (I've even heard of people starting to print optical lenses[0], which I can hardly imagine.) You can really see the difference in resolution in the image with the different bottom shell! 0: https://www.cu…

Note that the lenses do require extra work after the initial printing: "Finally, endless sanding and polishing created a clear-enough lens."

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by amiga-workbench »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #45
deergomoo wrote: post #3

I absolutely adore the Game Boy modding scene that’s exploded in the last few years. Case overhauls like this or the Boxypixel slab pictured in the article, numerous backlit high-res IPS screen replacements, mods to improve sound, Li-ion battery packs with USB charging. And that’s to say nothing of Analogue or the MiSTer project, creating full FPGA reimplementations of the hardware. It’s a really cool example of what…

Sadly the original hardware is slowly degrading over time. Nintendo DS lite screens for example are all yellowing at this age. Buttons suffer too, my gameboy color is just a paperweight now because the buttons hardly register a press. Maybe these issues can be repaired but I’m not skilled with a soldering iron which is a big requirement it seems.

The GBC is quite easy to disassemble (If you have one of Nintendo's silly triwing screwdrivers). Give the pads under the buttons a rub with some isopropyl, and at an extreme buy some new conductive silicone pads for about £8 online.

No soldering required to get you back up and running.

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by hazn »

nsxwolf wrote: post #53

I never liked the SP form factor. It’s too cramped. The original GBA is absolutely perfect. It’s like a DS without the weight of the top screen. It’s too bad it couldn’t have had the SP 101 model backlit screen. One of these days I’ll do that mod.

Personally, I find the gameboy advance sp one of the slickest designs ever. You could say that the sp is one of the most iterated on designs in later nintendo products

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by BoorishBears »

javawizard wrote: post #30
BoorishBears wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an SLA printer (Prusa SL1) and rarely use it Unless you get an industrial printer, dimensional accuracy gets messy with SLA. Slicers can try and compensate, but you end up having to work around warping For organic shapes like figures I'm sure it's great, but as someone who prints functional items 99% of the time I'd rather tune an FDM printer than fight with my messy SLA machine

Good to know. How bad exactly would you say accuracy is? Are we talking about a few hundreds of micrometers or a millimeter or more?

Tenths of a millimeter not much worse than FDM in vacuum... the problem is those tenths vary based on shape (even more than with FDM), and can be non-uniform across a surface (flat surfaces tend to end up warped pretty easily)
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