Recently a few of my mods have been called into question regarding their complexity, rather than seeing this as a negative i saw this as a challenge to do better. So I have been working on a few more complex mods.
First I gotta thank nitro2k01 for sticking by me on this project, there were a few times when I was going to give up on this, but staying up late, bouncing ideas off each other made this project happen
So this is my USB enabled camera, it is a Gameboy Camera with its ROM chip replaced with a flashable chip, and a USB programmer wedged in there too.
What’s the point? Well now the camera works like a real digital camera, i can plug it straight into the computer and dump the saves without a gameboy or a programmer. If littleFM works i can put the camera software on there and other roms too like LSDJ. If I can work out how the camera part works then i could make some interesting home brew software which uses the camera.
Here is the YOUTUBE video of it working just as a flashable cart:
First i gutted a USB cart for parts and removed the ROM chip from the camera.
If anyone wants any Gameboy mods done then drop me an email and we can talk about it
ralph (dot) nex (at) gmail (dot) com
I can make midi enabled DMG gameboys, midi enabled super gameboys, possibly even MIDI enabled Gameboy Pockets, backlighting, pro sound etc
If you have any ideas or have a request we can talk about what can be done
I also have some experience with circuit bending too, so if you have something you want messed with you can send it to me and i will do something with it.
As we all know, NEX is a complete genius. I asked him to make me a Midi Sync Device, but I wanted it to be in a strange casing, rather than your ordinary, run of the mill box. We discussed for about 2 weeks what sort of casing we could put it in, we went through sweet boxes, different varieties of Gaming hardware such as nes controllers and Gameboy Cameras, when I thought, why not put it in a cosmetics bottle, like a shampoo bottle or something like that. Nex thought this was a brilliant idea, minutes later, he emailed me saying he was going to put it in a handwash dispenser, and not only that, he was going to build it so that the dispenser button would control the mode of the Device. Here is what he made for me:
In this 8bc thread someone requested a Gameboy Colour in a Gameboy Pocket shell.
So i thought i would give it a go. everything was going fine, the link port, volume control, cartridge slot etc all line up perfectly, the screw holes and buttons too. BUT then i realised that as i flipped the Gameboy over to check how the buttons lined up, i was moving the board, and actually the buttons were about 4mm lower when everything else was in its place.
So the Gameboy needed to be cut in half, the 4mm taken out and then stitched back together. but the bottom was still too long so i chopped a bit of the bottom.
and the power socket and headphone socket were on the wrong side, so i had to re drill the holes and move them, then insulate them, rewire them and rebuild part of the power circuit.
the gameboy is running off nicad batteries to make up for the lack of AA batteries but i think it probably would have worked for a while on AAAs
