Here is a scan of the front, with a DS next to it for size comparison.
(clickable thumbnails)
Yes, it's actually GREEN! How about that. Not many green NES portables out there.
And the back. Silver. DS silver. Sexy silver.
Check out the guts.
It took some tricky finger work to get it all together.
More pics at http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/gtd6288/NES%20Boy
Features/notes/random blah:
-Sturdy GameBoy case modded with superglue, plastic, and bondo marine putty. Unlike my last one it uses original buttons over NES buttons. I think
they're a bit more comfy to play with.
-Sweet paint job. Spray paint of course. I also sprayed the paint with a coat of spray on polyurethane for longer lasting and tougher paint job. It also made it looks shinier, oooo.
Now that I think about it... It kinda looks PCB color inspired dosn't it? Probably from staring at the Super joy 3 to long.
-AV out through the old headphone jack. I meant to make it switch off the ground to the screen (to save power) when the plugs were inserted but forgot to do it.
-No built in games. No really, it's a good thing! It's legal to sell that way. And it actually feels more...I dunno... retro when you actually plug in the cartridge.
-The new cartridge connector OWNS the original NES connector. I have yet to insert a game and not have it run perfectly.
-Plays every NES game in my library. I'm 99% sure it has 100% compatibility with all NES games, but I wouldn't know for sure unless I tried every one.
-It Has color, brightness, and contrast adjusts on the back. My last NESp had all but the brightness built in and it bugged me a lot on certain games that I couldn't adjust the picture other than the brightness.
-Runs on 4 AA's instead of the previous 5 AAA's. In this case less is more. My last one needed needed 5 AAA's to power the LCD's backlight, which reminds me...
-The color Hip Gear 2.3" LCD has an LED backlight mod for uber long battery life. This allowed me to use 4 AA's to power the entire portable. I think this is the first LED mod on the Hip Gear screen.
-Does not have a Player 2 controller plug getting in the way of your hand. I never used it on the previous one so it got left out.
-The hip gear audio amp was rebuilt to be mono and fit in the case. It measures in at 1"x1"x.5". Pretty small.
Just like my last NESp it uses the original GB audio pot for volume adjust.
-Took about 3-4 weeks to build. That was off-and-on work though. If I had kept at it for several hours a day I could have finished it in a week. But if I rushed it there would have been mistakes. It's important to let design decisions sink in before you use them.
I'm gonna try to upload a video at my friends house this weekend. And maybe use his camera if he has it. Mine broke right before I started building. Odd... The same thing happened with the previous mentioned NESp! I had to use my scanner then and now. It's like a freaky curse or something.
So what do you think? It's a lot different from my last NESp, do you think it's an improvement or not? I like it better just because it's sleeker looking and feeling. A worthy successor indeed.
