NESboy copy cat portable?

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:42 pm

finished this a few days ago but never actually screwed it shut until tonight

uses an sj3, intec screencontroller dealy, has built in games, is pretty much the same a G's
now for the pics
I'll post guts later

switch for built in games

enjoy the pics

EDIT: guts

benol · Post by **benol** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:51 pm

Sweet yellow color. Until I saw the back, I thought it was a GBC!

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:52 pm

benol wrote:Sweet yellow color. Until I saw the back, I thought it was a GBC!

yeah I remembered yellow GBpockets and GBcolors when I thought about paint

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:57 pm

Sweet job. What kind of paint did you use? Too bad NES carts had to be so massive.

benol · Post by **benol** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:00 pm

vskid wrote:Sweet job. What kind of paint did you use? Too bad NES carts had to be so massive.

If you open them up, the ROM chip is fairly small. The cartridges are big so they would resemble cassette tabes instead of game carts, or something like that. You can take that and make a new case for it. Ta-da! Instant more-portable NES games.

EDIT: Spelling.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:02 pm

lots of coats of krylon fusion, then a minwax polyurethane clearcoat

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:11 pm

Turbo Tax 1.0 wrote:lots of coats of krylon fusion, then a minwax polyurethane clearcoat

Ah, I thought it was Krylon Fusion, since thats what I used to paint my PSP and laptop yellow. It was the clearcoat that was different and threw me off, looks nice. I personally liked the look and feel of the Fusion alone, which is why I didn't use clearcoat.

benol wrote:
vskid wrote:Too bad NES carts had to be so massive.
If you open them up, the ROM chip is fairly small. The cartridges are big so they would resemble cassette tabes instead of game carts, or something like that. You can take that and make a new case for it. Ta-da! Instant more-portable NES games.

I know that, but then you might as well just buy a PSP or GP2x and emulate the games. We make portable systems, not games!

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:49 am

Expect mine to be done in...many, many years.

Looks nice. Another great portable. That switch for built-in games looks a tad out of place.

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:18 pm

benol wrote:The cartridges are big so they would resemble cassette tabes instead of game carts, or something like that.

Yep. The NES was released in the US at the tail end of the video game "crash" of 1983. Nintendo wanted to make the system feel more like an appliance like a VCR than a game system, and so the front loading tilt cartridge system was made.

By the way, what's a "tabe"?

Great job on the portable! Except for the color screen and cart slot it looks like it came out of the factory.

The screen looks a little off-center, though. You could try moving it up a little, or at least put some black electrical tape on the silver part.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Post by **lifeisbetterwithketchup** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:35 pm

Looks amazing. Great job as usual, Turbo! I like the yellow color.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:47 pm

Very nice! Yellow looks great too, a perfect color. Did you run into any trouble while building?

Added you to the list of completed

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:28 pm

did i say "tabe"?

a little, getting it shut was kind of a pain because I wanted to use both pots. the screen was being a pain for a little while but all the info you provided in the sj3 word document was really helpful

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:19 pm

As always, excellent job!

I've been wanting to tackle this project for a long while myself. Let's see... I've got the GB, the screen, the cartridge slot, and two fried SJ3's. Grr!

It seems like completed projects come in waves - I just finished my SNESp that I've been working on for forever, and G-force made that awesome Pac-Man PS mod.

Is minwax a brand name? How does it feel compared to just Krylon paint?

benol · Post by **benol** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:53 pm

bicostp wrote:By the way, what's a "tabe"?

A typo I didn't catch.

EDIT: Formatting

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:28 am

Life of Brian wrote:
Is minwax a brand name? How does it feel compared to just Krylon paint?

yes its a brand name. it's pretty nice I like it a little better than the krylon clearcoat