Anyways, It was the Friday before last. Had a scout fundraiser and a united way thing most of Saturday. And I was getting the last few things ready for my trip to D.C.. And since it was going to be a long drive in a 15 passenger van full of scouts. I was telling myself there's no way in heck. I was just bringing my 256mb MP3 player only. But there was one problem. The complete back half of my GBA's case. Which I have lost it somewhere in the house
. So that left me with a interesting dilemma. How do I make a case that could accommodate GBA mobo along with the Front half of the GBA's case. And spend nothing to make the Case. Some one suggested I use a Tissue box. Which was the perfect size. But being a Tissue box. It's made outta flimsy, thin cardboard. So during friday and saturday. I had to strengthen it with very strong, thick cardboard inside the box. And making sure I have cut all the necessary holes for thing like the power switch, cartridge slot, earphone jack and volume control, shoulder buttons. And a hole in the back so I could put wire through for my external battery compartment had to add. (More on the Battery Compartment in a moment.)
After finally making sure the case fitted what was left of my GBA just right on Saturday. Another problem arose. How am I going to use batteries on this thing when the GBA's back half of the case has the other part of the it's original battery compartment. So I had to find something to use in place of that. Thankfully, my Namco project provided me a answer. When I took the system apart. I basically discarded is original shell which had a Battery compartment on the bottom half of it. But before I could use it. I had to cut off some of the bottom half's plastic off that surrounded the compartment. After I cut off the plastic that I didn't need off of it. I had myself a battery compartment.
Then came time for me wire the battery compartment. So I found some wire from earphones. (Which I would regret using latter.) And wired the compartment to the GBA. And I went to power it on, Nothing happened. I check the connections and none of them were lose. So I checked if I some how reversed the polarity. Again, nothing happened. So I decided to give it a rest for the night after check the thread about Bacteria's BigBoy Advance to see if I went wrong somewhere. Set my alarm clock for 6:30 am so I could have some time to figure out my problem before I had to let to go to D.C..
Well 6:00 am came and for some reason my mom woke me up. (Which I'm glad she did because I would soon find out that I needed that extra 30 min on top of the extra I was giving myself. To get the GBA working and finished.) So i decided i needed to use thicker wire. So again, discarded parts from the namco came in handy. I had some A/V wire from it that way 3X thicker that earphone wire. I removed the ear phone wire. Then I cut the A/V wire the length I wanted it to be and striped it. Then I wired it to the GBA and the Compartment. Threw the switch and it worked. So I taped the compartment to it place on the back of the case.
Only one more thing was needed to make the GBA ready. Shoulder buttons. Since I couldn't use the GBA's stock shoulder buttons. I had to come up with some alternatives. Some I took some of the thicker cardboard. Cut it to the right size and doubled it on the ends taped it on. The GBA was ready for the Trip. Made sure I packed my Iron and some solder just incase I needed to fix it on the trip. Along with some extra duct tape. And it worked till I was on my way home yesterday. Which one of the wires broke. Which is a easy fix.
Well enough of my blabbing, Here some pics of it.( And as you can see looks lost to fictionality big time.)
Front:
Back:
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Bottom:
Side:
Not bad for a quick fix, I guess! 
What has been seen cannot be unseen!
