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The Great Chinholio wrote: »I cant believe im getting aroused by a circuit board :pac:
If you see it in its temporary home that'll sort out your urges
She aint purty but it'll do until I sort out the Game Boy. I created those lovely holes for the ports by stabbing like crazy with my SOG Seal Pup knife. Brilliant knife by the way if you can get your hands on one.
That's an external battery pack beside it by the way. Really handy thing it is as well, powers via USB or normal DC out for laptops etc.
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Liz from the the Raspberry Pi Foundation just posted a comment and sent a very friendly email to me about the Game Boy PC that I'm putting the Pi in.
She wants to feature it on the homepage when I've got it completed.
So, a little extra push to really make me get this thing done
Still, best to take my time and do it right than feck it up in a rush job me think.
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The small wireless n card and 16GB USB drive that's going inside the Game Boy arrived today. Just as small as they looked on the site and wont take up much room inside the case(These will be on a mini powered USB hub I have that needs to be somehow mounted inside the case).
I've also started toying with the idea of using the composite video on the Pi to run a 3.5" screen instead of the DSI connection on the PI that nobody seems to know much about yet. This will involve some extra modding to fit the screen in where the original 2.6" screen went.
As always, more research required but it would certainly add to the whole case mod if I had a working screen in it.
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Well, then you can stick Boulder Dash on it and Sparks will buy it!
Haha, true enough.
But I should state I have no intention of selling these at the moment. I do plan to install Pi's in lots of retro devices so maybe I'll sell them on at some stage if I feel they are of a decent enough quality to leave the Steve SI Batcave
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Well, I can see the Gamegear, Gameboy, Lynx, Nes and, with the provision of an extra button, the Megadrive being beautifully emulated on such a device, just sayin' is all.
Yeah, I'd love to get all the original buttons/controls working as well as a couple of hidden buttons somewhere.
But the problem is this is very much a dev board at the moment and it runs an ARM build of Linux so there is loads of work to do on the basic software side of things(by myself and others) to get things running smoothly.
Even hooking up a button to it without using a keyboard is proving an issue.
Anyway, I knew this was going to be a lot of work on the software and hardware side of things so I cant complain about it.
And I wont be doing any modding on the case this weekend as I've now to pop over to London for the weekend on a little job
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Just grabbed one (ok two) of these to see if I can use it to map the Game Boy controls in the RasPiBoy over USB.
The plan would be to gut the thing and use it without a case of course. This little pad is made by the same crowd who do the iCade.
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/ION-New-GO-PAD-Folding-Computer-Game-Controller-Game-/110685682145?pt=Video_Games_Accessories&hash=item19c56179e1
The guy seems to be a bit of a basement dweller but it gives you an idea of the size of the pad(imagine it without the plastic shell and inside the RasPiBoy but using the original Game Boy buttons and DPad).
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He's a bit odd, isn't he?
A 9 min video with frak all close ups of the device in action just him, some odd mannerisms and his computer screen, not cool!
But the pad looks nice.
Pity it's not bluetooth though, then it might be mappable to the icade specs or be used with phones, mine plays grand games but the onscreen controls are only ever a poor compromise.
Have you heard about the iControlPad? Bluetooth controller made by the same folks as that OpenPandora handheld. Works with iCade too whatever that iis (http://www.icontrolpad.com/compatibility/). Was tempted to get one myself for my Android phone but just don't play mobile games enough.
http://www.icontrolpad.com/
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Talk about uncomfortable viewing! I've never seen a demonstration video which made me feel so uneasy. He's like a mix between a salesman who doesn't believe in the product and a drunk 15 year old boy on his way out to his first nightclub.
Interesting device though. Seems like an ideal solution for your Gameboy.
Yeah, he's awkward a feck.
Hopefully the pad is workable when I get that plastic shell off it. It seems like it should be fine and with a bit of luck I wont need to write a driver for it from scratch for the Pi ARM OS.
Speaking of Pi, I used a bit of Sugru on it last night to protect the GPIO pins while I'm working on it(one guy shorted out his Pi by touching the wrong pins with something by mistake).
Sugru is non conductive by the way and very heat resistant.
Its not art but it'll do the job for the moment :0)
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