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Gameboy Advanced: The Quest For Color (Outside)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-accounting-for-taste dept.

zenintrude writes: "Unfulfilled by Nintendo's current offering of GBA colors? Why not buy a Blank Slate (formerly known as 'Arctic') GBA, and dye it your favorite shade? If nothing else, it will pass the time until Portable Monopoly is back fighting the good fight." It seems that question ("Why not?") is not rhetorical -- if four bottles of RIT dye don't do the trick, maybe nature never intended it to be. I will wait until Gameboys are given away with cereal before I try such a thing.

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  1. Re:IT'S IN THE GAMES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    you're telling this to people who gauge their social worth by the girth of their internet pipe, and make small talk by comparing kernel versions. Most of them would be mistaken for a Tommy Hilfiger-branded bean bag if they tried on designer clothes. This is about as much of a fashion statement as they can make.

  2. Re:SPRAY PAINT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    You are pretty offensive. You are also wrong.

    From the Rit dye faq:

    Can I use Rit to dye materials other than fabrics?

    Rit dyes can also be used to color wood, paper, plastics, canvas shoes, and many craft materials.

  3. WTF would he dye *PLASTIC*?! by Scutter · · Score: 4

    Why not use a high-quality automotive paint? Slick that puppy right up! What made him think black dye would do the trick?

    Personally, I'd recommend FlexProducts' Chromaflair colorshifting paint, with a polypropylene/urethane primer to soften the plastic a bit first.

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  4. It doesn't work like it does with easter eggs by BierGuzzl · · Score: 4

    You can't just put your gameboy in a tub of dye and change it to your favourite color. ....course, no one will heed my warnings, OSDN will be filled with cries of agony as one gameboy after another is destroyed in this quest for new colors.

  5. You can dye plastic by wunderhorn1 · · Score: 5
    Just so you know the guy's not completely smoking crack (from the RIT website, he even gives a link from his page):
    Rit Dye is manufactured and guaranteed primarily for tinting and dyeing washable textile fabrics. It is, however, effective for coloring many types of vinyl or plastic articles, such as jewelry (simulated pearls), buttons, rivets, and eyeglass frames, etc.

    So there you go. But there are definitely paints much better suited to the task.

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  6. It COULD be done by krystal_blade · · Score: 4
    What he needs to do is make a clay mold of the GBA, take the GBA apart, and make a mold to cover the inside specs too.

    Take the RIT Dye, GBA, and FIRED clay mold (go to an arts and crafts store) put the GBA peices in the mold (with the inside peices there to keep it's parameters/stop it from warping)

    Boil the RIT dye solution (Make it a little heavier since you're not dying cloth. Put as much as you can in there. Drop the GBA in the dye, and boil it for an hour or two. Pull it out, let it cool, and it should dye without shrinking.

    Course, a REAL MAN would make a PLASTER MOLD of the GBA, inside and out, and pick up the stuff you need to make one out of CARBON FIBER, or FIBERGLASS/Resin. A friend of mine converted a streetbike for enduro racing and did just that. It came out green, and black (thread/fiber yarn) zigzagged. it ROCKED!!

    krystal_blade

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  7. I hope this guy doesn't have any pets by Gazelem · · Score: 5
    "I bought my shar-pei knowing he had wrinkles but after a while I didn't realize just how many there were. So I took out my iron..."

    Friends don't let friends buy Rit dye.