3D Printed PiGRRL - Raspberry Pi Gameboy

coop0030 (263345) writes "Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the classic gaming device, Game Boy, by building your own with 3d printing and DIY electronics. This project uses a Raspberry Pi and TFT touch screen to make an epic DIY Game Girl. The 3d printed enclosure houses all of the components and can be printed in your favorite color. It's controlled with SNES gaming controller components, reusing the printed circuit board, buttons and elastomers. The 3D files can be found on Thingiverse, and a video of the finished product is provided as well."

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This looks interisting..... but wai....

[del_diablo]

>Game boy
>3D shell for Raspberry Pi to run a emulator
Please don't mix the too together.

Slick, but depends on a good SNES controller

[drinkypoo]

There's no shortage of those yet but they're really nice controllers as-is, they have a zillion purposes without being cannibalized. And these days you can buy controller parts for a song, so it would be nice to see the design adapted to use some readily available controller replacement parts instead. It would cost only a few bucks more, even assuming a free SNES controller.

Re:Slick, but depends on a good SNES controller

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like a pretty nice drone ground stations, just add a decent radio modem. :)

Re:Slick, but depends on a good SNES controller

[ildon]

If you're that worried about it, you can cannibalize one of these: http://www.lukiegames.com/SNES...

They have some pretty decent reviews.

gotta shove feminism into everything don't you...

[Anonymous Coward]

political correctness + blatant, unthinking piracy = clickbait

ROM

[tepples]

Then don't pirate Mario games. Instead, download homebrew ROMs, some of which are free open source software.

Re:ROM

[Nemyst]

Not to burst your bubble, but there's a reason people download Mario ROMs and other such popular games: they're actually enjoyable. I've seen the open source stuff and it's between average and miserable.

Re:ROM

[tepples]

I'm always looking for ways to improve my work. Could you try my stuff and offer some constructive criticism?

Re:ROM

[Anonymous Coward]

I've had a NES, SNES and GBA emulator on near all my personal computers since highschool. At various times I've tried hundreds of games, most of which for less than an hour.

There's 12 games I have that I play on occasion still, the only ones I ever do now. 4 are mario titles, a zelda, metroid, megaman and other franchises still out today. I _could_ rebuy most of these and be tied to the wii store, but I spent weeks washing cars to get some of those titles originally. The two I didn't own as a child, I even tracked down at pawn stores at some stage.

I don't consider myself a pirate, I'm a technologist that's managed to keep my games alive long after the hardware died. (I seem to be in the minority that managed to actually destroy these, but they joined in much of the rough and tumble with my brothers over the years)

Re:ROM

[brantondaveperson]

"A hippie guitarist who has visited your small town for years has gone rogue and launched ICBMs toward your town."

10/10 for completely whack game plot :)

Re: Grrrl

[LordLimecat]

Epic AC fight here, tickets $5.

Dude are you gonna take that from him?

One purported purpose of copyrights and patents

[tepples]

One of the ways that copyrights and patents are intended "to promote the progress of science and useful arts" is by keeping people from getting stuck in a local optimum of ideas. If you make an idea different enough not to infringe, it might just hit a higher local maximum.

Re:Cue DMCA request in 5..4..3..2..

[tepples]

What elements, in your opinion, make a 2D platformer a "Mario clone"?

Safety first

[Misagon]

The tutorial shows cutting a PCB from a SNES controller into three parts.
When cutting PCBs (and other things of fiberglass), it is important not to inhale the dust - in the worst case, fiberglass dust can cause lung cancer.

The tutorial recommends a dust mask, but does not mention how important it is.
I always use a dust mask and a vacuum cleaner with HEPA filter running with the nozzle right next to the workpiece when I cut PCBs.
Also, don't do it where you live, and do collect the dust that settles.

Both neat and a let down

[Anonymous Coward]

The walkthrough with pictures was interesting, but I am a bit let down. I expected it to be a custom homemade GameBoy, not simply a portable game emulation/pirating computer. Also, grrl? Really? That stopped being 'cool' around the time xXSepherothCloudXx stopped being 'cool'.

One of those I did it to show I could things ?

[Crashmarik]

$120 + to make something that doesn't play game boy games but looks like a gameboy
when you could buy a much more capable 7 inch tablet

https://www.google.com/search?...|7%247,vw:l,p_ord:p&tbm=shop&ei=i6G4U4XNGcedyATo_4GoAg&ved=0CKQEELsNKAI

for as little as $30 ?

Re:One of those I did it to show I could things ?

[willaien]

There's no particular reason why it can't play gameboy games (or any of the older generation games), just needs emulator support for them.

Re:One of those I did it to show I could things ?

[Crashmarik]

Yes but then you have the project of getting this project to do that project. Making the whole thing even more curious.

Interestingly enough a little checking hame i running into other projects, that turned Raspberry PIs into gameboy like devices that actually played gameboy games. So aside from the "I can have this and you can't factor" of this project I don't see why it's even a desirable project ?

Are people building these things and things like them to justify their purchase of 3D printers ? Hey honey you see that 2 grand I spent on the printer look what I can do with it !!

Is this just product placement for ADA Fruit ? That seems likely seeing as looking at their page it seems to cater to those that would like to be technically leet and cutting edge but aren't particularly creative on their own.

Link fix

[Crashmarik]

Click it then go to shopping and sort by price low to high

Tablet input

[tepples]

That depends on how expensive and how bulky the clip-on Bluetooth game controller is. Not a lot of classic console games work well with just an on-screen gamepad. Or has there been some sort of recent innovation in touch input processing that makes games like Mega Man and Castlevania, which need precision movement, jumping, and attacking controls, practical with just a flat sheet of glass?

Re:gotta shove feminism into everything don't you.

[TheRaven64]

Underpowered? The Gameboy had a 4.19MHz Z80-like chip. You could happily emulate it on a 66MHz 486 without taxing the host. The ARM11 in the RPi is massively overpowered for this use! I don't really understand what the feminism you're seeing here is.

DIY electronics

[Osgeld]

Plugging premade boards into premade boards is not DIY electronics, otherwise my entire computer is DIY and yes I soldered a power connector onto one of the fans

Get clones

[HalAtWork]

You can get clone controllers that are made the same, here.

Totally doing this! (Also, Slashdot is evil)

[DamianJPound]

SON OF A BITCH! I had a rather large post and clicked "Options" to see what was in there, I saved, and the page refreshed, way to fucking go Slashdot... Anyway -___-

I'm totally gonna use one of my RPis to make a portable gaming computer, I'll probably even make one for my cousin as a birthday or Christmas present so he can enjoy the old games as well. I haven't seen any of the links yet, but I'll probably include a reader if possible*, find something that can interface with the GBA link cable and wireless adapter, and get a high capacity battery so I can play for at least a week on a charge. I wonder if the RPi can handle N64 or PS1/2 games...
* I'll probably rip most of them so I don't need to carry them, hopefully I can get the saves as well.