80 gig drive inside a Game Boy

posted Sep 4th 2009 8:58am by
filed under: gameboy hacks, peripherals hacks

gameboy_harddrive

[_n3o_] put together a nice external storage mod by fitting a 2.5″ drive into a broken Game Boy. This mod fooled quite a few people because it appears that the device still plays games with the drive stuffed inside of it. Sadly, this is not the case. The reflective backing has been removed from the screen and replaced by a piece of paper with a graphic printed on it. The LED from the hard drive was moved to the battery indicator for the Game Boy for added realism. There is no build log for this project but [_n3o_] did give a short explanation of it in a forum post. You can see two more pictures of the project after the break.gamesss

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Update: Take a look inside too!



17 Responses to 80 gig drive inside a Game Boy

  • Ronald says:
    September 4, 2009 at 9:25 am

    I am sure despite all his hard work on this, some people will gripe that it woul only be cool if the gameboy worked. BUT, I think this is a great example of using something broken to make something you need that is cooler than one you can buy. Try to find a really coll 2.5 hd case that starts conversations. Great JOB.

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  • Bryan says:
    September 4, 2009 at 10:49 am

    If you wanted the Game Boy to still be usable you could always put a 64GB ($139) or 128GB ($324) thumb drive in it, Though it would cost quit a bit more.

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  • Bryan says:
    September 4, 2009 at 10:51 am

    On second thought, I think It is usable via USB power.

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  • Diddle says:
    September 4, 2009 at 11:08 am

    I love it. Retro-cool recycling.

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  • Pilotgeek says:
    September 4, 2009 at 11:26 am

    @bryan
    No, unfortunately it isn’t usable. He said the screen is simply a printed paper image embedded under the screen. Even though it isn’t usable as a GameBoy, I don’t have a problem with it since the gameboy was broken anyways.

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  • vikki says:
    September 4, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    perfect way to store valuable info, who would even look twice at an old monochrome game system anyway. good camo.

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  • Mitchell Duncan says:
    September 4, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    What if he used “e-ink” technology for his screen. haha

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  • Alvaro says:
    September 5, 2009 at 10:33 am

    Hey, what about using the innards of a gameboy pocket (or color). Or gameboy micro ^^?

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  • _n3o_ says:
    September 7, 2009 at 6:21 am

    Lol originally my name is _n3o_, maxconsole make a mistake and type it _n30_ and now i’m _n30_ everywhere :s.

    I’m gonna reoppen de gbHDD to take more pictures, a tutorial isn’t needed because it’s a very easy mod to do. (you just need a 2,5″ hdd case (6$) and a Dremel to cut nearly everything inside :)

    The only hard part was to drill the battery port with the only aim that was to fit the hdd at the bottom of the gb to place the USB plug in replacement of the Link plug.

    (i have some other dead GB (GBp and GBc) just need to think at a nice mod (maybe the old good usb key + emus + gamecontroller, all in the gb?)

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  • Mike Szczys says:
    September 7, 2009 at 10:07 am

    @_n3o_: Sorry about getting your name wrong… I’ve fixed it in the post. Great project, I love the method you used to make the screen look like a game!

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  • kapman says:
    September 7, 2009 at 10:53 am

    This is very cool, totally retro.
    This is how I installed a 1.5 TB Seagate hard drive in my PC, bot the same this,but:
    http://ellipz.com/?p=101

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  • Sakshi2982 says:
    September 14, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    Cool Project:) One of the best mods i came across.

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  • kurye says:
    October 28, 2009 at 3:46 am

    perfect thank you

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  • phongdet says:
    November 25, 2009 at 6:13 am

    This pretty much no web. I like very important and I like games with a person to know.

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  • Aimbot Download says:
    January 17, 2010 at 10:53 am

    I’d be FAR more interested if I could still play Pokèmon ;)

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  • Burr says:
    March 22, 2010 at 10:38 am

    Hey I dunno if you know this or not but I’m getting the following error form your site: Warning: require_once(../wp-includes/pomo/entry.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream

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  • james says:
    August 31, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    some people are so smart at making cool things like these

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