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.

Posted at 9:25 am on Sep 4th, 2009 by Ronald

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.

Posted at 10:49 am on Sep 4th, 2009 by Bryan

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

Posted at 10:51 am on Sep 4th, 2009 by Bryan

I love it. Retro-cool recycling.

Posted at 11:08 am on Sep 4th, 2009 by Diddle

@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.

Posted at 11:26 am on Sep 4th, 2009 by Pilotgeek

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

Posted at 3:08 pm on Sep 4th, 2009 by vikki

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

Posted at 6:23 pm on Sep 4th, 2009 by Mitchell Duncan

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

Posted at 10:33 am on Sep 5th, 2009 by Alvaro

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?)

Posted at 6:21 am on Sep 7th, 2009 by _n3o_

@_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!

Posted at 10:07 am on Sep 7th, 2009 by Mike Szczys

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

Posted at 10:53 am on Sep 7th, 2009 by kapman

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

Posted at 8:09 pm on Sep 14th, 2009 by Sakshi2982

perfect thank you

Posted at 3:46 am on Oct 28th, 2009 by kurye