Game Boy HDD update: the guts

posted Sep 8th 2009 8:00am by
filed under: gameboy hacks, peripherals hacks

gameboy_hdd_cover_image

Last week we showed you the ingenious hard drive enclosure made from a broken Game Boy. We caught up with [_n3o_], the person responsible for this mod, and he was nice enough to share some pictures of the inside of the project. Let’s get down to business and take a look. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »




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