I just built this set yesterday and was thinking to myself 'I wonder how hard it would be to turn this into a functioning gameboy?'
Looks like I have my answer!
There's a replacement motherboard which uses an FPGA in lieu of the original SOC, so you can in fact build a Gameboy of Theseus with zero Nintendo parts, not even an SGB donor chip.
I was wondering how long it would take someone to do this.
I just built this set yesterday and was thinking to myself 'I wonder how hard it would be to turn this into a functioning gameboy?' Looks like I have my answer!
I pre-ordered this set to do exactly this. Nice to see others have the same idea.
Weirdly I only received mine today, I wonder why the difference in pre-order shipment times is so large.
Because some sellers don’t respect sales embargo and/or some clients have some privileges.
This is... very very nice, and why I love the internet, LEGO and maker/hacker type nerds...
The Game Boy modding scene is fascinating. You can literally replace every single part of it other than the `DMG-CPU` main SoC.
Well even that can be replaced, sorta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EccVHo-pDGI
There's a replacement motherboard which uses an FPGA in lieu of the original SOC, so you can in fact build a Gameboy of Theseus with zero Nintendo parts, not even an SGB donor chip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cesh5OAL4uk
This looks cool but that D-Pad is going to hurt after a few minutes of play.
The kind of person who does this has many gameboys to play on, this is for art and concept only I imagine
Did Nintendo lawyers already get in touch?