Here's an awesome DIY project you can try out with an old Gameboy/GBC game that you're not too fond of -- turn it into a USB drive! Themadscientist101 has a photo guide showing how to cut open a window and shave off some of the inside wall to fit a USB drive into the plastic housing. You won't be able to play the game anymore after modding the cart, but if you use something crappy like Mortal Kombat, that shouldn't be a problem.
Just think of how cool everyone will think you are when you pull out a Pokemon cart to show off the Pokemon strategy guides you downloaded from GameFAQs! The girls will be fighting over you. It'll be like the Axe Effect, but in Pokemon form. For real.
Themadscientist101 also has a Lego USB mod that the ladies can't resist. Jump past the post break for photos of the brick drive.
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1-04-2008 @ 5:52PM
Author X said...
That's cool, but... there's not much by way of instructions. What's with the first several pictures with clay/tac on the game?
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1-04-2008 @ 6:30PM
Brychanus said...
It's ground plastic, not clay. They used what I'm guessing is a rotary tool to thin out the cart, and when plastic like that gets even mildly warm, it tends to half grind, half melt away, leading to that clay-like appearance.
1-04-2008 @ 6:45PM
Author X said...
I don't mean the inside of the cart, I know that was thinned down to fit the drive. I mean the photos before that, with the label facing up and what looks like balls of tac or gum, with the only description "...x bits" with the number of balls on the game being x.
1-04-2008 @ 7:26PM
Brychanus said...
Oh, that stuff... I see what you mean. I'm sorry I didn't catch it the first time. No idea what that is, but it's a good question.
1-05-2008 @ 1:01PM
Truffled said...
I think when he ground down the inside he did it on a flat surface and the sticky tack was just to hold the cart in place so it wouldn't fly all over and so he wouldn't have to hold it with his hands and perhaps make a fatal grind.
1-05-2008 @ 2:06PM
Author X said...
Oh, okay... that makes sense. Thanks!
1-04-2008 @ 11:54PM
Konosuke said...
Hehe, I'd have kept the circuit board inside (cut away, of course, to fit the drive) just to give it a more authentic feel of a game modded into a USB drive ^^
I'm curious if one could do this is a GBA game? I'd rather do that to Sapphire or Ruby than Red =/
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1-05-2008 @ 1:18AM
Dig said...
Now if he were to take his modded USB drive and put on a GB emulator w/ a Pokemon Red rom, it would be like nothing was lost at all.
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1-05-2008 @ 1:26AM
teh_7lip said...
i think thats just adhesive stuff from 1996 that kept the GB carts circuit board all snuggly
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