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Anybody here who made a custom Gameboy at a workshop in Tokyo? (piefed.ca)
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Will be travelling to Japan later this year and found out about these workshops in Tokyo where you get make "your own" modded Gameboy. Guessing modded refers to being able to choose custom shells and buttons, not so much to anything else there might be (I am not very knowledgeable about Gameboy mod scene).

Looks super cool, but is very pricey. Around 55.000 Yen for different courses, so I am a bit on the fence for booking it or not.

Anybody here have any experience with these? Would those be "normal" Gameboys you need cartridges for?

Edit: found a video of one, just in case someone is interested seeing how it goes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHSz8goaZ8

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[-] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks! Totally get your perspective on this, I would definitely not expect this to be same price as if I just did the research and shopping myself. I guess the upcharging is that someone is there to help you out and for people who would normally not think of doing something like that.

Can I ask you another question, how does it work with games on old Gameboys, are you forced to keep buying old cartridges or is there some way to load ROMs into these. They don't have any storage on them, right?

[-] KingKong33@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can buy a flash cart and load your ROMs onto an SD card which then goes into the cartridge. I'm not sure who all makes them for older game boys though apart from Everdrive. Its a bit spendy, but its absolutely worth it if you intend to use the device a lot.

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