KalessinDB

What everyone else has said... if this is for pre-orders, I'm definitely interested.

Received mine today. Loaded up with No-Intro romset and seems to be working great (though I did change names to fit the LSD files). Thanks again, this really breathes life into the old system!

Heh this is gonna turn into a show pretty quickly now... I'm fairly certain I posted long ago when I started following this thread, but yes I'm absolutely interested in this (still, if appropriate)

Good god, take a few months away from following hardware developments and all SORTS of interesting news pops up. Following this thread with interest.

The stands break all the time, annoying as hell to find a good one in decent condition. You don't miss it, I got a working stand a few months back and STILL mostly play mine leaning back over the arm of my couch with it balanced on my head Eyeshield, that's a little more necessary to have it really be "working"... fortunately, that's also WAY easier and cheaper to find for reasonable prices, even on ebay. Good luck with your search!

Received my board today, almost exactly a week after notification that it went out. Thanks again, just gotta get it installed now!

Hands-on review time. TL;DR version: I love it. There's a few nit-picky type flaws, but I love it. I loved the idea of this, but honestly didn't like the case he chose. Connor worked with me, showing me a different case (which I loved), asking inputs on where I wanted the various outputs put in, etc etc. Ended up with a white case with a beautiful die-cut vinyl Nintendo logo on the front, and it's now toploading as I feel all systems should be. There's room in front of the cartridge slot (he asked me if I wanted it cut front, mid, or back of the case) for me to put a logo for the system once I come up with something (trying to find a way to combine all 3 Game Boy logos into something... artistic without being over the top). All in all, it looks like a nice piece of kit, looks a lot like a real system would. You can tell it's a homemade system, but it's a very high-end homemade system that I'm quite proud to have on my shelf next to my other systems. Visual appeal of the system: As I said, it looks great. He asked for input every step of the way. My immediate concerns when I opened the package was that the cart slot seemed to be cut kinda wide, and I told him this in email. He immediately offered to recut a smaller one for me for the cost of shipping alone, but said the reason he had cut it that wide was because the way carts were being inserted (top-down) they might not come at an exact 90 degree angle if you were reaching over a shelf to put them in from the front. When I got to actually play around with it (I had some personal issues come up when it first came in that prevented me from actually demoing it for a day or two) I noticed he was completely, 100% right, and furthermore when the cartridge is actually IN the slot it doesn't really look very big at all, it's just when you're looking down from the top and seeing it, you don't see just plain black plastic like you would on a normal system, you see circuit board, and that threw me off. But that makes sense because of the nature of the system - this was an enclosed system to begin with, and now we're opening it up a bit. As I say though, it's a non-issue once the game is actually inserted. My other aesthetic complaint was the end of the controller that he put on -- functionally, it works perfectly. However, it's just bare hot glue around the wires. Connor agreed, said it was honestly just an oversight, he didn't even consider the look there, and immediately offered to refund part of my money so I can go get a boot for it from Radio Shack, which I didn't even ask for (I was just going to wrap it in electrical tape so it was at least black, but the boot's a great idea). Only reason I even brought it up was because the rest of the system was just slick, and that seemed out of place. Functionality wise, I am also very happy. I'll start with audio because the review is quick: It's great. I grabbed the first GB, GBC, and GBA game that I found in my pile -- Tetris, Scooby Doo Capers, and Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. All three sounded great, the Castlevania one (as expected) just blew me away. Very, very well done. Video review is a little bit more in-depth. He gave me composite out and s-video out. I have 4 tv's, and I tried it on 3 of them (one's a little buried right now). Composite... is bad. It just doesn't look good. And I'm not normally that much of a "Oh god, Composite is almost as bad as RF" sorta guy. But I know that certain systems, by virtue of their video encoders, display composite better or worse. I'm not really going to fault him for this, because it's a downfall of the video connection itself. And more importantly, because the S-Video is just SO GOOD. Castlevania looks better through the S-Video on this than it does by S-Video on my Gamecube with a Gameboy Player (yes. I bought this despite having a Gameboy Player). It's just crisp, clean, vibrant colors, gorgeous overall. I can't say enough good about it. Tetris is obviously much simpler, also looked good. Scooby Doo, the text was a little difficult to read, but I pulled it out and threw it in my Game Boy Color (I honestly don't think I had ever played this game before -- I must have gotten it in a lot I bought at some point. Neat little Maniac Mansion style game), and you know what? The text was a little difficult to read on the original screen too. So again, I'm not going to complain about something that's not his fault, y'know? One thing worth noting, which many people used to using retro systems on modern tvs SHOULD be well aware of, is that your tv of choice can affect how well it all works. My small LCD in my bedroom, it works just fine (other than the aforementioned composite-being-bad thing -- no S-vid on the LCDs), but the large LCD in my living room, it has a strange thing going on where it shifts up and down about a pixel every half second or so. Very distracting. But, modern tvs and old systems just don't play nice somehow, this is a well known fact. I don't have an sort of upscaler to try throwing it through to see if it's a problem with the 480i output (as that's what it's reading as when I turn on my tv), and while I know the tv takes 240p just fine from some of my other retro systems, I don't know for sure if I've tried throwing 480i at it before. But for me personally this isn't a problem, since all of my retro gaming is done on one of my CRTs, and it looks great on the CRTs. So there you have it. The good, and the bad. Overall, I have no real complaints though. I am very happy with my system and will likely be looking into doing more consolized systems with Connor in the future (Lynx and NGPC are crying out to me -- GG too, but man that case from the dude in .jp has set a high bar for quality there). I promise I will post pictures of my system eventually, but right now I've got some stuff going on. I just wanted to pop in and say "Yep, it's expensive. Yep, I'm happy with my purchase" to try to give him a little boost.

IIRC, the current best-available Good2600 clocks in at a whopping 7 megs zipped. Even accounting for it getting bigger unzipped, you could hold every 2600 rom in existence, multiple times over, on the smallest SD card you can find.

A *THOUSAND* times this. I fell in love with this system the first time I saw it and would ADORE a chance to buy it or something nearly identical to it. I would also buy this Game Boy TV, even at the $275 price, but I'm picky... that Consolized Game Gear just spoiled me, I can't accept anything that doesn't look that awesome now. Is there any way you can build a housing that looks more... I don't know, Nintendo-y than the black project box? I mean you may not be able to make it a perfect scale model of an NES or something like the dude did with Master System to Game Gear, but... I dunno, something. Something that makes it look right next to my other consoles. But yeah... if you can find a better case (vain, I know, but hey) and/or recreate the consolized gg of awesomeness, count me in. For both. And heck, make a Lynx that looks like an Atari product and I would buy that too.

Hope everything's alright. Looking forward to hearing from you hopefully soonish.

I believe my message from earlier this week should count as my getting on the waiting list ^_^

Those are nice, middle top is my personal favorite.

I made a generic end label on 2600labelmaker.com or something like that (forget the exact site)... didn't bother cutting holes, since I bought the microSD version specifically because I intended to load it up with RomHunter's set and go. My biggest problem was I have yet to find a place around here that does vinyl labels (to be fair, I haven't looked all that hard) I do have a question related to this though: Has anyone made a UGC cover for the Harmony cart? Because I would love that so very much. The Cover Project only wants officially released games, and I've seen a few people make UGC covers for Everdrives, but I would love a Harmony one and I'm so bad at design...

Damn, missed my chance at Wario Land, and I have the other 4. Anyone else into VB, I will take this opportunity to say that the FlashBoy+ is an excellent, if not ideal, way to play games as well. Also allows you to check out some of the betas and homebrew kicking around the net on original hardware.

Heh I see I got beat to the punch but yeah I would've happily offered to double your money if you just wanted to resell it. Ah well.