ChaoticNeutralCzech,

I wonder if the shape of the button pads was chosen for functional or aesthetic reasons

hiramfromthechi,
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world avatar

This is the first post I’ve ever seen on a forum with zero downvotes

MazonnaCara89,
@MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml avatar

Not true anymore 🙃

hiramfromthechi,
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world avatar

There’s always that one person… 🫠

Draconic_NEO,
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world avatar

That’s probably the reason why version instances disable downvotes. At least they aren’t counted against users like they are on Reddit with Timeouts, removals, and shadowbans.

KermitLeFrog,

I’m pretty sure this has been available for a while. I was using this site when I was working on my senior project in GBA emulation a couple years back

MazonnaCara89,
@MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml avatar

The outline kicad was uploaded 21 days ago

ChaoticNeutralCzech,

How come it took 20 years for a popular console? Sure, it probably takes some effort, maybe X-raying the boards, but a schematic can be created by someone with a desoldering oven and multimeter. Or sandpaper and flatbed scanner. At least they’re free.

Edit: apparently includes full board recreation, that’s better

ziggurat,

The information has been available for a long time. And the method to get it was done by sanding down each layer and making scans, and tracing each line.

Without looking to much into this, apperantly the main new thing here is the way this information is compiled. Which may be quite the improvement in accessibility

ShitOnABrick,
@ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world avatar

Awesome

WuTang,
@WuTang@lemmy.ninja avatar

There’s a lot of transgender in the hacking (reverse engineer) community…

mriormro,
@mriormro@lemmy.world avatar

So?

MycoBro,

That is a wild factoid. I had no idea. I wonder how the fuck some shit like that even comes up. “Hey! Trans people are good at stuff just like regular people!”

mriormro,
@mriormro@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, who would’ve thought that other people are into doing things?

WuTang,
@WuTang@lemmy.ninja avatar

you are assuming the bad here.

read my sentence:

There’s a lot of transgender in the hacking (reverse engineer) community…

reverse engineer being an hardcore craft/skill, I don’t think you could reasonably say that I was diminishing them.

seeing how low my score went on a simple sentence, I think it’s time for some reflection, people…

MycoBro,

I didn’t down vote you. I was just talking shit. I don’t give two fucks, brother man.

TheOakTree, (edited )

Yes. There are, and it’s fucking awesome because it’s a space where we can say “the gender of the person who did all this great work has zero negative impact on the wonderful outcome!”

People can argue that trans actors can “feel out of place” or that trans athletes “ruin the spirit of competition.” I don’t agree with those perspectives, but I can see the (warped) logic behind them.

Here, there’s nothing to possible complain about. Does the PCB function any differently because of who reverse engineered and recreated it? No. Should it impact one’s experience gaming on this hardware? No, and if it does, said person has a problem disconnecting their personal beliefs from their objectivity.

WuTang,
@WuTang@lemmy.ninja avatar

you’ll note that I didn’t say anything special but got downvoted to -76 :)

nycki,

What do you mean you didn’t say anything special? You called attention to something obvious. People normally only do that when they want to complain, i.e. “it’s monday” or “the bus is late” etc. If you want to call attention to something obvious but in a positive light, you have to say that explicitly, i.e. “it’s cool that there’s a lot of transgender people in the hacking community” or “nice, it’s raining!”. Neutral is negative by default, unfortunately.

WuTang,
@WuTang@lemmy.ninja avatar

Neutral is negative by default, unfortunately.

I don’t agree, especially cause we talk here about reverse engineering which is considered as relatively hardcore skill and in the positive way.

If I was saying: “There’s lot of transgenders in blackhat hacking”, there you might draw some negative conclusion.

Anyway, that was not my intention and sorry, it is not something ‘obvious’.

nycki,

You get to choose your intention. You don’t get to choose how it’s received. You were downvoted because people perceived you as negative, even if it’s not what you intended. Unless you have a better explanation?

QuantumSparkles,

Are you saying my modding hobby is going to lead to me mod my gender

RubberElectrons,
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

You know, sometimes I’ve wondered if that’s why there’s a weird correlation between the two. Engineers and scientists tend to grab physical reality in their hands and create something where there was nothing to change the status quo of existence.

Reverse engineering and modding are the applied version of that when it comes to rules and constraints. Who’s to say these types wouldn’t also be keen on changing their own mortal reality as they like it?

WuTang,
@WuTang@lemmy.ninja avatar

open the curtain and the window, take a deeeep breath.

dinckelman,

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  • mriormro,
    @mriormro@lemmy.world avatar

    I mean, nothing stops you from just getting a pool going and then buying in more cost effective quantities

    TheOakTree,

    I have participated in this with PCBs for keyboards and gamecube controllers (PhobGCC). It worked fine, but YMMV.

    Moskus,
    @Moskus@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s not very expensive to order 5 boards.

    nix,
    @nix@merv.news avatar

    I just want a gameboy advance sp i can run some emulators on

    EddyNottingham,

    That’s the dream!

    NewNewAccount,

    I bought a Retroid Flip and have been really happy with it. I grew up with the game boy and have owned pretty much every iteration. Authentic is good but I think the utility of the android-based handheld can’t be beat. Especially given the high cost of the originals.

    nix,
    @nix@merv.news avatar

    Looks nice but thats more of a DS than an SP

    bingbong,

    Same but a Nintendo DS

    can,

    Flash cart?

    nix,
    @nix@merv.news avatar

    Looks like the Retroid Flip is what you’re looking for

    bingbong,

    Close! But I was hoping for something with 2 physical screens like the DS had, it’s probably a pain to implement though

    nix,
    @nix@merv.news avatar

    Oh yeah i forgot about that. Then your best bet is to get a flashcart for a ds or for a 3ds. You can play emulators on them.

    Kingofthezyx,

    3DS can emulate DS, my 2DS running homebrew can emulate DS, GBA, and everything prior. It’s pretty cool.

    Delorean623,

    I got a RG353VS off Amazon a few months back and am loving it. Good speakers, beautiful screen, USB C charging… It came preloaded with a bunch of games.

    nix,
    @nix@merv.news avatar

    That’s not the form factor of an SP though :/ I want it to be able to close so it fits nicely in my pocket

    kadu,
    @kadu@lemmy.world avatar

    Nice!

    You could actually already buy completely custom boards for a few GameBoy models, only transplanting the SoC from an original board.

    But those are sold with an unjustifiably high profit margin, by the “loved by the community but actually quite shady” retro modding stores.

    caseyweederman,

    Natalie the Nerd! <3

    RubberElectrons,
    @RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

    Are they well known? Glad this effort exists.

    caseyweederman,

    I keep seeing their name on cool projects, and they’re featured on RetroModding.

    good_girl,
    @good_girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Yeah, they released a few custom pcbs for Gameboy mods. I think the most recent one was a gameboy color to gameboy pocket retrofit pcb

    RubberElectrons,
    @RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

    Wow that’s nuts. I never would’ve guessed we would be here, able to just order PCBs when I was a kid.

    good_girl,
    @good_girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Yeah the gameboy mod scene is wild (and can get expensive real fast)

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