Have you ever considered taking a Game Boy Pocket and shoving it in a Game Boy Advance SP shell to make a Mini Game Boy Pocket SP?

Seems type of backwards, proper?

Well it’s these sorts of impractical mods within the Game Boy group that completely get us retro recreation followers tremendous excited.

As somebody who is part of the Game Boy modding and fanatic group, I can inform you that we’ve got stuff like this popping up frequently.

Between new 3D printable shell designs, customized molded buttons, and a few superior stage wizards who’re doing {hardware} stage modifications….

We’ve obtained a ton of attention-grabbing advances occurring in our little modding group.

And it’s these sorts of seemingly pointless mods like placing a Game Boy Pocket in a Game Boy Advance SP that basically catch you off guard.

We’ve seen Game Boy Colors squeezed into Game Boy Pocket shells… We’ve seen Nintendo DS’s shoved into DMG shells…

But who would’ve thought to take an older mannequin and provides it the vibes of a more recent one.

Well might we current the ‘Mini Game Boy Pocket SP’!

More in regards to the ‘Mini Game Boy Pocket SP’ mission

This Game Boy Pocket / Game Boy Advance SP mashup was created by Allison Parrish.

Allison’s pursuits are fairly extensive reaching, between poetry, programming, and extra lately… Game Boy modding.

I wouldn’t precisely name her expertise entry stage…

The work she did on the Mini Game Boy Pocket SP mission is on the highest stage in our modding group.

In order to make the Game Boy Pocket slot in her customized modelled shell, she needed to actually lower the circuit board in half.

Which ain’t precisely straightforward to do!

Allison Parrish needed to create her personal 3D printable designs to make a Game Boy Advance SP aesthetic to accommodate the modified Game Boy Pocket.

She additionally needed to create customized printed circuit boards to make the entire connections work .

Remember, she actually chopped the board in half!

She made a working Game Boy Pocket SP that appears unimaginable. And this has a variety of us questioning the way it feels to play it!

She had posted the mission to her Instagram web page, which appeared to be her remaining design.

And then she took it a step additional and obtained a professionally printed ultra-clear shell that exhibits off the entire unimaginable magic occurring inside the customized machine.

Surely you’d agree, it appears to be like fairly wild.

Allison Parrish has an entire write-up on her customized Game Boy Project, the place she goes into element about all the course of.

On prime of that, she can be providing all of her design recordsdata to anyone who desires to attempt it themselves on her Github web page.

Again, this isn’t a straightforward activity, however we predict it’s unimaginable that Allison took the time to share the method with us, in addition to give us the means to have our personal Game Boy Pocket SP.

About The Game Boy Community

The Game Boy modding/fanatic/DIY scene is totally superb.

In 2020, through the pandemic that had lots of people re-evaluating their life… I made a decision to shift my ardour into retro gaming.

And one of many first issues I did was to start out diving into Game Boys and the Instagram group for Game Boy fans.

From day one which group was nothing however welcoming and joyful to share details about methods to do issues.

Which appears fairly uncommon, as many communities are reluctant to share information or increase others in worry of competitors (*cough* recreation boy growth group *cough*).

So as soon as I began to be a mainstay in that group, I at all times tried to maintain that very same vitality and welcome new members with open arms.

If you’re studying this text, you could have an curiosity in Game Boys, Game Boy modification, and so forth…

I can inform you from first hand expertise that it’s an amazing group to plug your self in to.

People like Allison Parrish who’re pushing the artistic boundaries of DIY modding, inspiring others, and providing their data totally free.

Thank you Allison for being an superior member of the Game Boy group!

Anthony has been a online game lover ever since he can bear in mind. He grew to become a fulltime nomad in 2018, residing all through most of Asia. He targeted his ardour in retro gaming and started making a recreation for the Game Boy Color whereas residing in Nara, Japan through the 2020 pandemic. He is now in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the place he spends most of his time gaming, happening lengthy walks and assembly as many stray canine as potential.