Any other Custom Circuits/PCBs you guys need

[crispy_tofu]

Sounds great

[Cannikin]

Ideally there would be two boards just like in the stock GB: one attached to the front that handles buttons and one attached to the back that has the power switch, volume pot, external connector (replaced with USB), cartridge socket, and aligns the Pi Zero so that the contrast knob opening is now for the HDMI connector. Then a ribbon cable that connects the front to the back. The boards would contain connectors for headers to connect the Zero, PowerBoost and audio Amp. Everyone's monitor is a little different so maybe that isn't standardized and one of the boards just supplies +5V, GND, and composite video pads. The boards should contain holes for the existing screw posts and holes for the longer posts that you need to re-attach after removing to fit the monitor.

So you'd basically buy all the components, solder headers onto them, solder the components to one of these two custom boards, connect the ribbon, connect the monitor, plug in the Lipo battery and DONE.

Easy, right?

[uke]

Ideally there would be two boards just like in the stock GB: one attached to the front that handles buttons and one attached to the back that has the power switch, volume pot, external connector (replaced with USB), cartridge socket, and aligns the Pi Zero so that the contrast knob opening is now for the HDMI connector. Then a ribbon cable that connects the front to the back. The boards would contain connectors for headers to connect the Zero, PowerBoost and audio Amp. Everyone's monitor is a little different so maybe that isn't standardized and one of the boards just supplies +5V, GND, and composite video pads. The boards should contain holes for the existing screw posts and holes for the longer posts that you need to re-attach after removing to fit the monitor.

So you'd basically buy all the components, solder headers onto them, solder the components to one of these two custom boards, connect the ribbon, connect the monitor, plug in the Lipo battery and DONE.

Easy, right?

Something like this sounds awesome.

[Ganreizu]

Ideally there would be two boards just like in the stock GB: one attached to the front that handles buttons and one attached to the back that has the power switch, volume pot, external connector (replaced with USB), cartridge socket, and aligns the Pi Zero so that the contrast knob opening is now for the HDMI connector. Then a ribbon cable that connects the front to the back. The boards would contain connectors for headers to connect the Zero, PowerBoost and audio Amp. Everyone's monitor is a little different so maybe that isn't standardized and one of the boards just supplies +5V, GND, and composite video pads. The boards should contain holes for the existing screw posts and holes for the longer posts that you need to re-attach after removing to fit the monitor.

So you'd basically buy all the components, solder headers onto them, solder the components to one of these two custom boards, connect the ribbon, connect the monitor, plug in the Lipo battery and DONE.

Easy, right?

*Drool*

At this point you might as well sell pre-made GBZs with whatever cases they want...

[Cannikin]

At this point you might as well sell pre-made GBZs with whatever cases they want...

Yeah, it kind of subtracts form the do-it-yourself spirit of the project...but man, that'd be one clean install!

[Ganreizu]

Yeah, it kind of subtracts form the do-it-yourself spirit of the project...but man, that'd be one clean install!

Don't get me wrong, there's absolutely a market for something like that. This project was trending on facebook really well, and imagine how many people signed up for the giveaway that weren't willing to come here and make one themselves. I already have friends who want me to make them one, and i already know my 10 yr old cousin will beg me for mine. (although i plan to make one for her if she wants it...shhhh)

I just don't know if it would be a legal thing to do especially since nintendo is always up everyone's asshole about their intellectual property.

[Kilren]

I just don't know if it would be a legal thing to do especially since nintendo is always up everyone's asshole about their intellectual property.

Very simple solution here. Don't sell it as a Nintendo emulator (you can even buy cases without the Nintendo mark, but who'd want that). Sell it as a handheld that is capable for being used however the owner intends, including their own walk into the gray area of legality with emulation.