Could you build your own mp3 player out of a gameboy?

[yoda313]

I was wondering - could you gut an old gameboy and put a portable harddrive and linux on it?

Could you make your own gamepod????

[Supreme2k]

On the other end of the spectrum, they've gotten an MP3 player to run Gameboy games.

Also, it's kinda already been done.

[yoda313]

Thanks supreme2k. I had done some more yahooing and found another similar device that will adapt sd memory cards for the gameboy advanced. I only had a gameboy color so I went to eb games today and bought a gba (1st gen no backlit no flip top) for $25 I'm gonna try to get the adapter on ebay for around $20 plus shipping.

It can do mp3 and even videos - but the video have to be in gameboy format and it includes conversion software. Oh yeah it plays homemade games too.......

And now I have a spare gameboy color to toy with I ever decide to crack it open and look for away to modify it myself

[yoda313]

http://www.natrium42.com/blog/?p=39



This is something like I'm thinking of doing. The guy soldered a mp3 compact flash player card for a nintendo ds to a 40 gb laptop harddrive!!! So the thing can play anything of any length now.

What I would like is some way to hook up a gameboy to a portable usb harddrive. If I could do that then I could just put the gameboy and harddrive in a pack of some kind and have my own custom video/mp3 player with no limit! You could go as high as you wanted. With that info you could add a 750gb harddrive to a nintendo ds!

Very interesting...

[Supreme2k]

But it soon becomes a "I do/did it because I can" vs. it being practical, affordable or useful.

Hell, I've seen MP3 players made out of Altoid tins, so altering a gameboy case should be no problem (may not be as pretty, though)..

[Xylob the Destroyer]

But it soon becomes a "I do/did it because I can" vs. it being practical, affordable or useful.
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indeed!
look at the picture you posted yoda -- isn't the whole point of mp3 players the portable aspect?
i sure as hell wouldn't want to lug that contraption around.

[yoda313]

What I'm looking to try to do is to get a usb adapter to hook a harddrive to a standard gba. That way its only the size of a paperback book and could literally be any capacity I want it to be.....

[SquirrelDip]

But it soon becomes a "I do/did it because I can" vs. it being practical, affordable or useful.

Hell, I've seen MP3 players made out of Altoid tins, so altering a gameboy case should be no problem (may not be as pretty, though)..

As long as the monetary investment is near nil the entertainment value of "because I can" can make it very worth while.

I recall making a telephone system out of two old phones, a run of wire and a 9-volt... A lot of fun for my 5 year old an I but really of no other use.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

What I'm looking to try to do is to get a usb adapter to hook a harddrive to a standard gba. That way its only the size of a paperback book and could literally be any capacity I want it to be.....

what about a power source?
I don't think you can run the whole thing off proprietary battery pack that's in a GBA. I believe it's only 2.5 or 3.0 volts.