Have you ever ever checked out a Nintendo DS and thought it will be cooler if the highest display was swapped for the Sport Boy Advance SP’s? Or checked out a Tremendous Nintendo controller and wished it had a GBA SP display bolted onto the again? Whether or not you have got or not, {Hardware} modder Hairo Satoh, aka Retrohai hai Softbank, has you lined with some really cursed reimaginings of Nintendo’s transportable consoles. (Recall their transportable emulated PlayStation constructed into the Takara Roulette Controller.)
Let’s go on a bit of journey via Satoh’s Instagram account. Earlier than we get into my favourite mutated Nintendo handhelds — frankententos, if you’ll — know that Satoh additionally does some very fairly customized jobs on the corporate’s varied transportable consoles. They usually’re made to order.
This one they posted lately is an efficient instance. We’re Recognized Clear Case Stans right here at The Verge, however this goes a step additional with its colourful hologram stickers and ChromaFlair-style color-changing sheen. Oh, and it runs Sport Boy Advance video games.
That controller mod I discussed up prime isn’t the one time Satoh has turned a console gamepad into its personal handheld. The GBA SP’s display appears to be like remarkably at residence on an SNES (nicely, Tremendous Famicom, technically) pad…
…and on a PS2 Twin Shock controller, too.
However why not jam one onto a Nintendo DS Lite, too? It doesn’t make sense in any respect, even when it is a mash-up of the 2 most engaging items of {hardware} Nintendo ever made, however I don’t want any justification for this factor’s existence. Additionally, that is the purpose the place issues begin getting a bit of cursed.
I suppose that is additionally a Nintendo DS?
Once more, however extra colourful.
Ah sure, the Authentic Sport Boy Advance SP DS (OGBASPDS).
I’m enamored with the idea of a multi-position adjustable display on this unique DS.
Give me this and the power to emulate the improbable vertical-scrolling shooter Ikaruga, please.
Ah, sure, this is smart.
I can’t say I perceive the additional buttons and d-pad right here, however I respect the chaos.
The Nintendo Lengthy Boy DS.
I believe that is most likely the ultimate boss of Satoh’s creative creations.
Satoh didn’t reply to us after we reached out, however we’d like to know extra about these creations. How a lot of those are made up of customized {hardware} on the within? What number of of them are emulating Nintendo’s handhelds, somewhat than rejiggering its unique {hardware} elements to suit? If we obtain a response, we’ll dig in some extra.