November rolls in and October comes to an end. Witches rode their Broomsticks high and ghosts and goblins filled the sky. Thanks to everyone that participated in this year’s Ghosts of Portables Past Event. There was a lot of participation with participants from the Bitfix Gaming Community Forums. While no projects were completed and ghosts vanquished, it was a successful campaign with plenty of work accomplished for each of the contestants. To round out the Event, here is he summary roundup of progress from this year’s four Bitfix Gaming entries, and you can of course check out the progress of our own project, the 80′s NEStop entry here.
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Honor the fallen with these Portables of days gone.
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead.
The verses in it say and say:
“The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.”
-In a Disused Graveyard, Robert Frost.
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The project which we will be working on for this year’s Ghost of Portables Past is the 80′s NEStop, an NES portable in a laptop design, with the intent of having it look like the old Sony TV I used to play it on growing up. Started in 2011 and last worked on in March of 2014, it is more than time to try and finish this project up. This worklog will be abbreviated showing the highlights of this month’s progress; a more in-depth worklog (and the worklogs of other GHOSTS projects from other contestants) can be found on the Bitfix Forums.
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Do regrets of neglected projects still haunt the you to core of your very soul? Does your workbench wail in vain for all eternity waiting for a new project? Search the depths of your Toolbox to gather Something of the Thread, Something of the Head, Something of the Body, and Something of the Dead for a Soldering Iron voodoo doll to participate in the Second Annual Ghosts of Portables Past Event, hosted this year at the Bitfixgaming Community!
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Cool stuff I’ve added to my video game collection over the duration of September 2015. It’s beginning to look a lot like christmas Vita collections!
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Not to be satisfied with just using pre-existing Stick-on Decals to make his Mini Dorm Fridge look like a Gameboy, Canadian Hacker Daniel d’Entremont AKA Modpurist went the extra mile to add a PC Monitor, a Raspberry Pi 2 computer, and some woodworking ingenuity to make a fully functional (both in gaming and refrigeration aspects) Gameboy-themed Mini Fridge.
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After success with his first Gamecube portable, the vacuum formed Pixie Cube, RedmagnusX classes up his second Gamecube portable by still using essentially the same footprint design but this time uses his new 3D Printer to make a case for the printer’s inaugural first project.
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Today we will take a look at the AWESOME Custom Modded Pikachu Pokemon Edition Gameboy Color made by e4i, created for his girlfriend as a Christmas gift. A labor of love indeed, this custom gameboy has gone full stop for the full Pokemon experience, adding in many Pikachu related features and even a pokeball box to add to the mystique.
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Celebrate Star Wars Day this May the Fourth with these two classic Star Wars themed portables by Hailraizer; the Darth64 Nintendo 64 Portable and the Dreamtrooper Dreamcast portable, each created in 2008. These are the portable mods you’re looking for!
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As Midwest Gaming Classic 2015 ramps down and comes to an end and the daily grind returns to normalcy, but the hunt rolls on and the fun never stops. Finds from the rest of the month of April 2015.
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