A modder has managed to merge a Sport Boy Micro with a Nintendo 64 controller.
Nintendo‘s tiny handheld was launched in 2005 and is basically a miniscule Sport Boy Advance, sufficiently small to slot in the palm of the participant’s hand.
The hand held solely weighs 80 grams and includes a backlit 2-inch display screen and a built-in rechargeable battery.
Regardless of its small measurement, the Sport Boy Micro doesn’t usually characteristic in modding initiatives, partly as a result of it’s already considerably customisable (attributable to replaceable face plates) and the truth that nowadays they’re laborious to seek out at an inexpensive value.
Nevertheless, this didn’t cease modder MaSaKee, who posted images on the Sport Boy Reddit web page (through Retro Information) of their Sport Boy Micro modded right into a Nintendo 64 controller.
To create the mod, MaSaKee made a big rectangular gap in the course of the controller, and positioned the Sport Boy Micro show there.
Fairly than merely inserting the hand-held contained in the controller, nevertheless, MaSeKee ensured the machine might be absolutely performed, with the Nintendo 64 controller’s enlargement port – normally used for Rumble Paks or Managementler Pak reminiscence playing cards – modded to just accept Sport Boy Advance cartridges.
The Micro’s energy swap has additionally been added to the highest of the controller, and a USB port has been added to let gamers cost it up, whereas a headphone jack has been added to the again of the controller beneath the Z button.
Better of all, the Nintendo 64 controller’s buttons have additionally been modded to work with the Micro, that means the D-Pad (or analogue stick), B, A and Begin buttons work similar to they do on the Micro. As a result of the N64 controller doesn’t have a Choose button, the Z button has been mapped to Choose.
As for the 4 yellow C buttons, as a result of the Sport Boy Micro didn’t have these they’ve as an alternative been mapped to quantity and brightness controls, that means there’s actually nothing gamers can do with a Sport Boy Micro that they will’t do with this Nintendo 64 controller mod. Besides put it of their pocket, presumably.
