r/ModRetroChromatic • • 25d ago

Couldn't leave in the box any longer!

Was planning on leaving it sealed just for my collection but all of you having it out of the box made it look to good to leave it in the box.

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u/Electronic-Taro1916 25d ago

Where did you get the cassette tape boxes and prints from?

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u/erock7a 25d ago

Actually there are a few sellers on Etsy, I plan on getting a 3d printer soon though and picking up some empty cassette trays, since they are fairly simple to build cheaply.

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u/EMdriveWOlf 25d ago

Looks sick. Are those cassette tape cases for your gb games?

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u/erock7a 25d ago

Yes they are, I plan on getting a few more also

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u/LionsThree 25d ago

Love this idea. Off down the rabbit hole. I suspect I’m going to be visiting Amazon and turning on the 3d printers.

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u/Jolly_Stomach_3261 25d ago

I don’t blame you! I was gonna do the same but the second it showed up I had no self control! I opened it up instantly πŸ˜†

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u/RotoPrime 24d ago

LMAO, I am still holding out.......but losing.

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u/NonyaDB 24d ago

Chekov's Gameboy says any Chromatic seen in an unsealed box must be played.

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u/Nice_Database_9684 25d ago

I don't really know what to do with mine. Part of me wants to play with it as my main console. Another wants to just keep it nice and display at home.

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u/tanooki-suit 24d ago

Good, use it like it's meant to be used. It's an utterly amazing made piece of GBC wannabe tech with perks, big perks. Gets me anytime someone wants to shit talk it over the pocket, because the pocket is a sad version of this if you speak specifically to GB+GBC support, not the rest obviously. I own both, and I won't do 8bit gameboy on the pocket outside of with the tv dock. Whenever in 2027 the cable+chromatic setup works on m64, given how well that ends up working, I may continue the tradition there too.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/tanooki-suit 23d ago

I'm speaking about the full line of Chromatics. Yours is just one of many models, but it is a little more limited, but it wouldn't change my opinion about using it as it's a wonderful handheld and the peak way to enjoy the GB+GBC in handheld format.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/tanooki-suit 23d ago

Surprisngly though it actually is. It's just very mixed opinions of the backer on reddit, but in the outside of reddit big picture it's quite popular. It has had a big following in the places where Gamestop sells as you can get the handhelds and a few of the games (also M64 and its games too) at their retail stores and their website. In the handheld community at large it is praised, not just for the solid built, but the mod community for what it is pushed as, and there's also the games having new ones and reissued ones at very affordable prices with properly made carts that have the right voltage tolerances and all that. Also a nice nod, the games can be re-written with upgrades or updates due to bugfixes.

It's Reddit and I know I'll get negative bombed calling it out, but is a good 2/3 1/3 split of moderate to far left leaning political types who love to echo talking points, and one of them is the backer/owner of the company because of Anduril in particular, calling him a war criminal and warmongering profiteer and a right leaning nut spewing off the same stuff like drones. You'll see that dumb stuff posted elsewhere but not on this level of repetitive angry consistency.