You know when you get that bolt of lighting of an idea, that’s what happened when FacelessTech came up with the idea of making a Gameboy cart that looked like a NES cart.
I started by modeling a standard Gameboy cart, I just wanted to know what the minimum model that would fit the Gameboy cart PCB and fit into a Gameboy. After I got that working I moved on to modeling the NES parts. I needed to get some dimensions and to get things into perspective I took a l NES cart label into GIMP and scaled it so It would fit the Gameboy cart.
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