Sadly, the page where this project originated doesn’t translate horribly well, but this is what I can gather it says:

Thank you _n3o_ for our forums to have carried out this MOD. This Old Gen comforts, the good old gameboy is found moddée to accomodate an hard drive of 80 GB! It does not make any more qu’ external office of hard drive 2,5″ but it with held has to push realism jusqu’ has to leave all controls of the console and witnesses LED for more realism. Super taff _n3o_! For l’ history: L’ incredible success of this console holds in two plays however left with almost ten years d’ variation. The first is legendary Tetris, created by Soviet Alexey Pajitnov who, sold with the console, knew his first hours of glory there. Second is Pokémon, which in 1996 is a so phenomenal success qu’ it starts again the sales of Game Boy, at the same time propelling the small portable of Nintendo in the second place of the most sold consoles l’ history, with its 118 d’ million; specimens sold, behind PlayStation 2 of Sony.

If you understand and have a more accurate translation, let me know in the comments, but even if you don’t understand it, the pictures tell a pretty awesome story on their own.

Essentially, someone took an old old Game Boy, opened it up, and put in an 80 GB SATA hard drive along with a USB adapter sled, and is using the modded Game Boy as an external hard drive! The best part is that they either have a manually programmed cartridge in the cart slot or they’ve customized some other circuit to the LCD display on the Game Boy to keep working and display the static display shown in the photo above. It’s really impressive!

Check out more photos at the original link below. Got a mod project you think I should feature here or let the world know about? Let me know in the comments!

[ Logic Sunrise :: 80GB Game Boy Exclusive! ]