Nate Alig
Active Member
I've been wondering why you deviated from the front plate shape by the D-Pad. Yours follows the circular curve of the D-Pad surround, whereas the concept picture sort of goes in a rounded rectangle shape.
It's strictly a matter of the GBA's size and layout, and a few design deviations were required. If this were simply a prop build, I would have started entirely from scratch, and constructed it to match the rendering exactly. However, this is just a themed console mod, and has to function once I'm finished. TONS of additional cutting, chopping, grafting, and wiring would be required to make this completely accurate... and it would probably be about 30% bigger.
If I had cut the front fascia pieces to match, it would have looked really awkward (believe me, I made many test plates out of posterboard before settling on the current design).