I am not sure. I do not own a TI83+. I'd have to buy one for this project. If I were to make this I should probably do some more research on which buttons are used by games and menu's.

My own TI84+ had a soundchip in it at some point and I know there is not a whole lot of electronics inside of a calculator. I could just cut off the entire keypad pcb and and rewire some buttons. I'm pretty confident it would fit inside a GBA case if I use a lithium ion battery.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 19, 2013, 02:50:58 pm

SD card support would be great! Just switch between savestates and such stuff or maybe ROMs (although I doubt that TI would like if a third-party hardware could run their OSes).

If you own the calc, and you use a ROM that you dumped yourself, it should be legal, no?

I don't see why it wouldn't be, it is your ROM after all.

It would be, but I think it might depend of patents or something. For example, most NES patents expired in 2003, so since then, making NES clones like the RetroDuo or FC Twin is legal (although Nintendo tried to sue a company in 2005 once), but beforehand it could have led you into legal troubles. And that's despite the fact that those fake consoles emulated the games via emulators sometimes, using no Nintendo code or anything.

Also, back in the days, I remember that Nintendo sued Galoob for releasing the Game Genie (I think it was called Action Replay in Europe, right?), claiming it created derivative works from copyrighted material or something. Atari also sued a company for releasing adult games on the 2600. If companies sued for such things, I would be surprised if TI tried for a TI-83+ clone.

Yes, the flat battery pack kind of lithium batteries like the ones you find in iDevices.

You actually find them in a lot of portable devices. And I'm glad it's the rechargable type, and not the flat, round silver type of lithium-ion batteries, because they are expensive and hard to find.

Will it also include an 15MHZ and possible even an overclocked CPU speed mode?

My intentions are not to clone a TI calculator, but to consolize an existing one.

If only an adapter could be made that people can put on their calc without much modding that would be cool. But I understand this would be hard to pull off, due to different key locations and lack of direct key wiring.

A consolized calc would still be cool, hardware-modding-wise, though.

funny how much conversation one photoshop image brings

But yeah, add some USB ports and a SC card would be nice indeed