In person, the Japanese box is way more impressive (at least imo ). The shiny front is beautiful.

I had a similar experience with someone using the original cardboard Konami box as the shipping box. Wrapped in brown tape, so the cartridge wouldn't be damaged in shipping. 🙈

And I'm actually going to use it! That's why I started this project in the first place.
Let's play some emulated games with my The Arcade Pro joystick. As they were meant to be played 😅
4/4

I'm not planning to start a business or anything, but it's a really cool experience. And amazing how much is possible for really very little money. Hats of to people who make complex devices though, this was very small, very simple and even so, it took quite some planning.
3/4

Yes, these are ready-made available. But I wanted to make one myself, just to see if I could. First a quick protype and when I got it to work, I designed and ordered some PCBs and got a bunch of connectors and RP2040s.
2/4

But we'll never know for sure what happened. Seeing as back then, there was no color difference, so nobody noticed ;-)

You're correct though! 😅

Pretty dark stuff, imho. But beautifully done!