/v/ - Video Games

I have a 3D printed metal circle pad for my 3DS because my old one broke off entirely playing Smash, but i never ended up repairing it because it was an absolute bitch and I suck at that shit; I ended up stripping a screw or two as well or somehting

I had a red game boy like that.

>3D Printing

<when taking a negative and recasting a piece is easier, cheaper, faster and looks better

Is that a psp joystick on that white brick?

Such a terrible layout, god, somebody fix that

Gameboy is the one true good thing to come out of nientendo

I still have a crystal purple N64 controller with the shell on the plug broken, I'd love to have that thing replaced. Although I don't think 3D printers can make transparent stuff.

>>15812838

Well, that's mostly for repairing and I agree, but what if you wanted to just make a custom version of your console? ie, take an old GBA and add the space for a backlight and maybe a rechargable battery, etc.

>>15812838

Honestly, this. If you need a new battery panel or a button or casing for an old electronic, you're better off just digging around online, because there's a big enough market for these things that replacement castings are being easily made and cheaply sold.

>>15813768

Fair enough, what about customs?

>>15812838

Also CNC machines make 3d printing look primitive.

>>15815867

In what kind of price range is a CNC?

>>15812817

The best thing about it is that in due time, the scalpers' (((market))) can be ruined.

>>15812838

But it ruins the scalpers' (((market))), so it is good.

>>15816113

You don't know anything about 3D printing Torpedo.

Metal 3D printers are very pricey and you can't just take any metal and slap it in, you need metal filament which isn't something you'd normally be in a position to make with your bare hands. So you have to by that shit ~100$ a pop which is more expensive then just trying to hunt down spare parts separately. From there the actual process of using this metal filament is trial and error because compared to the plastic filaments it's very finicky and if you're just starting out you'll be wasting a lot of it.

For plastic both the quality of the 3D printer and the type of filament you use is the difference between your part being broken apart from exceptionally weak structural integrity. Of course the good stuff, both printers and plastic filament, is expensive the filament especially is right up there in price with metal filaments.

For electronic parts it's still way too early to say 3D printing can replace the standard method of making them since you'd need both the skill and specialized 3D printers to make them.

>>15815916

I havn't looked into CNC in a long time but for consumer grade shit is maybe $300-$2000, this is based on size and quality of the components.

>>15816113

>the scalpers' (((market))) can be ruined.

>ruins the scalpers' (((market)))

glad to see someone took my effortposts last year to heart

flood the market with obvious fakes

scalpers lose errytang

problems werent

>>15816597

Imagine thinking this hurts anyone but people wanting to play the games

>>15816602

>being this retarded

obvious fakes

not good ones

the only people fooled would be people who dont know anything about the games. but it would completely shatter the trust of online scalpers as they can post any pic they want then send you garbage. they would have to lower their prices and/or go out of biz

eventually games as (((investments))) would cease to be. at least until market sentiment turns around

3D printing is for rapid prototyping. Injection molding (plastic) or multi-axis milling (metal) should be the end goal. Sickens me when I see jagged, brittle bullshit with gaps in it being sold as a finished product. China still has the lock on producing shit like this for less than infinity dollars, as they have no environmental regulations or regard for workers' safety and comfort getting in the way of undercutting the competition by a factor of ten or more.

If I could have something fabricated, it might be something innocuous like spring-loaded battery covers for handhelds and such, so that instead of using a bendable plastic catch to keep the battery bays covered, it would be a spring-loaded catch, which would be less prone to fucking snapping over time. See most Game Gear and Game Boy battery covers.

>>15815916

$200-$300 at the lowest.

>>158166300

It literally only hurts people who just want to play the game. It gives me more business and I'm still not happy people are getting screwed by chinks putting up "new" games for just above the prices of used ones and they get some chink trash thinking it's a good deal. All it does is fund chinks, get people to waste their money and walk away with a game that doesn't work. You are a retarded outsider who has no idea what it does to the market and are just throwing shit at the wall that you have no understanding of.

>>15817474

I will make these gamegear covers. Thank you for the idea.

I was originally thinking about 3d printing for fashion dolls but it looks like I would need someone else to print those things for me in higher quality.

>>15819895

No problem. Over-engineering things for the sake of nigh-infinite durability is my thing. Years back, I was about to build a pair of $200 sawhorses, when sense took hold of me, and I bought a pair of plastic ones for $10 instead.

>>15821297

Buy damaged/irreparable consoles and scavenge them, I suppose. Even finding replacement Dreamcast cases is getting difficult these days, and they used to be everywhere, even in brick and mortar game shops. Shame, as I have a DC full of cigarette burns and scuffs that deserves a prettier body.