I have been on and off this project for a while now, but I am finally at a point where I think it can be shown here. I started by building a first Game Boy Zero from scratch a year ago, with no custom parts (with Wermy's videos). It has been a great learning experience, but I was not pleased with the overall quality of my build (I could barely close it, some buttons were not working, everything I was trying to repair/improve was just causing more issues because everything was glued together with tons of hot glue...) As I was jealous of all the superb and clean builds on this forum, I decided to work on a Mark 2, this time allowing myself to use custom parts.
The idea for the Zelda theme came when seeing Yoshi's build. The green case is from a broken Play it loud. It was hard to find but the color was exactly what I was searching for. I searched for golden buttons for months, but there was nothing I could find that would really work. Everything I ordered turned out disappointing. So I ended up painting a yellow set with golden polish nail. I still need to find a way to make it stick on the start and select buttons. Right now it just scratches off. I might just end up finding another color for them that would still fit the theme (Leather brown, fairy light blue... I don't know yet).
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Thanks to all the people I mentioned in the post and all those who took the time to answer all of my stupid questions on this great journey.