With all the talk these days about backup carts for the DS, mods for Wii and PS3 and the oh-so-crunchy innovations from the world of bitpop, it’s easy to forget (or not know about) the stalwart modders who do other interesting and innovating things with platforms. For example, some people build build tilt sensors into their Gameboys. Welcome to tilt-controlled GB tennis:

Others do far more awesome stuff. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’d rather this to a tilt sensor or even a fully-modded Wii!

Similar to the above example. This guy has routed a SNES controller into his DS. Again—pure awesome:

A dream come true, is it? Four controller-ports in a SNES. Yeah, boi!

Okay, fine—anything about modding is incomplete without a mention of bitpop. As anyone familiar with Gameboy modding for bitpop will know, a lot of people have linked oscillators to the Gameboy chipset to alter the sound. Some have done it more eloquently than others:

On the more rudimentary side of things, casemods—which, as the name implies, are modifications to the unit’s casing—are also popular amongst a certain kind of modder. Often, the results are tacky and needless and I wouldn’t really call this modding. However, I do want this guy’s Batman NES (he offers his services, so consider it, guys!):

And finally, a well-known example of a weird and sorta wonderful Gameboy mod: the tongue-controlled GBA. An external tongue-touch pad has been routed to the central chipset allowing users to control the GBA d-pad.

Image from Techeblog. Well worth checking out! Discusses some other great mods.