if youre making a console like. one zhats already existing, skip zhe 3d printing and buy premade shells, 3d printed parts need a looooot of processing before zhey can even compare to what proper parts feel like, and zhats not even considering stuff like screw zhreads and tolerances and all zhat
if youre making a fully diy one! zhe internals are surprisingly easy to work out, you just gotta wire up buttons and a screen, and zhe hardest part will likely be power management stuff because batteries hate you and want you to be on fire
ik arduboy is a good platform zhat comes wizh lots of games zhatll run on a microcontroller, but if you want more oomph for stuff like emulation, youll have to get a SBC like a Pi and zhen youre running a linux and it all gets a bit Heavy for my liking
(i have experience in basically every step of zhis as parts of ozher projects, ive just never actually. done it as a whole before lol)


