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There is one major benefit to a real NES that I found and that's sound quality. I have a NOAC and the sound is nowhere near as good as my real NES.

Provided that you have a proper Lithium charger, than yes, you can use it. On my recent portable I used a bunch of cell phone batteries and re-wired them into a decent pack.

I had gotten it quite a while back and they may not have any more. It was $80, don't know if that was a good deal or not.

The case is a bit of both on the fly designing and preplanning. I had taken all the circuits that needed to fit and laid them out, and then based on measurements of the circuit stack, I cut out the parts to build the case.

Regarding the connector and pushing the game down:

I got one of those new ones off ebay and it's such a tight fit for the cart that I don't have to hold it down at all...at least, not yet.

Thanks for the compliments!

I wish I'd have found this site before I started construction, but I think it turned out pretty good for a first portable conversion:

http://www.fastmhz.com

I used a genuine 8-bit nintendo and converted it to a giant gameboy like contraption. It runs on Lithium Ion batteries for > 3 hours, have ...