#gameboy

In March 2001, Nintendo introduced an advanced portable model to the gaming market with the release of the Game Boy Advance (GBA, codenamed Advanced Game Boy or AGB). Equipped with a modernized 32-bit ARM CPU running at twice the speed of the Game Boy Color (GBC), this small device was more than capable of playing SNES-like games—still at the price of only two AA batteries.

Released in 2004 for the Nintendo GameCube, Zelda: FSA made use of the wack-ass peripheral known as the GCN-GBA link cable. By hooking these cables up to your Game Boy Advances, you and three friends could play through a cooperative adventure through a land of shittily scaled sprites and bizarre graphical effects known as Hyrule. At the end of each level, everyone gets judged by the game and their heroic cohorts and through a variety of criteria (mainly money), there's a winner for each level. Cooperate and compete. Nintendo's done that a couple of times now.

A Gameboy Camera custom shell designed for the retro Nintendo fan who wants to dabble a little more with their Gameboy photography.

A Gameboy Camera custom shell designed for the retro Nintendo fan who wants to dabble a little more with their Gameboy photography.

From a GBA emulation perspective, the games were especially interesting. The average Game Boy Advance game is extremely buggy, and the platform itself contains a number of safeguards to prevent games from crashing. As a result, emulators tend to need to be bug-compatible with the original hardware to ensure that the games actually work. However, the Classic NES Series goes above and beyond the average game in an attempt to ensure they don’t work in emulators.

From a GBA emulation perspective, the games were especially interesting. The average Game Boy Advance game is extremely buggy, and the platform itself contains a number of safeguards to prevent games from crashing. As a result, emulators tend to need to be bug-compatible with the original hardware to ensure that the games actually work. However, the Classic NES Series goes above and beyond the average game in an attempt to ensure they don’t work in emulators.

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of that classic gaming device by building your own with 3d printing and DIY electronics from adafruit. In this project we'll use a raspberry pi and TFT touch screen to make an epic DIY gamegirl.

The goal of this project was to customize a standard mug to our liking, making it our own. I play and love videogames and everything related to it since I was a kid. That concept resulted in this simple, Gameboy inspired mug. -behance.net

The goal of this project was to customize a standard mug to our liking, making it our own. I play and love videogames and everything related to it since I was a kid. That concept resulted in this simple, Gameboy inspired mug. -behance.net

"Zelda Four Swords Adventure for the Gamecube is a killer party game, but who wants to play on a GBA? We fix this issue with a killer multi-Gamecube, multi-TV setup."

"Little Sound DJ transforms the original Game Boy / Game Boy Color into a full-fledged music workstation."

"It seems so wholesome…until the end."

Looks positively Lovecraftian. "This GameBoy was damaged when barracks were bombed during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. It still works!"

"To get back to hardware development, I decided to do a quick IDE to GBAMP (GBA Movie Player v2) hack."

Wow. Now that's a screwed up fake! No Gameboy has the resolution to display that much text!

"This peripheral enables Game Boy Camera owners to dump pictures they've taken on the unit onto a Windows 95-compatible PC."

This makes me want to dig up my gameboy camera and that parallel port cable I built to download pictures.

"At first glance, you're not sure if this system is just a gimmick by Nintendo to sell more GBAs, or if it really is a well-intentioned game machine delivered in the smallest of packages."

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"WE'RE THE OPERATORS" 8-Bit KRAFTWERK Covers Compilation CD & collectors' 12 inch Vinyl single!

"...we have compiled the software that will let you use Flash Advance Linkers for write GBA ROMS to Flash Carts while using Mac OS."

"Now Nintendo takes aim at the pocket of your tightest jeans with the tiny Game Boy Micro system, quite simply the smallest and sleekest Game Boy product that Nintendo has ever created." Take that, Game & Watch.