Friday, June 12, 2020

Retro Hackers Are Building a Better Nintendo Game Boy

https://www.wired.com/story/nintendo-game-boy-hackers/#intcid=recommendations_wired-homepage-right-rail_427cb660-2c1b-45e9-95d2-1fa0abedba19_popular4-1
"... These underpowered, inexpensive toys are canvases for creativity and experimentation. Groups of hackers who congregate on the r/Gameboy subreddit, on Discord, on Instagram, and across YouTube have been dragging Nintendo's tiny, world-beating machine into the 2020s by creating a cottage industry of parts, custom components, and prebuilt modified Game Boys along the way.
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Perhaps the best replacement Game Boy display available is from a company called FunnyPlaying (https://funnyplaying.com/). This high-resolution screen has fantastic color and contrast, and it gives anyone who can solder a few wires the option of adding brightness controls.
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Kyle Capel, CEO of online store Hand Held Legend (https://handheldlegend.com/), stocks a wide variety of mods that can tweak a Game Boy's exterior appearance or bestow it with new functionality. Want to add an internal battery that charges over USB? He's got that. A rainbow of plastic shells and buttons in glow-in-the-dark, translucent, or neon hues? Yep. Custom-cut, scratch-resistant glass screen covers? He's got those too."

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