Emulators are fantastic. With just a little bit of software, you can replicate every console that you had (and didn't have) on tiny pieces of very cheap hardware. Every 90s console on a Raspberry Pi? No problem. It's not quite the same as using old hardware though, which is a problem YouTuber wermy set out to solve by cramming a whole computer into a Game Boy's body.

While this gadget still looks like a Game Boy on the outside, it's very much computer on the inside with a Raspberry Pi Zero working as its brain. That's impressive enough in and of itself, but the best part is how wermy modded a Game Boy cartridge to function as a case for a regular MicroSD card that holds all the ROMs you have (legal ones, I hope) and rigged the Game Boy's cartridge port up to the Raspberry Pi's CPU. The end result is that you can load up a whole library of hundreds and hundreds of games by slapping in a cart, just like you used to.

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It is without a doubt a fantastic idea, and very similar to the equally awesome trick of making a 118 GB floppy disk. Because yes, modern technology is great when it comes to processing power and storage capacity, but nothing can beat the satisfying thunk of an old-school cart.

Source: wermy via Sploid, Digg

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