GAME boy BECOMES super game boy WITH A pair OF PIS
For the Nintendo aficionados of the 90s, the super game boy was a must-have cartridge for the super Nintendo which enabled gamers to play game boy games on your TV. Not only did it enable four-color dot-matrix gaming on the huge screen, however it let you play those preferred game boy titles without costs a ton of money on AA batteries. While later handhelds like the PSP or even Nintendo switch are able to output video directly to TVs without issue, the original game boy needed processing assist from an SNES or, as [Andy West] shows us, it can likewise get that assist from a contemporary microcontroller.
Testing the style before installing it in the NES case.
The additional processing power in this situation comes from a Raspberry Pi Pico which is little sufficient to quickly in shape inside of a donor NES situation as well as likewise powerful sufficient to handle the VGA directly. For video data input, the Pico is linked to the video pins on the game Boy’s primary board with a level shifter. The primary board is likewise linked to a second Pico which handles the controller input from an NES controller. Some elegant conversion needed to be done at this point since although the controller designs are extremely similar, they are handles by the respective consoles totally differently.
With all of the technical work largely out of the way, [Andy] was able to put the completing touches on the build. These included making sure the power buttons, condition LEDs, as well as reset button all functioned, as well as restoring the NES situation total with some custom “Game Guy” graphics to match the original style of the game Boy. We commend the utilize of original game boy hardware in this develop as well, which even made it possible for [Andy] as well as his spouse to play a head-to-head game of Dr. Mario with a link cable with one more game Boy. If you’re looking for a easier method of playing on original hardware without burning a hole in your wallet buying AA batteries, take a look at this game boy restoration which utilizes a Lithium battery instead.
Thanks to [BaldPower] as well as [adistuder] from the Hackaday Discord server for sending this in.