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This Game Boy has 10 screens thanks to a RaspBerry Pi

Those of us who lived our childhood in the 90s, have a huge list of things from that time that were cool, and that children today cannot enjoy. One of them was to go out to your trusted square with your game boy in one pocket and a Bollicao and the Cable Link in the other. Rare would be the day that you did not find another kid with whom to exchange some Pokémon or could challenge them to a fight. But nevertheless, the Game Boy had its bad things, and the main one of them all was your screen. and there is a modder that he has “fixed” that weak spot in his own way.

East mod invites you to play the Game Boy «in a big way»

giant screen game boy mod

The Game Boy’s screens were always its weak point. Practically until the Game Boy Advance SP arrived, playing with a Nintendo laptop was synonymous with leaving your eyes in the attempt. Gossips say that the eye doctors of that time put on their boots, and we wouldn’t be surprised if it was true. If anyone remembers it, the first game boys (up to the Color) they had a lot of accessories with lights (which were connected to the Cable Link port) and were even sold magnifying glasses like churros, which, by the way, were a bit dodgy, because if you played Sunshine —practically, there was no other way to play when you went out on the street—, you ran the risk of burning the screen.

Fortunately, already in the new millennium, the Game Boy Advance solved some of the problems of its predecessors. But as always, there a modder who has tried to do his bit to the matter. We don’t know why, but it seems to be fashionable to do all kinds of atrocities with the Game Boy. And that is what he has done modder kgws, who has had the brilliant and at the same time useless idea of ​​making a giant screen using nine Game Boy Pocket LCD screens.

Who wouldn’t have liked to play Super Mario Game Boy on a giant screen? Well, using as a main brain a raspberry pi and a esp32 Controller System, the modder has managed to control Game Boy 3 by 3 screen panel connected to a main In this way, the master console plays the cartridge it has inserted and “projects” in real time to the other screens, that form a large panel.

An operation only fit for engineers

screen mirroring game boy pocket

However, the video in which he shows the process It is not for all audiences, because it’s quite technical. Unless you control matter, you won’t know anything. On the other hand, the build is cool, but it’s just as fine as other mods we’ve released before. The result is a kind of frankenstein with an awful mess of wires. Come on, no matter how useful the invention is, the reality is that, between so much welding and so many chips in the air, it cannot be said that the creation is entirely practical.

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