According to website Kombo, at a Japanese Club Nintendo event, Nintendo confirmed that a Virtual Console would be coming to the DSi in Japan, bringing Gameboy and Gameboy Advance titles with it.
Well, you can use the directional pad anyway. Kudos for the working screen and Tetris music, but the A and B buttons on this cardboard Game Boy costume don’t appear to do anything at all.
According to this classic Nintendo service training video, it’s damned near impossible for the NES to fail…unless the customer broke or misused it. Even poor old John Billingsley can’t get a break! [via Kotaku]
Recently, a Nintendo fanboy suffered a house fire that burned most of his family’s possessions. The Wii, picture here, didn’t make it. The Gameboy, on the other hand, fared slightly better.
Just when I think I’m done with t-shirts, they pull me back in. And Exploded GameBoy by gamepaused is just enough to thwart my vision for a respectable wardrobe for a little longer.
Where, oh where were you, Nintendo Gameboy Colour disguised as a Texas Instruments TI-83 Series calculator, when I was in school? Where? WHERE? Probably nowhere to be found, really, as Gameboy Colours weren’t invented back then, and I was too busy trying to get off latin class to make out with girls in the backyard woods, anyway. But if you had existed back then, I would have been all over you too. That’s how much I like you. [Make]
OK, a Game Boy emulator might not be in the same league as an NES or SNES emulator, but seeing as it’s the first real emulator for the Android platform, G1 owners will have to take what they can get at this point. Available in the Android Marketplace now, the AndroidBoy control scheme looks like that of the first iPhone NES emulator, with virtual controls at the bottom of the screen. The lack of an on-screen D-pad, however, has me assuming the trackball is used in that capacity instead. In any case, if you needed a reason to revisit Game Boy classics such as Kirby’s Dreamland or Link’s Awakening, I think this will do just fine. [IntoMobile]
If you’re possessed of some serious disposable income, electrical engineering chops, mountains of free time and a passion for open source and vintage gaming, you might be the kind of person who would want to buy the GamePack. For about $US250, Liquidware will send you a full build kit for his open source Game Boy killer tribute. Unfortunately, the “Game” part will be up to you — the Arduino-based handheld has only been tested running very basic code. These points aside, the specs are impressive, with an OLED screen, Lithium Ion battery, and built-in rumble capability — not to mention that fact that it’ll fill the gap in your nerdbelt between your NES buckle and your OpenMoko Neo Freerunner quite nicely. [Liquidware via Technabob]
Apple did a passable job with the iPhone UI. But let’s face it: We need some tough love nostalgia injected into the overly polished device. Luckily for us, there’s the iGameboy theme for the iPhone. At last, we’ll be able to cover the universally stylish black background with the trademark B12 vitamin-pee green backdrop of our first beloved handheld gaming system. Available in button and buttonless versions, the skin is free, but you’ll have to jailbreak that iPhone first. [MacThemes via GoNintendo]
This game console mod does things slightly different from older mods we’ve seen. Instead of taking an old console and shoving it into a smaller body, this guy made a universal body and modularizes consoles–in effect, turning consoles like the N64, NES, Megadrive, Jaguar, GBA, and PlayStation into insertable “cartridges” that can be played on this main unit. He’s only got the N64 working (he says it’s the hardest one), but will keep working on other systems until he can pretty much play everything made before 1998 on this thing. [Modded By Bacteria]
