Game Boy Advance ‘hacked’ to run PlayStation games using a Raspberry Pi

Game Boy Advance is useful in the modern era for more than watching Christopher Nolan Blockbusters. Gizmodo noted that Tinkerer Rodrigo Alfonso had a handheld handheld game (and Genesis, and Snes) Nintendo who was running 20 years old without special modification. How, as you can imagine spinning around a special cartridge – you technically run the game on a separate system.

The cartridge has a mini-computer Raspberry Pi 3 running a retropie emulator and drains videos and input through the GBA multi-oriented link oriented. Yes, it limits as you think is – you cannot transfer more than 1.6Mbps bi-directional, and PIs must routinely provide a “poor” GBA processor for some microseconds. Alfonso suggests lowering the flow resolution of the original console 240 x 160 if the high frame level is important.

However, the results are mostly impressive. Special baskets can handle classics such as the Banicoot and Spyro Dragon Crash series at the fine frame level, although with some video artifacts that reflect limited bandwidth. You can overclock the GBA processor to increase the speed and quality of the frame.

You have to build cartridges and load your own code, even though Alfonso has helped provide both in GitHub. It might not replace PSP if you want the most authentic playstation handheld experience that you can get. However, it might give you a reason to dig your GBA out of the closet.

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