There are a number of how which you could get footage from a Sport Boy recreation up onto an enormous display screen. An emulator can simply step in to do the job or a modern-day variant just like the Analogue Pocket may be extra up your road with its HDMI output. However what should you wished to stream from an unique Sport Boy, and an unmodded one at that?

That’s the query that was requested of Sebastian Staacks (@diconx), a tech wiz who was tasked with reaching this very feat for a Tetris match by which the rivals want to make use of their very own, unique consoles (muscle reminiscence and all that). His resolution? The GB Interceptor.

Staack’s machine bypasses the entire issues that one would usually discover with such a conundrum by taking the console’s recreation knowledge and transferring it to a different machine through the Sport Boy’s cartridge slot. The GB Interceptor works by concurrently emulating the Sport Boy’s and the CPU’s features. All the exact element that went into the construct will be present in Staack’s current blog post, the place the designer breaks down his constructing course of and a number of the points with the design.

If technical terminology is not in your wheelhouse nonetheless (be part of the membership), then the designer has additionally put collectively a video which reveals the machine in motion and offers a quick rundown of the way it got here to be. Is it nonetheless an especially advanced course of? Completely. However the visuals go a protracted solution to exhibiting how Staack broke down the issue and settled on his remaining product. We now have connected the total video to the underside of this text so that you can take a look at.

The query is, how can we get our palms on considered one of these units ourselves? Sadly, Staack doesn’t construct the product for retail, though he has put collectively a step-by-step guild on precisely how one can construct one for your self. Within the tutorial video, the designer breaks down the entire components and supplies that you will want to order earlier than exhibiting you the precise means of the construct – hey, slightly DIY by no means damage anybody!

Whereas it’d take slightly effort, now we have to confess that the GB Interceptor appears to be like fairly darn neat. Now to get Pokémon Red and Blue on the TV…

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