
While everyone and their auntie has heard of the Game Boy, the Mega Duck is rather more obscure.
Also known as the Cougar Boy, this 1993 rival to Nintendo's handheld was produced by Hong Kong company Welback Holdings (via its Timlex International division) and had a painfully short lifespan; only 24 games are thought to have been officially released for the device, making it one of the less successful Game Boy challengers.
Still, that hasn't stopped the Mega Duck from becoming a favourite with a select group of hackers, and 0xbbbbbr has been tinkering with the console to make it play nice with the Game Boy Camera:
"So wrong... and so very right," says the hacker. "This latest Mega Duck crime [is] possible thanks to great folks doing Game Boy Camera hardware and software dev & research."
The aim is to create a proper version of this device someday, allowing Mega Duck fans to finally gain some parity with their Game Boy-owning counterparts.
[source x.com]
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I can't wait for other countries to ban X so that developers/hackers stop posting their videos on X only. T_T
Somebody tell Ashens about this.
@RootsGenoa The video was also posted to Mastodon (and linked from bsky), but TIme Extension doesn't seem to monitor content on those sites.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@bbbbbr/113078596193284702
In general most of my dev content gets posted to Mastodon with only occasional updates on twitter
@bbbbbr That won't help me unfortunately because you can't embed Mastodon at all in WordPress afaik. YouTube is way more convenient for my retrogaming website.
@RootsGenoa
Can you do embed blocks with iframes in them?
Clicking the "..." menu in the lower right of a mastodon post gives the option to show an iframe style embed code like this:
<iframe src="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@bbbbbr/113078596193284702/embed" class="mastodon-embed" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0" width="400" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><script src="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/embed.js" async="async"></script>
@bbbbbr I probably can but still, I don't like having to embed the full publication when I just want to share the video and make my own comment. I just don't understand why devs won't publish their videos on YouTube as well (or even a simple linkable mp4 format), it's way better for archiving things on the long run.
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