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@HexagonSun I still hold out hope man. I know the new Nintendo President seems pretty money focused but I hope they do it again.

My N3DXL is a daily driver, that's an everyday at lunch activity. The library is insane, the 3D is too much fun. I just can't convince myself to hack it. I want to use Red Viper, but don't think I could restrain myself from downloading ROMs illegally and my conscious can't handle that.

@Hairlesswookiee oh ya I think we all have that feeling about a lot of misunderstood tech back in the day.

If you are interested in getting a virtual boy, for sure the cheapest way is getting one with broken eye pieces. It's a super easy fix. Still expensive, I got mine for $200 with Red Alarm, but still cheaper, for like a half an hour fix.

Also fair warning. I love it, but I get an insane headache after like 15 minutes. So fair warning, you gotta be a bit of a masochist, to enjoy it.

This mod looks awesome. I've been wanting a nomad for some time now. I recently got my virtual boy, fixed it up and have finally fulfilled that dream.

Nomad is next on the list.

Yo people are crazy

I love this idea. The gamepad is great but the display shows its age pretty poorly.

Not sure if there's a mod out there for a better display. But until then super cool. I'll have to watch the tutorial and see if it's worth the effort.

Either way it's great that the WiiU gamepad can now outlive the hardware.

I just googled some screenshots and if what I saw was correct they look almost like DS graphics. Color me impressed!

@frenchtoastplease hey what's your profile pic from? It looks familiar?

I feel like they'd need their own console to do that. I guess I don't see the vision there. I hope they don't.

Virtual Boy is always on my radar. Hoping to find one, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Maybe just an arm.

But still super cool that there's a fix, thanks for letting us know!

I like it, Neat!

Looks neat! Id get it if it came to switch.

That's neat, no idea it existed but sounds like a fun project.

I'd like one but I couldn't justify anything above like $100 for a watch I don't have nostalgia for, and just want the novelty of it.

James Channel is bomb.

Merry Christmas! Retro gaming is kinda my main hobby so I was so excited when I found out this year that Nintendo life had a sister site that was retro. Thanks for all the fun articles and suggestions. Especially the FPGA Funny Playing GBC.

I misread the title and thought it said they were making more of them, since 3D classics is on my list of games I want to pick up. Aw well second hand isn't so bad since everyone just pirates 3DS games now.

I agree with the practice of using broken parts to make something like this. I love my modded GBA but it was built off of some sad bones.

I do get worried about kids, even my kids, thinking tech was different than it actually was when I was growing up, the old hardware is rough, and I prefer modded hardware, but I do have originals of all the hardware I modded to "preserve" what it was really like.

I saw a mistake in the article, the HD rerelease was in 2013 not 2023.

Other than that a great read thanks for highlighting it!

I mean it's like Sega making fun of Nintendo to me. Doesn't bother me, and I see the humour in it. I also own both Sega and Nintendo Consoles just like I own physical games and (pretty much when digital is the only option) some digital games. It's hard to avoid these days.

I feel like part of the reason these emulation handhelds don't really go past, "well that looks neat" to me are first the names. Homie I can't remember these names.

Second is I don't believe in emulation, one of those cartridge purist guys. But I guess I was trying to make the point that these names are not easy to remember nor share.

I mean at the end of the day nothing beats original hardware.

I love NSO, I use it as a way to test out games to know if I want to own it physically on their respective consoles. Most of the time I just use it as demos, to try out a game, then I'll finish it on an original cart or disc.

Then there's also games you can't play anywhere else (legally or maybe it's region locked) like Earthbound Beginnings and the Wily Wars.

I know that it has its flaws but the convince and price of splitting a family plan between 8 people, I feel makes it totally worth it for me.

Sounds neat and doable. Not for me, though I'm pretty terrible at DKC.

I'm interested but I built the funny playing one about a year ago and it works great, it kinda covers all my needs. If this came out before that, I might consider it, but the funny playing is so budget friendly.

@BulkSlash ya hoping to find one on a crazy sale, maybe like a garage sale or something. I'm in no hurry to get one. Good for you having those, pretty sure if it wasn't you someone mentioned something very similar in the top 32x games list on the site.

I can't even afford a 32x haha. I checked out the best 32x games and none of them really call my name so this is an easy pass for me. Still really cool it exists.

I do want a 32x one day because it's such an odd bit of history and like Knuckles Chaotics even though I'm told it's terrible, but that's enough to break a bank just for those 2 things alone.

@Damo oh that's fair. I remember that little atgames Genesis that had like built in games and could read carts. I always wanted there to be a SNES version of that. Closest we got was the classic. I'll have to pick up one of those atgames ones one day. I know they're fairly cheap so probably not the best but a good novelty.

Nope! Never even heard of it. Neat to see, I love that Sega did weird stuff like this, even if at the end of the day it was cheap and terrible, still fun to see.

As interested as I am in this project I graduate in a few months. I have 2 kids and a wife at home, and we are just living of of savings until the end of the year so I won't be preordering a unit. If this were February of next year maybe? But for now I'm just gonna have to hope it reaches their goal or they change their mind.

Any links to where you can preorder?

I never really fell in love with the N64, but FPGA stuff blows my mind so I'm excited to hear what the reviews say.

Castle of Illusion has a level with neat rainbow like waterfalls, I don't remember it looking rainbow like at all in Sonic. I'll have to check it out.

I mean there is good and bad to emulation. The good has been pointed out, game preservation, but the bad is that it isn't for us to decide what someone can do with their property legally speaking.

When I first started to get into retro gaming back in 2009 or so my buddy showed me how he uses his phone to play games and I thought it was neat but it did feel wrong somehow.

I feel like maybe the distinction between this situation and a museum is that a museum displays the art, it doesn't reproduce it so everyone can own a copy. So maybe if Nintendo opened retro museums or libraries where you could go and play or rent these games like the old Famicom disc system kiosks, people could play them again?

It's a touchy subject to be sure, but it's hard to not see where Nintendo is coming from legally speaking. I mean they even say that tears of the kingdoms sales where just by emulation.

So I don't know if this makes me casual or old fashion but I like to play games on theirs carts still. I often only get to play at lunchtime and I recently was given a busted Supaboy to fix up and I love it but silly me didn't know it was an emulator and not FPGA based so I'd be playing megaman x and see a lot more slow down than is typical on the standard hardware.

I'm happy to build a handheld FPGA console if the parts are out there to use real carts but it looks like MISTer doesn't function that way.

Other than Analog, which requires a down payment of 2 kidneys for their SNES FPGA, is their anything else on the market right now?

I've also considered modding a SNES Jr or something as well, it just feels wrong since I do like video game preservation, and don't love the idea terribly unless I find one in pretty bad shape or something.

Any thoughts?

Sick, I love modders who try crazy stuff like this

When I saw the sp as the thumb nail I was ready to come say something like "but it's gotta be like the original advance!" Way more comfy. But then they specifically said landscape, so took the words outta my mouth. I'd be down, the chromatic came too little too late for me, since I had just built the FPGA GBC from funny playing, I do still want one, but not a priority at all, a GBA however I still do not own!

So this can either be a good thing, meaning it makes it easier to get but I can't see them not inflating prices like crazy like at DK oldies. One thing that I've loved about Retro stores is that they are usually small businesses who are happy to negotiate, among other things.

I'm overall not super thrilled about this, but I would love to be happily surprised.

@ScalenePowers I agree I was thrown off by the colors of several systems.

I still have a 7800 I picked up probably 15 years ago for $5. Ive only ever played 2600 games on it so it would be neat to actually pick up some 7800. But then again I'm pretty content in the 16 bit era currently.

@PopetheRev28 haha I love you.

Looks really neat! I usually dont really look into a homebrew but this looks pretty slick!

So I know Capcom greenlit a fan project at one point and Sonic Maniac is pretty much a greenlit fan project. I know both companies are open! It'd be pretty cool if they both said, "why not?"

I really wanted an analogue pocket when it first was announced but since it's so expensive and difficult to nab, I ended up just building a funny playing GBC for nearly half the price and it's way more fun and customizable.

I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a solid way to play Gameboy and GBC but that doesn't want to mod actual Nintendo hardware.

Mania is my favorite Sonic Game. If you can believe it I've got 150 hours sunk into it. I love that there are people out there showing it some love too.

I'm way excited for this game. Feels like it'll be a real treat. From the trailer it looks like there will be some crazy boss fights, which I'm excited for. I played the rather terrible Gameboy Power Rangers game alot growing up so I'm sure this will be tons better.

K I thought it was cool, have a reason to brush off the old 7800 but... That's really expensive. I'll see if there's a review, but I have a hard time believing this would cost the same as the likes of Mario Odyssey or Breath of the Wild. Really cool that they're doing it. I think if it were $20 or maybe $30 I could hop on board.

@bring_on_branstons that's a really good point! Why didn't they release them?? Maybe they were just trying to avoid talking about one their biggest failures. Then again Luigi's mansion 3 didn't mind!

And cool fact, didn't know that!

@Ruka
Ya I think about that Everytime I see a retro oddity. I've never spent $3K on something unless it was like a car. I'm married and have 2 kids and will be finishing college this year, so maybe in a decade I could afford to pick something like that up? The dream is to get a sega kiosk with a DS-16 but also a couple grand.

Stop it!!! I'd love to try that one day. Just port it sega! Sell a weird ball controller, I'd buy it!

This is really cool. I wish it had come out sooner. I built a funny playing gameboy color last year and love it. I love not needing to use old motherboards from original hardware to make this nice handhelds.

Unfortunately I already have what I need and don't have alot disposable income. If those carts can read on an original GBC, I might be interested in picking those up.

@Poodlestargenerica I had a similar experience with the article. I got excited, since it looked neat but then saw the review conclusion and its sad it was so poor. I'd love to see if they have any QoL weeks.