hey peeps, I've got an idea for my first portable and I wondered what you guys think, An old fat dmg gameboy, replace the screen, stick a raspberry pi computer in (when availiable) and run a gameboy emulator...just cos I can lol (what better reason do you need. Also thinking it would be cool to used the cartridge slot and turn a cartridge into a sd card reader so the roms (for the games i own cough cough) would actually be on a "cartridge".

Cool idea, but there's a few problems.

1. There's no Gameboy emulator for RaspberryPi yet.
2. You would need to make a custom control board and a driver for it.
3. I doubt you will be able to find a battery with enough power and small enough size to run it for a significant amount of time.
4. There's not much space to work with.

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true bout the emulator, i've no idea as to what the heck it would take to run it but i saw a video of quake 3 running on it so. It will run proper linux distros but will the emulators need to be rewritten to run on ARM architecture (bit of a noob question). And i thought that with it running full distros there would be usb gamepad support and i could hack the buttons to fit or solder onto the originals.

Just dreaming at the moment...

It's supposed to have a power draw of around 1W, isn't it? I mean, it says you need a 5v, 700mA supply to run the network one. I see this being a complete non-issue.



It's business card sized... a gameboy motherboard is significantly more than business card sized. Where's the issue?


You could just cut out the 2 AA port, cut the hole a bit bigger, and epoxy in a 4 AA port.
Throw in the screen, and you shouldn't be looking at more than 1.5A draw.

1 and 2 can be issues, but if he IS willing to run it all under a full distribution of linux, he shouldn't have too many problems.

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Well, consider that he'll need an HDMI screen, a screen board, a controller board, and a RaspberryPi, I think he may be pushing the limits.
I could be wrong.

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Don't need HDMI, it also does composite. It's totally feasible.

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Oops, my mistake then.

Carry on.

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The way that I would get to the same outcome would be using a Dingoo A320 and a composite screen that would fit the DMG. Rewire controls, hook up tv-out and power to screen, done. Only tricky part would be powering the screen, not sure if you could take power from the Dingoo or not.

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I say go for the Raspberry Pi idea. It'd be neat. I may actually try to steal this idea when I get a bit more into programming and such. I'd probably want to do more than just having it run Gameboy games, though.

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Possible, but kinda.. pointless?

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