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You wouldn't be able to sell simply a modified GameBoy with modified hw/sw parts. Nintendo would sue you into oblivion.
by nobodyshere 10y ago
You wouldn't be able to sell simply a modified GameBoy with modified hw/sw parts. Nintendo would sue you into oblivion.
- dleslie 10y agoYou can get a Gameboy from just about any old game store; and flash carts are easy to come by. I have two of these: https://www.amazon.com/SMART-x30B2-x30FC-x30E0-x30DC-x30A4/dp/B008B8QO0I https://www.amazon.com/SMART-x30B2-x30FC-x30E0-x30DC-x30A4/d...
- derefr 10y agoThe parent means, this company can't just sell "a Gameboy plus a flash cart" as their own commercial product. Which is why they created a custom product instead. You, as an end user, certainly can "just" use a gameboy + a flash cart, or an iOS or Android device, or even (and I would suggest this) code games using an old console emulator as your runtime and don't worry so much about hardware. (Emulators for those same consoles also exist for iOS/Android, after all.) But this company has other priorities, and so made this.
- dleslie 10y agoI ask as a user because I am not a member of that company.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoI think you actually can since the software runs on the bare metal (there's no OS or anything) and it uses standard ish chips. There have been plenty of Gameboy and NES clones in the past that ran retail games.