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It's amazing that this software exists. And any game you can make with it can be played on a range of new emulator hardware. There's the Pocket Analogue, which
by pradn 3y ago
It's amazing that this software exists. And any game you can make with it can be played on a range of new emulator hardware.
There's the Pocket Analogue, which is the high-end option that runs games directly from cartridges using two FPGAs, no emulation at all. https://www.analogue.co/pocket https://www.analogue.co/pocket
And there's the cheap Miyoo Mini and the Anbernic handle-helds that let you run everything up to PS1 games on a tiny handheld. They have SP-style (vertical) and PSP-style (horizontal) versions.
It would be so cool to make a game and flash it onto one of these to show to your friends.
- ralusek 3y agoSurely making a browser game would have the same benefits with fewer limitations?
- mattl 3y agoMost people don’t have good controllers for the devices running their browser.
- cglong 3y agoI know firsthand that standard Xbox controllers work with all mainstream OSes (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, iPadOS). The same's probably true for PlayStation ones as well :)
- colecut 3y agoAre there tools for making browser based games that make it as easy as this does? Also it looks like the ROMs that GB Studio generates can be run in an emulator on the web.
- sirwhinesalot 3y agoConstruct 3 would be my suggestion.
- colecut 3y agoThat does look cool, but $20/month or $120/year =-\
- sirwhinesalot 3y agoTry GDevelop, that one is free but not quite as capable.
- gambiting 3y agoIt's the opposite. A browser game will stop running in few years due to the never ending browser standards. An actual GB ROM will be playable for as long as emulators exist - which is forever.
- thristian 3y agoA nitpick: FPGAs aren't based on the hardware-descriptions used to create the original chips, they're based on the community's best guesses, so they're still emulation. They're just not software emulation. They might even be less accurate than software emulators, if the community has done more research since the last time the FPGA was updated.
- pradn 3y agoGotcha, that makes sense! I wonder if there’s any difference in latency/jitter. Or maybe the GameBoy is so old that it’s easily possible to run games without any lag at all.