Grand Theft Auto 5 launched on the original Game Boy
Sebastian Staks is a programmer and good old meister, whose blog Here Oughta Be re-paving with technical cirques from light cubes to an automated watering system for yoga lawn. Now Stax has significantly raised the stakes of nostalgia, first by creating a WiFi Game Boy cartridge, and now zoom to launch Grand Theft Auto 5 and Doom on a classic Nintendo device.
“After that, I created a Game Boy cartridge with Wi-Fi enabled”, write Staacks. "Now I'm learning how to stream video and play games - at a newer retail location. At 20 frames per second. On the unaltered original Game Boy."
My WiFi cartridge on the @analogue Pocket.
— Sebastian Staacks (@diconx) January 15, 2022
It works right away, but with a small timing problem: Those horizontal glitches are not present on the original #gameboy. Still, I am very impressed that the Pocket is so close to the original.https://t.co/tBC05jGYBP pic.twitter.com/sU9B2BikO2
Sebastian has a technical description of that, as if he had made a mistake, and a simpler video explanation, for whom you can talk, as if he were practicing on the hardware security. Obviously, it looks like the same thing, chim vono and є: on such a small and low-contrast display, you can hardly see it, but the fact that everything is played on the console in 1989 makes the rock wonder again and again. In other words, absolute magic.
