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Gameboy Emulation on your MP3 Player
webmind writes "As some may know there is an open source firmware for the Archos jukebox and the iriver h1x0 harddisk mp3 players called Rockbox.
now for the iriver version there is also a gnuboy port.. no more lugging around loads of gameboy cardridges, just upload and play."
These things always sound great.. and then the control sucks. SNES emulation on pocketpc's sounds like it would be awesome as hell.. until you find out the direction pad can only press one direction at once and therefore can't get diagonals..
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
Talk about horrible controls. It's makes the original NES controller look comfortable.
Just buy a gameboy. They're affordable and play all of the games perfectly.
no more lugging around loads of gameboy cardridges, just upload and play.
This has been possible for a long time. The Game Boy Advance with a GBA flash cart can emulate the Game Boy monochrome system; a single flash cart can hold up to 32 MBytes or 64 MBytes of GB ROMs.
There is also something called the GB Bridge, which translates between GB mono/GBC wire protocol and GBA wire protocol, letting the GBA run GBC games using its GBC hardware, but it doesn't work with most of the newer flash carts.
a cooler hack would let me play mp3's on my old gameboy.
...people will actually play Tetris with something besides the classic tracks? BLASPHEMY! (Unless it's a Lil Jon song that says YEEAAAHHHH after every 4-line combo.)
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
I'd love to see the Rockbox port for the H3x0, who cares about diagnol controls, being able to play Tetris, possibly against multiple opponents using the USB port and hub that it comes with would be totally awesome!
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
This is another way of using Open Source to difuse the use of hardware and earning $$$ money without the software license.
http://www.michel.eti.br
Can I get my Gameboy to emulate a cell-phone?
Even with horrible controls, it would be fun playing Mario or Punchout on a portable music player.
An old April fools joke for Rockbox was that they got Doom running on the old Archos ones. I can's see anything on the Rockbox site about GB emulation, so I think I'll be a bit skeptical for now. Though if it's true, I'm definately gonna be buying an iRiver!
You can play parodies of cellphone games on your GBA.
I've owned 3 ipods that I had to get rid of because of consistent freezing and deteriorating battery life. My iRiver iHP-120 over 1 yr just performs rock solid. Yes, it is not white so noobs thinks its not a MP3 player but I don't have to take out of my pocket and finger circle to find songs. Just 1-2 clicks on the iRiver remote control does a dandy job. Now with people working on modding the firmware this little gem of a MP3 player is like the Linux of MP3 player and Ipod is the Windoze.
Is it a fake? :-)
Well, it will come to the point where there is a portable device that contains all features of a PDA, a cellphone, an mp3 player, a game machine ...
You're thinking of smartphones. They are PDAs with cellphones, and most of the newer ones can play MP3 audio. The only things keeping them from being game machines are bad controls (what's comfortable for use as a replacement for a Game Boy isn't comfortable for use as a phone) and lack of titles (due to phone network operators that own your phone and the lack of Nintendo branding).
Only a small number of devices and media will fit in a given person's pockets. Didn't you see "no more lugging around loads of gameboy cardridges" in the blurb?
right, now let's see this working on the ipod. sure, it's only got two directions instead of four, and just two colors ("on" and "off", as it would happen), but it's got buttons to spare (well, one). ..okay, bad idea. but some games (tetris, notably) would actually work.
what kind of processing power does the ipod have, anyway?
Would this also work on the Rockbox port to Archos Gmini?
Thanks for destroying rockbox's website. Does anyone know if the h1x0 port got anywhere or are they still at the "Debugger goes where?" stage?
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Britney Spears albums will sound virtually the same
Shh! Don't give the NES remixers any ideas...
in 2-bit mono gameboy sound
"2-bit sound" can sound better than a CD. Even SACD uses pulse-density modulation at 1 bit per channel, heavily dithered during mastering and low-pass filtered at the output.
I wish it could go the other way around, so you can emulate a MP3 player with any ol' Gameboy. Imagine carrying around the original Gameboy and using it as a MP3 player...oh the simplicity of the controls! It can also double as a blunt weapon.
CKSCIII
From what I've read, it boots on a H1x0 and runs, though doesn't play anything because they haven't yet coded the software codec infrastructure. (The Archos hardware Rockbox was originally written for uses a hardware MP3 decoder.)
I haven't had a chance to play with it, though, as I have a H340, which they haven't yet started porting the port to.
Isn't there something wrong with advising people to "just upload and play" instead of using their cartridges? The copyrights on GameBoy games are still in effect. Of course, there is nothing wrong with emulation (and the ability to emulate GameBoy on an MP3 player is very cool) but encouraging people to illegally obtain material to emulate should not be part of the article summary.
Quick someone nominate the inventor for the nobel prize.
Storm
The Rockbox firmware linked in the article only works for the Archos Jukebox and Recorder series. Has anyone heard of any similar re-writes for the Archos Multimedia AV120?
I guess you haven't done much research on the subject lately. I have a 1gb flash cart for my GBA
I knew about the 1 Gbit GBA flash carts, but I didn't mention them 1. because they're expensive, and 2. so as not to confuse. The flash carts marked "1G" are actually 1 giga-bit, or 128 MiB. That is, unless they're CompactFlash adapters such as the SuperCard, which can take Type 1 CF of up to 2 GB.
no, really just nifty.
Bang 'ole Bess, man. --BESS
Gameboy Emulation on your MP3 Player
I wouldn't hold out for a version for your iPod shuffle.
Where can I download this?
The road to hell is paved with good inventions.
whole project looks great, unfortunately I can't use it (yet) on my iRiver-iH120; Rockbox does not support remote's LCD right now (my main LCD is damaged; I really shouldn't put my player into my back pocket and go the party!). As soon as remote is working, I'll give it a shot.
I know of Goomba, which works for GB ROMs, but for GBC ROMs, I get "This game works only on Game Boy Color."
Can I get my Gameboy to emulate a cell-phone?
Sounds like you need to invest in an NGAGE...