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Gameboy Emulation on your MP3 Player

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-what-i-wanna-see-more-of dept.

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."

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  1. Sounds great by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?
  2. Ow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talk about horrible controls. It's makes the original NES controller look comfortable.

  3. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just buy a gameboy. They're affordable and play all of the games perfectly.

  4. GB mono emulation on GBA by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  5. yes but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a cooler hack would let me play mp3's on my old gameboy.

    1. Re:yes but.. by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

      a cooler hack would let me play mp3's on my old gameboy.

      For the old Game Boy systems, there is an MP3 player called SongPro. For the GBA and GBA SP, there is the GSM Player, which uses GBA flash carts.

  6. So does that mean... by game+kid · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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.)

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    You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
  7. What I Want... by SubDude · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I get my Gameboy to emulate a cell-phone?

  8. iRiver one of most under-appreciated MP3 by vision33r · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  9. Path of Technology by page275 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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 ...

    ... Well, just sounds like a notebook with a telephone attachs to it.