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