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Gameboy on your PalmPilot?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-gotta-be-kidding dept.

@tomic212 writes "Ever wish you could play Gameboy games on your PalmPilot? This article on the Palm Infocenter discusses a gameboy emulator being developed for the PalmOS. With an interview with Maven who is building the emulator from scratch in assembly. "

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  1. Prices of Gameboy and Palm V by andrewchen · · Score: 2

    From Yahoo!, a Gameboy costs ~$60, and from Yahoo! again, the price for a PalmV is $450.

    For that price, why not just buy both? Wait a minute, I forgot one thing-- having a PalmV that plays videogames lets someone pretend to be doing very important business while at a meeting, right? :)

  2. Legal problems from Nintendo? by zempf · · Score: 3

    Does anyone else besides me see this as a potential problem? We've seen Nintendo's (over)reactions to emulation, such as their suit against the authors of UltraHLE (that is, if it's actually still happening & wasn't just an empty threat). Anyway, I can't imagine Nintendo would react any more favorably to emulation of Game Boy than they did to N64.


    -mike kania

  3. Seen it done... by mogul · · Score: 2

    Someone at my company made a Gameboy emulator for the Pilot almost as soon as the PalmPilot Professional came out. It worked pretty well, too, but unfortuantely the refresh requirements were high enough that it would drain your battery in a matter of minutes. I don't know if the new screen on the Palm V has lower power requirements, but if it doesn't then I predict that Gameboy emulation isn't really feasible...

  4. Legal problems from Nintendo? by Phexro · · Score: 2

    Well, I don't think so- various emulators of Nintendo systems have been around for years. The first SNES emulators started development some time back in '93-'94. There are already many game boy/NES/SNES emulators out there, I don't see why they would care about one more. Go look here for info about Virtual GameBoy, the first (and one of the best) gameboy emulators out there.