Everdrives have been around for a long while now, so there’s no doubt that you’ve already heard of them. But if you haven’t, the Everdrive series from Krikzz are flash carts for retro consoles that allow running of your collection of cartridges on one cart. That means if you have shelves of SNES, …
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Hands on with Hyperkin’s Smartboy!
What started off as an April fools joke almost 2 years ago, is now a real product! With the SmartBoy you will be able to play your original GameBoy games with physical buttons on your personal Android mobile phone! The following will be a small review of what the final …
Read More »Review: The BittBoy FC Mini Handheld
Review Time! The guys behind Team Revo have created a new portable clone console and were nice enough to send out a review unit to us again. This is the BittBoy! Play games on the smallest NES/FC handheld.. anywhere, anytime. The BittBoy surely isn’t that advanced like Revo’s GameBoy Advance …
Read More »RetroGaming: EverDrive-GB X series announced by KRIKzz
The Everdrive cards from KRIKzz are known to be the best of the best when it comes to Retro flashcards and after the big Everdrive GBA release last year, krikzz is back with some exciting news for all you portable retro freaks like me out there! #EverDrive-GB X series approaching! …
Read More »Reviving a 1989 GameBoy with style: Backlight, bivert & more!!
So recently I made a great find, an original GameBoy DMG from 1989 on a local flea market for 2 bucks only. Solely the screen cover and batteries were missing but aside from that it still looked great! And since all I wanted were some internal parts for another project, …
Read More »Gameboy turned into a portable Wii
A lot of modders/tinkers like to take game consoles and turn them into all kind of things. For example, the famous benheck has done this to countless game consoles like the Xbox360 & PS3. Modder GmanModz has also done this to a bunch of systems and now he’s turned a Gameboy into a functioning …
Read More »First GameBoy Advance Everdrive prototype ready!
If the names krikzz and Everdrive are ringing a bell, you will most likely love to hear the following news! If not, here is a small lesson in retro gaming: The name Everdrive stands for hand-crafted quality when it comes to retro flashcards. Its creator is named krikzz and he …
Read More »Raspberry Pi: The Gameboy Zero
Following our last write-up about ‘What’s the best game console to turn into Emulationstation?‘ the Raspberry Pi obviously couldn’t make it to the results as it’s no gaming console if we put it that way.. BUT we thought it definitively should get mentioned separately! Additionally (if you aren’t following us …
Read More »Gameboy 1up a whole new take on a classic system
While browsing the net like we all do I run across something very interesting called Game Boy 1up. This Game boy has been re-imagined by German Designer Florian Renner, his redesign of our beloved Game boy is something all retro gamers would like to have.In my opinion, it looks like a cross between …
Read More »Happy 25th Birthday GameBoy!!!
Hello, everybody and a big Happy 25th Birthday to the GameBoy!!! In Europe on September 28, 1990 the Gameboy was released. We are asking, do you remember 1989? Well, I do that Christmas was the year my game went on the road. The GameBoy was created by Gunpei Yokoi and Nintendo Research & Development …
Read More »mGBA Vita Alpha released (updated)
Thanks to endrift, GameBoy Advance is finally running natively on PS Vita. Update: I accidentally missed Alpha 2. The download link has been updated. Also, the emulator now has menus. Today endrift released alpha of his GameBoy Advance emulator called mGBA Vita. It’s a port of his own emulator mGBA …
Read More »Hyperkin adds android smartphones to Smartboy!
If you remember, about a week ago I told you about the Superboy that Hyperkin was developing to turn your iPhone into a Gameboy. Well, now they’ve responded to everyone’s request and added the Android Smartphones prototype to the list. It seems that not only will it function with the …
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