Gameboy Walkman

Let’s build a device that uses the original Game Boy’s hardware to play some fine chiptunes! Ever wondered what you can do with a mainboard when the display is broken? Do you also let the Tetris game run, just to listen to the music? Now there’s another project that you can try! Join Dave as he connects a new display to the Game Boy with the help of an Arduino Nano via the Game Boy link port and puts everything in a nice package! Happy Birthday to the GAME BOY, 30 years and still going!

Someone Created an 8-Bit Final Fantasy XI for GameBoy And It’s Wild

One of the last things I ever thought I’d see today when I woke up is Final Fantasy XI running on a GameBoy. Yet, Final Fantasy XI Adventure absolutely a real thing that exists, and you can play it right now if you wanted to.

And yes, we’re talking about that Final Fantasy, you know, the MMORPG that has largely given up the spotlight to its younger brother Final Fantasy XIV but is still chugging along to its own beat.

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Is 4GB the Limit for the Raspberry Pi 4?

So you’ve rushed off to your favourite dealer in Raspberry Pi goodies and secured your shiny new Raspberry Pi 4. Maybe you’re anxiously waiting for the postie, or perhaps if you’re lucky enough to live near Cambridge you simply strolled into the Pi shop and bought one over the counter. You’ve got the best of the lot, the 4 GB model, and there’s nothing like the feeling of having the newest toy before everyone else does.

You open the box, pull out the Pi, and get busy. The instruction leaflet flutters to the floor, ignored and forgotten. If you’re our tipster [Eric van Zandvoort] though, you read it, notice something unexpected, and send a scan to your friends at Hackaday. Because there at the top, in the regulatory compliance information that nobody reads, is the following text:

Product name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB + 8 GB variants.

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