GBA Remote Play

Rodrigo Alfonso’s Game Boy Advance runs 3D titles made for PlayStation, but all the magic is in the cartridge, as David Crookes explains

Rodrigo Alfonso

Modding retro consoles is nothing new, but it can leave the original machine feeling a little bruised and battered. With Rodrigo Alfonso’s project, however, no classic console has to suffer harm. Instead, it’s possible to take a handheld Game Boy Advance (GBA), run PlayStation games on it, and not so much as take a screwdriver to the device itself. Rodrigo has achieved this by creating a custom cartridge with a Raspberry Pi 3 computer tucked neatly inside. By installing and running the RetroPie emulator on the cart and engaging in a bit of jiggery pokery with the GBA’s Link Port, Rodrigo has been able to stream PSOne games on the Nintendo handheld. “What inspired me the most was the fact that the whole project seemed impossible to achieve,” he says.…

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