I’m excited to announce the project I’ve been working on for the last year and a half: Game Bub , an open-source FPGA based retro emulation handheld, with support for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games. May 2025 Update: Want to buy a prebuilt Game Bub? I’m launching a crowdfunding campaign on Crowd Supply ! Sign up to be notified when the campaign goes live.…
I built a Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator that runs on an FPGA , and can play both physical cartridges and ROM files. The whole project took about 4 months of intermittent work. Check out the code and instructions for running it here . Update February 2025 : I expanded this project into a standalone, handheld device and added GBA support. Assembled FPGA board with cartridge adapter
I built a device that allows a pinball machine from 1984 to automatically upload scores to the internet. The device taps into the machine’s memory bus and monitors the game state, uploading scores after each game.