Very impressive.

i was meaning to look into driving an lcd (read: 3300) screen with an arduino, guess it could be done quite easily if it can run an OLED in colour.

Posted at 6:03 pm on Oct 28th, 2008 by Alex ~

how fast is it? the screen looked rather sluggish, but its hard to tell… pretty cool though..

Posted at 6:25 pm on Oct 28th, 2008 by michael

That’s a small screen.

Posted at 6:48 pm on Oct 28th, 2008 by dirk

I see no mention of a rumble pack… ?

Posted at 7:02 pm on Oct 28th, 2008 by smilr

looked like 2-4 frames per second

Posted at 8:37 pm on Oct 28th, 2008 by rasz

I think the low frame rate was a sampling rate issue, if it were gfx issue then it would have dropped severely when he added the trail.

Posted at 10:30 pm on Oct 28th, 2008 by Edward Nardella

Gameboy killer? Hah. With the NDS’ ability for homebrew and serial interface this project has a lot ahead of it.

Posted at 10:49 pm on Oct 28th, 2008 by sarsface

@smilr: very true- I followed the link to their site via the gizmodo writeup and I see no mention of rumblepacks. I’m sure you could add one, but that’s not the point.

A slightly under-publicised feature of the screen board is that it is touch-responsive so can use pen input, and appears to have hardware sprite support- check out some of the videos at http://www.liquidware.com/shop/show/TS/TouchShield. using sprites rather than blitting all the graphics would free up the processor for more game computation so I’m sure we could see some gameboy-level games- think super mario clones?

Posted at 4:41 am on Oct 29th, 2008 by PKM

http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Main_Page

Have one sitting collecting dust that kicks this things butt hard in power and programmability. Cool homebrew, but there are better platforms for homebrew gaming that have a Dev kit that is pretty killer.

Buy it http://www.gp2xstore.com/ for less than the parts for the above homebrew.

Posted at 6:48 am on Oct 29th, 2008 by fartface

Personally I feel this is pretty useless, why not just write homebrew for the 2 decade old game boy. and $250?! thats preposterous!

Posted at 7:30 am on Oct 29th, 2008 by kyle

I can’t see a single thing about this other than the extremely questionable benefit of it being open source that isn’t horribly inferior to an NDS or PSP… I’d rather have to work at hacking something good than have full access to something expensive and useless.

Posted at 9:58 am on Oct 29th, 2008 by Johnny

Sorry, I’ll wait another couple of months for my Pandora instead.

Posted at 1:53 pm on Oct 29th, 2008 by sparr

At the 1:30 mark or when he presses the button it looks like a puff of smoke comes outta the top.

Posted at 4:56 am on Oct 30th, 2008 by morehpperliter

Cool!!!
It’s very interesting, but in my opinion only for academic purposes, for playing… Pandora arrives.
You have done it, you have learned a lot, but know take your openpandora and start playing.

Posted at 12:21 pm on Oct 30th, 2008 by jcazor

Seeing some additional modular pcbs come to the arduino is a great thing… But you’ve been able to purchase almost identical items from sparkfun for some time for less, they’ve just added a gameboy like controller module.

Posted at 10:29 am on Oct 31st, 2008 by Carl

morehpperliter, i was waiting for a puff of smoke to come out of it the whole way through. lol. this thing is so huge, exposed, and haphazard…

Posted at 10:50 pm on Nov 1st, 2008 by hackman