[–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Breakout had tennis players in the artwork, but Super Breakout is in space? 🤷

Sounds like the artist was going for depicting the color bars as a forcefield to give them physicality, and also liked the visual of them being reflected in the astronaut's helmet.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    These specific Virtual Boy carts aren't being made any more, unfortunately. You can still find them for insane prices on eBay though.

    At the time, I think these were the only ones that did something like this. Now, if you Google around I believe you can find a couple other projects out there for other systems that have some sort of display built into the cartridge so it can display a game label. Not sure how many are finished products you can buy, or how many are open source projects that you would need to DIY.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Virtual Boy was cartridge based, these flash carts are cool because they have e-ink displays in them so that you can load custom label images to see what game you have flashed.

    This is what an original cart looks like

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago*

    The main Analogue Pocket FPGA core(s) for playing Game Boy cartridges doesn't recognize these Wisdom Tree carts as legit carts, as far as the system behaves - there's nothing in the slot.

    There is an openFPGA core for the Super Game Boy, though, that will read original Game Boy games from the cart slot, and I've found that I can play Wisdom Tree carts if I use that openFPGA core.

    But also... Yes - the AP can be a FPGA SNES that can read roms from the sdcard, and is also a lot of other systems by using openFPGA cores. Combined with the dock and some wireless controllers, it's a less powerful mister system - but a portable one!

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