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Jorge Holgado Alvarez' PicoDMG Modernizes the Nintendo Game Boy — With an RP2040/RP2350

Engineer and self-described automation architect Jorge Holgado Alvarez managed to nerd-snipe himself into recreating Nintendo's classic Game Boy handheld console — turning a proof-of-concept breadboarded emulator into a full replacement motherboard powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040 or RP2350 microcontroller.

"Everything started as a simple proof of concept," Alvarez explains of the PicoDMG project. "After discovering several Game Boy emulator projects for [Espressif] ESP32 and [Raspberry Pi] RP2040/RP2350 [microcontroller] boards, I couldn’t resist trying one myself using a spare RP2040 board and a small 1.8" TFT display I already had available. Then I realized I had an original DMG-LCD-06 board available from a previous Game Boy restoration project using an IPS display replacement. At that point, the goal stopped being a simple POC and became: "Let's build a [Nintendo] Game Boy."

From proof-of-concept to self-nerd-sniped project: the PicoDMG replaces the innards of the classic Nintendo Game Boy with a Raspberry...

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