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The Smart Boy will turn your android based smartphone into a Game Boy Colour by allowing you to play your original Game Boy and Game Boy Colour cartridges through your smartphone.

As standard the Smart Boy accessory will feature an eight-way D-pad; two action buttons; a start and select button to offer that authentic Game Boy experience you could only dream about.

The Smart Boy also comes built-in with a rechargeable battery pack that allows for up to five hours of gameplay and can be recharged using your Android smartphone.

With over 1600 Game Boy and Game Boy Color games in the market, such as Pokemon Blue, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Super Mario Land, Tetris and Donkey Kong, you're bound to have endless fun with the Smart Boy.

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Key Features:

• Connects to any Android operated Smartphone
• Allows all Game Boy and Game Boy Colour Games to be played through your Smartphone
• Authentic Buttons that replicate the original Game Boy experience
• Comes with a built-in battery and can be powered via your Smartphone

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Resigter Interest

 

[Noctosphere]

I think I would actually buy one if it was a GBA thing...
I only play pokemon hacked version, and the best ones are on gba

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

This is old news. Like at least a week old.

 

[Red9419]

Why not just buy a gameboy or a game boy advanced. They are like 10-30$.

 

[Noctosphere]

Why not just buy a gameboy or a game boy advanced. They are like 10-30$.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Game-Boy-Ga...925401?hash=item3f64f82bd9:g:3t4AAOSwmtJXY5cC
were saying?

 

[Red9419]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Game-Boy-Ga...925401?hash=item3f64f82bd9:g:3t4AAOSwmtJXY5cC
were saying?

There are lots of cheaper ones. Why would you buy a new one. Local buying is also way cheaper than ebay.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

As mentioned numerous times, it's probably cheaper to just buy an actual Gameboy instead of this, but it is a pretty neat project I guess. I do wish they were a little more specific about the sizes supported, the dev version linked in the second post just claims "Phone size: 5-6 in" which isn't exactly specific. Does that mean 4.5" phones are out? Does it just stop directly at 6", or will it be able to accommodate the slightly larger phones like the Nexus 6 with it's 6.27x3.27 body?

It'd make a pretty neat retro controller for older consoles, though.

 

[DarkGabbz]

Can i use it for mgba

 

[Clydefrosch]

60 bucks? i can get 3 gba sps for that.

 

[ric.]

If you're serious about playing games on the go you're better off getting one of those phone bluetooth controllers or something. This is thing is expensive, big, relies on cartridges, and offers nothing you can't already get from a GBA-SP. You can't even use it as a controller for other games due to the retarded form factor and the lack of buttons.

 

[I pwned U!]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Game-Boy-Ga...925401?hash=item3f64f82bd9:g:3t4AAOSwmtJXY5cC
were saying?

In that case, perhaps I should sell mine!

 

[Seriel]

Don't all smartphones use Micro USB? And like 90% of them have it at the bottom center. And if they place the USB connector on a cable instead of having it fixed in place, it would solve the problem of USB position on different phones. No need to have entirely different models.

My phone has it at the top! D:
And yeah a concern for me would be the different size phones and the differently placed usb sockets.

 

[Jayro]

So is this hardware cloned, or software emu..?

 

[Thunder Kai]

Rip iphones

 

[the_randomizer]

Why not just buy a gameboy or a game boy advanced. They are like 10-30$.

Yeah, but no backlighting and washed out colors ><

 

[Red9419]

Yeah, but no backlighting and washed out colors ><

I got a 101 model on Craigslist for 15$ last time. The colors are a fair arguement

 

[the_randomizer]

I got a 101 model on Craigslist for 15$ last time. The colors are a fair arguement

Eh, already got all the Android/emulator devices for my gaming needs.

 

[NORBIN]

Neat, too bad I haven't gotten a new phone in years. Still using an iPhone 4 because cbf to upgrade.

 

[DjoeN]

Neat, too bad I haven't gotten a new phone in years. Still using an iPhone 4 because cbf to upgrade.

Same here, after my Samsung S3 broke i used the old iPhone 4 (ios 7.2.1) (not S) from my wife, still using it cause it still does everything i need. (call/surf/gps/get my mails)

 

[DiscostewSM]

Or just get a GBA SP.

You got me to search eBay for a GBA SP (which went to specifically the AGS-101 because of the better backlit screen). Didn't buy anything, but I wouldn't have even considered it until you said it.

 

[_Chaz_]

This exists solely to capitalize on nostalgia and people who want to show off that they still have games from 30 years ago. A pure waste of plastic.

If you're willing to carry 20 Game Boy game cartridges with you, you're willing to go all the way and get an AGS-101 SP, or even buy and backlight an original DMG for $40 and have it last longer than your phone battery.
Or you can do the obvious and use a bluetooth gamepad to play games through a better emulator than this thing uses.

I'm still curious to how this actually uses your game carts. All demos of it so far have been nothing but existing emulators off the play store.

Same way Hyperkin does for the Retron series. They read the cartridge data, load it into RAM, and run the dumped rom through an emulator someone else made. All this is is a cartridge dumper with buttons.