Well, one tinkering genius has been hard at work making that one weakness a thing of the past. They’ve managed to get an ESP32-powered e-Ink display running at a smooth 60Hz, which means you can play Game Boy games on it with an extremely playable framerate.<\/p>\n
This Game Boy emulator on the M5Stack PaperS3 is shockingly playable<\/p>\n
It’s basically as good as the real deal<\/p>\n
As spotted by PCGamer<\/a>, this amazing feat was performed by Wenting Channel on YouTube<\/a>. To get the job done, they used an M5Stack PaperS3, which combines an ESP32-S3 with a 4.7-inch e-Ink touchscreen. As such, getting a Game Boy emulator up and running is as simple as turning the screen into a digital Game Boy and letting people play by pressing the buttons on-screen.<\/p>\n Because the screen renders at 60Hz, playing games on the “Paper Boy” is actually very feasible, mainly because the Game Boy’s resolution was 160×144. This means they could focus most of the processing on that small square, which means more power to render the game at a playable frame rate. Wenting even went so far as to tweak the PaperS3’s buzzer to replicate the Game Boy’s sound system.<\/p>\n If you want to give this a try yourself, you can find PaperBoyS3 on M5Burner and download it onto your device right now. It’d definitely make replaying the classics a lot more fun.<\/p>\n
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