{"id":176857,"date":"2025-10-03T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176857\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:26:10","slug":"a-creator-has-made-legos-non-playable-game-boy-set-playable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176857\/","title":{"rendered":"A creator has made Lego’s non-playable Game Boy set playable"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Lego announced its near 1:1, 421-piece Nintendo Game Boy set I wrote<\/a> that it was charming, but “sadly not playable.” Now that it has started shipping<\/a> (as of yesterday), creator Natalie the Nerd<\/a> proved me 100 percent wrong. She added the power to play genuine Game Boy cartridges, using real hardware and not an emulator, according to her post on Bluesky<\/a> and a story on The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The project was right up Natalie’s alley as she specializes in circuit board design, having even created a transparent one for another Game Boy project<\/a>. To make the Lego Game Boy run, she created a custom circuit board with Game Boy chips soldered on, including working buttons. She then added the “smallest screen kit on the market,” she told The Verge, removing a few bricks to make it fit. You won’t even have to worry about batteries as it has a USB-C port to run everything.<\/p>\n

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It’s fully functional but not quite complete \u2014 on Bluesky, Natalie pointed out that the A and B keys are currently held in by an elastic band. To fix that, she plans to 3D print a lego piece that will hold a custom PCB for the buttons. Once it’s all ready, she’ll share her designs as she has with past products. “I am going to release it once I am happy with it,” she wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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