{"id":548817,"date":"2026-04-24T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:42:10","slug":"this-wristwatch-sized-game-boy-color-doesnt-use-emulation-and-runs-physical-carts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548817\/","title":{"rendered":"This Wristwatch-Sized Game Boy Color Doesn’t Use Emulation And Runs Physical Carts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Game<\/a> Image: LeggoMyFroggo<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember Chris “LeggoMyFroggo” Hackmann? He’s famous for creating the Frog Boy Color<\/a> and Tad Boy Color, but his next project is perhaps the most ambitious (and unhinged) yet \u2013 he’s created a Game Boy Color you can wear on your wrist.<\/p>\n

As spotted by Hackster<\/a>, Hackmann set himself three goals with this crazy venture:<\/p>\n

“It has to use the original GBC CPU. It needs to be able to play cartridges of some kind. And to fulfill the whole ‘being a watch’ thing, it has to be able to maintain the time while turned off. Anything less and I wouldn’t consider it a true Game Boy watch.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This device doesn’t use emulation, and it even loads games from (tiny) carts rather than from a ROM-packed SD card.<\/p>\n

The end result is a technological marvel, even if it’s near-impossible to play and lacks audio.<\/p>\n

“If this all sounds needlessly complicated,” Hackmann says at the close of the video, “have you even thought about this? It’s a Game Boy Color with a less-than-optimal playing experience, shorter battery life than most, and a right to exist just ahead of macaroni and cheese with ketchup. But in the end, I’m still shocked that I have a real playable Game Boy Color, in at least a technical sense, on my wrist.”<\/p>\n

[source hackster.io<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\"Damien<\/p>\n

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension<\/a>, the network’s newest site, which \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 is all about gaming’s past glories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: LeggoMyFroggo Remember Chris “LeggoMyFroggo” Hackmann? He’s famous for creating the Frog Boy Color and Tad Boy Color,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3115,59,74771,136,86,1178,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-548817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-game-boy-color","tag-gb","tag-modding","tag-nintendo","tag-technology","tag-time-extension","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}