They say that leisure is the mother of all vices, but when vices are playing DOOM on a pregnancy test or create a cartridge with WiFi for Game Boy, the vice is not so bad.
An example of this is Sebastian Staacks, German physicist and developer, who uses his free time to do this type of development, which really does not have any use, but that does not stop being curious.
Wikipedia on a Game Boy
Through his blog, Staacks shows the process that followed to develop this cartridge, in addition to demonstrating what can and cannot be done with this cartridge with WiFi.
You probably wonder whatWhat could you do with your Game Boy If you decide to follow the steps to create this cartridge with WiFi, so far, this is what the developer has achieved.
In addition to sending and receiving text messages, the Game Boy also connects to a Wikipedia client that allows you to write the title of an article, to be able to read an extract of it.
When the retro and the new come together
Also, the WiFi-modified cartridge also deploys a keyboard to be able to accomplish the tasks we mentioned earlier, and it might even connect with Twitter in the future.
He also managed to exploit the powerful 160 x 144 pixels of the Game Boy and its 20 FPS to be able to play a video via stream.
But how did he do it? Staacks used a basic 32 kiB Game Boy cartridge to which he has added an ESP82666 microcontroller with WiFi connectivity.
If you also want to have your own cartridge with WiFi, all you have to do is check the code in GitHub, as well as check your blog where he explains the technical part of the assembly and what problems it brings play god with a Game Boy.