It is getting harder and harder to find original hardware at a reasonable price as interest in retro gaming continues to grow. We applaud the clever hack that creates a truly big-screen Game Boy Pocket experience, but we are sad to see it required the sacrifice of ten Game Boys to make it possible.
Over the past month, we've seen how Sebastian Staacks has been able to use his custom Game Boy to learn new tricks, including streaming and displaying video content like Star Wars.
The Game Boy Pocket has a black-and-white screen, but kgsws has taken a completely different route to take control of the console's screen. Using an oscilloscope to reverse engineer the display protocol, kgsws was able to stream the video signal to another device using an ESP32 wireless module, and they discovered that a more powerful Pi was needed to stream game footage to another Game Boy Pocket.
Why don't you just stream the footage to one Game Boy Pocket and use the other handhelds to watch it? The realization led to the wiring up of nine other Game Boy Pockets in a 3x3 grid and the creation of the first big screen GBP experience.
Is it feasible? Absolutely not. There are huge gaps between the panels that wreck the experience of seeing an embiggened Game Boy Pocket screen, not to mention that the entire thing appears to be rigged up on a fragile frame. It's cool to see people pushing the Game Boy hardware to do weird new things, but appearances aside, one day another hacker will take this idea one step further and build a truly supersized Game Boy Pocket using nine original displays more closely tiled.
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