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Game Boy Advance Cube Prototype Is The Retro Transformer We’ve All Dreamed Of | Retro Dodo (retrododo.com)
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Recently, modder Hairo Satoh has created a remarkable prototype—Game Boy Advance Cube—which offers the integration of nostalgic controllers (such as Famicom and SNES), Game Boy Advance Games, and a Game Boy Advance SP screen.

With slots for retro controllers directly integrated into the design, this device preserves gamers’ muscle memory from older consoles. Imagine combining your favorite Game Boy Advance games with classic controllers in a compact form factor?

Which controller compatibility do you hope he addds next?

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So, he modded a GBA either to accept control input from modded controllers, or he stuffed a SBC emulator with two USB-C ports into a GBA case.

Pretty cool, and a clever concept to work towards, but hardly revolutionary. I wouldn't be "drooling" until it was past prototype stage and didn't look like a it was stuck together with a piece of tape or that a single bump on the train would snap the ports right off those control pads.