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Gameboy gets implanted inside a TI-83 series calculator

This hack shows how to stuff a Nintendo Gameboy inside the housing of a TI-83 series calculator. We've seen the cool things these calculators can be hacked to do, but we haven't seen someone take it this far. Unfortunately, I think it would be more impressive if he got the TI-83's hardware to play Gameboy games, rather than just soldering the keys to the original Gameboy's controller. Oh well, still a nice site with lots of pics of the build.

GameBoy Color inside a TI-83 series calculator

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Posted by: IceBrain on November 18, 2008 at 8:06 AM

Yeah, emulating a 4MHz chip in a 6MHz would be pretty amazing :|

I like those calculators, albeit a bit expensive for the hardware included. I've actually programmed several (though simple) games in TiBasic and that was really fun during boring math classes. The only thing they lack (besides more power :P) is some kind of RF for multiplayer games :)

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Posted by: bekathwia on November 18, 2008 at 12:02 PM

In high school I had a TI-86 that ran Super Mario Bros, but my classmates with the 83's couldn't use it. Also had multiplayer tetris.

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Posted by: Anonymous on November 18, 2008 at 6:29 PM

TI-89s can run Gameboy ROMs, but not TI-83/4s.

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