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Jess Kinghorn

YouTuber builds pocket-sized Game Boy emulator using an ereader, demonstrates an 'actually playable' refresh rate for your Pokémon Blue replay

Listen, I do love the vibrant colours and deep blacks of my OLED. What I don't love is the price tag (though, in the grand scheme of RAMpocalypse knock-on effects, the cost of gaming monitors has remained relatively stable). As such, I'm always intrigued by more affordable low-fi tech options, like epaper displays. It's just a shame about that refresh rate…

Well, I've just stumbled across an epaper emulation project that challenges everything I thought I knew about epaper. Hardware creator Wenting Zhang has just shown off their touch screen, e-Ink Game Boy emulator with an "actually playable" refresh rate for Pokémon Blue.

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