There are many people who keep their old cartridges of the classic Game Boy either due to lack of use, collecting or nostalgia. Now you can go back to playing those old games that gave so many hours of entertainment as a child such as Pokémon, Super Mario, Kirby or The Legend of Zelda to play them on your own computer thanks to a device called GB Operator. This device plays all Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games on all computers, including Mac and Linux systems.
The company in charge is one that has recently entered the market, Epilogue. It is planned that this device will go on sale in August of this year and can already be reserved for a price of 41 euros.
A return to childhood
Use the mGBA emulation system to play the games. It also has the possibility of being able to activate tricks within each game, something very popular among the community of players since it brings a fun touch to the games, although without abusing them since it makes you lose the magic of playing the original .
Through software and by placing the cartridge in a slot, the video game is emulated on the same computer screen and will be ready to play. GB Operator allows us to make backup copies of saved games to play them again later whenever we want.
This gives a solution since there are many old games on these consoles that no longer work due to the battery running out. It even has a system that detects if your cartridge is authentic or fake , which is one more reason to buy for all those people whose hobby is collecting games and who want to make sure that their cartridges are real.
Not only does it emulate games
A priori these functions justify the low price of the product, but there is still more. These old consoles could be combined with a small Game Boy Camera , which came out in 1998 and which allowed taking pictures with it in a poor resolution (something normal considering the year it came out).
With GB Operator we can also transfer the images from this camera in case we still save them. It is essential to have the original cartridges , since for example you cannot play an SD card that has pirtedly downloaded games.
There have already been testing tests of the device and future updates are expected to optimize the operation of the device until it is released on the market. It is true that there are other devices that perform a similar function, but these have backward compatibility, resolution and firmware problems, as well as cost more money.
