There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge
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There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge
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Re: There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge
#2Cool project. Only issue I see is the use of an old eeprom. These types of projects tend to use flash roms these days.
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#3Wonderful, pure creativity and determination at work here. It's so cool to see what wild ideas people will follow through with.
A gemini client would be a cool next step for this:
Re: There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge
#4I probably would have hooked it up to the link cable, which is just a SPI port. Then different carts can use it as they see fit.
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#5That design is badly missing some registers (D-type flip-flops) -- the whole "let's read/write multiple bytes and discard the first one because the ESP is not ready yet" seems like a super hacky solution.
A pair of something like 74574's would make this so much easier. When sending to ESP, register latches the last byte written and then ESP can read it at its leisure. When reading from ESP, ESP pre-loads the data into register, and then gameboy reads data from the register. This generates interrupt which ESP uses to load next byte into register.
Moreover, there might be a right logical series which will be compatible with both 3.3 and 5V busses. Then one could replace the level converters with register, keeping the overall complexity about the same.
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#6It reminds me the wifi modem I use for the Commodore 64
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#7I am looking forward to see cloud gaming for the Game Boy!
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#8Amazing project and cool blog! What a great domain name, too.
Thanks for sharing!
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#9Wonderful, pure creativity and determination at work here. It's so cool to see what wild ideas people will follow through with. A gemini client would be a cool next step for this: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
I think gopher would be better, just by how much content is available on it and how stupid simple it is. But either option would be really flipping cool to see!
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#10I'm very much reminded of "Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!" [1]