Neo Geo Pocket Color almost had Game Boy compatibility
Posted May 7th 2008 6:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff, Homebrew
A third-party project was underway during the Neo Geo Pocket Color's short (but beautiful) life to add Game Boy and Game Boy Color functionality to SNK's handheld. Ganksoft Entertainment began by working on a software emulator capable of running GB/GBC software on the NGPC. The project was cancelled before the emulator was finished, due to SNK's dramatic exit from the console market. The screenshot shows roughly what state the emulator was in. Of course, with no software, the hardware never came to fruition either.
Would the system's history have been different if it could run its major competitor's games via an obscure, unlicensed peripheral? The Dreamcast says
no.
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Tags: emulation, game-boy, game-boy-color, neo-geo-pocket-color, snk
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5-07-2008 @ 7:10PM
manaman said...
No kidding?
That's pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Peace,
manaman
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5-07-2008 @ 7:13PM
David D. said...
Hmmm... Cool. I am amazed that they even tried to do this in software... *Goes back to playing Faselei*
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5-07-2008 @ 7:22PM
Donald said...
This would've been shut down in, I dunno, twenty seconds or so?
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5-07-2008 @ 11:41PM
hvnlysoldr said...
Nintendo allowing another system to play their games? I laugh at the general notion. I laugh at the defunct company. I laugh as I remember the Atari 2600, 5200, Colecovision, and similar knock-offs and clones could play all each others' games culminating in the crash.
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