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24 alternatives to Gamebuino META
Arduino compatible retro console for gamers
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Gamebuino META launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Software and hardware projects for fun from a guy who loves retro computing
2019 · internalregister.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Over the past ~1.5 years, I built an open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld that can play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges. To my knowledge, there isn't an existing open-source FPGA emulator that can play physical cartridges like this. One of my main goals was to do all of the pieces myself, and be able to understand every component of it, so I designed my own PCB, wrote the firmware, wrote a Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator for the FPGA (using the Chisel HDL), and designed a 3D-printed case. I detailed the design and development process in the…
2025 · eli.lipsitz.net · its alternatives →
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A retro portable game console project based on Arduino
2015 · gamebuino.com · its alternatives →
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Adventures in hardware hacking, low-level software, FPGAs, and more!
2019 · craigjb.com · its alternatives →
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Arduboy▲156A mini open-source game system you can program yourself 👾
2016 · arduboy.com · its alternatives →
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Retro RPG Game Maker. Contribute to ericoporto/fgmk development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn to code by building retro arcade games.
2022 · akedo.app · its alternatives →
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I've been spending a lot of my spare time over the last year creating this little racing game. It's built in PICO-8, which is a really fun “fantasy retro console” that's been mentioned on HN several times. The console has strict limits and I wanted to see how far I could push them The source code for the game is over here: https://github.com/maxbize/PICO-8/tree/master/Driftmania. It's a bit of a mess, but I'm happy to answer any questions on it or development of the game. Cheers! EDIT: For those not familiar with PICO-8, there's only a few inputs: arrow…
2024 · frenchie14.itch.io · its alternatives →
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CHIP-8 console on FPGA. Contribute to pwmarcz/fpga-chip8 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, As a 8-bit C64 game coder in eaarly 90ties and currently mostly FE-focused dev, decided to give a go to a simple retro game archive. This is purely fun project - so i decided to post it to HN, mayne it'll resonate :)
2023 · polishpixels.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · codeguppy.com · its alternatives →
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A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier). But a few months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never existed as a physical system. I didn't know much about embedded software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I managed to…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GameShell▲87Open Source Retro Gaming & STEM Portable Console
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Still very much a work in progress, but really wanted to share this even in it's early state. Had heaps of fun building it to learn more about WebRTC.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NES emulator written in Rust. Contribute to pcwalton/sprocketnes development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Retro Game Engine for Racket. Contribute to massung/r-cade development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been exploring new ways of testing Ghidra processor modules. In this repo, I was able to emulate NES ROMs in Ghidra to test its 6502 specification, which resulted in finding and fixing some bugs. Context: Ghidra is used for reverse engineering binary executables, complementing the usual disassembly view with function decompilation. Each supported architecture has a SLEIGH specification, which provides semantics for parsing and emulating instructions, not unlike the dispatch handlers you would find in interpreters written for console emulators. Emulator devs have long had extensive test…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Blinks▲169An open-source board game system with a mind of its own
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I'm excited to reveal Surfboard to you all! Surfboard is a widget that enables you to share your Arduino code as a URL link or HTML embed. People interacting with your widget can edit, compile and upload the code into their Arduino board--right in the browser. Surfboard supports over 170 boards and over 4,200 libraries, so rest assured you can share quite a large variety of Arduino projects here :) More on tech stack: - Backend is Node.js and Go with MongoDB database, with most of the codebase a derivative of the Duino App project (https://duino.app/) - React…
2022 · sfbd.is · its alternatives →
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