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24 alternatives to Internet Archive: Handheld History
Old school handheld game consoles, fully emulated
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Internet Archive: Handheld History launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Nintendo brings back their original handheld system
2020 · its alternatives →
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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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Analogue Pocket ▲182A modern hand-held for playing old GameBoy gamees
2019 · analogue.co · 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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Nintendo Switch▲714Nintendo's new console for the home and your hands 👾
2016 · nintendo.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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Palmer Luckey's new startup, a modern Game Boy console
2024 · modretro.com · its alternatives →
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Mega Man▲133The original Mega Man for NES now on iOS and Android
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Delta▲245The first Gameboy emulator approved in the App Store
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sega Forever▲380Sega classic games released on iOS/Android
2017 · forever.sega.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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2017 · nescat.gcubed.co · its alternatives →
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The golden age of 16-bit gaming returns
2017 · nintendo.com · its alternatives →
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The oldest mobile game reborn with wicked superpower
2016 · play.google.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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A new compact version of the Nintendo Switch
2019 · nintendo.com · its alternatives →
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