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  • These specific Virtual Boy carts aren’t being made any more, unfortunately. You can still find them for insane prices on eBay though.

    At the time, I think these were the only ones that did something like this. Now, if you Google around I believe you can find a couple other projects out there for other systems that have some sort of display built into the cartridge so it can display a game label. Not sure how many are finished products you can buy, or how many are open source projects that you would need to DIY.










  • The main Analogue Pocket FPGA core(s) for playing Game Boy cartridges doesn’t recognize these Wisdom Tree carts as legit carts, as far as the system behaves - there’s nothing in the slot.

    There is an openFPGA core for the Super Game Boy, though, that will read original Game Boy games from the cart slot, and I’ve found that I can play Wisdom Tree carts if I use that openFPGA core.

    But also… Yes - the AP can be a FPGA SNES that can read roms from the sdcard, and is also a lot of other systems by using openFPGA cores. Combined with the dock and some wireless controllers, it’s a less powerful mister system - but a portable one!






  • It’s a turn based strategy game, I expect it to be slow. 🤷

    Obviously I just received it today, so I’m not very far in it yet. No idea if the story or gameplay will be for me, but I’m excited to find out! I’ve seen a lot of praise for it over the years so it’s very satisfying to finally have the cart in my hands.

    I will say so far, that I don’t appreciate having instructional pop-ups with every action I take for each turn - only needed those the first time. I also like (and also wonder if I’ll grow to dislike) the fact that I’m not controlling every single character on my team.