Since retro always sells, old Nintendo games stand out as the most popular for lovers of nostalgia. taki udon, a youtuber, he went further: he turned a $10 calculator on a video game emulator.
Udon is an expert in retro games, and His YouTube channel has more than 229 thousand followers, all eager to travel to the golden age of entertainment. Enjoy entering the most remote byways to bring us the best of the past, adapting it to present technology.
The youtuber located a second-hand GHLBD desktop calculator, and helped by his style he turned it into a kind of updated Game Boy. As it did? We leave you below the explanatory video, which already has more than 264 thousand views and 9.3 thousand thumbs up.
The bad thing is Image quality is not the best. but it is part of the logical difficulty of adapting to the type of screen.
The main elements to turn the calculator into a Nintendo game emulator
The GHLBD calculator has a 32-bit 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A7 Quad-core processor, in addition to 1 GB of RAM, with a full color touch screen and a USB-C connection port for charging.
The appliance also works with an external USB drive, key to run classic Nintendo games.
Emulators and ROM games are installed in the setup, using the USB connection. I eat well Compare Slash Gear, “It should work like loading similar software on an Android phone, although the hardware is probably simpler than what you’re used to.”
Is it worth doing the whole process of Take Udon to be able to play on a calculator? No, obviously it’s not worth it, but it’s one more example that regardless of the device, if it has the necessary elements it can serve a different function.