If you have ever wondered what one of the most important games of today would look like running on a portable console from 30 years ago, here you are going to find out, because a modder has shown how he got it to grand theft auto 5 will it work on the nintendo original game boy.
This feat was achieved by Sebastian Staacks, a programmer who has a blog detailing all his creations. Each blog post provides a descriptive and fairly technical breakdown of how each creation came about and how it works. It also offers a video explanation that is slightly easier to understand.
To get you a game like GTA 5 work on such an old console, Staacks first created a wifi cartridge to game boy. The cartridge is inserted into the console, just like other video games. game boy, and then allows you to receive a Wi-Fi signal. Although Staacks calls it “one of the most useless things I’ve ever created,” it’s pretty impressive. A few weeks after creating the Wi-Fi cartridge, Staacks went further and used it to stream full resolution video and play games on the console. Specifically, the video above shows him enjoying a game of GTA 5 on the Game Boy.
To avoid misunderstandings, although Staacks is playing GTA 5 on console, the game itself does not run on the Game Boy. Instead, it renders on your PlayStation and streams over Wi-Fi, though pressing the buttons on the game boy the information is sent to the PlayStation, allowing you to control the game. A technical detail of what is happening can be found on the Staacks blog.
Staacks has also shared how others can make their own Wi-Fi Game Boy cartridges, allowing them to stream content to their own devices. Although the game boy original may not be everyone’s first choice to play a modern game, it’s amazing to see what technology makes possible.