A foreign expert modified the Game Boy handheld so that it can connect to Wi-Fi and surf the Internet

      According to foreign media Neowin, a foreign hacker Sebastian Staacks recently successfully modified Nintendo's classic Game Boy handheld, enabling it to connect to Wi-Fi wireless networks and browse the Wikipedia website.

　　This game console was released in 1989, with a green LCD screen and four AA batteries. Foreign masters used 32 kiB Game Boy cartridges and ESP8266 microcontroller chips. It is worth noting that the ESP8266 has a clock speed of 160MHz, which is a significant improvement over the 4MHz processor that comes with the game console.

　　The hacker wrote code in assembly language to ensure that the information would display correctly on the screen, and he modified a cartridge module so that the hardware would fit perfectly into the original body.

　　In a YouTube video, Sebastian Staacks details the hardware and software required to develop this feature, as well as the manufacturing process. In the process, he consulted a lot of technical documents to understand how the chip communicates with the game console and the digital signal format.

　　IT Home learned that he used Z80 code and the open source development toolkit GBDK for development. In fact, the Game Boy and Game Gear game consoles are both variants of the Zilog Z80.

　　The project currently only supports browsing Wikipedia pages, and subsequent products are expected to be able to access websites such as Twitter.