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I built a Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator that runs on an FPGA, and can play both physical cartridges and ROM files. The whole project took about 4 months of intermittent work. Check out the code and instructions for running it here. Assembled FPGA board with cartridge adapter Introduction I’ve written a few video game system emulators before. My very first one was a mostly-complete NES emulator written in Go. Later, when I was learning Rust, I wrote another, better NES emulator in Rust. Then, in late 2021, I decided I wanted to write an emulator for a system I had a closer personal connection to, so I wrote a Game Boy Advance emulator. ...

I built a device that allows a pinball machine from 1984 to automatically upload scores to the internet. The device taps into the machine’s memory bus and monitors the game state, uploading scores after each game. ...