I’m so glad there are people smarter than me working on this!


At this rate, yall will basically make the G&W fully open source

@Khazardous
I'd like to see someone try.
  I'll settle for someone showing me a similar DC to DC converter that only takes a tiny over-width 0805 inductor, 2 resistors, and a few well placed ceramic capacitors in 0805 and smaller to run a μC of this size. ...Or better yet, someone tell me what chip they are using. I've been through smdmark, smd,yooneed,one, octopart, digikey mouser, arrow, TI, Torix Semi, AliEx and lcsc...so far, but no dice on a DSBGA-12 DC Converter or Audio chip match. I mean, if you were to want something to do...this is what I need to complete the fully reversed hardware.

There are ~70 passives and the vast majority are 0201. A THT design will be significantly larger :-)

@Sinisig
 yup

@miko This makes me want to do a through-hole soldered version of the G&W, what a cool community

I mean, it basically already is :p<br>The board's been retraced, all of the parts have been identified, and open-source software, whilst not exactly complete firmware replacements (although the gui branch in the retro-go project is looking pretty spicy 👀) is available and pretty usable!

I mean, it basically already is :p
The board's been retraced, all of the parts have been identified, and open-source software, whilst not exactly complete firmware replacements (although the gui branch in the retro-go project is looking pretty spicy 👀) is available and pretty usable!


Pretty excited to see where this goes. The screen on the Game and Watch is absolutely beautiful.

yeah I bet it's beautiful. wish I could see it

I agree 100% I literally searched out homebrewing because of it- It would be a shame to let it go to waste only playing OG mario bros


I didn't expect this amount of progress in such a short time, amazing. Great to already see a G&W emulator being developed, really looking forward to that.


Holy shit, give these guys a month and they will simulate the whole thing on a subatomic level


While there are easier devices to buy for the sake of emulation and homebrew. I love the idea of someone pulling this thig out and goig full ham.

I think the real point is to get the maximum nintendo love on to an official nintendo product celebrating the roots of nintendo.

Also, most of those other devices have far inferior build quality and screens.


Very sad you had to blur this under threat of takedown by Nintendo...<br>Love your content.

Very sad you had to blur this under threat of takedown by Nintendo...
Love your content.


I hope I will be able to turn this thing into an emulation device dedicated to G&W games at some point :) (or even pay someone to modify mine). It’s good to get video updates like this, thanks for the news ;).

Yeah I'm to dumb to homebrew mine. I wonder if this guy is taking requests


Amazing work! Glad to hear y'all are planning to make Homebrew accessable for us non developers. I was worried this was gonna be too complicated for me to Homebrew considering you can't write through USB C like you could with the mini consoles.


This makes me ever more excited about owning my console. Just the base hardware is already so neat. Solid buttons, good screen and weighs next to nothing. I can see why you guys make the effort. this thing could be brilliant


I'm most looking forward to the FPGA idea, I love the G&W design but the stock firmware is really quite lackluster. I'm also no good at soldering so a drop-in replacement board is ideal, and FPGA technology is amazing to me. You could even have an FPGA core for the stock processor, that would be some inception level shenanigans..


Hands down, one of the best tech channels on youtube. Really great work.<br>A G&W device and some of the hardware hacking tools mentioned in prev videos are being shipped to me. Can't wait:)

Hands down, one of the best tech channels on youtube. Really great work.
A G&W device and some of the hardware hacking tools mentioned in prev videos are being shipped to me. Can't wait:)


Amazing work guys! Nintendo was not expecting this or they didn’t care. I really like the device, but for that price, they could have installed a decent Game and Watch game. That ball game i only played 5 seconds. I spent hours on the original Micky Mouse i own.

@Anderson Felippe The only time they would step in is if someone was making money selling these modified.

Nintendo obviously didn't care much about that device

They should have included all the g&w single screen games and at least, super mario bros 88, donkey kong jr, balloon fight. And at least 20 different famous nes games.

Nintendo should have at least also included that 1988 Super Mario Game & Watch game. That was really one of the best Game & Watch games and should have been on this. And I know this was done by a different company under a Nintendo licesne. But would have been cool if they had also put those Mario wristwatch games on this as well.


Once I can confidently say I have all the single-screen Game & Watch games on this thing, my life will be complete.


You folks are justifying the $50 price tag on the G&W. Thanks!


The fact theres a solution for the lack of internal storage make this project 100 times more amazing, you guys from the homebrew community are soo amazing


I'm not a developer but I know my way around soldering. I can't wait to see where this goes.


I love the NOP-slide graphics 👌🏻😂 So much great work! Well done 👏🏻


The tech community is amazing. I don't own one. I don't want one. But I love seeing what you guys are doing. I saw a few for sale at Wal-Mart yesterday. I think they were around $50.


This is awesome, I can’t wait to see more of this!<br>And yeah, I could far more easily buy a homebrew gameboy that can play far more roms, but IDC. This thing is so small and light that it would be super convenient to play NES, GB, and GBC roms on, not to mention it’ll all be on a piece of official Nintendo hardware, which is pretty awesome

This is awesome, I can’t wait to see more of this!
And yeah, I could far more easily buy a homebrew gameboy that can play far more roms, but IDC. This thing is so small and light that it would be super convenient to play NES, GB, and GBC roms on, not to mention it’ll all be on a piece of official Nintendo hardware, which is pretty awesome


All this work, is deeply appreciated! 😃👌🏼 I'm mostly looking forward to running G&W games on it.


I really like to see the CCC all around, what a shame that duo COVID-19 we cannot have an in person congress this year.  But I am stoked to see what they came up with for hosting the rc3!


i always find your work so interesting.  Thanks for all your work and pushing the community forward!


Awesome work! What's a good way to start learning about hardware hacking? I'd love to be able to contribute to projects like these.


This is amazing stuff , well done to all involved, I've not even open the box on mine yet, got it for £39.99 very good price, should have bought 2 one for hacking lol, keep up the good work ;) P.S be great to see a SD slot mod....


wow that's awesome its a shame this mod required completely revamping the existing hardware but the fact that someone is working on a game & watch emulator for this is very exciting.


Cool. Thanks for the update. I also have the full footprint/netlist populated and the board outline made in pcbnew as of yesterday (12/15). My goal is a 1:1 replica of the original design, and my schematic contains every jumper, test point, and bridged smd footprint :-)<br>-Jake

Cool. Thanks for the update. I also have the full footprint/netlist populated and the board outline made in pcbnew as of yesterday (12/15). My goal is a 1:1 replica of the original design, and my schematic contains every jumper, test point, and bridged smd footprint :-)
-Jake


I have always wanted a new Game & Watch. This is the first time for me buying a mobile console early and being able to follow the hacking progress. However, I think I'll wait for a safer, more solid hacks.


It's amazing what people can do to hack hardware


Really looking forward to this. Will probably wait until they have plug in boards or something you can swap in and be able to easily load up games. Also, I found out recently that they've some time ago reversed engineered the original Game & Watch games and recreated them in MAME I believe. It would be really cool if the community would be able to convert those MAME Game & Watch games to be able to load them onto this device and be able to play them.

They may could even mode it to where you could put say the dual screen Zelda game on it too. As I believe you really only need one screen at a time, and then it could change screens to when you go up and fight the dragon.

Maybe people in the know could pass these ideas along to the right people involved in this.

@stacksmashing Thanks. I was referring to hoping they design the boards/chips or whatever to be able to work with the MAMA G&W stuff. As seeing developer content doesn't mean it will be developed further into something that is easy or practical to put on later by the general public.

I mean it's in the video :) Someone already has the MAME G&W stuff running :)


Good work we hope to see a easy flash solution soon so we can all join in on the fun :)


So happy to see this, I'm going to play Soo many game n watch games. Thank you Soo much. This is a big part of my childhood.


I expect the G&W SMB be fully hackfriendly when starts to sell in Mexico by January, thanks for the effort and the time, keep the good job


The homebrew community is so amazing!<br>but aw man, i wish the homebrew community will do all these for the 3DS, DS lite and GBA SP. I really want a 3DS that can play gba games with multiplayer natively.

The homebrew community is so amazing!
but aw man, i wish the homebrew community will do all these for the 3DS, DS lite and GBA SP. I really want a 3DS that can play gba games with multiplayer natively.


Absolutely beautiful NOP slide, the production quality of this channel is 👌👌


Keep up the good work this is totally a value add to this device


I'm excited to see the progress even if I wouldn't be able to do this myself. If it were me I'd mod that 3d printed back to also leave room for a kickstand and pretty much just load it up with G&W, Tetris and Pokemon.


I'd like to help support you guys, but I'm interested to hear more about use for non-developers.

@mental slime it would 100% need a hardware mod, aside from the USB port there's also the fact that the default memory is too small, it has to be enhanced.

Same, however it's doubtful they can do this since the USBC connection on the device is power-only afaik


You guys are simply amazing. I have nothing more to say.


Game boy / game boy advanced games are gonna be awesome on this device! Also can’t wait to add more game & watch games onto it too!

@CH23 In fact, GBA will be impossible because the STM32 microcontroller in the G&W is too slow to emulate the GBA at full-speed. A very slow PoC <b>might</b> be possible, but I doubt it'll ever run at full-speed.

@CH23 In fact, GBA will be impossible because the STM32 microcontroller in the G&W is too slow to emulate the GBA at full-speed. A very slow PoC *might* be possible, but I doubt it'll ever run at full-speed.

advanced is gonna be hard to do without shoulder buttons though


Amazing stuff! I only bought the thing knowing this would eventualy happend xD Looking forward to the future of game & watch emulation


Good work. I wish there are a lot of projects in this thing.


I KNEW this would happen. People kept telling me that they won't hack it because it wasn't worth the time. Its a Nintendo product, people love hacking these just because of the challenge. I can also see some money in a side business of modding these for people..if Nintendo doesn't squash it.


Looking forward to the g&w emulator for it ! Its the reason i bought mine in the hope of adding g&w emulation. Is there anywhere to get more info on that emulator?


Thank you for the update! each one gets more exciting!


I just go myself a game and watch and I would love more games on it! Can't wait to see where this goes!

id be happy if i could just ad/swap a single game once in a while without taking the thing apart...


Very excited to see where this goes! It's amazing how fast this has all happened.


I would love it if someone made a service to mod game and watches, that'd be great!


You and the community are absolutely legends.


Dang, why don't other devices have this level of homebrew support? Even a 3D-printed custom case!


I hope you can extract the original easter egg image files from the original device, such as the one that shows up when you leave the device idle for a long time.


This absolutely amazing!! Since you are already at it... 24h time format for the clock would be amazing :P :D but seriously great work!


You all are doing some amazing work. While I personally don't plan to mod mine, I love it when people find ways to enhance products. Mind you, I kinda want to see a retro gaming device with the same form factor as the Game & Watch, but with all of the buttons needed for SNES. And could you imagine someone making a Game & Watch style dual screen handheld that could play DS games? Frankly that would be amazing. Of course, that would probably have to wait until new types of batteries replace lithium.

@silversonic1 Yeah the Switch Lite is pointless to me. I have the Switch, but the Vita does have that pocketability and power(for it's size & age). 😅

@MegaMan X I admit that the Vita is pretty good. But soon enough the Switch Lite could end up being pretty awesome for the emulation scene. Of course, the Vita still wins on pocketability.

@silversonic1 Yeah the looks of the GBA I wouldn't mind altering, because I never did like the original's look anyway. I think the ultimate be all portable system would be a PSP or Vita with those internal's hardware power, but modded to play anything. 😅

@MegaMan X I'll be honest, I like the idea of modding a GBA. The only issue I have is that I would like to have a plastic shell that was manufactured without a battery compartment, allowing optimum room for a flat internal rechargable lithium battery.<br>Still, I brought up the DS because merging the dual screen Game & Watch asthetic with the DS really seems awesome to me. Kinda like if you could play Game Boy games on a device that looks like a Pokemon Pikachu virtual pet. And they did also have those Game Boy style Game & Watch keychains, though they only had 3 buttons and a D-Pad.

@MegaMan X I'll be honest, I like the idea of modding a GBA. The only issue I have is that I would like to have a plastic shell that was manufactured without a battery compartment, allowing optimum room for a flat internal rechargable lithium battery.
Still, I brought up the DS because merging the dual screen Game & Watch asthetic with the DS really seems awesome to me. Kinda like if you could play Game Boy games on a device that looks like a Pokemon Pikachu virtual pet. And they did also have those Game Boy style Game & Watch keychains, though they only had 3 buttons and a D-Pad.

I think modding a Gameboy Advanced would be perfect. I never really like the DS personally, because the touch screen was under utilized in games. 😅


Thank you so much for your work and for sharing it in such an interesting way!


Gameboy games?! Now we're talking. That looks so good on that screen.

@Jeff Millett It's also noticeable at the status bar and especially the bottom of the playfield.

@CST Ohhhh yes you are exactly right, I can see the paragoomba reach the top of the screen and squish.  That's clever

@Jeff Millett The screen is probably scaled 2x but the bottom pixels of the screen are scaled 1x, essentially squishing them.

I'm wondering how.  The gameboy screen resolution is different than the NES, but it looks pixel perfect on that screen with no cropping or shrinking?


The display is custom?

That's rather surprising giving the non-integer scaling artifacts in the two NES games. I assumed they just used some off-the-shelf screen from digital cameras or something and scaled the NES display to 640x480.

A custom display would have allowed them to at least make sure the NES games were on an integer scale and get rid of the shimmering.


We have some very smart cookies amongst us, just fascinating to watch these type of videos. Even though I dont understand the tech jargon but interesting.<br>Cant wait to see what they think of next, can/will they port Crysis?

We have some very smart cookies amongst us, just fascinating to watch these type of videos. Even though I dont understand the tech jargon but interesting.
Cant wait to see what they think of next, can/will they port Crysis?


Not even really interested in the games but this was brilliant.


Everything your all doing is amazing. Here is hoping that us consumers can purchase something that will easily allow us to out different games into the system.... Fingers crossed


Next week: <b>We completely recreated the Game & Watch</b>

Next week: *We completely recreated the Game & Watch*


My ideal hacks: separately choosable  video and audio regions, swap G&W game with the proper one, hibernate feature.<br>Might just get one of these to tinker with, give myself a reason to learn a bit of m7 and 6502 assembly.

My ideal hacks: separately choosable  video and audio regions, swap G&W game with the proper one, hibernate feature.
Might just get one of these to tinker with, give myself a reason to learn a bit of m7 and 6502 assembly.


But what if Nintendo sues you? It is known that Nintendo is willing to throw anyone in jail if they hack, steal and/or monetize with their property.


Wow, So much has been done in such a sort time!


What I'd like to see is the ROM's of both Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, as they have definitely been modified. I haven't played Lost Levels on the thing yet, but Super Mario Bros. has an infinite lives cheat, keeps track of which worlds the player has been to, lets them choose which world to start in without needing to beat the game first, and you can select Hard Mode from the title screen after doing so. I'd like to have this version on my NES Classic to play with a proper controller.


I wonder whether it would be possible to make some sort of modchip that makes it so you can alter the flash memory via the data points on a replacement USBC port? That would mean we would be able to easily put our own ROMs on there without very much hassle, only requiring we open it up once (and probably do a bit of soldering).


Very cool! I have a question (maybe it's stupid): if you can run "flashdumper" in ITCM RAM, why not use it to copy the internal flash to RAM already? Why the extra step dealing with the SPI flash, encrypting and writing the payload just to have it loaded and executed after a reboot?

@stacksmashing Ohh it's clearer now, thanks!

Great question! If you connect a debugger and afterwards try reading internal flash (from the code in RAM) the device will hardfault - so we need to be able to run code without the debugger attached :)


4:48 I love the fact that you can access ITCM-RAM using MDMA!

Wow, drugs really are the solution to everything!


3:43 can’t wait to play a lots of game & watch games on my game & watch 35th Mario anniversary


you are all doing amazing work god speed :D


nice project!<br>I won't use it as the screen is really too tiny for my old eyes......  but nice !

nice project!
I won't use it as the screen is really too tiny for my old eyes......  but nice !


I just picked up one of these yesterday, I can't wait to get to hacking it!


psp nostalgia hits me. Even tho this is just a small device. Awesome.


Now watch nintendo release a "new and improved" Game & Watch in a few months that patch these exploits.


I wonder if we culd some day get an emulator of the systems for other consoles


Yes, Blender! For CAD! For 3d Printing :)


thanks to you guys Im going to buy this :) maybe one day I will be able to play wolfenstein 3d :D


Amazing work, I want a custom mother board :) !!!!


Looking very much forward to your speach at the rc3! :-)


Putting in a bigger flash chip seems like an important game changer. You can put way more games on there now (rather than a single-digit number).

Yes, you can now fit any NES game on there, even multiple ones. Where as the original chip might have only held the early black box titles one at a time.


Game and Watch collection sounds cool.<br>Shame I probably couldn't do this.

Game and Watch collection sounds cool.
Shame I probably couldn't do this.


ITCM?  The last time I dealt with any ITCM was when I was doing Nintendo DS Homebrew, the ARM9 had ITCM in there as fast memory to hold your instructions.


😍❤ my mind is blowing, I'm computer engineer and I know some stuff about your work. But your solution have amazed me :D LIKE


Thes update videos keep me sane. I need to know that $50 i spent will not be wasted

I would so want to play several nes games on that. :(

@Steven Rais I’m just joking guys. I still love playing the thing. Obviously I wouldn’t have bought it day one of its release if I didn’t think it was worth it

If you're that concerned about spending $50 then this product probably wasn't for you

Hmnn... This is collector item, if you wanted it as a nes/snes portable emulator (out of the box) you might as well loose your faith.

This needs tons of workaround for that task.

All i want now is GB games on this thing.


Awesome with the 16mb chip we could have all the Mario games AND all the game and watch games. (well all the ones that don't exceed the buttons or screens)

OH!!! and with the new pcb will there be a possibility that you guys can connect data to the USB type C?


I bought mine last weekend.  Watching this channel for updates.


In before someone makes a full clone you can make out of a Blackpill, a random SPI/I²C screen and a 3D printer. ^^'


I just got mine today and dumped the SPI flash using a CH341A and a 1.8V adapter board. Thank you for the hints! :)

@stacksmashing Oh I didn't know that one; I usually vimdiff the outputs from xxd. Thank you!

Awesom, have fun :) I can really recommend binwalk-W -i for comparing binaries!

Actually, now I wonder if there is some persistence to it, so I will read again after playing some games and compare. Then I want to see what happens when I change a byte and write back. Fun experiments for a Sunday afternoon. :)


If only the USB C has data connection to the main board - would make homebrewing so much better!

@Don0r_STyLE Unfortunately, hacking hardware will rule this out for 80% of most people.

Yeah, that will be great! Hacking snes mini was a piece of cake!


Has anyone dumped the clock?  It'd be cool to run it on other devices or mod the clock on the G&W


Is it possible to add sd-card SPI module, connect it to pins that are used for st-link and use some library that can use sd-card with bit-banged SPI?

@stacksmashing umm, that thing has over a megabyte of RAM, that should be plenty for such a small system. Nobody but the insane would expect it to run something like Crysis, but having more RAM than a stock Amiga 500 should make many things possible.

@stacksmashing I guess i spend too   much time with low-end stm32 (f103c8) that i didn't that they can run code from external flash. Well, it was just an idea. Keep up with great work you are doing! This is already amazing as it is!

Absolutely, though the problem with the SD card is throughput: The STM32 supports a memory mapped mode for SPI flashes, which is really fast and allows you to just run code from the flash. With SD-card you'd have to copy it into memory (of which we don't have much), or copy it to flash (causes flash wear) etc :)


And here I am just wanting to add SMB3 and 2 to it, along with a G&W version of Super Mario Bros.


a comprehensive website must be done to host of all these scattered stuff


mindblowing stuff you guys n gals are golden! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻


would it be possible to get higher flash memory than what you mentioned say around 2gb?


You got game and watch games on It
That's all I wanted
Pretty cool to also have gameboy aswell


I don't know why nintendo doesn't just add a mercy card to sideload custom chips with their code


Woooooooowww support for G&W roms is what I was dreaming about !


I've incorporated mine into my Tesla Model S dashboard and added a 13 megajoules rail gun. I've also replaced the screen, PCB, case, and software with a Nintendo DS which I 3-D printed before replacing that with a laser storage array and quantum computer AI processor I managed to acquire after building a time machine and jumping into the year 2096 where I had to battle an advanced alien race who had enslaved mankind and forced us to move off world to the a base we created on the dark side of the moon. After defeating the alien overlords, I used their technology to break the laws of known physics and travel back in time to my my own timeline and decided to replace the laser array and quantum computing AI with a Game and Watch I found online. It was quite the journey.

Jokes aside this is very cool what you're doing. Keep up the good work.


Wouldn't all those new parts & pcbs basically just make it a whole new/different device?


Emulator for all those mame G&W titles that's what this device should have been in the first place !


I wonder how i can learn these things, is there a way to dump a ROM from a COB?


Nice! please someone implement an micro sdcard reader aswell..


The 16mb chip is out of stock :(

Is it safe to go for a 32mb/128mb chip?? Replies are greatly appreciated 🙏


I'm surprised Nintendo didn't take action yet they like to do with everything

@null They won't care, they didn't even really care when the classics got hacked. Its only their flagship products and titles they care about people messing with.

@CaptainCreeperGR They can totally send a DMCA to GitHub for the reverse engineering of closed source components.

But I don't think they care.

There's no games sold for the Game & Watch which we can pirate.

They can't. They can't ban you because there is no internet on the game and watch


Can someone 3D print a backside that allows for a kickstand? 🤔<br>Please and Thank You! 😁

Can someone 3D print a backside that allows for a kickstand? 🤔
Please and Thank You! 😁


How much memory would be freed up by removing the „Draw Mario“ easter egg video and using that space for games/emulators?


Would be nice to configure sd slot somewhere


We should make a mod chip that has more ram and storage that can be used to store mod apps


I want to see sonic 1 from the master system version on there


Nifty.  It is very Nintendo to have protections and per device keys and other such nonsense for such a gimmicky little device...

@Ian Tester they have to program them somehow.

They made the SWD lines available on five plated-through holes though. Maybe they're okay with the hardware hacking but have to do some minimal encryption to legally protect their IP.


Just hope nintendo dont discontinued this or do a major change..


I mean... the community plus you guys could probably create an own handheld gaming device instead :) but i guess thats not the goal here ;)


Is there a way to homebrew it without taking it apart?


I never thought that will happen so early on :) Great!


I don't know if this Game & Watch is still in production, i.e. Nintendo may have already manufactured all they are going to make. But I wonder if they may fix the language issue on future manufactured devices. And so it may be worth it to keep an eye out on revised units as they may also try and change something to keep it from getting hacked.

@Colt It wouldn't have mattered anyways and it did take a while for the G&W to be approved by the FCC. Nintendo dropped the VC in favor of their dumb NES/SNES online service to justify the price of joke known as Switch online. Their retro offerings are overpriced waste that an unpatched Switch can overcome and now Nintendon't is pulling timed-limited BS with ROMs like Fire Emblem.

@Red Alert I'm glad Nintendo has been lazy on making these hacker proof. As it seems from what I've read that Nintendo could have put a little more effort into making it harder to hack these devices.

It seems very strange why Nintendo wouldn't put in the extra effort.

Though it bugs me with Nintendo being lazy by getting rid of the virtual console. Because there are plenty of older games that I would rebuy on the Switch that I can't because Nintendo dumped the virtual console for some dumb reason. Luckily some of that has been rereleased like the Sonic games, and the Contra collection, etc. But it's no where near what was on the virtual consoles.

@Colt Nintendo is lazy. They didn't even bother to overhaul the hardware in the re-releases of the NES/SNES Classics after they were hacked to death. Nintendo only rages when the Switch is hacked which got several hardware revisions.

@Colt Possibly, but the 'Super Mario Bros.' games have been on emulators for decades now, so I doubt it's worth the time/money for them to try to stop .0001% of hacking into their under powered collector's portable hardware that still has to be bought from Nintendo. Why not as a corporation just save the money/time and pass it on as profits? Most other companies aren't worried about obsolete hardware. 😅

@MegaMan X Yeah, but my point was Nintendo acknowledged there was a language defect. And so if they are still manufacturing these, then they may make a running change to fix it. And they could also plug holes to help keep it from getting hacked.

They said they'll be sold until March 31st of 2021. 😁


Had trouble sourcing a macronix mx25u12835F in the UK; digikey offers it, but with £14 postage from the US :-(
Thought I’d found it reasonably priced on eBay, ordered it, then realised it was an mx25L (i.e. 3V) not the mx25U. So, that was a wasted £5
Does anyone know a UK supplier? The 64 is available, but that’s only 8MB

@stacksmashing right. It looks like it’s the “handling charge” that’s the issue; I just need to reach a minimum total order of £40 to avoid it. If that’s what you were referring to, apologies are in order

They’re in stock in the UK. Though you might need to reach an MOQ to get cheaper shipping.

@stacksmashing but they want to charge ~£12 to ship a £2 chip. They are sent from the US

Farnell is a UK company, they do cheap or free shipping to most of Europe

@stacksmashing yes, but again coming from the US with a massive add on ~£14


It's a shame that this little device will be unavailable come march, and that it's not available in good old australia


@stacksmashing no worries, cuz i didnt even care about modding it

USB is not connected, will not be possible


Man.... can’t believe I’ve been in this community since 3DShacks days.

dang, using Moonshell, DSorganizer, and watching videos on a DS lite, those were the days.


I don't remember the display being censored before ._.


Is there a way to program this without an ST-link? I don't want to order one from abroad


16 MB? My NES roms on my phone only take up 7 MB.


NOW, with that larger memory, ca it play DOOM?

there's already a video showing that....


wow in Brazil G&W cost 1.000 reais. F scalpers omg


So the question is......should I buy one?


Best NOPsled animation ever is in this video.


I have no idea what you said!
But I know you're a wizard!
And I like your funny words, magic man!! 👍

_I have no idea what you said!_
_But I know you're a wizard!_
_And I like your funny words, magic man!!_ 👍


What about folks like me that have no desire to diy but want someone else to take a g&w and add more games to it?


So, can I send mine to have it modded so I can download the roms of my original games I still own from the NES & GAME BOY! 😉


hmmm... i'm curious what nintendo will say about it /*obvious foreshadowing*/


Any idea how to hack WiiU after e-shop closes?


No way to add games on this without having experience of soldering correct?


if anybody from Germany needs the rear cover, I would be more than happy to print it for you ;)


Will you make the emulator play game boy color games?


Tried googling the flash chip to get one but it keeps saying it's 128mb will that still work?

128 Mb (megabits) = 16 MB (megabytes). It is common for flash chips to have their capacity listed in megabits instead of megabytes


When will the Game Gear Mini be ready to play ps1 roms?


most people just want G&W games on the game and watch ..i didnt buy this device because it was an insult to game and watch.


How can I find the discord?<br>The link in the novice guide is expired.

How can I find the discord?
The link in the novice guide is expired.


And i'm still waiting for an out of stock programmer

@DoctorMike Reddy Was thinking about it but at this time of the year it will take forever to get it. First all the Christmas shopping and  after that the Chinese new year. Might do it anyway if it takes to long to get back in stock

Aliexpress. You can get them for pennies. Mine came with a “blue pill”


link discord is invalid in the google docs. can you update?


I cant wait to be playing cyberpunk 2077 on that bad boy


is this the correct chip? MX25U12835FM2I-10G ?


A little off topic, but has anybody tried to hack the game gear micro?

@stacksmashing ya I think they're only in japan officially but you can import them. It would be interesting to see if that thing can run home brew or emulators.  I might get one if so just cuz its a neat little thing you can put on your Keychain and play games anywhere. Keep it in mind for a future project 😉

Unfortunately they're not available in Europe :/


The real question is to know why this video was recommended today on my YouTube feed? 🤔


at this point, why not to make new board and new device in general?

@dercncplaner I'm sure they are. We'll see in a couple of months

@dercncplaner People are already making custom boards as mentioned in the video. China will have G&W knock-offs mass produced with all the pool of knowledge provided here.

@Red Alert no China. Smart people whereever they are

I'm sure China is taking notes as we speak

@mental slime yes I know and this is what I mean. It comes to a point to say: do you know what Nintendo? we do out own better one and sell it without firmware for the legal issues and people flash your firmware and trallaaalalalalal

Its less about the results & more of a fun & challenging thing to try & do.


I hate haw all these throw back systems arnt true to equivalent hardware that was at the time just mini computers in skins playing emulations and what not.It just sucks.I would love to see a true modern day nintendo entertainment system that is built on true nintendo hardware but has modern perks like a hard drive for storing games and 4k capable.No rasberry pie or any other short cut tucked away in the system waiting to be exploited.

Get an Everdrive and use original hardware. hdmi/rgb mod the NES.
4k is pointless your just upscaling the same pixels.
a Mister may fill your desires otherwise.
Not sure why you think Nintendo is going to re-produce an old product and support it by coding the same old way they did in the past. They are only in it for quick money for the small market for this kind of stuff. Quick and dirty emulate everything on a fpga that can handle it, its the best way, and look at the all the fun we have as a community with this kind of hackable tech.


Don’t show so much info, Nintendo is watching, other channels face legal problem for showing how to brake consoles.


I guess Vinny Vinesauce's investment was a good one after all. Oh how I scoffed at the time. :/


Can MAME Game ROM convert into Source code ?

@stacksmashing Actually I want to run this game https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/goldnpkr.cpp I have rom file of that game but not source code, so if this game can run in raspberry pi board or another board without OS then my problem solve otherwise i need that game source code


The discord link is no longer valid, can you post?


So...when will be able to hack this piece of crap easily?


Super Mario is going to kick your door down and put you in a worse place.


Why you buy a gaw to hack it?. You can buy a clon from AliExpress more cheaper and with the games inside. 🙄

It’s a ton of fun to hack a device though, just buying is boring to me

@stacksmashing no expend more money in something to do the same?


is there a way to link your existing way into the system to the usb c port? that could make it so you dont need as many tools or tech skills to homebrew it


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Why bother? These are no better than those 10 dollar Gameboy pocket lookalike bootleg NES on a chip chinese handheld consoles with a similar quality colour screen....and they have 400 or so Famicom/NES games on them already and plenty for sale everywhere.

@stacksmashing I meant why did Nintendo bother to do it like this, not even Gameboy Game & Watch Gallery games are on this thing. I love hacking the artificial constraints of bad product ideas, keep probing them for more secrets! :)

Because it’s a ton of fun to see what you can do :)


Oh no!  Will my screen become all blurred too?

No, the video was edited because Nintendo.


But where to buy the mx25u12835f chips in Germany?

Hi @stacksmashing , thanks for the hint. I really don't understand farnell. I've got an account there from the early days of the first raspberry pi, they had an offer for students in that time so I was lucky to get some from them -- but now I have to check "[ich] bestätige, dass ich als Unternehmer im Sinne des § 14 BGB (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) handle.", which I can't do, since I don't have a business... I'll see if I find them somewhere else.

Farnell stocks them, that's where I got them from!

@EliasJG1985 Thanks! Wow, 18 Euro postage is kind of a bummer...


How about put/run other titles of Game & Watch titles in?

@stacksmashing thanks, English is not my native language, maybe I miss this part. Thanks one more time and keep going on!

Have you watched the video? It’s mentioned :)


Can you add nes and game boy games with nothing but a computer and a USB C code?

@Robin Legacy Correct at least with the factory hardware, hence all the work around in these videos for weeks. If they made a custom board, as mentioned in the video, then it should be possible. 😅

@stacksmashing I sorta got lost watching. So this means it won’t ever be possible? :(

Nope, as mentioned in the other videos unfortunately the USB-C port's data-pins are not physically connected to the processor


This made me think and so I put up a poll on twitter to see what most people prefer :)


Please tell me if i can burn gameboy color pokemon games using a bigger flash chip

From what I found you can, just need to wait for a flash chip to arrive


Doubt it. Nintendo already made plenty of profit from overcharging and most likely have plans for a Zelda 35th Anniversary Game & Watch with more to come.


I was literally the thousand liked it was 999 likes before I hit like 😆


To this day the Gameboy still doesn't have schematic files, board layout files, or a BOM. Imagine how useful it would be to the field of games preservation if even half of the talent used in this project went towards the OG Gameboy.

There are Game Boy schematics, used them before, and people such as Gekkio are currently reversing the entire CPU...


>Piracy hackers
>Asking for donations

And people wonder why Nintendo is so overprotective for their IPs.


Why not add more ram and use sd card for storage after that someone could make a clip-on over cpu or pcb with solder points

@asCii88 guess u didn't read the datasheet hence add more ram

Ram is part of the microcontroller. It's inside the chip


A lot of people want to put the whole NES, GB and GBC library and rom hacks in it, preferably without soldering. When it happens, the authors will proof to the world they are good and maybe big companies says hello to them. It's just a dream, but it could be true.


Why bother? Its so small and there are plenty of other mobile devices to emulate games on.