I came across a post from Pixel Cherry Ninja on X of a new flashcart made by David Brito, who has turned this thought into a reality. David has a big history of modding retro consoles, having adapted N64s to be powered by USB-C, working with HDMI mods, and creating better controller solutions. He even made a built-in display for the Xbox 360 which is incredibly cool!
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- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish3 months
Has been for about 15 years, although decent ones didn’t come out until 10 years ago.
- 3 months
Huh, TIL. Crazy that I’ve never encountered them.
3 monthsI’ve only ever seen one IRL, and it was insane how much like actual paper it looked.
- 3 months
That’s fucking cool. I’ll have to look more into it.
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
I think they’ve got a number of drawbacks, so that’s why. IIRC they have a low refresh rate, and they’re pretty pricy. For this application, where it’s a small screen and you only need the one, and you’ll only refresh it rarely, it makes sense though.
- 3 months
Worse refresh rate than B&W e-ink even?
- 3 months
I was just thinking that. It’s a cool idea but unfortunately it looks very much like what it is - a flash cart with a screen on it. Eink would’ve been a much better choice. Scaling rather than cropping the label, make the cart white so the unused eink display blends in a little better… could’ve been awesome instead of merely cool.
- 3 months
This is a really cool thing that I would like to have that will never be put to use because I already have every retro game ever made on 5 different devices that I have spent hundreds of hours setting up and optimizing as well as most of my favorites on physical media and play exactly zero of them at any given time
- k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
It would be cool if there was a cart like that which let me actually play the game on the screen. Not very practical, but cool.
