IT Home December 17 news, according to foreign media Neowin news, a foreign hacker Sebastian Staacks recently successfully transformed Nintendo's classic Game Boy handheld, enabling it to connect to Wi-Fi wireless networks and browse Wikipedia websites.
Released in 1989, this console features a green-background LCD screen powered by four AAA batteries. The foreign god used the 32 kiB Game Boy cassette and the ESP8266 microcontroller chip. It is worth noting that the ESP8266 has a clock speed of 160MHz, which is a very large improvement compared to the 4MHz processor that comes with the game console.
The hacker wrote code in assembly language to ensure that the information was displayed correctly on the screen. He modified a cassette module that allowed the hardware to fit perfectly into the original form.
In the 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 large number of technical documents to understand how the chip communicates with the game console, as well as the format of the digital signal.
IT House learned that he used Z80's code, the open source development kit GBDK, for development. In fact, both the Game Boy and Game Gear consoles are variants of the Zilog Z80.
The project currently only supports browsing Wikipedia pages, and it is expected that subsequent products will be able to access websites such as Twitter.