I recently had the good fortune to interview the two developers of CrankBoy - an emulator for the Playdate console which allows users to play original Game Boy games on there (and yes, you can use that crank to play them!)

I’ve always found the Playdate to be a super interesting console, it doesn’t compete on any level with the typical handhelds…it doesn’t even have a backlight. But it makes up for that in how utterly fresh and unique it is. Creativity is the focus for it, and the games devs themselves all seem to have true passion for their creations.

After seeing some social media posts about CrankBoy get shared about, I reached out to the devs, asking if they’d let me interview them to write up a feature article on their project, and they were so kind to say yes. If you’ve got any interest in emulation, dev work, or the crazy cute yellow handheld, then you might enjoy this one I wrote.

Here is the link to the article, please let me know what you think!

  • Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I had a Playdate for a while. I thought it would fill a gap when playing in sunlight (as a retro collector / curator).

    But it just didn’t hold up software wise for me. Everything is more or less minigames. It does have system selling minigames - but that wasn’t enough for me.

    And for that it’s too expensive, sadly.