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Using the original gameboy screen
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 3:16 pm
by HUg0005
Hi all,
I has a crazy idea to connect the raspberry pi zero to an original gameboy colour (or color for you Americans) screen. I have done some googling and found a blog where someone did it
https://flashingleds.wordpress.com/2010 ... meboy-lcd/ but it has been taken down
Can anyone please help?
Re: Using the original gameboy screen
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 5:58 pm
by Retrohead95
Not sure if this would help but an old save of the site can be viewed
https://web.archive.org/web/20141115100 ... meboy-lcd/
Re: Using the original gameboy screen
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 6:17 pm
by crispy_tofu
That's certainly a novel idea, I would be interested to see where this goes.
Re: Using the original gameboy screen
Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 1:16 am
by HUg0005
I found a forum thread about the pin out of the ribbon cable connecting the screen. Anyone have any suggestions how I would go about connecting this to the raspberry pi zero. I was thinking using the GPIO.
forum thread:
http://gbdev.gg8.se/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=331
Re: Using the original gameboy screen
Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 2:56 am
by HUg0005
Wonder if this github site helps
https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki/LCD ... #generic18 its a list of displays and what gpio connector to connect the display wires to.
EDIT: I have found someone who has done it using an ardiuno!
http://community.arduboy.com/t/arduboy-classic/293 It looks like i will have to use a arduino nano as a LCD controller.
EDIT: Or I could use a teensy instead of an arduino nano. I wonder which one is better.