Summary
One dedicated Nintendo fan with some impressive engineering skills has recently succeeded in creating working SNES cartridges of five classicPokemongames. His achievement later made the rounds on social media, surfacing online shortly after anotherPokemonfan showcased their impressive GBA systems themed afterRubyandSapphire.
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is home to all ofthe best 16-bit Nintendo games, not least because it’s the only 16-bit console ever made by the Japanese gaming giant. Some four years from its 1990 release, Nintendo launched the Super Game Boy, an accessory that allows the SNES to play 8-bit Game Boy titles. The gadget was compatible with the original gray and black cartridges, the latter of which debuted alongside the Game Boy Color in 1998.
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Almost three decades since the Super Game Boy hit the market, thisrevolutionary Nintendo accessoryhas been repurposed into the basis of fully functional SNES cartridges ofPokemon Blue,Red,Yellow,Gold, andSilver. Following some serious engineering efforts, Reddit user Spaceghost1993 managed to unsolder the Super Game Boy’s 32-pin connector, adjust the frequency of the accessory’s CPU, and equip the resulting contraption with an SGB Link board that allows for trading between two Super Game Boys, among other things.
This tenaciousPokemonfan then reassembled each game into an off-brand plastic cartridge shell replacement for the SNES before completing its design with some appropriately positioned labels. His efforts resulted in five uniquePokemoncartridges that not only work and support trading between one another, but also wouldn’t look out of place next to any legitimate copy of a SNES game. Spaceghost1993 subsequently shared a 20-minute step-by-step guide detailing the creation of these working SNESPokemoncartridges via his YouTube channel, Below Average Gaming.
Classic Nintendo consoles have found themselves at the center of many ambitious engineering projects that the company’s fandom completed to date. One of the most recent examples of such efforts emerged in mid-2021, when anotherNintendo fan with some serious engineering chops built a functional jumbo Game Boyreplica.
Gamers looking to experience classicPokemonRPGs on newer hardware are still out of luck as of today. The Japanese company last re-released the Game Boy and GBCPokemongames for the 3DS Virtual Console over a two-year period ending early 2018. But since the 3DS eShop was discontinued in late March 2023, these Virtual Console titles can no longer be bought nowadays.
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