RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch

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flopsamjetsam•about 3 hours ago

From the GitHub page:

> It is a Gameboy Advance from a parallel universe where RISC-V existed in 2001. A love letter to the handheld consoles from my childhood, and a 3AM drunk text to the technology that powered them.

jihadjihad•about 1 hour ago

Thank you to the author for writing a GitHub page in 2026 that is entirely devoid of emoji.

LukeShu•26 minutes ago

I mean no disrespect to Luke Wren, but he did not write it in 2026; he wrote it in 2018-2021. :)

tough•about 1 hour ago

on the other hand having emoji on the readme is a great signal of llm-slop on my radar

LukeShu•21 minutes ago

I'm surprised to see that it's OK that he has opensource AHB/APB stuff in it--I'd avoided learning them too much about them assuming that they were ARM proprietary.

bri3d•3 minutes ago

AMBA has been an open standard for a really long time, I think maybe since it was released?

wewewedxfgdf•about 1 hour ago

This guy also designed DVI/HDMI from RP2040:

https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI

LukeShu•32 minutes ago

He works at Raspberry Pi, and designed the Hazard3 RISC-V core that is at the heart of the RP2350--although he did Hazard3 in his spare time. It's actually a fork of the "Hazard5" core that he designed for the RISCBoy.

bananaboy•about 1 hour ago

Oh this is Luke Wren’s work. He’s an ASIC design engineer at Raspberry Pi. Amazing project, I love it!

LukeShu•28 minutes ago

I think "ASIC design" engineer is under-selling him--he's working on their CPU cores too!

joshu•about 3 hours ago

i love the "hardware from an alternate universe" projects.

iFire•about 3 hours ago

Does RISCBoy run Godot Engine? How can I make RISCBoy run Godot Engine?

bananaboy•about 1 hour ago

If you set up the RISCBoy toolchain and port it then yeah.

Narishma•about 2 hours ago

No. You can't.

emilfihlman•about 2 hours ago

I'm quite willing to bet it can be done in this era of enabling developers with slob, which still usually works.

Narishma•about 1 hour ago

How can you fit Godot into 512KB of RAM? And with no GPU?

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch

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