Frustrated with the lack of Virtual Console options in Nintendo’s new online service, and emboldened by a bit of electronics know-how thanks to tinkering with keyboards, I finally decided to make my own RetroPie machine. I was surprised at how easy it was…and just how many options are available.
The classic solution is to simply grab a Raspberry Pi unit and a case, install it, load up a copy of RetroPie on an SD card, plug in a controller, and get going. And that’s still a pretty great (and surprisingly cheap) solution, if all you really want to do is play some old games on your TV without having to hunt for classic consoles and blow on some cartridge contacts. But as it turns out, there are lot more things you can do with both the hardware and the software.

Take the world of portable gaming, for example. Independently-designed gadgets like the PiGRRL (see what they did there?) cram a tiny Raspberry Pi computer, a screen, a battery, and a custom printed circuit board into a 3D-printed case to make a completely custom Game Boy clone.
And while it lacks some of the polish of Nintendo’s handhelds, it’s far more capable: the tiny, low-power Pi Zero computer can handle most games up to the Super NES level (early 1990s) and the more conventional Raspberry Pi models can do full PlayStation emulation, all while holding hundreds or thousands of game ROMs on a MicroSD card. There are dozens of suppliers that will sell you a custom kit to make one yourself: just pair a Raspberry Pi with the kit, solder according to the included instructions, and load up the ROMs.
A Raspberry Pi plus a 3D-printed case, battery, screen, and buttons makes a Game Boy clone.
But even that felt a little too easy for me. I wanted the best of both worlds: Nintendo’s classic hardware and ergonomics, and the option of loading up my old favorites from the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, SNES, and Genesis.
Despite the fact that it’s now almost twenty years old, my favorite portable game machine will always be the original design of the Game Boy Advance: it has an ideal combination of size, layout, and library. I’ve often thought that if Nintendo had added the two extra face buttons and a backlit screen that later models of the GBA and DS came with, it would be perfect.
The original Game Boy Advance had a fantastic design, but its hardware is limited by today’s standard.
Now that’s possible, with some modding and a hardware transplant. The FreeplayTech design swaps out the internals of the original GBA design with a custom PCB, a new backlit screen, two extra buttons for playing Super NES games, a rechargeable battery, and a Raspberry Pi to run it all. It’s essentially the same thing as the PiGRRL designs above, plus some custom software to crop the screen so it fits in the viewing window of a GameBoy Advance shell.
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