{"id":95737,"date":"2016-06-20T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T07:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95737"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:40:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T07:40:57","slug":"game-boy-cartridge-support-for-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/95737-game-boy-cartridge-support-for-your-smartphone","title":{"rendered":"Game Boy cartridge support for your smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperkin\u00a0Lab has\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hyperkinlab.com\/smart-boy-developer-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\">launched a developer kit<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0Smart Boy\u00a0add-on\u00a0for Android\u00a0phones, priced at\u00a0<strong>$59.99<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Android\u00a0smartphone accessory promises support for Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges, but has called on the community to help improve its software.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the kit is an open source serial app and firmware, which Hyperkin said will\u00a0let\u00a0developers advance\u00a0its\u00a0current build toward a retail-ready model.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that it is offering a royalty percentage of retail-ready Smart Boy units sold to anyone that can improve the device\u2019s\u00a0serial app and firmware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hyperkin provided the following specifications for the Smart Boy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atmel 90USB646<\/li>\n<li>NTSC or PAL cartridges compatible<\/li>\n<li>Phone Size: 5-6 inches<\/li>\n<li>Smart Boy Serial App Access for Mounting and Controller mapping<\/li>\n<li>4.4.4 Android KitKat OTG minimum OS requirement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why Nigerian email scammers say they are from Nigeria\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/95543-this-is-why-nigerian-email-scammers-say-they-are-from-nigeria.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why Nigerian email scammers say they are from Nigeria<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Intel\u2019s new processors have a secret CPU that can take over your PC against your will\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/95719-intels-new-processors-have-a-secret-cpu-that-can-take-over-your-pc-against-your-will.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel\u2019s new processors have a secret CPU that can take over your PC against your will<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to AMD Radeon RX 480 South African pricing revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/95669-amd-radeon-rx-480-south-african-pricing-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD Radeon RX 480 South African pricing revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An add-on for Android phones promises support for Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges for Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":95739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,6],"tags":[31,8905,19585,19583],"class_list":["post-95737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-game-boy","tag-hyperkin","tag-smart-boy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95741,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95737\/revisions\/95741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}