La Steam deck It has been with us for a short time, but it has already become a benchmark for portable consoles. In addition to being able to play PC titles lying on the sofa, the Valve machine has also proven to be a perfect device for emulating old games. If you like retro and you have many game boy cartridges at home, do not miss what we are going to tell you next.
The perfect accessory for Game Boy collectors
a few days ago, Valve he missed a screenshot of the Steam Deck in which you could clearly see the Yuzu emulator installed on the console. The image went viral, fueling once again the idea that the Deck is something of the perfect machine for people with eye patches and peg legs.
However, there are also good ideas that allow you to bring titles from other consoles to the Steam Deck without having to download anything weird from the Internet. The company Epilogue dedicated to the noble task of keep the video game. That was what encouraged them to create the GB Operator, a reader of original cartridges of Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance.
Epilogue follows the same philosophy as Analogue, the company that manufactures retro consoles with modern hardware that are only compatible with original cartridges.
GB Operator comes to Steam Deck
Until now, GB Operator was only available for computers, thanks to a cross-platform application that works on Windows. Linux and Mac. This application is capable of performing emulation functions, but taking as input un totally original Nintendo cartridge.
As the team commented on Twitter, GB Operator is already totally with the Steam Deck. To use it, you simply have to use a dongle to connect the cartridge reader in the Valve console. In the screenshot that they have provided we can see how it is running in full screen Mario Kart: Super Circuit, a Game Boy Advance game that gave a lot of talk at the time.
Much more than a cartridge reader
In addition to being able to play original cartridges on a computer, the GB Operator is also a perfect device for manage games.
If you also lost your childhood Pokémon due to the internal battery of your Gold or Silver cartridge running out, you should know that GB Operator prevents this from happening. The application allows extract the save original cartridge and store it on a computer. Similarly, a new save file can also be installed on the cartridge.
In addition, GB Operator also allows you to run Cheats in original games and it is also an ideal device for collectors, since it has an original cartridge recognition system that allows us to discover if we have a game that is a counterfeit.
If you are interested in this product, you can purchase it directly at the Epilogue store. It is priced at about U.S. dollar 49,99, and is in stock right now.