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

[mariuz]

https://github.com/Wren6991/RISCBoy

[flopsamjetsam]

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 → flopsamjetsam]

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

[LukeShu → jihadjihad]

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

[tough → jihadjihad]

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

[wewewedxfgdf]

This guy also designed DVI/HDMI from RP2040:

https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI

[LukeShu → wewewedxfgdf]

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]

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

[LukeShu → bananaboy]

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

[LukeShu]

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 → LukeShu]

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

[joshu]

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

[iFire]

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

[bananaboy → iFire]

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

[Narishma → iFire]

No. You can't.

[emilfihlman → Narishma]

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

[Narishma → emilfihlman]

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