Second Bedroom Game Bub

About this device

The Game Bub is a fully open source FPGA handheld that plays original Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges with link cable support, rumble, and motion sensors. Sold through Crowd Supply, it doubles as an AMD Artix 7 FPGA development platform.

The Game Bub is the first fully open source FPGA retro handheld, built by Second Bedroom and funded on Crowd Supply. It plays original Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges through custom FPGA cores rather than software emulation, so accuracy and latency track the real hardware. What sets it apart is openness. The circuit design, firmware, and cores are all public, so it is hackable and repairable, and it doubles as an AMD Artix 7 development platform. It adds link cable multiplayer, rumble, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a real time clock. It is a niche enthusiast device sold only through Crowd Supply, and a remarkable one for tinkerers who want a Game Boy they can truly own.