For some reasons, probably strange, many people like to play Game Boy or Game Boy Color games outside their portable confines. One reason is that the games are good but the original screens for these devices are terrible to look at by modern standards. Nintendo has on certain occasions tried to satisfy the need to play portable games as though they were home console games, but those solutions are old. Pure software emulation can easily take the GB to 1080p and beyond, but software is wholly divorced from original hardware. There are software emulators with dumping cartridge slots like the RetroN 5 and Retro Freak, but they are only 720p solutions. A promising new mod called the GBA Consolizer is an FPGA-based upscaling solution for the Game Boy Advance but is limited to 720p output. There was a mod called the HDMYBoy a few years ago but it never got beyond a few prototype units. For this blog article, I will focus on hardware-based solutions which I have some ability to experience personally and can deliver a 1080p experience.
