The Steam Deck has only 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 couch, Valve’s 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 leaked a screenshot of the Steam Deck where 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 like 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 Epilogue company is dedicated to the noble task of preserving the video game . That’s what inspired them to create the GB Operator , a reader for original Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges.
Epilogue follows the same philosophy as Analogue, the company that makes 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 a completely original Nintendo cartridge .
As the team has commented on Twitter, GB Operator is already fully with the Steam Deck . To use it, you simply have to use a dongle to connect the cartridge reader to the Valve console. In the screenshot they have provided, we can see how Mario Kart: Super Circuit , a Game Boy Advance game that gave a lot to talk about at the time, is running in full screen.
Much more than a cartridge reader
In addition to being used to play original cartridges on a computer, the GB Operator is also a perfect device to 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 you to extract the original save from the 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 on original games and is also an ideal device for collectors, since it has an original cartridge recognition system that allows you to discover if we have a game that is a counterfeit.
If you are interested in this product, you can purchase it directly from the Epilogue store. It’s priced at about $49.99 , and it’s in stock right now.