I was reading the Super Game Boy article on Wikipedia for some reason, and this came up later in the article: "Camerica had the Game Boy to NES developed by Biederman Design Labs, which appeared similar to the Super Game Boy." Has anybody heard of this device and knows how hard it is to find one of these, or even better if someone has one pictures of it?
I ve seen it in press but I think it never actually got released. It's very similar to the WideBoy on the NES.
I always wondered on the feasibility of this kind of device. I guess screen res would have been the issue.
It's feasible (if they could get cloned ASIC as used in Chinese GB clones). The GB resolution fits with room to spare, the only slight issue for the NES is that it doesn't have enough background tile memory to store the entire raw GB screen. The GB's screen (160x144) takes (160/8)(144/8) = 360 tiles while the NES only has 256 tiles, so it must bankswitch midscreen or leave off part of the screen.
There was a blurb about this in an old EGM, along with pics of the Camerica Express, which was a handheld NES system with it's own color screen.
Page 30 of June 1991 EGM has pics of both the GB adapter and the Express. The NES GB adapter looks like a regular NES cart except it's dark grey and there's a GB slot where the label would be.
Well at least that confirms it did exist, just never got released. I'm curious how good of quality the Express would have been.
Codies was also doing a CD add-on for the NES, I posted a blurb from GamePro here: http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?t=2020
I liked the part in the article about the "Power Pak" that I'm assuming was just an early name for the Game Genie.
Here are some pics as well as the text from the EGM issue about the BDL/Camerica GB-to-NES Adaptor: http://web.archive.org/web/20031225063635/http://www.zyx.com/chrisc/bdl.html I ought to put these back on my newer webpage...
So wait for the Express it was going to have no controller on it? I'm assuming those two big buttons are just the power and reset ones. This kind of defeats the purpose of a handheld system.
