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# Turn your old Game Boy into an Android gamepad with this clever hack
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/turn-your-old-game-boy-android-gamepad-clever-hack/
- Published: 2013-01-09T19:30:31.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:36:16.000Z
- Description: This announcement didn’t make it to CES, but it’s no less nifty. Brian Benchoff at Hackaday devised a clever scheme to reuse his old Game Boy for Android gaming. After gutting an old DMG-01, [Chad] set to work turning the D-pad and buttons in the Game Boy into something his Galaxy Nexus could unders
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gameboy_as_android.jpg)

This announcement didn’t make it to CES, but it’s no less nifty. Brian Benchoff at Hackaday devised a clever scheme to reuse his old Game Boy for Android gaming.

> After gutting an old DMG-01, \[Chad\] set to work turning the D-pad and buttons in the Game Boy into something his Galaxy Nexus could understand. He chose a Bluetooth connection to provide input for his emulators, with the hardware generously donated from a Nintendo Wiimote.

The [Unconsumption](http://unconsumption.tumblr.com/?ref=killscreen.com) kids would love this.