[esotericsean] gets around that by modifying his Game Boys with a USB rechargeable battery setup. (Video, embedded below.) The hack is a simple one, but the execution is quite tidy. [esotericsean ...
Inspired by the replaceable USB-rechargeable LiPo batteries inside the Ring doorbells/cameras, I wanted something similar for my original gameboy. There's plenty of LiPo mods that require cutting up ...
but one of the Game Boys was shipped with a very corroded battery which had eaten up one of the terminals. When [Alan] had repaired it, he was left with a Game Boy with no battery terminal at all ...
This is the official public repository for ENGAGE: the battery-free gaming console. We designed a Nintendo Game Boy emulator, which we call Energy Aware Gaming (ENGAGE) platform, as a proof of concept ...