{"id":112206,"date":"2020-04-29T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/random_someones_made_a_game_boy_game_that_can_control_their_air_conditioning"},"modified":"2020-04-29T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:30:00","slug":"random-someones-made-a-game-boy-game-that-can-control-their-air-conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/29\/random-someones-made-a-game-boy-game-that-can-control-their-air-conditioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Someone&#8217;s Made A Game Boy Game That Can Control Their Air Conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53d24553d92cf\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53d24553d92cf\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53d24553d92cf\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>No matter how many Game Boy games you have knocking around at home, we bet you don&#8217;t have any quite like this one.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving a Game Boy Color as a gift, Singapore-based developer JinGen Lim decided to make use of the system in a pretty unexpected way. You see, in addition to the Color&#8217;s new processing speeds and its colour screen, the Game Boy&#8217;s successor also featured an infrared port (that black rectangle on the top), and JinGen Lim thought that this could make for a unique air conditioning controller.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture embed right img-\" readability=\"2.5833333333333\">\n<p>Here&#8217;s the GBC infrared port, as shown on JinGen Lim&#8217;s machine<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After a bit of research, they stumbled across a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V-xBoOkz_Ow\">Mission Impossible game<\/a> which could record and replay infrared signals. This proved that the aircon remote theory could work, and they started to piece together everything else needed to build it, including a bootleg game cartridge and a programming card.<\/p>\n<p>From there, things get a little more complicated. Infrared remotes use a series of light flashes to operate the device they&#8217;re being pointed at, and the patterns used can vary between devices. Thanks to this, JinGen Lim had to solder a wire to the original remote&#8217;s IR emitter and hook that up to a computer to capture the signals sent out, all in a bid to understand how they might go about programming such a feature inside the Game Boy cart.<\/p>\n<p>You can see exactly how all of this was achieved by checking out <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/jg.sn.sg\/ir\/\">JinGen Lim&#8217;s full blog post<\/a>, but here&#8217;s the final result:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"2.7142857142857\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"1.3757961783439\">Excited to be able to control my air-conditioner with a GameBoy Color, using my own ROM!<\/p>\n<p>(How I built it: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K1Rzhx0qbn\">https:\/\/t.co\/K1Rzhx0qbn<\/a> ) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wQGq3iMHQC\">pic.twitter.com\/wQGq3iMHQC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 JinGen Lim (@jg_lim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jg_lim\/status\/1254593319931219968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What a wonderfully silly way to get creative with a Game Boy without having to so much as touch the system itself. <em>We&#8217;d quite like Game Boy remotes for everything around the house now!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how many Game Boy games you have knocking around at home, we bet you don&#8217;t have any quite like this one. After receiving a Game Boy Color as a gift, Singapore-based developer JinGen Lim decided to make use of the system in a pretty unexpected way. You see, in addition to the Color&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}