{"id":128868,"date":"2022-10-14T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-139203"},"modified":"2022-10-14T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T01:15:00","slug":"random-valves-steam-deck-can-now-run-game-boy-advance-cartridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/14\/random-valves-steam-deck-can-now-run-game-boy-advance-cartridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Valve&#8217;s Steam Deck Can Now Run Game Boy Advance Cartridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e23b4b0ee7ff9\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e23b4b0ee7ff9\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Steam Deck\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e23b4b0ee7ff9\/steam-deck.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e23b4b0ee7ff9\/steam-deck.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Steam Deck\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: via Twitter (@meet_epilogue)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Valve&#8217;s Steam Deck community hasn&#8217;t wasted any time getting all sorts of emulators up and running on the system, and this is perhaps the most impressive feat yet. It seems Game Boy operator and the Operator app are now compatible with Steam OS.<\/p>\n<p>GB Operator is described as being &#8220;like a cartridge slot for your computer&#8221; device and is compatible with Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games. Here&#8217;s a look at the device running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/mario_kart_super_circuit\">Mario Kart Super Circuit<\/a> on the hardware:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s official &#8211; enjoy your childhood cartridges, now on SteamDeck! Today we validated at the office that GB Operator and the Operator app are fully compatible with Steam OS and run impeccably on SteamDeck. This makes the experience fun and portable, we&#8217;re happy to support it \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ik4Pc6xPny\">pic.twitter.com\/Ik4Pc6xPny<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Epilogue (@meet_epilogue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meet_epilogue\/status\/1580589186540720130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It follows on from a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/02\/random-heres-steam-deck-running-the-gamecube-and-wii-emulator-dolphin\">Steam Deck running the GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin<\/a>, and also successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/random-wii-u-emulation-on-valves-steam-deck-supports-gyro-controls\">emulating Nintendo Switch, 3DS and Wii U<\/a>. There were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/04\/rumour-here-are-the-supposed-gba-games-tested-for-switch-online-so-far\">rumours earlier this year<\/a> about Nintendo testing Game Boy Advance games for the Switch Online service, but so far there&#8217;s been no announcement.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about Valve&#8217;s Steam Deck running real GBA cartridges? Would you like to see the GBA library eventually made available on Nintendo&#8217;s Switch Online service? <em>Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: via Twitter (@meet_epilogue) Valve&#8217;s Steam Deck community hasn&#8217;t wasted any time getting all sorts of emulators up and running on the system, and this is perhaps the most impressive feat yet. It seems Game Boy operator and the Operator app are now compatible with Steam OS. GB Operator is described as being &#8220;like a [&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-128868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128868","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=128868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}