@flwwhtrbt@mastodon.social very tempting. but seeing the reconstructed gameboy games, I don't know if that really works. did you find any user experience descriptions?

@flwwhtrbt@mastodon.social can we use the crank to fish in Link's Awakening ?

@flwwhtrbt@mastodon.social Looks weirdly authentic. Maybe it’s the lack of a backlight.

@flwwhtrbt@mastodon.social that's kinda wild to break out the status bar of a game and put it on the side like that.

I wonder what Zelda does when you pause?

@flwwhtrbt@mastodon.social Well that wasn’t the exact reason why I bought one, but I was naive enough to think there was good GameBoy emulation on the Playdate.

Turns out there wasn’t, so we (me and Sodium - our other dev) made CrankBoy. 😆

In case you finally buy a Playdate let me know how you like CrankBoy.

@flwwhtrbt I feel like a more sensible solution is to get a crank charger. The simplest being those little emergency radio things like this: amazon.com/dp/B01MFCFKG5 But they also make some that are just those battery packs that cost more, but probably hold a whole lot more power.The idea is interesting, but, the device itself is so limiting and man that price is insane...