A game-free cartridge designed to run on a real Game Boy contains the archive of the Game Boy Museum, a project maintained by Dr. Marcel Pflug. The idea began with an unusual question: if every object in the collection is a museum piece, why couldn’t the museum itself become one?The project took several years of experimentation. Pflug had to adapt an extensive archive to hardware released in 1989, with severe limitations on displaying text. The Game Boy’s screen works with just 255 “blocks,” and each letter takes up several of them. Turning the handheld into a text reader therefore required painstaking solutions, in a process the creator describes as a “game of centimeters.”The content includes information about the console, its accessories, games, products, advertisements and internal components. The archive can also be searched directly on the cartridge. The museum’s online version features product images, an inventory of peripherals, hardware changes made over the years and hundreds of articles about the handheld.Pflug also tried to include QR codes directing users to photographs that would not fit on the Game Boy’s screen. The choice creates a bridge between the 1980s console and today’s cellphones. Because QR codes were created only in 1994, after the handheld was released, he had to find a way to display them on a system that had never been designed for them.Even the creator’s image required custom work. A photograph converted directly into the Game Boy’s shades left the face almost unrecognizable, so Pflug drew the title screen pixel by pixel. His plan to create an entire gallery with display cases was eventually abandoned because of the effort involved.The result is available as a free ROM, which can be put onto a cartridge by anyone with the necessary means. A video associated with the project can be watched below.
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