Would probably look even better in color eink
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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I was just thinking that. It's a cool idea but unfortunately it looks very much like what it is - a flash cart with a screen on it. Eink would've been a much better choice. Scaling rather than cropping the label, make the cart white so the unused eink display blends in a little better... could've been awesome instead of merely cool.
Absolutely, hopefully that's a V2 thing.
That's a thing??
Has been for about 15 years, although decent ones didn't come out until 10 years ago.
Huh, TIL. Crazy that I've never encountered them.
I've only ever seen one IRL, and it was insane how much like actual paper it looked.
That's fucking cool. I'll have to look more into it.
I think they've got a number of drawbacks, so that's why. IIRC they have a low refresh rate, and they're pretty pricy. For this application, where it's a small screen and you only need the one, and you'll only refresh it rarely, it makes sense though.
Too slow
How often do you expect to refresh the cover art?
Oh, nevermind
It would be cool if there was a cart like that which let me actually play the game on the screen. Not very practical, but cool.
This is a really cool thing that I would like to have that will never be put to use because I already have every retro game ever made on 5 different devices that I have spent hundreds of hours setting up and optimizing as well as most of my favorites on physical media and play exactly zero of them at any given time