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Tiny retro gaming on your keychain.

PocketSprite is the world’s smallest playable emulation device. Ultraportable and ultraplayable, PocketSprite provides instant access to gaming classics.

Play all your favorite games: Game Boy, Game Gear, and more. Play it, put it down, and pick up right where you left off. Adding new games and apps is a one-click cinch.

PocketSprite isn’t just tiny, it’s incredibly playable. It’s not a gimmick - it’s a full featured emulation console that fits on your keyring.

And, more importantly, it’s more than just an emulator: it’s also full-featured, open source development platform.

Meet PocketSprite

PocketSprite is an ultraportable gaming and emulation console. It’s been engineered to be highly playable, easy to use, easy to update, and designed to let you pick up where you left off, and put it down again.

For Gamers: Relive Retro Gaming in Your Pocket

If you spent all your pocket-money on AA batteries, dreamed of falling blocks, or have a soft spot in your heart for rectangular controllers, PocketSprite is for you. Throw on your favorite games in a click and fill in the otherwise wasted moments of your daily transit.

For Hardware Hackers: An Open Source Dev Platform

PocketSprite is a great gaming console in a tiny package, but look under the hood and it’s so much more. It’s an open source, mature development platform that features a full-color, high-contrast OLED screen, sound, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, storage, and an internal rechargeable battery, all wrapped in a beautifully crafted yet rugged ABS case. PocketSprite’s open source toolchain and robust bootloader make development a snap. Say goodbye to re-inventing the wheel. Say adieu to bricking and JTAG angst. Say hello to rapid development on your favorite new hardware device.

For Coders: Write Games & Participate in Our Coding Challenge

Give It to Me Short and Sweet

1. Very tiny – fits on your keychain, but still totally playable
2. Plays all Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Sega Master System, and Game Gear games
3. Instant resume let’s you pick up a game exactly where you left off
4. One-click-upload via Wi-Fi for new games / software / updates
5. Rechargeable battery gives hours of gameplay per charge
6. High-quality build with tactile buttons and adjustable volume and brightness
7. Printed instruction sheet and embossed collector’s storage box
8. Open source software and hardware: https://github.com/PocketSprite
9. Powerful, ESP32-based hardware development platform

How It Works

We’ve spent an embarassing amount of time making this thing perfect instead of doing our day jobs.

We’ve wrestled a highly flexible, tiny microcontroller into submission and we’ve written some fairly great code to give you a superb gaming experience and snappy framerates. Turn it on, pick an emulator and ROM, and you’re off. Flick it off because your boss / teacher / partner is glaring at you, and when you turn it back on, you’re right back where you were.

Want to add more ROMs, other emulators, or your own programs? PocketSprite’s update mechanism is simplicity incarnate: it makes its own Wi-Fi hotspot, and you upload your new apps in literally one click.

Game Selection & Adding ROMs

PocketSprite comes pre-loaded with two emulators, GNUBoy and SMS Plus, that allow you to play every single game on the following platforms:

• Nintendo Game Boy
• Nintendo Game Boy Color
• Sega Master System
• Sega Game Gear

When you’re tired of the pre-loaded open source games, uploading a new ROM is literally a one-click process. It’s done over-the-air. On Windows, Linux, Mac, or Android, no cables or drivers needed – just connect to PocketSprite’s Wi-Fi network, upload the ROM through PocketSprite’s web interface, and you’ll be playing.

PocketSprite has 16 MB of internal storage. Of this, 2 MB are used for the operating system and game emulators. The remaining 14 MB can be filled with game ROMs – how many depends on the size of the ROMs. If your ROMs are small (e.g., 64 - 128 KB), then you’ll be able to fit hundreds of games on your PocketSprite. If they are bigger (e.g., 1 MB), you’ll only be able to fit ten or so. Of course, you can always use the WiFi connection to change ROMs at any time.

Features & Specifications

PocketSprite with translucent enclosure option

Comparisons

Don’t these things already exist? Absolutely, in many factors and forms, right back to your original AA-eating “Pocket Sized” handheld. We’ve tweaked and tuned the PocketSprite to be what we believe is the best of all worlds. Check out how it stacks up: