Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge

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At GitHub Universe, Steve Francia used Gemini to build NES, Game Boy, and Game Boy Color emulators on the conference's color-screen badge computer, enabling games like Zelda: Link's Awakening to run on it.

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# Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/27/game-boy-color-on-my-conference-badge/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/27/game-boy-color-on-my-conference-badge/) 27th October 2026 \- Link Blog **[Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge](https://spf13.com/p/game-boy-color-on-my-conference-badge/)**\. I'm at GitHub Universe this week and,[similar to last year](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/28/github-universe-badge/), the conference badge is a full\-blown color screen computer\. I've been hacking around with it again, and then I ran into with Steve Francia\.\.\. who worked with Gemini to get a[full NES emulator](https://spf13.com/p/zelda-on-my-conference-badge/)working on it, and then went a step further and deployed an emulator for both the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color\. Which means, if you can obtain the ROM, you can run[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Link%27s_Awakening)on your conference badge\! ![Photo of the badge running Zelda, in full color, with visible touch buttons below the screen.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026-10-27/IMG_9339.jpeg) A neat feature of the badge is that you can turn it upside down and then use game controller touch buttons that are built into the badge body\.

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