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▲ I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen(twitter.com)
55 points by scrambled 5 hours ago | 16 comments
▲CSMastermind 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you haven't seen the trend on X of people hacking their TVs to remove the bloat and spyware then add in better UI it's been pretty awesome to watch.

▲roosterIllusi0n 4 hours ago | parent [-]

There a good user or post to look at? X is barely accessible for anything.

▲0x457 3 hours ago | parent [-]

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-mak...

▲roosterIllusi0n 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I ended up finding some projects for samsung tvs. Not sure if they can help clean them up, but they do seem to allow installing your own apps and controlling the tv.

* https://github.com/reisxd/TizenBrew

* https://github.com/Apps2Samsung/Apps2Samsung

* https://github.com/SushyDev/tizen-homebrew

* https://github.com/xchwarze/samsung-tv-ws-api

* https://github.com/hugoh/samsung-tizen-tv-control

▲fjd an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds me of when we set up an outdated Sega Dreamcast for emulation. We had rolled home a trash picked badly out of alignment rear projection TV on our skateboards and parked it in the garage - mom wasn't letting it in the house. My youngest brother, still in diapers, thought it completely normal to sit on the garage floor and play the Gameboy "Green" Pokemon English translated rom. The individual emulated pixels were huge on that thing (and three different colors around the edges).

▲VCFundedGenYer 9 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Has a long way to go. Many errors here, and any true fan or historian of Nintendo would see them immediately.

The startup screen is the Game Boy Advance, not Color.

The Pokemon center building is completely messed up.

The sprites are a bizarre and somewhat inaccurate mishmash of the RBY and GSC games. Only GSC were coded with GBC colors (Yellow was a bit of a middle ground, Red and Blue were only GB coded)

At least he's saying Game Boy and not the incorrect "Gameboy" that most people type wrong.

▲lbrito 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's the gameboy advance intro though

▲MoarEmus 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well, it's vibe coded so temper your expectations of intelligence.

▲lolsowrong 2 hours ago | parent [-]

How long would it have taken you to root, debloat, and code a new UI for your TV?

▲besterman23 an hour ago | parent [-]

Is this rooted? Isn’t this just be a side-loaded app over adb?

https://github.com/humblemuzzu/dumbtv

▲mid-kid 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If only that was the only thing... Don't expect the average clout chaser to have any care for what they're making.

▲goda90 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The title made my mind jump to these great peripherals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Player

▲animalhot 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is awesome!

▲nonethewiser 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Cool demo, horrid UX

▲artnap 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The bad UX seems to be the joke here. Making you beat a gym leader just to change a setting is the whole point, I think. Would anyone really keep this as their home screen for a month?

▲hbn 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not to mention you have a level 5 pikachu and are expected to defeat a level 100 mewtwo that one-shots you.