I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen (twitter.com)

70 points by scrambled 1 day ago

CSMastermind 1 day ago
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.
- sphars 1 day ago
  I'm waiting for someone to do this for Roku devices, I would love clean up the Roku OS (though to be fair it is one of the cleanest visually)
- roosterIllusi0n 1 day ago
  There a good user or post to look at? X is barely accessible for anything.
  - 0x457 1 day ago
    https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-mak...
    userbinator 1 day ago
    When I read the top-level comment, I was almost certain it was going to be AI-assisted. Before, your only chance at something like that was either having the skills to RE and mod everything yourself, or finding someone equally motivated and skilled to do it. Now you can pay AI to do your bidding, and while vibecoding is definitely not perfect, it has definitely lowered the bar. What an interesting era we live in.
    roosterIllusi0n 1 day ago
    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
- classified 1 day ago
  So the disappointed sellers of ads and surveillance will buy legislation that makes this kind of LLM use illegal.
lbrito 1 day ago
That's the gameboy advance intro though
- mid-kid 1 day ago
  If only that was the only thing... Don't expect the average clout chaser to have any care for what they're making.
- MoarEmus 1 day ago
  Well, it's vibe coded so temper your expectations of intelligence.
  - lolsowrong 1 day ago
    How long would it have taken you to root, debloat, and code a new UI for your TV?
    besterman23 1 day ago
    Is this rooted? Isn’t this just be a side-loaded app over adb?
    https://github.com/humblemuzzu/dumbtv
fjd 1 day ago
Reminds me of when we set up an outdated Sega Dreamcast for emulation.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).
boogieknite 1 day ago
the settings was very funny. could just be playing a video as far as i know
im going to say this here just to vent it out once:
some part of me sinks into depression when vibe coders say "I" turned/did/made something. why does this bother me? smart managers i work with who actually build things as hobbies and used to build apps say this all the time so its not like it indicates someone is phony, it just really catches on my brain when i hear it
- ribosometronome 1 day ago
  Isn't it just kind of how we speak about these sort of things? Like, say your partner asked you if you washed the dishes, would you tell them "No, the dishwasher did" or just "Yes"?
  - boogieknite 1 day ago
    totally. youre right and i agree. something specifically about it being with vibe coding that really bothers me. my rational mind knows its stupid and tells myself its just someone saying something that happened, but i spiritually wince every time
- basscomm 1 day ago
  > some part of me sinks into depression when vibe coders say "I" turned/did/made something. why does this bother me?
  My guess? It's like claiming credit for something someone else did.
  It would be like me commissioning a painting and then claiming I painted it.
  - boogieknite 1 day ago
    its pretty much exactly that, but also a painter somewhere didnt get paid because its ai
- ThrowawayTestr 1 day ago
  Claude didn't prompt itself
- cowlevel 1 day ago
  I believe that being able to claim the credit is a large part of the motivation for vibe coding for a lot of people.
  - tourmalinetaco 1 day ago
    Being able to claim the credit can be a lot of the motivation for any project, vibe coded or not. The Princess Crown translation is a great example. The two OG devs sat on it for a decade and largely abandoned it, a guy forked their open source code and had it finished to 1.0 in a few months. The OG devs crashed out that someone else used their open source code, abandoning their translation and saying they could “no longer find joy” in it.
    They sat on a project since 2012 and, in my cynical view, didn’t want to finish it because then they’d stop being “the guys translating Princess Crown”, and this section of the hacker scene seem to have some asinine unspoken “claim” courtesy, where you don’t make competing projects, so they could own the claim and not actually put the effort into finishing. To my knowledge the new dev didn’t use LLMs either, so that wasn’t even a force multiplier in this respect.
mahboi 1 day ago
Beat lvl 100 Mewtwo with lvl 5 Pikachu to change settings? Still easier than using a Samsung smart TV.
goda90 1 day ago
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
VCFundedGenYer 1 day ago
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.
- assumed_throwaw 1 day ago
  You can also add that the back sprites during the battle aren't positioned correctly: the cut-off at the bottom is supposed to be aligned with the UI and go unnoticed. ;)
- ThrowawayTestr 1 day ago
  You can play GBC games on the GBA.
  - tredre3 1 day ago
    You can but when you do you get the GBC boot-up animation, not the GBA.
    ThrowawayTestr 16 hours ago
    Brb burning my nerd card.
- anthk 1 day ago
  The GB color had a similar intro right? I can't remember, I gave my GBC to a friend over 25 years ago.
  > GSC were coded with GBC colors
  Crystal had a much wider palette for the GBC because it was a GBC-exclusive game while GS had to be retrocompatible with the GB.
  - pieracy 1 day ago
    Gold and Silver had access to all the same colors as Crystal when played on a Game Boy Color. Where Crystal did improve the graphics was increasing the variety of tiles used on the overworld/dungeon maps, and adding animations to individual Pokémon in battle, both of which relied on the Game Boy Color’s increased VRAM.
    anthk 8 hours ago
    Please, compare them again :)
tehnoslow 1 day ago
I like this idea
animalhot 1 day ago
this is awesome!
nonethewiser 1 day ago
Cool demo, horrid UX
- artnap 1 day ago
  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 1 day ago
    Not to mention you have a level 5 pikachu and are expected to defeat a level 100 mewtwo that one-shots you.
  - nonethewiser 1 day ago
    Then the point stands.
    Not even talking about settings. I mean pressing 6 times across 2 buttons to open youtube. Times 2 for the next all. Times 3 for the next.