The Flipper Zero is essentially the digital Swiss army knife of our generation, and now a clever modding enthusiast has created a Game Boy Adapter that allows users to hook straight up to the device.
Dropping in 2020, the Flipper Zero looks and feels like something that James Bond might pull out of the heel of his shoe. It can be programmed to open doors, used as a key fob, and has an infrared sensor on it for data transfers.
But there’s a new homemade adapter that has caught our eye that makes this little device even more interesting, and that’s the Game Boy Adapter that allows us to grab our link cable and hook up our GBC for some good old-fashioned Pokémon cheating.
Hey, trading Pokémon today is hard work; you’ve got to find a friend that has the exact same Pokémon that you need… which requires having friends that are into Retro Gaming… and indeed friends in the first place.
BoredModder set out to create a make an adapter that would work with the Flipper Zero as their first modding project, which is pretty adventurous! It’s gone on to receive some great feedback (some might even say it caused a positive furore among the retro gaming world) and made lonely Pokémon fans incredibly happy.
Is The Flipper Zero Now The Ultimate Pokédex Pal?
The developers of Flipper Zero claim that the device has the personality of a Cyber Dolphin, which explains the little graphic that pops up all the time while using, it. Still, it’s different water-dwelling creatures such as Blastoise and Gyrados that we’re going to be using it for.
Essentially, the Flipper Zero acts as a separate Game Boy when using the link cable and BoredModder’s new peripheral. Players can select any Pokémon and trade it with themselves (via Flipper) as though they were hooked up to another handheld.
You still have to trade a Pokémon with Flipper, so you’ll need a low-level Pokémon that you don’t really care about (we’re all thinking about Ratata) to get rid of.
I know that this means that you could essentially just hook it up and get all 151 Pokémon in Pokémon Red or Blue without having to lift a finger bar catching Ratatas, but we’re seeing it as ‘additional help’ in gaining those version exclusive Pokémon that would otherwise leave your Pokedex unfinished.
The software that BoredModder is using on the pictures throughout this article isn’t his and doesn’t come with either Flipper Zero or the Game Boy Adapter, but you can learn a little more about it by doing some easy Googling (though other search engines are available).
This could well be the easiest way to get Mew too (not Mewtwo). And we’re excited about some of the other possibilities that might arise too – could the Flipper Zero be used to provide time trial ghosts to race against or act as a modern-day GameShark-syle cheat device?
Rest assured that BoredModder and the Retro Gaming community at large are on the case!
