What if Microsoft launched a handheld within the early 2000s? Meet the XBOY.

This can be a custom-built idea handheld I’ve been engaged on known as the XBOY—my tackle what an official Xbox moveable may need regarded like if it launched through the authentic Xbox period.

It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and housed inside a modded Duke-like Dreamcast controller. The display sits the place the VMU could be, and the buttons are pulled from an authentic Xbox S controller. Video games run from {custom} SD playing cards that slot into the second reminiscence card slot, and the entire system is themed to really feel like a legit lost-era Xbox product—full with a mock industrial and bodily video games.

It began as a software program venture demaking Xbox video games for the Recreation Boy Colour, nevertheless it shortly spiraled into making a full-on console.