ModRetro Chromatic

• Screen

  1.54″

  2.56″

  6″

  2.56″ IPS, 160 x 144. Screens drawn at the same scale.

• Chip

  Gowin GW5A-25 FPGA

• Memory

  Not listed

  no microSD slot

• Battery

  Not listed

• Weight

  176 g

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  1. 1Anbernic RG Nano: 75 g
  2. 2ModRetro Chromatic: 176 g
  3. 3AYN Thor: 380 g
  4. 4AYANEO Pocket DS: 540 g

  Scale runs 75 g to 540 g across the handhelds we list.

• Controls

  • No analog sticks
  • Digital triggers
  • No shoulder buttons
  • Cross D-pad

• System

  FPGA

• Video out

  No video out

• Wireless

  No wireless

• Cooling

  Not listed

Every rating links to the review or table it comes from. A system with no rating has not been tested by a source we use, which is not the same as not playable.

• Game Boy1989
  Full speed

  FPGA hardware, plays original cartridges; no compatibility issues reported.

  Tested Nov 2024

  Source: Damien McFerran , Brandon Saltalamacchia , Nick Fernandez

• Game Boy Color1998
  Full speed

  FPGA hardware, plays original cartridges; no compatibility issues reported.

  Tested Nov 2024

  Source: Damien McFerran , Brandon Saltalamacchia , Nick Fernandez

• Not tested yetGBA, NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, N64, DS, PSP, Dreamcast, Saturn, GameCube, PS2, Wii, 3DS, PS Vita, Switch
  Not tested yet

  No cited review covers this yet

Ratings come from the linked reviews. Covers via Wikipedia, publishers' artwork.

No shop listing for this handheld yet.

• Chromatic + Tetris bundle (ModRetro store)
• Review: ModRetro Chromatic Is So Close To The Real Thing You'd Think Nintendo Made It
• ModRetro Chromatic Review: The Perfect Modernised Game Boy
• ModRetro chromatic_fpga README (GW5A-25)