# Tiny e-Paper Display Delivers 30 FPS of Game Boy Fun

Slow refresh, ghosting and low-contrast — wait, are we talking about passive matrix LCDs, or e-paper displays? That might be why e-paper Game Boy emulators are a thing: the limitations of the black-on-grey e-paper screens remind us of the grey-on-green LCDs Nintendo used in the 80s. In this case [Bo Made It] made it out of a Waveshare ESP32-S3-ePaper-1.54, and got 30 FPS from it. Now, regular readers might be thinking, “So, we’ve seen the 60 FPS e-paper monitor, how is this special?” It’s a fair question. The answer is that [Bo] is doing this on a randomly chosen dev board with a bui

https://hackaday.com/2026/10/14/tiny-e-paper-display-delivers-30-fps-of-game-boy-fun/

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Created: 2026-10-25T04:59:35.498252+00:00

Last edited: 2026-10-25T04:59:35.498252+00:00

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