RivalCorp has taken an original Nintendo Gameboy interfaced with an Altera Cyclone II FPGA to display the consoles video to a VGA screen. A simple voltage divider was used to drop the Gamboy's 5V video output signal to 3.3V for the FPGA to use. See their website for more detail on how they handles the various sync and data signals.
FPGAs are getting quite the use in the video game console world. For all you FPGA masters, there is big money in .
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