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Balatro Ported to the Gameboy Advance’s e-Reader | A software engineer made a version of the game that runs off code printed onto a small card.


A software engineer made a version of the game that runs off code printed onto a small card.

The Balatro e-Reader port is the work of Michigan-based software engineer Matt Greer, a man with a love for both the addictive card game and Nintendo’s strange peripheral. “I got one when it launched back in 2002, and eventually got most of the NES games and a lot of Super Mario Advance 4 cards, but that was about it,” Greer told 404 Media. The hacking and reverse engineering aspect of figuring out how this whole system works (something that has mostly been done by people other than me), and the small nature of the games which forces you to keep your scope down.

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