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What just happened? Nintendo's Virtual Boy famously used inexpensive red monochrome displays to create a stereoscopic 3D effect. Thanks to a newly developed, vibe-coded emulator, some games in the console's library can now be played with limited color, reportedly added through a hand-painted process.

Despite selling just 770,000 units worldwide, Nintendo's Virtual Boy still has a small but dedicated fan base experimenting with new ways to use the console. The stereoscopic system failed to achieve commercial success and could display games only in monochrome red hues. Now, a new emulator called VBoy Color aims to change that by introducing limited color to Virtual Boy games on desktop computers and in virtual reality (VR).

According to VBoy Color's GitHub page , the open-source emulator adds colors to areas that would otherwise appear in different shades of red on the original system.…