Posted Jul 2, 2026 at 1:29 PM UTCAYoutubeAndrew LiszewskiThe Paper Boy S3 is a Game Boy clone with an E Ink touchscreen.Instead of turning M5Stack’s M5PaperS3 development hardware into another Kindle clone, Wenting Zhang used the Playdate’s open source CrankBoy emulator to create a Game Boy alternative with an easy-on-the-eyes E Ink screen. Having to play with touchscreen controls isn’t ideal, but we’d love to see this turned into an app optimized for the Boox Palma devices.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Andrew Liszewski
The Paper Boy S3 is a Game Boy clone with an E Ink touchscreen.
Instead of turning M5Stack’s M5PaperS3 development hardware into another Kindle clone, Wenting Zhang used the Playdate’s open source CrankBoy emulator to create a Game Boy alternative with an easy-on-the-eyes E Ink screen. Having to play with touchscreen controls isn’t ideal, but we’d love to see this turned into an app optimized for the Boox Palma devices. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPbOK90aJEo]
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