Developer Runs Pokémon on a Game Boy CPU Emulated by Qwen Weights

Developer vincentkoc compiled Game Boy CPU instructions into Qwen model weights, letting a locally-run LLM act as the CPU to play Pokémon Red frame-by-frame on an emulator—without modifying standard HuggingFace inference—and even linked two models to trade Pokémon.

2026-10-31 ~ 2026-11-01 · 3 related posts

• Dev compiles Game Boy CPU instructions into Qwen weights, runs via unmodified HF inference — vincent_koc · 2026-10-31
• Qwen model shown live driving a Gameboy CPU to play Pokemon Red — vincent_koc · 2026-10-31
• Local Qwen model powers a GameBoy CPU playing Pokémon Red, with model-to-model trades — vincent_koc · 2026-11-01