Your e-ink device, now a quiet game console.No glare, no backlight, just play.
The consoles you grew up with, played on one paper screen. Put your own cartridge backups on the memory card and Papercade knows which system each game is for.
The classic library, as sharp as print.
Colour games in soft shades of grey.
Sega's handheld, right beside its rival.
Full-width picture for the 8-bit greats.
Fighting games at a full 60 frames a second.
Play only games you own.
Use the buttons drawn on the screen, a small Bluetooth controller, or both at the same time.
A D-pad, A, B, Start and Select sit under the picture, sized for thumbs. SNES games add X, Y, L and R.
Pair it once in Settings. After that it reconnects by itself when you switch on, and its Home button opens the pause menu.
E-ink shows a picture the way printed paper does. It stays put, it stays readable, and it never lights up your room.
Papercade makes its own little Wi-Fi network. Join it, open the page, and drop a game in.
Papercade runs on these e-ink devices today. More are on the way.
Support arrives once games run well on them.
The short answers to what people ask first.
No. Papercade plays backups of cartridges you own, which you add from your phone.
Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, NES and SNES.
No. Touch buttons are built in. An 8BitDo Micro over Bluetooth is optional.
Papercade's tuned refresh reaches about 10 screen updates a second, while the game itself runs at full speed.
On the memory card, next to your games, so they are easy to back up.
reTerminal Sticky today. Other small e-ink devices are being explored.
Classic games on a calm, paper-like display.