Listen, I do love the vibrant colours and deep blacks of my OLED. What I don't love is the price tag (though, in the grand scheme of RAMpocalypse knock-on effects, the cost of gaming monitors has remained relatively stable). As such, I'm always intrigued by more affordable low-fi tech options, like epaper displays. It's just a shame about that refresh rate…
Well, I've just stumbled across an epaper emulation project that challenges everything I thought I knew about epaper. Hardware creator Wenting Zhang has just shown off their touch screen, e-Ink Game Boy emulator with an "actually playable" refresh rate for Pokemon Blue.
If you've ever used an ereader, you'll know that epaper displays typically refresh very slowly with noticeable ghosting, making them best suited to turning pages in a book, but not really gaming (unless we're talking about this Read Entire Article
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