RetroAchievements has announced a collaboration with Playback, allowing you to earn achievements for your old-school Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games.
If you're not familiar with Playback, it's software that uses the libretro API to integrate multiple emulator cores and let you play retro games. It's also software that comes with the GB Operator, a device that lets you emulate your existing cartridges on a PC, and that's where this collab comes in.
Essentially, if you pick up a GB Operator, you'll now find a new Achievements setting within Playback's Settings menu, which will enable you to turn on achievements for your Game Boy carts. You will need the physical device and a real cart, though; achievements won't work with simple ROM files, as far as I can tell.
Though RetroAchievements community manager Nebiki doesn't list which games are supported in this crossover, but I'd imagine the collaboration will stretch to all Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games currently supported by the site, as long as you've got the real cartridges.
The new achievements window in Playback comes complete with a dedicated overlay that will show you various categories, including whether achievements are earned,...
