OpenAI launches Codex edition ModRetro Chromatic gaming handheld that lets users play self-made games

OpenAI has introduced a ModRetro plugin for Codex that will allow users to build Game Boy Colour-style games and play them on the newly announced ModRetro Chromatic: Codex Edition gaming handheld. Users can create games with Codex and the ModRetro Chromatic plugin in ChatGPT. In an OpenAI Developers blog, the company shared the steps on how users can create games for the handheld using the Codex plugin. For better context, here are the steps on how users can make games and details about the newly announced handheld.

How to make ModRetro games in Codex?

Step 1: Go to ‘Codex’ in the desktop app of ChatGPT

Step 2: In the plugins window, search for the “ModRetro Chromatic” plugin by ModRetro

Step 3: Install the ModRetro plugin

Step 4: Open a local project folder and start chatting using the ‘@’ reference, specifying the plugin

Step 5: Prompt Codex to set up the plugin

Step 6: Now describe the game that you want to create and ask Codex to start building

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You can also ask the AI model to open the preview. Users can edit events, characters and scenes via the “.gbsproj” file, check the backgrounds, sprite sheet, audio and more details using “assets/”. Lastly, users can run the entire “.gbc” file on a cartridge or try it on an emulator. Users can also suggest edits to Codex based on their preferences. For instance, the developer tool can be used to revise animations, edit segments, background elements and more.

To deploy the game, users will require a Chromatic, a rewritable cartridge and a USB cable. Users must connect the Chromatic (with the cartridge inserted) to a PC and open the game’s preview in Codex chat and choose “Install on Chromatic”. Now choose your device and hit “Install” and “Confirm Install”. Note that the previous files will be erased in this process.

OpenAI's ModRetro Chromatic: Codex Edition price in India

The ModRetro Chromatic:
Codex Edition handheld is priced at $200 (roughly Rs 18,700) and includes one programmable game cartridge. The device will be available in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, UK and EU.

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As for the specifications, the handheld offers a 2.56-inch IPS backlit LCD screen with 144p resolution and Gorilla Glass scratch resistance. It comes with three AA batteries and is also compatible with the ModRetro Rechargeable Power Core. Plus, the device offers an “ultra-loud speaker” and a headphone jack.

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Meanwhile, OpenAI also introduced Control Room, a system to “track model workloads” in its research infrastructure and restrict them if a security issue arises. “It connects every research inference workload, including agentic sampling for model training and evaluation, data processing and more,” OpenAI said in an X post. It works with the company’s “misalignment monitoring systems” and halts output within 35 seconds of a “decision to intervene to stop or pause a job”.