Game Cartridges: Vol 1

Game Cartridges: Vol 1

Difficulty: 🎄
Find the first Gamegosling cartridge and beat the game

Hints

Approximate Proximity

From: Dusty Giftwrap
Listen for the gameboy cartridge detector’s proximity sound that activates when near buried treasure. It may be worth checking around the strange toys in the Tarnished Trove.

Gameboy 1

From: Dusty Giftwrap (after obtaining the cartridge)
1) Giving things a little push never hurts. 2) Out of sight but not out of ear-shot 3) You think you fixed the QR code? Did you scan it and see where it leads?

Solution

Analyzing the HTML code, it is possible to find references to the cartridge and then it is just a matter of navigating to that position:

<div class="ent type-item item-gameboy1 p-31-25" data-location="31,25">

Once found, under Luffy’s hat (), this cartridge is actually easier to play than to hack, so, once the QR is fixed it is show in its entirety:
The QR code points to http://8bitelf.com, accessing it allows obtaining the flag santaconfusedgivingplanetsqrcode.