Questions tagged [game-boy]
Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color: use, maintenance, design, programming and emulation.
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Is it possible to know which lines in the Gameboy Color cartridge connection is missing by looking at the glitched Nintendo logo?
Context: I'm building a gameboy color flash cartridge based on the rp2040 mcu, I have came to the point where it displays an almost complete nintendo bootlogo at the startup. However, a few pixels(...
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Gameboy Key Input Causes Crash
I made a Key Tester using the STDIO header included with GBDK. It works... Until it doesn't. All the keys register and print to the screen, except the Left(5) and Right(4) Directional Keys, which ...
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What sort of LCDs are used by the Game Boy/TI-83 calculator/etc.?
The Wikipedia article on the Game Boy lists the display as an STN display, whereas the ones for TI graphing calculators don't give any detail. However, even knowing that it's an STN display only ...
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Why would poking an inserted Game Boy cartridge while powered on cause a game/device to hang? [duplicate]
I say "a device" because I'm not convinced that this happens on an actual Game Boy. (I haven't been able to provoke it on mine yet.) I've seen several videos of people showing how their ...
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How does the GameBoy Colors' display work in color?
I know the GameBoy originally worked in a 2bpp display functionality, with 4 shades of grey, but how does the GameBoy Color tiles work with colors? No website seems to have a obvious and ...
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Is there an equivalent of "#pragma once" in RGBASM (Gameboy DMG assembly language)?
So I am really just starting out in my assembly coding adventure. I have a little bit of knowledge of C/C++ but nothing too advanced yet. But I also used to do a tiny bit of Z80 assembly, and I wanted ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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Does the Super Game Boy have any battery powered non-volatile memory?
I'm not sure if my copy of the Super Game Boy is broken, or has had its internal battery run out of power, but it doesn't seem to retain any information. In particular, I'm annoyed by how it doesn't ...
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Does Game Boy Color have *perfect* simulation of original Game Boy games?
In recent years, I've learned that the Super Game Boy peripheral for the SNES did not run Game Boy games at the exact right speed; they were slightly faster. Now I'm worrying that the same (or ...
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