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Gameboy Emulation on your MP3 Player

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-what-i-wanna-see-more-of dept.

webmind writes "As some may know there is an open source firmware for the Archos jukebox and the iriver h1x0 harddisk mp3 players called Rockbox. now for the iriver version there is also a gnuboy port.. no more lugging around loads of gameboy cardridges, just upload and play."

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  1. GB mono emulation on GBA by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    no more lugging around loads of gameboy cardridges, just upload and play.

    This has been possible for a long time. The Game Boy Advance with a GBA flash cart can emulate the Game Boy monochrome system; a single flash cart can hold up to 32 MBytes or 64 MBytes of GB ROMs.

    There is also something called the GB Bridge, which translates between GB mono/GBC wire protocol and GBA wire protocol, letting the GBA run GBC games using its GBC hardware, but it doesn't work with most of the newer flash carts.

  2. Re:yes but.. by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    a cooler hack would let me play mp3's on my old gameboy.

    For the old Game Boy systems, there is an MP3 player called SongPro. For the GBA and GBA SP, there is the GSM Player, which uses GBA flash carts.