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Gameboy Emulator Released for PSP
HelloGamer writes "The first real Gameboy emulator has just been released for the PSP. It currently only works with the Japanese 1.0 PSP and doesn't have sound support - but it's amazing how quickly these homebrew apps are being developed."
Thanks for linking to a crap blog. Let's try for some real content: PS2Dev Forum and the PSP Hacker link which contains two QT movies.
Author: Amaterasu
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:57 am
Post subject: The first GB emulator for PSP was released!
Message:
Ladies and gentlemen, hello. I am Japanese who one of the PSP fans.
GB emulator for PSP was released by Mr. MIRAKICHI in 2ch that was
the most famous forum in Japan a little while ago.
It links with the file.
http://psp.holybell.to/uploader/upload/gbemu1.zip
screen shot
http://psp.holybell.to/uploader/upload/PICT0791.j
Please rename a GAME ROM to ROM.GB and put it to the same folder as EBOOT.PBP. In the firm only version 1.00, operation is confirmed.
Please enjoy it!!!
the holybell.to guy is the one who made SNES9xJ4U, which is the world's fastest and best SNES emulator for PocketPC. Two thumbs up, highly recommended. :)
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....because it's not a GBA that's being emulated.
It's an original Gameboy. You know, Gameboy Color, monochrome Gameboy - the big carts instead of the smaller ones... four buttons and a d-pad instead of 6 buttons and a d-pad.
Different processor, apples and oranges.
I'm sure that zooming and other things aren't implemented yet, just like sound playback isn't implemented yet. I would consider this emulator an alpha release, at best.
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It is not a bloody Gameboy ADVANCE emulator.
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It is a monochrome Gameboy/Gameboy Color emulator.
Different processor, different emulation method.
You could fit hundreds of GB/GBC carts on a 1GB Duo stick. Many of them are 32K or smaller.
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Actually, GBC and GBA games use two completely different sets of hardware. Most gamers confuse this issue because the GBA and GBA SP systems contain a GBC on a chip for backwards compatibility. This is possible because the GBC hardware is so old that it can now be reduced down to a single chip. Note that the Nintendo DS has removed this feature, so it can only play DS and GBA games, but not GBC games.
My point is that if you can emulate GBA games, it does not mean that you can emulate GBC games. They are two completely different things to emulate. Furthermore, some emulators go ahead and combine GB, SGB, GBC, and GBA emulators into one application, again, because gamers wouldn't understand why each emulator was separated into its own application.