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Gameboy Color Boot ROM Dumped After 10 Years

An anonymous reader writes "Costis was able to dump the elusive boot ROM from the Gameboy Color by using various voltage and clock glitching tricks. The boot ROM is what initializes the Gameboy hardware, displays the 'GAMEBOY' logo and animation, and makes the trademarked 'cling!' sound effect. Even decapping the CPU had failed previously, but now the boot image and specifics on how it was dumped (along with many photos) are available for download."

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  1. would it run... by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...win 7.
    because otherwise this is a puny attempt at resurrecting obsolete tech.

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  2. Re:What the ROM does by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Truly a powerful piece of technology if it's resenting CPUs.

    Skynet's not far away now guys!

  3. Re:What the ROM does by CarpetShark · · Score: 4, Funny

    - Resent the CPU

    The ROM resents the CPU? This is astounding. Nintendo have had hard AI in the lowliest of their handhelds for years, and never even told us!

  4. Re:Cool by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I fucked your dead great grandmother while taking a dump on a gameboy color.

    This says way more about you than about a game boy colour!

    Well, it does allow to infer that the Gameboy colour is now brown.

  5. Re:What the ROM does by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, how do you think you would feel if you were dumped after 10 years?

  6. Re:Cool by RivieraKid · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dad, is that you?

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  7. Re:What the ROM does by fuzzix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, how do you think you would feel if you were dumped after 10 years?

    My kingdom for a mod point!

    Bravo, sir.

  8. Re:What the ROM does by RuBLed · · Score: 4, Funny

    debugged

  9. Re:Why can you not just read the rom?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    He should get some kind of award.

    Don't worry... Nintendo's lawyers are already working on it.

  10. Re:Who even remembers the GBC? Who cares? by LoonyMike · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a perfect example of useless, wasted effort.

    I agree, you should have posted on Digg instead.

  11. Re:Idle hands by machine321 · · Score: 3, Funny

    GBC Boot ROM dumped? After 10 years?

    It's more likely than you think.

  12. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wait, I thought this about the GBC, not the Zune?

  13. Re:Idle hands by Dogtanian · · Score: 2, Funny

    GBC Boot ROM dumped? After 10 years?

    It's more likely than you think.

    Can you play Centipede on it? :-)

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  14. Re:Cool by borizz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well no. Basically, he masturbated in the ocean and called it fucking a woman. It's the closest most slashdotters can get, right?