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Gameboy Color Boot ROM Dumped After 10 Years

Posted by Soulskill on from the what's-a-decade-among-friends dept.

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. 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!

  2. 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!

  3. 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?

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

    debugged

  5. 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.