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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:Methinks by adrianwn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because he can.

  2. I smell double standards by netpixie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Copyright 2009. Costis Sideris."

    So copyright law is good enough for you, but not for Nintendo?

  3. Re:Who even remembers the GBC? Who cares? by tpwch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I care.

    There are many great games for gameboy color, I had a gbc and about 10 games, but I haven't been able to play them for a while becuase I lost my GBC. I want to re-play them again some day.

    Sure, this rom isn't needed for re-playing them, but its also a bit of preserved history. Thats one of the main reasons for dumping roms, its not all about piracy, its preserving a bit of history for future generations.

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    Posted by a Debian GNU/Linux user
  4. Re:Methinks by Razalhague · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And because nobody else could.