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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:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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

  2. Re:would it run... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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

    Eh.... Isn't that the same thing that Windows 7 all about? Resurrecting obsolete (Win XP) and utterly useless and annoying (Win Vista) tech?

  3. Idle hands by Thanshin · · Score: -1, Troll

    GBC Boot ROM dumped? After 10 years?

    I don't know anything about Boot, but if they kept trying to get it for ten years, it's must be a pretty good game!

  4. Who even remembers the GBC? Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is a perfect example of useless, wasted effort.