Gameboy Color Boot ROM Dumped After 10 Years 124
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."
would it run... (Score:2, Funny)
...win 7.
because otherwise this is a puny attempt at resurrecting obsolete tech.
Re:What the ROM does (Score:5, Funny)
Truly a powerful piece of technology if it's resenting CPUs.
Skynet's not far away now guys!
Re:What the ROM does (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Cool (Score:4, 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.
Re:What the ROM does (Score:5, Funny)
Well, how do you think you would feel if you were dumped after 10 years?
Re:Cool (Score:1, Funny)
Dad, is that you?
Re:What the ROM does (Score:3, Funny)
Well, how do you think you would feel if you were dumped after 10 years?
My kingdom for a mod point!
Bravo, sir.
Re:What the ROM does (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why can you not just read the rom?? (Score:1, Funny)
He should get some kind of award.
Don't worry... Nintendo's lawyers are already working on it.
Re:Who even remembers the GBC? Who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
This is a perfect example of useless, wasted effort.
I agree, you should have posted on Digg instead.
Re:Idle hands (Score:3, Funny)
GBC Boot ROM dumped? After 10 years?
It's more likely than you think.
Re:Cool (Score:1, Funny)
Wait, I thought this about the GBC, not the Zune?
Re:Idle hands (Score:3, Funny)
GBC Boot ROM dumped? After 10 years?
It's more likely than you think.
Can you play Centipede on it? :-)
Re:Cool (Score:4, Funny)