Category: Game Boy (Color)

Lazerpong (Final) (GB Game)

Lazerpong is a homebrew Game Boy game by Shanty Town. It’s Pong, but you shoot lasers that can reflect the ball and shrink the opponent’s paddle.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/0gi9i9hh2qukyma/lazerpong.gb

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Video: The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (Gameboy misc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CImyDBJSTsQ

The 8-bit Game Boy was sold between 1989 and 2003, but its architecture more closely resembles machines from the early 1980s, like the Commodore 64 or the NES. This talk attempts to communicate “everything about the Game Boy” to the listener, including its internals and quirks, as well as the tricks that have been used by games and modern demos, reviving once more the spirit of times when programmers counted clock cycles and hardware limitations were seen as a challenge.

The Nintendo Game Boy was an 8-bit handheld gaming console that competed with the SEGA Game Gear and the Atari Lynx. Compared to its competition, it had very little RAM (8 KB) and no color support (4 shades of gray at 160×144). It was succeeded by the Game Boy Color, which fixed this main shortcoming, but shared the same architecture. During the 14 year life span of the 8 bit Game Boy platform, game programmers kept understanding the hardware better and better, and continued finding new tricks for better graphics effects, such as sprite multiplexing, parallax and palette effects. This talk explains all the hardware details of the Game Boy: The programming model of the 8080/Z80-like LR35902 CPU, the system’s sound, timer and I/O functionality, and programming details as well as common tricks involving the graphics processor (“PPU”), which was specifically designed for LCD output. The listener will get a good understanding of 8 bit programming and creative programming on extremely limited hardware, as well as common tricks that can be generalized to other systems.

Speaker: Michael Steil
EventID: 8029
Event: 33th Chaos Communication Congress [33c3] of the Chaos Computer Club [CCC]
Location: Congress Centrum Hamburg (CCH); Am Dammtor; Marseiller Straße; 20355 Hamburg; Germany
Language: english
Begin: Fri, 12/30/2016 16:00:00 +01:00
License: CC-by

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Soup Raiders: Jailbreak (GB Game)

Soup Raiders: Jailbreak is a standalone Game Boy homebrew rom, set in the Soup Raiders universe. You control Black Whiskers, who was captured with his friend, White Fur, and who was locked up in the deepest Mr. Whale’s cell. Escape by finding the keys, while White Fur is patiently standing still. Come on, she won’t wait all day!

https://teamkwakwa.itch.io/soup-raiders-jailbreak

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