Gameboy Color Boot ROM Dumped After 10+ Years

[morphius]

After 10+ years someone had dumped the GBC bootrom.

http://www.fpgb.org/?page_id=17

There are some interesting pics attached, as well as a full writeup on how it was done.

 

[raulpica]

FINALLY!

I can't wait to read about it

 

[Vidboy10]

It's about damn time...

 

[Zalda]

so what does this mean? can we do anything with it?

 

[morphius]

hard to say. may be invaluable to the emulation community.

 

[raulpica]

We'll finally able to emulate GBC's internal palettes perfectly.

 

[triassic911]

How come this one took longer than the gba one?

 

[Langin]

hmm finaly that toke very long!

 

[Jamstruth]

How come this one took longer than the gba one?

People probably gave up deciding they didn't care anymore.

 

[smithy1abc]

Man, look at all those wires, no wonder it took so long. That is one committed person.

 

[mauripena]

He is greek!
weird!

 

[Advi]

We'll finally able to emulate GBC's internal palettes perfectly.

So, now GameBoy emulation on DS can be made perfect?

Daaaaaamn, this IS impressive.

 

[Technik]

So what exactly is the bootrom?

 

[Advi]

So what exactly is the bootrom?

It's kind of like the BIOS of a computer. It's what launches the hardware and software of the GameBoy and initializes the game.

You know how it says "GameBoy" as soon as you turn it on? Compare it to if you turned on a computer and you saw the computer's manufacturer before the OS boots up.