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Shonumi, 22 days ago to Emulation

New article about the current state of Game Boy emulation is live:

https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art34.html

The article dives into how well many peripherals and accessories can be emulated. It focuses exclusively on officially licensed hardware that software interacted with. In brief:

• Most stuff is emulated just fine (37/47)

• A small % needs just a bit more work (9/47)

• Only 1 item is completely unemulated

We've done a lot of work over the years, and it shows!

#emulation #gameboy

Shonumi, 4 months ago to Emulation

New year, new Edge of Emulation article! This one is about the Glucoboy, a GBA cartridge that doubles as a blood glucose meter.

https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art33.html

For years, this cartridge was one the rarest pieces of Game Boy hardware out there. It was only last year that the Video Game History Foundation managed to dump the ROM.

Now you can emulate the Glucoboy without any actual blood!

#emulation #emudev #GBA

Shonumi, 8 months ago to random

So, I may have finally dumped the last bits of the Campho Advance ROM. It's really dumb how I did it (boot the cartridge with the power cable plugged into it, unplug, re-plug, then extract data) but it worked!

The ROM data is kinda weird because of the way it interacts with the GBA BIOS, but there's a full ROM header. Some interesting facts:

Game Title = "VidBoy"
Game Code = "VB01"
Maker Code = "AM"
Claims to be a DACS cart

So Campho ROM dump is complete. Will post more deets later. #emudev