McDonald's Just Dropped A Brand New Game Boy Game In 2023
McDonald's has just released a brand new Game Boy Color game that plays on actual hardware in 2023. Yes, you read that correctly.
McDonald's has just released a brand new Game Boy Color game that plays on actual hardware in 2023. Yes, you read that correctly.
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Flaky, The developers of the game that McDonald's contracted apparently does this a lot for Game Boy using GB Studio.
Also, if you load it on a regular Game Boy or equivalent (e.g. Super Game Boy), you get a kill screen. This is probably something you can do in GB Studio but it's a neat little easter egg nonetheless.
abff08f4813c, Where are you seeing that about the kill screen? I went through the thread but was only able to find these posts which suggests that it works.
abff08f4813c, Hmm, apparently I can only attach one image per comment. Here's the other one.
Flaky, OP tried running it on the SGB and got locked out with the screen saying it requires a GBC to play. Look on the Game Boy on this image, too. Maybe it wasn't the right terminology lol.
abff08f4813c, Ah makes sense! Don’t know how I totally missed that.
brb, Time to pull out the flash cart again!
mbc, uncommon mcdonalds W
shadowmushroom1, they should stick to making food. why are they doing this stuff?
ivebeenabadbadgirl, No fun allowed eh?
hraesvilgr, bc they're not good at making food
isdfoa, ngl their hashbrowns are top tier
MoreIronOre, It makes the news, and you're talking about it.
I think it does exactly what they want it to do.
chunkyhairball, According to comments on Archive.org, the version there is 1.0, and the version available on the McD's site is 1.2.
So... very seriously, McDonalds, this is how you engage a demographic. I figured that this particular demographic was like... well, me and maybe ten others. There are dozens of us! Dozens! Man, if they were actually distributing a cart, I'd be over the moon.
okbin, they should have an adult happy meal with a cart
Otome-chan, this would actually get me to go buy mcdonalds lol
Flabbergash, I can imagine a phyiscal version will be worth quite a lot
MasterChief, Is KFC ever releasing their game console? lol
Otome-chan, pretty sure the kfconsole was a joke.
InduperatorRex, pretty sure kfc's been a joke for a long time
Fatalchemist, I think I'm going to grab that rom that's linked from the article. There's a small chance my curiosity will get the better of me.
vaguerant, I'd suggest grabbing it directly from the source. The ROM is continually being updated; they're on v1.2 now and actively making bug fix releases. The sensible approach is to find the file using a PC web browser's dev tools (Ctrl+Shift+I on Firefox, Chrome or Edge). This will open up a sidebar in your browser with some semi-complicated stuff meant for web developers. Find the Network tab along the top and click on it. If it's not visible as soon as you open the dev tools, you may need to scroll the tabs with a button that looks like 》 or similar, or you could click and drag the separator to increase the size of the entire sidebar.
The network tab will populate with every web request that your current tab makes. So now navigate to https://grimacesbirthday.com/ (or hit the reload button if you're already there) and watch the list fill up. In that list will be your ROM, looking something like the attached image. The ROM is just over 1 MB, probably the largest download you'll see in the list. You should be able to right click on that request and copy the URL, open it in a new tab, etc. to initiate a download of the file to your PC.
The address has changed between releases, so it may not be exactly what I showed in my screenshot.
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