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He mentions only Nintendo, I must have been mistaken about the GBA. Given the year, this must have been for the Virtual Boy. Not a surprise that they don't tell
by pdw 6y ago
He mentions only Nintendo, I must have been mistaken about the GBA. Given the year, this must have been for the Virtual Boy. Not a surprise that they don't tell the story much. In the end the Virtual Boy shipped with a 32-bit NEC CPU.
- klelatti 6y agoPossibly, but the Virtual Boy was announced in Nov 1994 and demoed at the start of 1995 - so a very short period for development if they were still debating the processor during 1994. Maybe Nintendo were concerned about code size given their experience with VB and that led to the challenge to the ARM team? Plus seems like the GBA was paused for a while in the 1990s too.