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Shameless self-promotion: if you enjoyed Travis' ROM dumping, you might find my piece about sniffing the Game Boy's LCD data bus to take screenshots interesting
by svendahlstrand 4y ago
Shameless self-promotion: if you enjoyed Travis' ROM dumping, you might find my piece about sniffing the Game Boy's LCD data bus to take screenshots interesting as well.
https://github.com/svendahlstrand/game-boy-lcd-sniffing https://github.com/svendahlstrand/game-boy-lcd-sniffing
- wkjagt 4y agoThis is really amazing, thanks for sharing! How did you know which pins to look at? And do you know what the other pins do? I’m super curious now, and actually have an original gameboy which I now want to open up :-) I wonder if these same signals can be used to make an adapter to connect an external screen.
- HopenHeyHi 4y agoYou figure out which pins to look at by time consuming painstaking trial and error. :)
- circuit10 4y agoSomething that I think is even more interesting is that someone made a screen capture device that would go between the cartridge and the console and work only based on what code the game was accessing by reconstructing the entire state of the Game Boy based on what paths were taken in the code https://there.oughta.be/a/game-boy-capture-cartridge https://there.oughta.be/a/game-boy-capture-cartridge
- miduil 4y agoSo cool and really love that people still found even less intrusive ways to capture gameplay: https://there.oughta.be/a/game-boy-capture-cartridge https://there.oughta.be/a/game-boy-capture-cartridge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069305