Sebastian Staacks, the wild Game Boy hacker who was previously seen streaming Grand Theft Auto 5 over a WiFi DMG cartridge, has released another open source project that they’re calling the GB Interceptor. The project’s goals are simple: The GB Interceptor is an interposer cartridge that lives between your original Game Boy and your original […]
Light Games put their latest title, Last Crown Warriors on Kickstarter on the 9th of December, and it has already hit its funding goal. Now trying for stretch goals for the remainder of the 30 days, you can still back it for a physical edition from First Press Games. A ROM version and a soundtrack […]
2022 turned out to be an exciting year for Game Boy Color and fighting game fans, as three titles for the system were dumped a few weeks ago, making them playable and widely available for the first time ever in roughly 20 years. These are three bootleg SNK Fighting games developed in the early 2000s […]
Hardware developer Krikzz released an updated firmware for their series of Game Boy Everdrives today, although the changelog on this one is brief and cryptic: GBC-OS-v1.05 29.12.2021 1)System changes required for carts with FPGA core v6 or later versions 2)Minor bugfix Support RetroRGB with these affiliate links: Stone Age Gamer – Everdrve GB X5 Stone […]
Note from the Writer: I want to apologize for getting this out a week late. This should have been released for the previous Weekly Roundup. Recently the Hidden Gems Guru & YouTuber Metal Jesus Rocks received a preview unit of the new RetroN Sq. A general purpose all in one Game Boy device which is […]
Update: More details in my new article. An anonymous coder dropped off a modified SD2SNES firmware in a few places today which adds a Super Game Boy core to the SD2SNES. The Super Game Boy was a cartridge that allowed you to play Game Boy games on a Super Nintendo. It contained an entire Game […]
New Super Mario Land is a new homebrew release that re-imagines Super Mario Land, the iconic Game Boy title, on the Super Nintendo. It was developed in secret by a mystery coder and 30 custom cartridges of it were sent out to select people to celebrate the Game Boy’s 30th Anniversary. ChronoMoogle posted pictures and […]
Developer Chris Maltby has released his GB Studio, a free program that allows for aspiring developers to create their own Gameboy, Gameboy Color games without any programming knowledge. The program can be downloaded from gbstudio.dev. There are versions available for OSX, Windows, and Linux. Per the developer site, these are some of the benefits offered by using GB […]
If you’re in the camp that looks at retro games and wishes that they had a true widescreen option that doesn’t rely on weird stretching techniques, then emulators like WideNES and now Wide GB might satisfy that need. Based on a modified version of sameboy, Wide GB includes an extra option: “Use Widescreen”. Enabling this […]
Indie studio Tangram Games has opened a Kickstarter to fund a physical release of Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe for Game Boy Color & Game Boy through First Press Games. Just like the original Tobu Tobu Girl, the the Deluxe ROM will be made freely available through Itch.io and its source code will be on Github. Tobu […]
