Nintendo Game Boy Color

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Nintendo Game Boy Color

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Manufacturer: Nintendo
Alternate Names: GBC
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Description of Hardware

The Game Boy Color was designed as a successor to the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Pocket (and in Japan, Game Boy Light). It was the first model in the Game Boy line of consoles to have a full colour screen. It was also backwards compatible with original Game Boy games. These games had a completely grey colour palette and the Game Boy Color had a funtion to change the palette, the default being green.

Hardware Specifications

  • CPU: 8-bit Z80
    • Two modes: 8Mhz and 4Mhz
  • Memory
    • CPU: 32Kb and 96Kb VRAM
    • External of CPU: 256Kb WRAM
  • Screen: Sharp colour LCD screen
    • Size: 44 x 39mm size, 160x140 resolution
    • Colours: 56 simultaneous colours from a palette of about 30,000

(From official specs)

Hardware Revisions

Games

A full list of Nintendo Game Boy Color games documented on GamerWiki can be found at the Nintendo Game Boy Color category. Please add any further games to the games to be added page.

(Anything below here in the games section needs to be removed if the game is in blue or moved over to the the games to be added page list if it's in red.)


Peripherals

Emulation

One emulator, which can emulate all formats of Game Boy cartridge, is Visual Boy Advance.

Trivia

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