Game Boy Hardware Architecture

Edit on Github | Updated: 13th May 2021

The Hardware

Original GameBoy DMG (Dot Matrix Game)

CPU: z80 - LR35902 (Opcodes: http://www.pastraiser.com/cpu/gameboy/gameboy_opcodes.html)

RAM: 8KB (32KB in Color)

The Ultimate Gameboy Talk (hardware specs etc)

The Game Boy, a hardware autopsy

Super GameBoy

GB Booster

Similar to the Super GameBoy but this is for the Nintendo 64 and not licenced by Nintendo, I first saw this for sale in issue X of the UK Nintendo Official Magazine.

For more information:

http://www.chrismcovell.com/gbbooster.html
https://gamehacking.org/wiki/Game_Booster_(Nintendo_64)

Wide Boy 64

Official device to play gameboy (including gba) games on the N64, but was not sold to the general public. You had to be a game developer or press in order to buy one from Intelligent Systems.

Datel Game Booster for Sony Playstation

Similar to the Super GameBoy but this is for the Sony Playstation!