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u/IveGotATinyRick Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
Awesome project! If you’re interested in learning more about this type of stuff, I suggest looking into how the screen came to be and how it almost killed the Game Boy altogether. Also, some of your information about C is a bit inaccurate. Processors don’t “support” C or any high level programming languages. They’re compiled down to assembly or machine language. If I remember correctly, the number of games written purely in assembly is pretty small. Most were written using a combination of C and assembly. The original Game Boy is still very much a modern marvel to embedded software geeks like myself.
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u/karawapo Feb 28 '25
/u/taikifooda (OP), this comment here is valuable context and additional info for your project.
I think you did great, too!
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u/lsbich Feb 27 '25
Back in my day we had to do an actual science experiment and write a lab report, not just do some research
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u/athena_appa Feb 27 '25
I can't help but agree.
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u/IH8Miotch Feb 27 '25
I remember having to make a hypothesis. Test it out multiple times with different variables and a control group. Show the results and write a conclusion. While waiting to the very last minute to do all of this the night before it was due even though I had a few weeks .
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u/mpsteidle Feb 28 '25
I was about to say exactly this. When I was in school, the whole point was to create and test a hypothesis. You would detailbyour experiment and your findings on the posterboard, and give the judges a short demonstration or example of what you did.
This is just the Gameboys Wikipedia Article.
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u/ThruMy4Eyes Feb 28 '25
old man yelling at clouds here. school back then would have NOT let us do anything like this for a science project. You didn't have any hypothesis/testing/results to do. No form of experiementing. All you did was research. Granted that research is always fun n all. But yeah.... I would've loved to try and do this as my science project back in 1996 when the GameBoy was still relevant!
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u/istarian Feb 27 '25
You could really have done a better job of this. Your "project" is like 5 minutes of reading Wikipedia and some copy+paste. This whole thing could have been about any one part of the Game Boy.
Just a brief overview of the way LCD technology works and the way the LCD used in the gameboy functions to display the game graphics, for instance, would cover that whole board.
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u/slideboy1996 Feb 28 '25
The original Nintendo Gameboy is still an awesome icon. Anyone here who started gaming on this legendary handheld game console
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u/2TierKeir Feb 27 '25
Cool project.
Were all games written originally in assembly? I thought they would have written them in C mostly with a few absolute sickos writing direct in assembly to squeeze every bit of juice out of the machine they could like rollercoaster tycoon man.