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Super Game Boy

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Overview

Introduced in 1994 by Nintendo, the Super Game Boy was a console system. It is grouped with snes titles in EmulationStation.

Technical specifications

  • CPU: Sharp LR35902 (Game Boy) core clocked at 4.19 MHz inside the Super Game Boy cartridge.
  • Memory: 8 KB work RAM plus 8 KB video RAM inherited from the Game Boy hardware.
  • Display: Original 160×144 Game Boy screen rendered through the SNES PPU with decorative borders.
  • Sound: Game Boy APU with two pulse, one wave, and one noise channel routed through the SNES audio pipeline for stereo output.

Supported ROM extensions

gb, gbc, zip, 7z

Emulators

  • mesen-s (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_MESENS
  • mgba (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_MGBA

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml